Body Shape & Weight

Body Shaping & Weight Management 

Managing weight and body contours @ home

Being fit with lean and shapely body is crucial to health and wellbeing, personal confidence and self esteem. Attaining and maintaining appropriate body weight can be difficult. Loosing weight can involve major changes in eating habits and a significant increase in physical activities and exercise routines.

Attaining and maintaining appropriate weight improves our health and wellbeing as well as our body image. It makes us feel better, more energetic and gives us greater self esteem and personal confidence.   

In this section we present to you a selection of devices and products that can assist you in your quest for greater fitness, perfect weight and cellulite free leaner body with tight and firm skin. They can aid your efforts for body perfect effectively, conveniently and affordably without surgical intervention or costly visits to therapy salons. They can help you to remove unsightly cellulite and tighten the skin that lost its firmness due to weight loss, aging or excessive exposure to sunrays.

You can perform your body shaping and anti-cellulite treatments in the privacy of your own home. You can cook healthy and affordable meals every day - even if you have no cooking experience at all! You can curb your appetite and cravings for fattening foods and snacks with an appetite suppressing non-invasive electroacupuncture AcuOne device worn like a watch on your wrist. You can walk or jog or cycle for stronger heart, muscular strength and great body definition with full awareness of used up calories. Alternatively, you can tone and firm your abdominal muscles without efforts, whilst relaxing after busy day and then follow with a natural body firming anti cellulite skincare treatment applied to the problem areas on your body. You can apply soothing vibration massage with a portable Beurer Vibration Mini Massager MG16. Rio Bum and Thigh Toner makes bum toning and thigh shaping fast and easy - at home at your convenience.

Watching your weight, exercising and using devices, such as the TriPollar POSE or Rio Lipovacuum to achieve cellulite free body in the comfort of your own home is more affordable than surgical procedure known as liposuction. If opting for liposuction, be sure to look for an experienced surgeon with appropriate qualifications as well as research liposuction prices before making a committment.  

For those wishing to have a lean body free of unwanted hair, here is the Rio IPL Hair Removal: Rio IPL 8000 Hair Remover utilises advanced Intense Pulsed Light Technology adapted for home use to deliver effective, safe and affordable hair removal treatments you can perform in the privacy of your own home.   

The list of devices and skincare products relevant to body shape and weight available from Win Health website:

• TriPollar POSE Clinical Skin Tightening Device for Body
• Rio Lipovacuum Toning Anti Cellulite Full Body Massager
• Rio Cellulight Laser with Caffeine with Caffeine based Anti Cellulite Skin Care
• Abdominal Toning Belts
• Upper Arm Toner
• Muscular Stimulators for muscular shape, definition & firmness
• AcuOne Slimming Non-Invasive Electroacupuncture Device
• Diet Scales
• Diagnostic Scales
• Personal Scales
• The Secret Ingredient Cookbook by Sally Bee
• Heart Rate Monitor for runners
• Heart Rate Monitor for cyclists
• Body Contour Natural Anti Cellulite Skin Firming Skincare
• Slender Shaper Cellulite Smoothing Massage Gel
• SaneoSPORT Muscle Training
• SaneoVITAL EMS Massager with TENS Function
• Vibration Mini Massager
• Body Composition Monitors
• Activity Sensor
• Rio IPL 8000 Hair Remover
• Rio RF-Polar Skin Toner
• Rio Salon Laser Scanning X60 Hair Removal System
• Rio Salon Laser Scanning X20 Hair Remover
• VISS IPL System for Hair Removal, Skin Rejuvenation & Acne Treatment
• VISS Sonic Microdermabrasion Device

Simply click on the orange product links.

Simple facts about weight and body fat

The quantity of body fat that we carry under our skin and around our vital inner organs is an important factor that influences our overall health. Recently, concerns about the level of obesity in our modern society are growing. You can read more about the basic facts of weight management in a section at the lower part of this page. Here we present products that can help you to monitor your body fat and contribute to your optimum weight management.

BMR - Basic Metabolic Rate is a minimum calorific requirement that is needed to sustain life during resting. BMR decreases with age and with the amount of fat we carry. BMR can be raised by undertaking of regular exercises. Another factor that influences BMR is height (i.e. taller people have higher BMR than shorter people). BMR also increases in pregnant women. BMR decreases during dieting and it is therefore important to understand that the most effective weight loss can be achieved by a combination of good diet with exercise regime rather than through dieting alone!

Concerns about the level of obesity in the UK are growing. Currently in the UK 50% of men and 33% of women are overweight with as many as 20% of men and 24% of women classed as obese (data from Leatherhead Food International Ltd.). It is predicted that if the weight gaining trend continues, by the year 2010 more than 1 in 4 adults will be obese.

Obesity has many negative implications on health and fitness. Conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and even stress are adversely affected by body weight  and % body fat content. It is therefore important to maintain appropriate weight and life time leanness. Eating a healthy balanced diet, rich in fresh fruits and vegetables and exercising regularly can help to achieve and maintain healthy weight and a trim figure.  

However, it is important to note that being underweight is equally undesirable as it can lead to frailty, hormonal imbalance, weakness and overall poor health.  
Body weight should be maintained within the range considered to be normal for individual height. Other factors important to consider are gender and age.

Body Height & Weight Guideline

• 156 cm: 50 - 64 kg
• 162 cm: 50 - 66 kg
• 168 cm: 52 - 70 kg
• 172 cm: 55 - 75 kg
• 176 cm: 58 - 77 kg
• 182 cm: 60 - 83 kg
• 186 cm: 64 - 85 kg

Weight awareness and monitoring should become part of regular health routine. Sudden or unexplained weight change should warrant a check up visit to a medical professional to exclude more serious underlying health conditions. When necessary, changes in lifestyle (i.e. diet and exercise) should be considered in order to maintain body weight within the normal range.   

Body weight can be easily measured by simple weighing on traditional type personal scales - commonly referred to as bathroom scales. Personal scales capture total body weight comprising of bones, organs, muscles, fluids and fats. Personal weight and height can be converted into Body Mass Index (BMI) that provides a better indicator of personal weight status. BMI can be easily calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of height in metres. BMI under 20 indicates underweight, BMI in excess of 25 signals overweight and BMI over 30 is obesity.

Body Mass Index at a Glance

In recent times, not only weight, but also body fat measurements began to play an increasingly important role in the overall health assessment. Too much body fat can lead to health problems and serious chronic illnesses. However, fat is also amongst the body's most pivotal components. Fat regulates body temperature, insulates and cushions organs and serves as a source and storage of energy.

Assessment of body fat provides a truer picture of overall health and fitness. The measurement is usually expressed as a percentage of fat that is present in the total body weight. There are a several different ways to measure the fat content (i.e. body density DEXA scanning, underwater weighing, caliper pinch testing). The most convenient and fastest way is to use a body fat monitor incorporated in diagnostic scales. 
    
During body fat measuring process the diagnostic scale sends a very weak electric current throughout the body. The electric current goes faster through lean muscles and slower through fatty tissues and fatty deposits. Based on this "electric current travel speed" differential, the body composition is calculated and the fat component is expressed as a percentage (%) that is a reflection of its quantity. For instance - if you have 25% body fat and your weight is 100 kg - fat represents 25 kg of your total weight.

A few interesting body fat facts:

• Men on average have less body fat than women.
• Percentage body fat in both men and women increases with age.
• Healthy % fat range for men is between 19 - 25%.
• Healthy % fat range for women is between 33 - 36%.

Diagnostic Scales - helping you achieve healthy weight & slender body!

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