What is a Healthy body weight?

Although people spend billions of dollars each year on weight loss diets, there are still millions people overweighting. The portion of overweight rate is increasing. In United States, over 60% of adults are considered overweight. Although this problem is more popular in the Western half of the world, the East has been seen their own increase in obesity statistics over the past 10 years. The overweight can lead to serious health complications, such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and reproductive problem. As for these and many more reasons, it is important to maintain a healthy body weight.

A healthy body weight is not defined as how much you weight in scales but is determined by height, age, body build and gender. However, a body with high muscle to fat ratio will look slimmer than the one with same weight but has a much higher body fat percentage. This is because fat is less dense and compact than muscle and deposits itself unevenly around the hips, thighs and waist etc.

Therefore your body weight is best defined by your muscle to fat ratio or body fat percentage. The higher your muscle to fat ratio, the better, as this decreases your overall body fat percentage, increases your metabolism and makes your body more efficient at burning fat.

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