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Keeping A Healthy Weight
Keeping A Healthy Weight by Joseph Kenny
These days, more and more people are placing importance on keeping physically
healthy. This can be seen by the amount of people who are joining gyms and
sports clubs, going on diets, and spending on private health insurance. One of
the biggest areas of concern in this area for women is keeping a healthy weight,
this is because it not only effects their overall level of physical health, but
is also recognised as playing an important role in mental and emotional well
being, and self perception as well.
Most people know that being both over weight and under weight are not good for
you, but health is about far more than just body weight. Things such as your
family medical history, your genetic predispositions, how much you drink or
smoke, what type of food you eat and how much exercise you get all have a major
impact on health. There really is no ideal weight therefore that you should be
seeking on purely health grounds.
Using your weight as a measure of health therefore is not particularly useful.
Obviously there are levels that will definitely be too high or too low, but
within these limits, there is a huge range of healthy weights that people will
fall into. Much of the worries that people feel regarding their weight are more
to do with media images and glamorous advertisements than on what is considered
healthy. We are surrounded by images and conceptions of beauty that distort our
idea of what a healthy body should look like.
Many media images actually show people who are under weight, sometimes
considerable underweight, and do not represent a healthy standard or good
example to measure us against.
If you are genuinely concerned about health, then weight loss should not be the
ultimate goal of all fitness efforts. You should try to cut down on cigarette
and alcohol consumption, eat healthy food, get a reasonable amount of exercise,
and generally take care of yourself. You do not need scientific advice and a
professionally designed eating and exercise schedule. More likely what you need
is common sense simple changes like snacking on fruits sometimes, walking to
work, and visiting your doctor when recommended.
Doctor check ups are recommended at varying intervals depending on your age and
health circumstances but it is wise to keep up to date with these checkups and
not to fall into the trap of constantly procrastinating. If the cost of doctor
visits is a serious issue that causes you to skip visits, then maybe you should
consider a health insurance plan that will cover such checkups and just charge
you an affordable monthly amount.
Joseph Kenny is the webmaster of the insurance site http://www.insure121.com/
where you will find information, news and links to the leading providers of
insurance in the UK. If you found this article interesting you may find more
articles of the same nature in the insurance guide located on site.
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