Health consultants are asking individuals who’re overweight to hunt medical recommendation earlier than embarking on any weight reduction or food plan journey.
Recent 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 obese or obsess.
The share within the Ashanti area is 43, and 32 per cent of these within the Northern area are both obese or overweight. The examine, titled – Overweight and weight problems epidemic in Ghana — a scientific assessment and meta-analysis, additionally famous severe implications on the nation’s healthcare system and productiveness.
Addressing the problem on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show, Dr Yaw Sarfo of MediCAS hospital, who describes weight problems as a genetic, way of life and dietary downside, believes individuals who’re overweight ought to verify their pre-medical circumstances. ‘
“You could also be consuming proper however you might be placing on weight. There are different medicines that generally we docs put sufferers on that trigger them to placed on weight. Some of them are steroid medicine.
“So we have to do an intensive analysis, take a medical historical past and take household historical past, then get to find out about that earlier than any weight journey is launched into,” he mentioned.
Despite this, some individuals who shared their weight reduction journey specific fear about attempting “the whole lot”, but they appear to not see any constructive affect on their weight. For instance, one man mentioned, “my top is 6.8, and my weight is 120. I attempted my finest to be in form and to eat properly, however something I eat, it doesn’t go properly with me.”
He is probably not the one particular person however others too who referred to as in shared tales of how they’ve been profitable at their weight reduction journey.’
Narrating how she made it, this lady mentioned, “once I know I’ve placed on weight, I am going on what I name the Daniel quick. I dedicate a couple of 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 quite a lot of water earlier than and after sleep.”
His journey concerned a lot of disciplined actions, together with this he mentioned, “anytime I get up, I ensure I do some 10 to twenty minutes of strolling and exercising.” His result’s that he sees a drastic weight reduction inside two to a few months, which makes him glad.
But if weight problems has change into a life-style, troublesome to work on, what will be completed taking into consideration that it’s an extreme fats accumulation that took time to construct and wishes time to work on.
Because it might doubtlessly create different well being issues, together with coronary heart and kidney failure, Nutritionist, Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Manager at Nestlé Ghana Limited, Dr Margaret Mary Tohouenou, provided some tidbits on the way to cope with the scenario.
First, she urges individuals in that scenario to not put stress on themselves by “attempting a number of choices together with keto and Daniel food plan and all that.”
The opposed is that “you could be stopping the consumption of particular forms of meals teams within the promotion of one other however that will not deliver within the complete diet that you simply 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 suppose which works for one particular person could not assist one other contemplating the genetic variations.”
Dr Tohouenou doesn’t need individuals to place stress on themselves with unrealistic targets of aiming to “see ends in a really brief time.”
Don’t begin weight-reduction plan, and “in per week or month, you need to lose 5 kilos. If you a dropping 500 grams each week, it makes quite a lot of sense.”
Before beginning such a journey, one goal is to be constant in what an overweight particular person units out to do.
Dr Tohouenou needs such an individual to “give you the minutes you need to do each week if you wish to train. If you’re weight-reduction plan, ensure it’s a balanced food plan. Sleep properly too.”
One vital factor to recollect is that “all these go collectively in making you keep weight so that you simply don’t change into obese or overweight.“
Finally, Dr Tohouenou needs individuals with weight problems to “improve bodily actions and be conscious of what you eat.”
