Weight loss plans

Benefits of the weight loss plans

The benefits of the weight loss plans are very significant. There are many direct changes. We can enumerate them as follows:

1- Major physiological changes.

2- Improvements in the co morbid disease control.

3- Major psychological benefits.

We will discuss the least benefits of the weight loss plans when they lead to loss of weight of only 10% of the total body weight ( based on a research on obesity treatment benefits):

Benefits of (only) 5-10% body weight loss:

1- > 50% decrease in the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

2- 30-50% fall in the fasting blood sugar.

3- Subjective improvements of decreased breathlessness.

4- Improvement of the weight-bearing joint pains.

5- More energy.

6- More positive outlook.

7- Improvement of the hypertension: Many patients stop the antihypertensive drugs.

8- Type 1 diabetics reduced their insulin doses.

9- Type 2 diabetics stopped their hypoglycemic drugs.

10- Delay in the onset of the cardiovascular diseases.

11- Improvement in the life expectancy ( 20-40% fall in the mortality rate)

12- Fall of blood pressure (10 systolic and 20 diastolic).

13- Total cholesterol decrease of 10%.

14- LDH fall of 15%.

15- Triglycerides fall of 30%.

16- HDL increase of 8% : HDL is a protective lipid to the heart and vessels.

N.B. We extracted these results from a research on obesity made by " Jung " in 1997.