Nine Action Steps to Healthy Weight Management, Step 7
7. Assess your own healthy weight - Too much emphasis has often been
placed on fitting into a certain weight category or wearing a certain
clothing size. Society's misplaced emphasis on thinness has
encouraged some people to use supernatural efforts to maintain
extremely low body weights.
To help with your lifelong weight management efforts, identify what a
healthy weight is for you. Check your family history of
weight-related diseases. With a family history of adult onset (Type
II) diabetes, premature heart disease, or high blood pressure, you
will need to be more careful about your own weight.
In addition, establish how much body fat you are carrying. The human
body requires some body fat to protect internal organs and store
energy. Excess fat, however, taxes the heart and lungs. If the excess
fat is carried around your abdomen, there is greater risk of disease.
If you can pinch more than an inch or your waist measure is equal to
or greater than your hip measurement, trim your weight.
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