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Once you have found out what your BMI (Body Mass Index) is, check below to see whether it indicates that you are underweight, a normal, healthy weight, overweight, or obese and what you should then do about your weight. If you do not know your BMI, please check it out here!

BMI 19.0 or below: Underweight
You need to eat more food to provide your body with the fuel it needs. You may need to eat more at each meal and have more snacks during the day. Be sure to choose nutritious foods from range of food groups.

BMI 19.0 - 24.9 Normal weight
You are eating the right amount to keep your weight at a healthy level, but you still need to make sure that your diet is balanced, health, and nutritious.

BMI 25 - 29.9: Overweight
it would be beneficial to your health if you lose some weight and avoid gaining any additional weight. Healthy eating and regular exercise will help to manage your weight long-term. Making just one or two adjustments to your diet each day, for example, cutting out high-fat or high sugar snacks, should result in a healthy, gradual weight loss.

BMI 30 - 34.9 Obesity (Class 1)
Your health may be at risk at your current weight. Look for healthy way of losing the excess weight; do not be tempted to try any “crash” diets, which could place more strain on your health.

BMI 35 - 39.9 Obesity (Class 2)
Your health is at risk at your current weight. You should find ways of changing your eating habits. You are advised to seek from your doctor or dietitian.

BMI 40 or higher: Obesity (Class 3)
Being this overweight poses a serious risk to your health. You are advised to seek advice from your doctor or dietitian for a weight-loss plan.

Source from Nutrition for Life
Lisa Hark, Ph.D, RD & Darwin Deen, MD

Diabetes (Diabetes mellitus) is a life-long disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood. It can be caused by too little insulin (a hormone produced by the pancreas to regulate blood sugar), resistance to insulin, or both.

Causes, incidence, and risk actors:

To understand diabetes, it is important to first understand the normal process of food metabolism. Several things happen when food is digested:

• A sugar called glucose enters the bloodstream. Glucose is a source of fuel for the body.
• An organ called the pancreas makes insulin. The role of insulin is to move glucose from the bloodstream into muscle, fat, and liver cells, where it can be used as fuel.

People with diabetes have high blood glucose. This is because their pancreas does not make enough insulin or their muscle, fat, and liver cells do not respond to insulin normally, or both.

There are many risk factors for diabetes, including:

• A parent, brother, or sister with diabetes
• Obesity
• Age greater than 45 years
• Some ethnic groups (particularly African-Americans and Hispanic Americans)
• Gestational diabetes or delivering a baby weighing more than 9 pounds
• High blood pressure
• High blood levels of triglycerides (a type of fat molecule)
• High blood cholesterol level

Symptoms:

High blood levels of glucose can cause several problems, including frequent urination, excessive thirst, hunger, fatigue, weight loss, and blurry vision. However, because type 2 diabetes develops slowly, some people with high blood sugar experience no symptoms at all.

Symptoms of diabetes:

• Increased thirst
• Increased urination
• Increased appetite
• Fatigue
• Blurred vision
• Slow-healing infections
• Impotence in men

Treatment:

There is no cure for diabetes. The immediate goals are to stabilize your blood sugar and eliminate the symptoms of high blood sugar. The long-term goals of treatment are to prolong life, relieve symptoms, and prevent long-term complications such as heart disease and kidney failure.

Diabetes a lifestyle disease

Now’s the ideal time to learn about the impact Herbalife nutrition can have on this devastating disease. For the past 27 years we have witnessed incredible health stories from our customers and distributors. These occur not because our nutritional supplements are specific therapies for medical conditions, but because the Herbalife “way of life” produces profound health benefits. Now, the medical community has proven the ability of weight loss and exercise to prevent the development of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Reduce your risk of diabetes naturally

In an article published in the May 3, 2001, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, 522 overweight, middle-aged subjects with elevated sugars were studied. Those individuals who reduced their weight, by limiting their intake of fat, increasing their intake of fiber and engaging in physical activity, had a 58 percent reduction in the development of diabetes.

Reducing caloric intake, limiting bad fats and increasing fiber in the diet can help reduce developing a devastating disease. This means the healthy nutrition you and your loved ones consume is an effective way to reduce a disease that has become epidemic. Diabetes has gained prominence because it affects younger and younger people.

Herbalife products and diabetics

Distributors frequently ask if our products are appropriate for diabetics. The answer is an unequivocal yes. Healthy weight loss, and notably restricting carbohydrates, may be the most beneficial nutritional approach to preventing diabetes.

However, there is an important caution. People who are being treated with insulin or oral medications to lower their blood sugar should be advised that as they improve their diet and lose weight, their blood sugar levels may fall. Therefore, if a customer or distributor is on medication for diabetes, they must be supervised by their physician to ensure that they do not develop hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and their medications are adjusted appropriately.

It is recommended to lose weight with Herbalife Shapeworks™ Weight-Management, weight loss with Herbalife is simple to achieve. It can maintain the health benefits from losing weight using Herbalife products and reduce their likelihood of becoming diabetic, by as much as 60 percent, according to studies!

Did you know?

Diabetes kills more than 60,000 Americans each year.

Diabetes increases the risk of heart attack and stroke by two to four times.

Diabetes can cause or lead to blindness, kidney disease, nerve disease and limb amputation.

Of the 16 million Americans who have diabetes, more than five million are estimated to be unaware of it.

There is this common idea that overweight people are greedy, but in most cases that is far from truth. Most people lead fairly sedentary lifestyles and calorie (energy) needs may not be great. Eating just a small amount more than those needs will result in a slow but steady weight increase.

Eating just 100 calories a day more than her needs (represented, say, by a banana or one large chocolate biscuit) will result (all other factors being equal) in an annual weight gain of 4.7kg (10lb)!

As we get older, our metabolic rate also slow down a little very gradually, which can result in slow weight-gain in people aged 30 plus.

Is it really possible that there are people who, due to genetics, are obese but do not and have never overeaten? We don’t think so. Our definition of “to overeat” is to eat more fuel/energy/food, as measured in calories, than your body expends, as measured in calories. How might genetics play a role in obesity? Genetics might create a compulsion to overeating. Genetics might make you more prone to depression, which is associated with overeating and a sedentary lifestyle. And finally, genetics might make your body’s metabolism somewhat more efficient, using fewer calories to get through the day, lowering the number of calories you can eat before you “overeat.”