What is a Healthy Weight Range?

July 19, 2009 by Admin
Filed under Featured, Healthy Weight Range

In every fitness magazine and website that you flip through nowadays, you come across the directive from some health expert or other, asking you to stick to a healthy weight range. Well, that’s fine, I guess, but I am sure you have often scratched your head in perplexity wondering what this healthy weight range can be! I know I did when I read through these articles. In this article I shall discuss the issue of a healthy weight range.

The healthy weight range issue is pretty important in today’s age because you are constantly being fed on a diet of “thin, thinner, thinnest” by the media blitzkrieg while you are growing more voluptuous day by day and putting on a terrible amount of weight. The two things are at complete crossroads and do not coincide with the $900 billion plus food industry in America.

You require around 2000 calories or lower than that per day to live and thrive. But the food items that are churned out by the trillion dollar American food industry will give you a burst of 3800 calories per day which is in terrible excess, as you can easily understand. It is therefore not difficult to comprehend why 60% of Americans suffer from obesity in current times. The figures are equally bad in rest of the developed western countries.

Seen in this perspective, a healthy weight range becomes rather important and more important it is to stick to a healthy weight range because obesity leads to lethal diseases like heart and coronary ailments, strokes, diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis and other such crippling ailments.

To calculate whether an individual is obese or overweight or underweight, you require a body mass index calculator. The ratio of your weight and height will give you your BMI. A BMI of 18/19 to 25 is regarded as the healthy weight range. If your BMI falls below 18, you will be considered underweight and similarly, if your BMI is above 25, you will be regarded as overweight. If your BMI is over 30, you are definitely obese and need to lose weight so that you may attain your healthy weight range.