Our daughter Lindsay, sent the following link as a suggested post for our blog. Lindsay is a Registered Dietitian and is our "go-to" person when we are looking to get reliable and up-to-date information about food, eating, metabolism .....just about everything related to nutrition. Lindsay is also a fitness instructor and is often asked these types of questions by her clients. Rather than dissect anything from this article, you're getting the whole thing. It addresses the following:
- Obesity and Health Risks
- What's a Healthy Weight? Body Mass Index (BMI) Defined
- Waist Size Matters Too: Abdominal Fat and Health Risks
- Keeping Things Level
- What Causes Weight Gain?
- What Leads to Weight Loss?
- Lessons From Losers
- General Strategies for Achieving or Maintaining a Health Weight
- The Bottom Line: Recommendations for Health Weight
- References
Many of the points above maybe questions you have too.
Here's the link:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-weight/healthy-weight-full-story/
