Archive for September, 2007

How to acquire an ideal body weight? There is no need to buy any fitness equipment or weight loss pills.

You can acquire an ideal body weight by making small changes in your diet.

The vital goal of any weight management program is to bring your weight within the ideal body weight and to maintain your weight within that range.

The ideal body weight for men and women would be: “Ideal body weight + or – 2”. This ideal body weight depends on your gender, height and body frame size.

If your weight is more than ideal body weight then the weight management usually revolves around diet modifications and exercise (Physical activities for weight management).

How to achieve successful weight management?

You can achieve successful weight loss by following both nutritional and behavioral approach. Your diet should be well balanced and it must be suitable for your body’s particular needs. For effective results you can also include exercise along with dietary changes.

Dietary changes:

The main goals of diet changes in achieving ideal body weight include: correcting unhealthy food habits, maintaining good nutritional status, and bringing a gradual weight loss. In order to achieve these goals here are the suitable diet changes which you need to be made (Healthy diet plan).

How to lose extra pounds? A high protein diet will help you by suppressing your appetite and reducing your cravings to over eat.

A normal American eats double the amount of proteins than what he is really required.

Don’t get confused with the name high protein diet; it is nothing but low or no carb diet.

In recent days all the fad diets which were determined as unhealthy were avoided. Whatever goals you can set, but everyone can be beneficial by following a high protein diet plan and eating the foods which are high in protein content.

Your goal may be gaining weight, increasing your muscle strength, losing weight, losing fat, or staying slim and trim, this high protein diet is right for you.

For these goals you need to consume 0.6 to 1.5g of protein per pound of your body weight per day. Men will lose the weight up to 6-8 pounds within two weeks after starting the diet plan and women will lose 4-6 pounds.

Want to know what high protein diet is! It is simply what it refers. The main difference is that, though it is high in protein content it also has limitation on the amount of carbs that you consume.

Decided to go to a dietician? He plays an important role in your life.

A dietician can help guide the daily diet and also a weight loss program for most of you.

Most of you are unaware of how a dietician can help you and what you should expect while consulting a dietician.

He may help to plan food and nutrition programs, and also manage the preparation and meal consumption.

He may help prevent and treat your illnesses.

Supporting healthy eating lifestyle and recommending some modifications in your diet is the main task of a dietician.

For example, suggesting less salted foods for people with high blood pressure or reducing fat and sugar for overweight patients.

There are several important areas of practice, which include clinical, community, management, and consultant dietetics. Most of you find that consulting a clinical dietician is the best solution for your dietary problems.

The job of the clinical dietician is to provide dietary services for patients in hospitals and treatment facilities.

Overweight patients can also consult a clinical dietician who is specialized in the area of weight management. Some of them can treat renal and diabetic patients. They also manage the food service departments of nursing care facilities and small hospitals.

Have you ever heard about body mass index? It is a numerical integer that can be calculated based on your height and weight.

Body mass index or BMI can be designed in order that individuals of dissimilar heights must contain dissimilar body weights; there is no limitation on the weight of men and women.

Not all women must be of one weight and all men of another weight. The person who is six feet in height will possibly heavier than the one who is five feet tall.

To calculate body mass index:

• In SI units: BMI = weight (kg)/height² ; (m²)
• In US units: BMI = 703* [weight (lb)/height² (in²)]
• In UK mixed units = 6.35* [weight (stone)/height² (m²)]

Body mass index gives an accurate idea on an individual’s weight for his/her height. Use online BMI calculators to calculate your BMI level. It tells the distinction between being overweight and being obese.

You can make distinction between overweight and obese adults based on BMI level.  It ranges between 25 and 30. This means,

• If BMI level is 24 or below, it indicates that you are not overweight.

Are you having lactose intolerance? Most of you are confused the lactose intolerance with milk allergy, because the symptoms of milk allergy and lactose are often the same.

It is a genetic disorder and happens most often in people of African, Asian, and Mediterranean descent.

These two are completely different conditions. It has been found that 30-50 million Americans are lactose intolerant.

Certain populations are most widely affected with lactose intolerance than others.

For example, about 90 percent of Asian-Americans are lactose intolerant and about 75 percent of African-Americans are also lactose intolerant.

Most of us really don’t know what lactose intolerance is. It is the inability to digest some major amount of fats that are found in the milk. Most of us have an enzyme called lactase that lines the small intestine. People those are lactose intolerant have a shortage of this enzyme.

The shortage of lactase makes difficult for your body to break down the sugar that is found in milk and dairy products. This enzyme breaks down milk sugar into two simpler forms of sugar called glucose and galactose.