WEIGHT CHECKING
Everyone checks their body to some extent, but many people with eating disorders repeatedly check their body and often in a way that's unusual.
Sometimes body and weight checking becomes second nature and many individuals with eating disorders don't even realize they're doing it," said Dena Cabrera, PsyD, psychologist at Remuda Programs for Eating and Anxiety Disorders. "Commonly, they check to feel for fatness, bones and any physical change in their body to subconsciously or consciously motivate their eating disorder behavior."
Many individuals with eating disorders weigh themselves at frequent intervals, sometimes many times a day. As a result they become obsessed with the daily weight fluctuations that are a normal part of the body and would otherwise pass unnoticed. The movements on the scale then determine their mood and eating patterns.
A few things must be kept in mind before we put ourselves on that scale:
· For starters, always check your weight first thing in the morning with an empty stomach. Weight tends to fluctuate in the course of the day. With all our various activities such as eating, sweating, water retention in the body and sometimes even constipation, the fluctuation can be as much as a kilo or two.
· What we wear also contributes to our weight. For instance, a pair of jeans for women can weigh up to 700 gms, a shirt about 250 gms, so on and so forth. So if you have a weighing scale at home in your privacy, its best to try and weigh oneself in the nude! That way you have no extra kilos…
· Some people have the tendency to retain water in their bodies; this includes both men and women. Due to this, their weight might be different during various times of the time. In some cases, even food stays longer in the body and digestion is slow. For example. if you eat extra salt or Chinese food, the next day your weight will be more than a kilo extra. To figure out if you fit into the category of people who retain food and water, you could have apples only for dinner and check your weight next morning. Incase the weight drops more than 600gms than normal, then you automatically come into that category.
· To watch out for certain foods that can cause water/food retention, its best to avoid white flour, corn flour and all their products. All things sweet (especially Indian sweets), fruit juices, coconut water, soups, rice and heavy pulses should be avoided at night.
· Something for women to watch out is checking your weight during their menstrual period, as it can go up by close to one and half kilos. Although it would automatically come down by the end of the period.
· Anyone with a sedentary lifestyle will find that their weight fluctuates during travel or even when they are exposed to high levels of heat and cold.
· Another interesting fact is that stress has the side effects of weight gain.
· Last but not the least, being on any sort of medication (antibiotics) can sometimes cause a bit of water retention, so during the course it’s best to avoid checking your weight.
There are many reasons as to why are weight varies through our lives. The only way to be healthy is to eat right and exercise, there are no short cuts!
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BMI Categories:
· Underweight = <18.5
· Normal weight = 18.5–24.9
· Overweight = 25–29.9
· Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater
Check Up on Your Weight and Waistline
Almost 59% of Canadian adults are overweight (37%) or obese (22%). This proportion is on the rise and increasingly younger individuals are facing the problem. Excess weight significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and other illnesses. Fortunately, changes to the level of physical activity and to nutrition can make a difference. You don’t need “miracle diets” or weight-loss products – which are often bad for you – to control your weight.
Several factors can explain weight gain, but it’s not always easy to recognize, or even understand them. Here are a few tips to help you identify them:
· too many calories
· too little exercise
· family history
· unhealthy eating habits
· stopping smoking
· taking certain medications
· “couch potato” environments
How to Check
The Canadian body weight classification system uses two indicators to evaluate the possible risk of health problems associated with either an excess or insufficiency of weight: body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. This system is for use with adults age 18 years and over with the exception of pregnant and lactating women
What is the BMI?
The body mass index (BMI) allows us to evaluate if a person’s weight represents a health risk. To calculate your BMI, click here, or simply ask your physician.
The BMI only applies to people 18 years or older. In addition, if you’re over 65 years or if your muscles are very developed, your BMI can be slightly higher than 25 without increasing the risks to your health.
BMI / Weight Category / Risk of Health ProblemsLess than 18.5 / Underweight / Increased
18.5 – 24.9 / Normal Weight / Least
25.0 – 29.9 / Overweight / Increased
30.0 and over / Obese / High to very high
Source: Health Canada. Canadian Guidelines for Body Weight Classification in Adults, 2003.
Waistline: A Weighty Measurement
The risk of disease increases when the excess weight is localized around the waist rather than elsewhere on the body.Where do you find yourself?
