Seek medical advice before embarking on weight loss, diet journey – Health expert

Health consultants are asking individuals who’re overweight to hunt medical recommendation earlier than embarking on any weight reduction or eating regimen journey.

Current analysis on weight problems in Ghana by authors Richard Ofori-Asenso, Akosua Adom Agyeman, Amos Laar, and Daniel Boateng revealed 55 per cent of residents within the Greater Accra area are chubby or obsess.

The share within the Ashanti area is 43, and 32 per cent of these within the Northern area are both chubby or overweight.

The research, titled – Overweight and weight problems epidemic in Ghana — a scientific evaluation and meta-analysis, additionally famous severe implications on the nation’s healthcare system and productiveness.

Addressing the difficulty on the Joy FM’s Super Morning Show, Dr Yaw Sarfo of MediCAS hospital, who describes weight problems as a genetic, way of life trendy and dietary drawback, believes individuals who’re overweight ought to test their pre-medical situations.

“You could also be consuming proper, however it’s possible you’ll be placing on weight. There are different medicines that typically we medical doctors put sufferers on that trigger them to placed on weight.

“Some of them are steroid remedy. So we have to do a radical analysis, take a medical historical past and take a superb household historical past, then get to learn about that earlier than any weight journey is launched into,” he stated.

Despite this, some individuals who shared their weight reduction journey specific fear about how they’ve tried ‘all the things’, but they appear to not see any constructive impression on their weight.

One man stated, “my top is 6.8, and my weight is 120. I attempted my greatest to be in form and to eat effectively, however something I eat, it doesn’t go effectively with me.”

He is probably not the one individual however others too who known as in shared tales of how they’ve been profitable at their weight reduction journey.’

Narrating how she made it, this lady stated, “after I know I’ve placed on weight, I am going on what I name the Daniel quick. I dedicate a few month or 40 days to taking solely greens.

“I don’t eat any carbohydrates or protein or something. I solely take greens.”

Excited about how the outcomes make her really feel, she proudly acknowledged, “and inside 30 days, I’m down and again to the place I need to be.” 

Another man who eagerly shared his story revealed, “I wasn’t consuming any heavy meals after 7 pm. Instead, I did some train and abdomen workouts. I didn’t joke with melon and orange juice, and I additionally took a whole lot of water earlier than and after sleep.”

His journey concerned a number of disciplined actions, together with this he stated, “anytime I get up, I be certain that I do some 10 to twenty minutes of strolling and exercising.”

His result’s that he sees a drastic weight reduction inside two to 3 months, which makes him glad.  

But if weight problems has grow to be a life-style, tough to work on, what may be finished making an allowance for that it’s an extreme fats accumulation that took time to construct and desires time to work on.

Because it may well create different well being issues, together with coronary heart and kidney failure, the Nutritionist, Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Manager at Nestlé Ghana Limited, Dr Margaret Mary Tohouenou, supplied some tidbits on coping with the state of affairs.

First, she urged individuals in that state of affairs to not put strain on themselves by “attempting a number of choices together with keto and Daniel eating regimen and all that.”

The opposed is that “you may be stopping the consumption of particular sorts of meals teams within the promotion of one other, however that won’t convey within the complete diet that you just want in your physique to carry out as a lot as it’s anticipated.’  She echoes ‘seek the advice of professionals earlier than embarking on any such journey as a result of one factor which works for one individual could not assist one other contemplating the genetic variations.”

Dr Tohouenou doesn’t need individuals to place strain on themselves with unrealistic objectives of aiming to “see leads to a really quick time.” 

Don’t begin weight-reduction plan, and “in every week or month, you need to lose 5 kilos. If you a shedding 500 grams each week, it makes a whole lot of sense.”

Before beginning such a journey, one goal is to be constant in what an overweight individual units out to do.

Dr Tohouenou needs such an individual to “provide you with the minutes you need to do each week if you wish to train. If you’re weight-reduction plan be certain that it’s a balanced eating regimen. Sleep effectively too.

“One vital factor to recollect is that‘all these go collectively in making you keep weight so that you just don’t grow to be chubby or overweight.’

On a final notice, Dr. Tohouenou needs individuals with weight problems to “improve bodily actions and be conscious of what you eat.”

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