Weight management
Weight Management
Weight management (pronunciation: /weɪt mænɪdʒmənt/) refers to the long-term approach to a healthy lifestyle. It includes a balance of healthy eating and physical exercise to equate energy expenditure and energy intake. Developing healthy eating habits while using tips that will keep us fuller longer can be useful tools in weight management.
Etymology
The term "weight management" is derived from the words "weight," which comes from the Old English "gewiht," and "management," which comes from the Italian "maneggiare" meaning to handle, especially tools or a horse.
Related Terms
- Body Mass Index (BMI): A measure that uses your height and weight to work out if your weight is healthy.
- Caloric Intake: The number of calories a person takes in from foods and drinks.
- Physical Activity: Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure.
- Nutrition: The process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.
- Metabolism: The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
- Dieting: The practice of eating food in a regulated and supervised fashion to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases.
See Also
References
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Weight management
- Wikipedia's article - Weight management
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