Healthy Weight - Why Is It Important To Keep A Healthy Body Weight

In this video I discuss why being at a healthy weight is important. I also discuss how being overweight affects the systems in the body, joints and confidence.

Healthy weight chart...

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Ideal Weight

Alright so I could cite a ton of statistics showing how being overweight puts you at risk for all these different illnesses, diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, heart attack, stroke, and on and on.

But, I’m going to make this video a bit different, let’s look at it from a logical perspective.

Why is being at a healthy weight so important?

If we throw the statistics out and just look at it from a logical perspective. When we weigh more, our circulatory and respiratory systems have to work harder to deliver nutrients and oxygen to all parts of the body.

Our digestive system has to work much harder, mainly because we are eating more than we need, hence why we are overweight. If our body needs only 2200 calories per day, but we are shoving in 3200 calories a day, that’s 1000 more calories per day that our digestive system must digest and absorb.

So, in a year that is 365,000 extra calories our body is breaking down, digesting, absorbing, and storing. Let’s say you are looking to buy a used car, two identical cars, 3 years old, car 1 has 32,000 miles on it, and car 2 has 88,000 miles on it. Less wear and tear on the engine is going to lean you to buying car 1. Take the same perspective for your body.

It also puts more stress on joints, ligaments and tendons. More stress on these makes them wear down faster, and become more prone to breaking down and even tearing.

Being overweight has a dramatic effect on our happiness. Being overweight can lead us to seek isolation, and bring about poor decisions. We are looking for something to make us feel good, and food makes us feel good. So we are overweight, feeling bad, eating more food to make us feel better and the result is we gain even more weight, feel even worse, and make our health even worse.

It is a vicious cycle, that many times invades our social lives, as we don’t want to eat around others, and sometimes do whatever we can to avoid people or even being out in a public setting.

Being underweight is also unhealthy. People that are underweight are not getting enough nutrients in their body to allow it to function properly. It weakens the immune system; bones become fragile, increases fatigue, and decreases brain function, and can also decrease self-esteem and lead people to seek isolation.

As you can see, being at a healthy weight is crucial to physical and mental health. There is a link to Rush university medical centers’ healthy weight chart in the description box below.

Maintaining a healthy weight can be difficult. Our exposure to food is constant, it is no longer just nutrients that allow us to survive. Food has become something we look to for comfort and even as entertainment, I mean look at all the food channels on tv, and even on YouTube. If you want to improve both your physical and mental health, maintaining a healthy weight is crucial.

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:20 Major systems of the body have to work much harder
1:11 More stress on joints
1:21 Can have an effect on happiness
1:50 Being underweight

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[insop]

Also underweight is scary. Im near underweight. Help

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[Maya-mkst]

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how important to you to maintain a healthy weight?

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