Healia Health Guide: Weight Management
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What You Need to Know About Weight Management
What is weight management?
Weight management involves various methods of keeping your body weight at a healthy level. Proper nutrition and exercise are important aspects of weight management for everyone, while medication or surgery may be required for some people…
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What diseases can proper weight management help prevent?
Being overweight or obese is an established risk factor for several diseases. What follows is a discussion of some of the most common disorders linked to excess body weight…
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How do I know if I am at a healthy weight?
Being at a healthy weight means neither weighing too much nor too little. It is not always obvious exactly what a healthy weight for you should be…
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How can I control my weight?
Weight management is about two key factors: energy intake and energy expenditure…
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What about childhood obesity?
Childhood obesity describes when a child or adolescent is well above the normal weight for his or her age and height…
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