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Causes of Weight Gain
All impacts on body weight are caused through either 1. Too much (or the wrong type of) food (energy intake), and/or 2. Too little movement (energy expenditure). The following is a list of ways this can happen. Check to see which is/are the biggest danger’s) for you.
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The Health Impacts of being Overweight
Carrying extra weight might be seen as just a bit of a nuisance; something you’d prefer not to have, so you can look better. But it also affects other aspects of your day-to-day life in ways in which you may not be aware.
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The Metabolic Syndrome
Being overweight is just one (early) component of a group of health risk factors known as the ‘metabolic syndrome (MS)’. The other risk factors in the MS are high blood sugars (hyperglycaemia), high blood fats (dyslipidaemia), and high blood pressure (hypertension).
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Pregnancy And Weight Gain
Pregnancy is often blamed for later weight gain. But this is usually due to lifestyle change, not to any biological change that occurs with pregnancy. This handout discusses some factors that influence post-pregnancy weight gain and what you can do it prevent it.
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