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To successfully lose weight, you should follow medical advices
Losing weight is not easy and not always without risk. So better go see a serious practitioner to be well supported medically. It will help you develop a real plan of action for achieving your goals. In terms of overweight, as to leave nothing to chance!
In our society, thinness is the ideal rule. The definition of overweight is however quite different for health care professionals from the magazines. For your doctor, you’re overweight if your body mass index (BMI) is greater than or equal to 25 (Calculate your body mass index). Go see a practitioner you will appreciate at its proper level the importance of your overweight. Your doctor may also take into account other clinical parameters that have prognostic value for health, as the degree of abdominal adiposity, as assessed by simply measuring the waist (normally less than 90 cm in women and 100 cm in men). The doctor may also measure with a compass the skin fold thickness in different body areas (abdomen, shoulder, hip) to assess the importance of body fat.