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Fit and fine: Losing weight the right way

Hindustan Times | ByKamal Singh CSCS
Feb 08, 2020 08:58 PM IST

Obesity leads to a variety of lifestyle diseases - eating right and exercising are the best ways to handle it

We are in the midst of a Diabesity epidemic that is diabetes plus obesity. Here diabetes stands for all kinds of metabolic or lifestyle diseases like hypertension, heart disease etc. We know that losing the extra kilos go a long way in ameliorating if not fully eliminating these diseases, so much so that people are opting for drastic steps like bariatric surgery where the size of the stomach is surgically reduced, leading to weight loss..

Eating right and exercising regularly is the best way to lose those extra kilos(Shutterstock)
Eating right and exercising regularly is the best way to lose those extra kilos(Shutterstock)
Obesity leads to a host of lifestyle diseases like diabetes, hypertension and heart disease (Shutterstock)
Obesity leads to a host of lifestyle diseases like diabetes, hypertension and heart disease (Shutterstock)
Basal metabolic rate is the number of calories needed to maintain your current body weight and accomplish basic life sustaining functions (Shutterstock)
Basal metabolic rate is the number of calories needed to maintain your current body weight and accomplish basic life sustaining functions (Shutterstock)
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