HOW TO OVERCOME OBESITY:

Overweight people must follow some rules in order to lose their weight.
1. Dieting:
The practice of eating food in a regulated fashion to achieve or maintain a
controlled weight is known as dieting.
To promote weight loss, diets are generally divided into three categories:
Low-fat diet,
Low-calorie diet
Very low calorie diet
2. Exercise: Physical exercise is considered to be the best way to overcome obesity.
Types of exercise
Exercises are generally grouped into three types depending on the overall effect they have on the human
body:
Flexibility exercises: stretching, improve the range of motion of muscles and joints.
Aerobic exercises: cycling, swimming, waling, rowing, running, hiing or playing tennis, focus
on increasing cardiovascular endurance.
Anaerobic exercises: weight training, functional training or sprinting, increase short!term muscle
strength.
3. Weight loss programs
"eight loss programs include lifestyle changes and diet. #his may involve eating smaller meals,
eating certain types of food, and maing effort to exercise more. #hese programs try to mae
relationships between the people who are attempting to lose weight.
4. Medication:
#he commonly used medications to treat obesity and the average weight lost are:
$rlistat %&enical', 2. kg !".# l$%,
(ibutramine %)eridia', #.2 kg !.& l$%
'imona$ant !(complia%, #.) kg !*+.# l$%
5. Surgery: Physicians suggest losing weight through surgeries in some special cases.
*ariatric surgery %weight loss surgery', is performed on people who are extremely obese, for the
purpose of losing weight. #his weight is usually achieved by reducing the si+e of the stomach
with an implanted medical device %gastric banding' or through removal of a portion of the
stomach %gastric bypass surgery'.
There is also a surgical way to reduce o$esity that is laser treatment.
(ome "estern world countries such as Australia, ,anada, the European -nion, and the -nited (tates have
created clinical practice guidelines in an attempt to address rising rates of obesity. .t is nown as the
clinical protocol.
Physicians suggest taing medicine to patients who have a *). of /0 or more, and surgery to those
having *). of 10 or more.