How Important is WEIGHT?

A person’s weight is very important in maintaining a healthy and strong body. It basically depends on the height and body composition of a person.  One has to have a balanced diet and proper exercise in order to have an adequate body weight.  We should love our body because it is our greatest wealth and greatest asset here on earth.  We should be conscious about it and take extra care on our body.

Maintaining an adequate weight is not that easy.  It requires self-determination and self-control most especially to those who are overweight.  While the skinny ones or people who are underweight need motivation to eat more nutritious foods. A lot of factors are considered in maintaining proper weight.  Although, there is no such thing as ideal weight, but as conscious individuals, we should have a target as to what we consider as an adequate weight for our body.

Our body weight does not only affect us physically and emotionally, but as well as, our health.  We are not just conscious with our weight for physical and emotional reasons – that is, to look attractive to others and to be confident with ourselves because we have a nice body.  However, also, we take into consideration the health of our body.  We do not want to end up to a hospital because of our weight and health problem. We want to stay fit all the time.  Staying healthy and maintaining good weight also reduces the risk of dying at an early age.

The biggest problem most countries throughout the whole world are facing now is obesity.  Perhaps, this could be attributed to the fact that many people are no longer very much conscious with their choice of food.  They just eat and eat without examining what the food they are eating is made of.  They no longer give importance to the number of calories a certain food is composed of.  And they eat plenty of junk foods, sweet foods and other foods high in calories.  Another cause of obesity is that, some people tend to forget doing some bodily exercises.  The fats in our body keep on building up adding to our body weight.  If we do not perform some exercises such as running, playing, walking and any other form of body exercise, these fats will not be burned and cause in the  increase of  our body weight.  The more physically active we are the more chances of burning these body fats and the more we will become healthier and stronger.  It is therefore, important for us persons to be conscious with our lifestyle and choice of foods in order to avoid gaining too much weight.  Women, as they say, are more prone to obesity in comparison to men.  This is because women are less physically active than men. Also, the older a person gets, the lesser active he or she is, the more chances of increasing weight.  Therefore, as a person gets older, the more he or she has to be conscious of his or her body and observe a balanced diet.

Weight should never be taken for granted.  One may not have a perfect body, but at least, he has to have a slim figure or an adequate weight for his body.  In this way, health problems will be controlled and the risk of dying earlier will be avoided.