Standard weight and bone structure calculation: Do you really need to lose weight?

Perhaps you're visiting a beauty and body sculpting center because you feel your figure isn't proportionate and hope to remove excess fat from certain areas using advanced equipment and skilled massage techniques from beauticians. But when you learn the truth behind these "advanced instruments and techniques," you might question whether your money was well spent.

In fact, the principle behind localized weight loss (also known as "body sculpting") is simply to increase the metabolic rate of local tissues to achieve tissue burn. Professionals typically use methods such as heating, massage, vibration, and applying heat-generating agents to increase the local heat consumption rate and achieve the goal of localized sculpting. However, the same goal can be achieved through proper exercise and increasing the activity of local muscles, and the results may even be better.

Therefore, people who are at a healthy weight but have an uneven body shape should focus on exercise to improve their physique, rather than resorting to extreme methods at weight loss centers. To assess whether a weight loss program is appropriate, one can start by calculating their ideal weight. Additionally, the amount of subcutaneous fat can also be a factor in determining whether a weight loss program is suitable. Generally, nutrition experts only offer weight loss advice to people who are 10% overweight.

**Elephant team members whose weight is above the standard**

Compared to people who are underweight but desperately try to lose weight, people who are overweight are often quite indifferent to weight loss, especially the heavier they are, the more pronounced their ostrich mentality becomes. Many overweight people will find excuses for themselves: "Isn't it cute to be chubby?" "People say I look very lucky!" or "What's wrong with having a big butt? Older people like to choose chubby women as wives, because a big butt means you'll have a son."

Many overweight people not only aren't worried about their figure, but sometimes even refuse to lose weight despite criticism from friends and family, citing their strong self-confidence. The thought of dieting-being able to eat only a little each day and having to exercise excessively-seems like self-inflicted torture. No wonder many obese individuals remain complacent and don't even consider dieting.

Just as the idea that "skinny is beautiful" is a misconception, the notion that "chubby is cute" is also wrong. According to an interpersonal relationship survey, most people's impression of obese people is not positive-not "cute"-but rather negative, such as "lazy, gluttonous, dirty, stupid, and slow-witted." While these perceptions are unfair to some obese individuals who lead positive lives, obese people cannot ignore these societal judgments.

Moreover, obesity is rarely something that is congenital and cannot be changed. Instead of protesting against these negative comments, why not simply change your own mindset and give yourself a healthy body and mind?

**◆The elderly "fat uncles" and "fat grandmothers"**

Middle-aged and elderly people are often less aware of the dangers of obesity than younger people, and their desire and willpower to lose weight are also significantly weaker. As age increases, the incidence of many chronic diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes increases, and the incidence of these diseases is directly proportional to weight.

A study by the American Cancer Society involving 75,000 men and women under the age of 60 who were 40% overweight found that this group had an average mortality rate twice that of others. Another report, the Framingham Heart Study, also showed that for people aged 30-49, the mortality rate increased by 1% for every pound (454 grams) overweight; and by 2% for those aged 50-62.

High blood pressure is not a disease unique to the elderly. As early as 1970, a U.S. federal government report on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey indicated that obese individuals were 2.9 times more likely to develop high blood pressure than the general population, while those aged 22-44 were 5.6 times more likely. They were also twice as likely to develop high cholesterol. The report also showed that obese individuals were 2.9 times more likely to develop diabetes than the general population.

In addition, the American Cancer Society also points out that cancers commonly found in the elderly, such as those of the rectum, prostate, gallbladder, breast, and ovaries, are all linked to obesity. Furthermore, obesity increases the incidence of other diseases common in middle-aged and elderly individuals, including fatty liver, gallstones, gout, and arthritis. Therefore, for middle-aged and elderly people, who constitute a larger proportion of the population and are less concerned about their appearance, controlling their weight is actually more necessary and urgent than for younger people.