Body Fat and Eating Disorders
Body Fat and Eating Disorders
Whether you are overweight or of normal body weight you should know the impact of body composition on your health. Even if your scale weight is normal, you can still have unhealthy or altered body compositions. Generally speaking, it refers to carrying too much or excess body fat in comparison too lean muscle mass. If your body fat-to-lean ratio increases, so does your health risks. More often than not an unhealthy body composition can lead to obesity a condition associated with many critical health problems. The bottom line is a healthy body composition can not only improve your general health but it can also change your whole quality of life for the better. Excess body fat does more than increase your weight; it also increases your risk of major health problems. People who are overweight or obese are more likely to have heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer and depression. Not to mention fifty other health problems such as, less common ailments like gout and gallstones. All diseases associated with excess body fat worsen as the amount of body fat increases. New research connects percent body fat ranges directly to BMI. This allows us to understand health risks in terms of percent body fat (Body fat and Health risks, www.shapeup.org).
There are a variety of factors that play a role in obesity, making obesity a complex health issue to talk about. Behavior, environment, and genetic factors may have an effect in causing people to be overweight and obese. Both result from an energy imbalance, which involves eating too many calories and not getting enough physical activity. Obesity is a complex health issue, the result of genes, metabolism, behavior, environment, culture and socioeconomic status. The current rates of overweight and obese children and adults in the United States are a result of individual behavior and environmental factors. So one has to wonder how obesity got so out of control that Americans
Whether you are overweight or of normal body weight you should know the impact of body composition on your health. Even if your scale weight is normal, you can still have unhealthy or altered body compositions. Generally speaking, it refers to carrying too much or excess body fat in comparison too lean muscle mass. If your body fat-to-lean ratio increases, so does your health risks. More often than not an unhealthy body composition can lead to obesity a condition associated with many critical health problems. The bottom line is a healthy body composition can not only improve your general health but it can also change your whole quality of life for the better. Excess body fat does more than increase your weight; it also increases your risk of major health problems. People who are overweight or obese are more likely to have heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer and depression. Not to mention fifty other health problems such as, less common ailments like gout and gallstones. All diseases associated with excess body fat worsen as the amount of body fat increases. New research connects percent body fat ranges directly to BMI. This allows us to understand health risks in terms of percent body fat (Body fat and Health risks, www.shapeup.org).
There are a variety of factors that play a role in obesity, making obesity a complex health issue to talk about. Behavior, environment, and genetic factors may have an effect in causing people to be overweight and obese. Both result from an energy imbalance, which involves eating too many calories and not getting enough physical activity. Obesity is a complex health issue, the result of genes, metabolism, behavior, environment, culture and socioeconomic status. The current rates of overweight and obese children and adults in the United States are a result of individual behavior and environmental factors. So one has to wonder how obesity got so out of control that Americans
References: Body Fat and Health Risks, http://www.shapeup.org NEDA Feeding hope, http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org