OBESITY (الـسـمـنـة)

OBESITY:

:الـسـمـنـة

• Active-versus-sedentary occupations.

• A couch-potato.

• Fatophobia.

• Physically active people are generally leaner than sedentary ones.

• The increase of weight is brought on by inactivity.

• Obesity is a self-inflicted malady.

• Eating the leftovers increases bodyweight.

• A body free of excess weight.

• To be weight-conscious.

• Cultural obsession with weight and appearance.

• To have a distorted body image.

• People with obesity as a major concern can profit from the beneficial effect of endurance exercise by increasing energy expenditure.

• Weight control, as the cornerstone of management for the achievement of ideal body weight range.

• The nutritional approach, including regularity of meal timing and reduction of inter-meal snacks, is meant to control caloric intake which should be individualised according to age, sex and physical activity.

• Diet therapists should be consulted for assistance in modifying feeding behaviour /eating habits.

• To adjust one’s appetite to nutritional programs.

• A program offering more than 150 low-fat recipes.

• Dietary care.

• Compulsive eating/dieting.

• Gradual weight reduction/ loss.

• A balanced diet.

• Dietetic foods.

• A vegan/fibre-rich diet.

• A low-cal fare.

• A wholesome diet.

• Food types: simple-structure /complex starchy carbohydrates.

• Pre-exercise diet.

• Weight-reduction exercises.

• Weight-loss dieters/ overweight patients follow weight-control programs/ enrol in slimming classes.

• Body-fat percentage.

• Flab.

• Abdominal fat.

• Excess belly fat.

• Body reserves of calories in the form of fat.

• Fat deposits began to shrink.

• To burn calories – calorie consumption.

• An energy-boosting diet.

• Energy-burning activities.

• Energy balance.

• A training regime/aerobic work for maximum calorie burning.

• Exercising for weight loss has the positive effect of reducing the bloodstream liquid fat levels, as well as body fat.

• Anyone carrying excessive abdominal fat is significantly more at risk of heart diseases and other fatal conditions, including cancer.

• To lose serious poundage for aesthetic reasons/the good of one’s health.

• Obese women are more likely to have pregnancy complications like hypertension and diabetes.

• Clinical obesity.

• Obesity-induced diabetes.

• Cholesterol-laden diets.

• HDLs (high density lipoproteins) vs. LDLs (= “bad” cholesterol).

• Triglycerides.

• Overweight diabetics.

• To prescribe dietary treatment.

• To devise individually tailored meal plans, dieticians/nutritionists/ diabetes educators/ physicians should take into account factors such as the diabetic’s food preferences, activities, age, degree of obesity, and the establishment of an underline target weight loss goal.

• To encourage exercise.

• A diet plan.

• A standardized, pre-printed low calorie diet.

• To follow a strict/tough regimen (of diet).

• To successfully implement a dietary discipline.

• Nutritional guidelines to enable patients to make intelligent food choices.

• Regular physical activity reduces body weight by increasing energy expenditure, raising resting metabolic rate, accelerating mobilization of fat stores, and effecting appetite adjustments and potentiating favourable eating patterns/behaviours.

• A low calcium intake.

• Calcium increases bone mass and skeletal stature.

• Bone loss – osteoporosis.