an introduction
Everyone is trying to get rid of the extra weight, but there is in contrast a category of not a few suffering from severe weight loss that affects the overall appearance, and has serious complications on health, including: The loss of weight may lead to osteoporosis, problems in the menstrual cycle at Women with reduced fertility, some dental problems, poor hair growth, dizziness and dryness of the skin, delayed growth and longevity, decreased immunity, and thus easy disease.
a Causes of weight loss
The person with the thinness (weight loss) should investigate the cause of this decrease, knowing why it helps in the speed of treatment. Causes of weight loss may be one of the following:
- The type of meals eaten by the individual, where there is no nutritional value.
- Some medications may lead to severe weight loss.
- The presence of some thyroid diseases.
- Diabetes.
- Excessive activity, frequent working hours, and lack of sleep, rest and recreation.
- The presence of parasites and some types of capillary worms in the stomach intestine.
- In some people, there is a genetic factor, which has a high metabolic rate, which increases the burning of calories in the body.
If we exclude previous pathological factors for weight loss reasons, for weight gain we do the following:
- If the individual suffers from hyperactivity, or that the work is imposed by the movement of many must devote part of the time for rest and recreation.
- Maintain balance and diversity of food, and focus on high-calorie foods and starches such as rice, white bread, potatoes, pasta, sweets and chocolate, and reduce the eating of vegetables, fruits, meat and fish.
- Minimize sports that increase the burning of calories and fat, and the proliferation of endurance exercises such as weightlifting games to build muscle.
- Maintain three full meals a day of food during the day, as well as snacks.
- Concentrate on snacks between the main meals and be high-calorie such as cheeses, biscuits, nuts and sweets, as he ate a plate of chocolate and sandwiches between the main meals provide the body with 500 additional calories, and that is the same number of calories when walking military for half an hour .
- Add healthy oils when preparing food such as olive oil and coconut oil, and add creams such as mayonnaise.
- Eat supplements are full of calories and protein.