Being overweight is not good in any way. It’s not only bad for your outlook but your health is also at stake due to it. You don’t like your beer belly for sure, because it’s just bad for you social life.

You might not know that being overweight can increase triglycerides and decrease HDL. Or in other words it may increase the bad cholesterol and decrease good cholesterol in your body. So, control your weight to avoid many of other complexities.

Overeating is one of the most difficult habits to break. Overeating means consuming more or other than planned. Most of us are overeating for a hundred different reasons. We are eating due to stress, irritation and frustration. It may be worry or overwork. To overcome the negative impact overeating has on our bodies, we must take positive and immediate steps. Read the rest of this entry →

Weight lifting is one of the best ways to gain weight. It’s really not difficult to start exercising with weights. Most of the women believe that weight lifting will make them look like a bodybuilder or it may sound “manly”.

If you’re also one of those women who get worried after seeing some women in fitness magazines, with muscles that resemble a man are, you must now change your opinion about weight lifting. These women actually take some form of unnatural hormone, i.e. testosterone supplements. These suppliments make them look like a body builder.

If you’re thicker and want to gain some weight, weight lifting is the best choice for you. But don’t forget the importance of nutrients and balanced diet. You must have a right diet plan along with the exercise.

According to WSJ health blog, “there’s a growing body of evidence connecting more TV watching with poorer diets”. They further say that the latest study in the field has revealed that kids who watch more TV than their peers while in middle and high school have less healthy diets five years later. As young adults, they eat more fried foods, fast food and sugary drinks and consume fewer vegetables, fruits and whole grains.

Daheia Barr-Anderson, lead researcher of the study and a scientist at University of Minnesota’s School of Kinesiology says that they can’t say that they actually know the specific mechanism linking TV and diets, but they see this relationship.

Besides that there’s a fact that sitting for long hours effects the body shape, and since children are in growing age where their body is actually getting the proper shape, and if they keep on sitting long in front of TV, that does effect the normal body shaping process.