Excercise and Losing Weight

Although combining it with diet results in greater loss of weight and body fat than dieting alone, exercise is especially important for maintaining weight loss.

Studies comparing the weights of adoptees with the weights of their biological and adopted parents indicate that genetic factors are responsible for only about one third of the variance in weight, a figure experts believe is more accurate.

Although combining it with diet results in greater loss of weight and body fat than dieting alone, exercise is especially important for maintaining weight loss.

Your risk of disease increases as your weight increases.
While BMI is a general assessment of body weight and disease risk, waist circumference provides an added and more specific measure of health risk because waist circumference indicates harmful abdominal fat.

In addition to height, age, and gender, a person’s ideal weight depends on many factors, including body composition (the proportion of fat and muscle), body shape (where fat is deposited), and general health.