These days obesity and being overweight has reached wide-ranging proportions. It is no question that so many people want to lose weight. There are many reasons to lose weight from the visual reasons, like looking good to draw a partner or to fit in those wonderful jeans to what is possibly the most crucial reason and that is for good health.

We all carry our surplus body fat a little differently. One person may have thunder thighs with a hefty butt and a slighter upper body so she is shaped like a pear, while the next person will hold it all around the middle, in the abdominal region so that she is shaped more like an apple on a stick. The way we carry our fat contributes to a great extent to our good health.

The pear-shaped women, who hold all of their surplus weight in their butt and thighs, are at a health benefit over the apple shaped women. While they may have more trouble finding “jeans that fit” and they may fight with body image just as much as the apple-shaped woman, they do not have the same wellbeing issues to contend with. The flab they carry on their butts and thighs is not inevitably detrimental to their wellbeing.

The fat that accumulates around the belly area puts the person at danger for things like heart disease and cardiovascular problems, diabetes and other health risks. The problem is that the fat in the belly area collects around the internal organs. This prevents the organs from performing optimally. If you are pear-shaped you escape this trouble because there are no internal organs in your butt and thighs.

To find out is you are an apple-shape or a pear-shape you will need to calculate the ratio of your waist to hips. Divide your waist measurement in inches by your hip measurement in inches. If the resulting ratio is 0.8 or more you are shaped like an apple, but if it is more than 0.8 or less then you are shaped like a pear. An instance would be a 28-inch waist divided by a 38-inch hip gives a ratio of 0.73 or a pear-shape while that same hip measurement combined with a 32-inch waist is a 0.84 or an apple shape.

A pear may have body image issues and she may fight with her body type but she is not really facing crucial health risks, which is not the case for an apple-shaped individual. If you are apple-shaped it is much more vital that you drop the weight. Try increasing your cardio exercises and concentrate on consuming a fiber-rich diet with more fruits, vegetables, beans and legumes and lean protein sources such as fish and skinless chicken.

When it comes to weight loss an apple shaped individual does have an benefit because weight that accumulates in the abdominal section comes off faster than the fat that accumulates in the butt and thighs. Butt and thigh fat is quite stubborn and it will take much more struggle to get it to finally come off.

The type of body that you have is not something that you can control but you can do whatever is essential to lose the excess fat or even better, of course, is to not gain it in the first place.

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