With the help of a tape measure, measure your waist circumference halfway between the top of your hipbone and the bottom of your ribcage, without sucking in your stomach. /
Waist Circumference Measurement / Risk of Suffering from CVD and Diabetes
Normal Range of Waistline / Men: less than 94 cm (37 in)
Women: less than 80 cm (32 in) / Least
Abdominal Heaviness / Men: between 94 and 102 cm (37 and 40 in)
Women: between 80 and 88 cm (32 and 35 in) / Increased
Abdominal Obesity / Men: more than or equal to 102 cm (40 in)
Women: more than or equal to 88 cm (35 in) / High
So What is the right weight for my height?
How much should you weigh according to your height? This height to weight chart is a guideline to an Adults ideal bodyweight:
Female Height to Weight Ratio /
Male Height to Weight Ratio
Height / Low / Target / High / Height / Low / Target / High
4' 10" / 100 / 115 / 131 / 5' 1" / 123 / 134 / 145
4' 11" / 101 / 117 / 134 / 5' 2" / 125 / 137 / 148
5' 0" / 103 / 120 / 137 / 5' 3" / 127 / 139 / 151
5' 1" / 105 / 122 / 140 / 5' 4" / 129 / 142 / 155
5' 2" / 108 / 125 / 144 / 5' 5" / 131 / 145 / 159
5' 3" / 111 / 128 / 148 / 5' 6" / 133 / 148 / 163
5' 4" / 114 / 133 / 152 / 5" 7" / 135 / 151 / 167
5' 5" / 117 / 136 / 156 / 5' 8" / 137 / 154 / 171
5' 6" / 120 / 140 / 160 / 5' 9" / 139 / 157 / 175
5' 7" / 123 / 143 / 164 / 5' 10" / 141 / 160 / 179
5 '8" / 126 / 146 / 167 / 5' 11" / 144 / 164 / 183
5' 9" / 129 / 150 / 170 / 6' 0" / 147 / 167 / 187
5' 10" / 132 / 153 / 173 / 6' 1" / 150 / 171 / 192
5' 11" / 135 / 156 / 176 / 6' 2" / 153 / 175 / 197
6' 0" / 138 / 159 / 179 / 6' 3" / 157 / 179 / 202
Height to weight chart you can print:
Right click the chart below and save it to your computer. You can then print the height to weight chart for future reference.
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HEALTH PROMOTION
Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization's 2005 Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health"[1]. The primary means of health promotion occur through developing healthy public policy that addresses the prerequisites of health such as income, housing, food security, employment, and quality working conditions. There is a tendency among public health officials and governments—and this is especially the case in liberal nations such as Canada and the USA—to reduce health promotion to health education and social marketing focused on changing behavioral risk factors[2].
Recent work in the UK (Delphi consultation exercise due to be published late 2009 by Royal Society of Public Health and the National Social Marketing Centre) on relationship between health promotion and social marketing has highlighted and reinforce the potential integrative nature of the approaches. While an independent review (NCC 'It's Our Health!' 2006) identified that some social marketing has in past adopted a narrow or limited approach, the UK has increasingly taken a lead in the discussion and developed of much more integrative and strategic approach (see Strategic Social Marketing in 'Social Marketing and Public Health' 2009 Oxford Press) which adopts a whole-system and holistic approach, integrating the learning from effective health promotion approaches with relevant learning from social marketing and other disciplines. A key finding from the Delphi consultation was the need to avoid unnecessary and arbitrary 'methods wars' and instead focus on the issue of 'utility' and harnessing the potential of learning from multiple disciplines and sources. Such an approach is arguably how health promotion has developed over the years pulling in learning from different sectors and disciplines to enhance and develop.
Contents
[hide]· 1 History
· 2 Worksite health promotion
· 3 Health promotion entities and projects by country
o 3.1 International and multinational
o 3.2 Australia
o 3.3 Canada
o 3.4 New Zealand
o 3.5 United Kingdom
o 3.6 United States
· 4 See also
· 5 References
· 6 Further reading
· 7 External links
[edit] History
The "first and best known" definition of health promotion, promulgated by the American Journal of Health Promotion since at least 1986, is "the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health"[3][4]. This definition was derived from the 1974 Lalonde report from the Government of Canada[3], which contained a health promotion strategy "aimed at informing, influencing and assisting both individuals and organizations so that they will accept more responsibility and be more active in matters affecting mental and physical health"[5]. Another predecessor of the definition was the 1979 Healthy People report of the Surgeon General of the United States[3], which noted that health promotion "seeks the development of community and individual measures which can help... [people] to develop lifestyles that can maintain and enhance the state of well-being"[6].