Many of my articles focus on how to lose weight. It also describes how being overweight affects the health. Those health risk includes hypertension, diabetes etc.
In fact, I would venture that the percentage of people who are overweight and know the health consequences is quite high, as it’s been preached to them in some format for years.
When we look at some models in magazines we see some happy skinny models. But who knows what is happening inside their body? What most people do not know is, being underweight is also a problem.
Illness, stress, high metabolism and skipping meals are the major reasons why people are underweight. Most of the skinny people also follow a diet that is very low on nutrition which again makes them underweight.
Anorexia is a disorder in which one (predominantly women, although men are not immune) has a distorted body image and always sees his/herself as fat no matter how much weight they lose. Anorexics frequently starve themselves to lose weight.
These people may suffer from memory loss, lose their hair and can end their life with failure of vital organs like heart, kidney and liver.
