Everyone needs a certain amount of body fat for stored energy, heat insulation, shock absorption, and other functions. But there got to be a limit to the amount of body fat that a person can harmlessly and gracefully carry on him / her. As a rule, women have more fat than men. Doctors generally agree that men with more than 25 percent body fat and women with more than 30 percent body fat are obese.

In scientific terms, obesity occurs when a person's calorie intake exceeds the amount of energy he or she burns. Evidence suggests that obesity often has more than one cause. Genetic, environmental, psychological, and other factors all may play a part.

 Consequences of obesity : Obesity is not just a cosmetic problem. It's a health hazard. Someone who is 40 percent overweight is twice as likely to die prematurely as an average-weight person. (This effect is seen after ten to 30 years of being obese.)

 Health risks : Doctors generally agree that the more obese a person is, the more likely he or she is to have health problems. Obesity has been linked to several serious medical conditions, including the following.

•  Heart disease and stroke                           •  High blood pressure                           •  Diabetes
•  Angina                                                     •  Sleep apnea                                       •  Cancer
•  Gout                                                        •  Osteoarthritis                                      •  Gallbladder disease
•  Weight loss itself, particularly rapid weight loss or loss of a large amount of weight, can actually increase your chances of developing gallstones. Modest, slow weight loss of about one pound a week is less likely to cause gallstones

 Psychological and social effects : One of the most painful aspects of obesity may be the emotional suffering it causes. Our society places great emphasis on physical appearance, often equating attractiveness with slimness, especially in women. The messages, intended or not, make overweight people feel unattractive. Many people assume that obese people are gluttonous, lazy, or both.

Obese people often face prejudice or discrimination at work, at school, while looking for a job, and in social situations. Feelings of rejection, shame, or depression are common.

 The Solution: Health Sanctuary's Weight Management program provides solutions to overweight / obesity-related diseases and disorders in both men and women. What makes Health Sanctuary's Program the only one of its kind is its thorough scientific approach, intelligently combined with the age old Ayurveda. Such a healthy combination sees to it that the side effects are eliminated in toto. An in-depth knowledge of various factors responsible for an individual's health and body fat such as medical status, age, gender, energy levels, diet analysis, day to day physical activity, drinking and smoking habits etc. is acquired by our in house specialists. Thereafter a comprehensive Body Composition Analysis (BCA) enables us to customize a personalized weight management program for our clients.

Such a well researched and intelligent Weight Loss Program from Health Sanctuary helps its clients to achieve a gradual and steady weight-loss scientifically. Health Sanctuary does not in any way involve the use of appetite suppressants, drugs and anorexic diets. In fact we prefer to supplement our programs with the more safe, sure and lasting methods of modification in food intake and lifestyle. This is unlike the practice at many Health Centres who resort to so-called weight-loss diets. The effect of these lasts just a few weeks, with much longer side effects. Health Sanctuary therefore encourages you to eat ‘healthy food the healthy way'. The right mix of proteins, vitamins, carbohydrates, fat, fibre, minerals and antioxidants is recommended, keeping in your social and ethnic eating patterns as well as individual dietary likes and dislikes. In a way Health Sanctuary helps in educating you about your eating habits and making physical activity wherever possible, part of your lifestyle, thereby preventing obesity in the society at large.

Health Sanctuary's more scientific, planned and intelligently balanced approach to Weight Loss helps it to be the only one of it‘s kind to have revolutionized Weight Loss in India. At Health Sanctuary each individual is cared professionally but personally, thereby coming out with an independently unique Weight Loss Program depending on his / her specific medical condition and lifestyle.

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