Ideal Height And Weight Charts

Lady of America Fitness Corporation Promotes a Good Healthy Lifestyle and Living

Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) June 23, 2011

In its effort to promote good health and living lifestyle to women worldwide, Lady of America Fitness Corporation wants to make sure you know your numbers and the importance of practicing a healthy lifestyle . Knowing your body’s numbers — blood pressure, waist size, weight, cholesterol and fasting blood sugar level — is the key to good health, and it’s the first step to really taking charge of your life.

According to the American Heart Association, high blood pressure (also known as hypertension) killed 56,561 people in 2006. Today, approximately 74.5 million American adults live with high blood pressure. This disease can cause many medical problems, including cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease and stroke, which can strike suddenly.

When getting your blood pressure taken, it’s important to pay attention to the top number – the systolic pressure, which indicates the pressure when the heart beats while pumping blood. For women, a systolic reading above 140 is considered too high. In a recent Dr. Oz program, Dr. Oz urged women to aim for a blood pressure reading of 115/75.

Another number to watch is waist size. Ideally, a woman’s waist should be no more than 32.5 inches. If the waist is larger, the risk of dying prematurely nearly doubles thanks to belly fat, which sends out a toxic stream of chemicals impacting the whole body. In addition, a waist size of more than 35 inches in women can greatly increase the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease and more.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), one out of three Americans are obese and two out of every three are overweight. Being overweight can lead to a number of health problems, including cardiovascular disease, GERD, gout, hypertension and even cancer.

What's the best way to determine a healthy weight? BMI (body mass index) provides a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people and is used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems. As well, a height/weight chart provides a healthy range in regard to weight. The average American woman stands at 5’4. According to the height/weight chart, the ideal weight is between 108 - 132 pounds. Members of Lady of America can find out their BMI and ideal weight at their local Lady of America fitness club.

High cholesterol is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The HDL, or healthy cholesterol, should be 50 or better; the LDL, the unhealthy cholesterol, should be under 100. If your numbers do not fall in this range, Lady of America urges you to discuss strategies for lowering your LDL and increasing your HDL with your doctor.

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What should I weigh? This is a question that we should always ask ourselves before we begin a weight loss program . If you go by how you feel, you run the risk of being influenced by distorted perceptions of weight that may be heavily influenced by your culture. This is why some skinny people think they’re fat and some fat people think they’re just about right.

It may help to rephrase your question to “What is the healthiest weight for me?”

A quick and easy way to get a general weight range answer to that question is just to check out medical weight charts.

Community health centers usually have these. The three factors that go into finding your ideal weight on these charts are your age, height, and build. The first two are, of course objective, the third is somewhat subjective. Basically, your build is how wide your bones are spread. Basically, someone with broad shoulders, chest bones, and hip bones will have a higher ideal weight than someone of the same age and height with a slimmer bone structure.

A primary difficulty with losing weight to be healthy is that weight fluctuations are themselves unhealthy. But lowering your weight and then keeping it steady is about the best thing you can do for your health. So dieting and then returning to what got you overweight in the first place is a very unhealthy way to go about weight management.

Weight charts can be helpful, but you would be better served to see your doctor about finding an ideal weight. This helps remove some of the self-deceiving subjectiveness from the equation. Your doctor may have some suggestions that surprise you.

Some doctors use weight charts and some use Body Mass Index (BMI) to come up with a target weight. But in most cases, they will also take into consideration other conditions you may have, your muscle mass, and your family history.

Muscle mass, for example, is very dense. So if you are a muscular person, you can be much heavier than the charts and BMI indicate for you, yet still be very lean. One trick your doctor may prefer for getting you to a healthy weight would be to put you on a resistance training program to gain muscle, which is an easier way for some people to become lean than losing weight.

So really the determination of your healthy weight starts with consulting a chart or a BMI calculation, then taking into consideration your bone structure and muscle structure.

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