Life is a blessing and to enjoy it to the fullest extent you need to have perfect physical and mental health. You might own a luxury car, a perfect house on a beach, a couple of young and lively kids but if you are not healthy all these blessings are useless. Obesity is an enemy of your happiness. You can save yourself from several diseases by reducing body weight.
Prevention against osteoporosis:
Osteoporosis is also considered a sign of growing old. Have you ever wondered why elderly people lose centimeters of height? One of the most common reasons is due to loss of calcium that accompanies the decrease of estrogen during menopause. Osteoporosis is a health condition that all women need to be aware of. This disease can increase the chances of fractures and breaks of bones by a number of times. Exercise, being the best weight loss method, when done regularly greatly diminishes the risk of this disease. Anaerobic exercises are best to reduce this risk.
Reducing chances of infections:
Moderate exercise temporarily speeds up your immune system, increasing the aggressiveness or ability of the immune system to combat disease and infections. Better immunity means more protection against infections, bacteria and viruses. This may explain why people who exercise are less prone to viral infections. On the other hand if you are obese even those organisms that are part of your normal flora will start causing disease. That is why complications are more common among obese people.
Protection against heart attacks:
Exercise not only increases HDL cholesterol the "good" kind and encourages low blood pressure, but new research shows that it also plays a part in reducing arterial inflammation, another risk factor for heart attacks and strokes. Your coronary vessels stay open and chances of heart attach are decreased by several fold.
Prevention against diabetes mellitus:
Type II diabetes mellitus is considered a disease of obese people. Obesity decreases the sensitivity of body cells to insulin thus glucose start to accumulate in blood. You can not only prevent diabetes mellitus but can even get rid of its medication if you are already suffering from it. Ideal body weight will ensure that you have an excellent body metabolism. Good metabolism of carbohydrates, both glycogen and starch, will make sure that you diabetes and its complication will stay away from you.