2. Obesity
The shocking facts
Overweight and obesity are
linked to more deaths
worldwide than underweight!!!
From 6,7 billion people (in
2010) one billion adults were
overweight and more than 300
million were obese.
Without action these numbers
increase to 1.5 billion by 2015.
3. What is obesity exactly?
• According to the WHO: „overweight
and obesity are abnormal or
excessive fat accumulation that may
impair health.”
• It is also declared as a chronic
disease.
• This ‘excessive fat’ negatively affects
your heart, veins, joints, hormones,
sexual activity, mood, even your
fertility. So, each cell in your body.
• Obesity decreases your quality of life,
and may shorten your lifetime.
4. How to recognize obesity?
The well known BMI classification
Body Mass Index* shows Underweight < 18.5
the state of obesity and Normal range 18.5 – 24.9
calculated by this formula Overweight >= 25.0
Pre-obese 25.0 – 29.9
Obese >= 30.0
weight (kg) Class I. 30.0 – 34.9
BMI = height 2 (m2)
Class II. 35.0 – 39.9
severe obesity
Class III. >= 40.0
morbid obesity
E.g. As a woman your weight is 65 kg for 165 cm heights,
your BMI is 24, but gaining +5 kg, your BMI is 26!
5. How to recognize obesity?
Waist circumference measurement is particularly useful in
patients who are categorized as overweight on the BMI
scale, although increased waist circumference can also be
a marker for increased risk even in persons of normal
weight.
Measured at the navel’s line shows the kind of obesity,
e.g. visceral obesity (apple shape) or pear body shape.
Waist circumferences
Men Women
> 102 cm > 88 cm
Visceral obesity is more dangerous to the health since the
fat surrounds the internal organs.
6. What is in the background?
Increased consumption of food and/or the food’s
increased energy dense: higher calorie-content (in the
same/smaller amount). Also, this kind of food usually
contains less vitamin, minerals, etc.
100 g Apple Chocolate
contains (average) (average)
Calorie 31 kcal 587 kcal
Carbohydrate 7g 52.1 g
Fat 0g 36.8 g
Fiber 3.7 g 0g
C, B1, B2,
Vitamins Biotin, folic trace amount
acid, etc.
7. What is in the background?
Decreased physical activity. People not just gave up
every sport, but use everything to decrease every kind of
move to the minimum. Car, public transport, sedentary
lifestyle, and jobs.
8. What is in the background?
environmental effects,
affordable food,
OBESE OBESE CHILDREN decreased physical
ADULTS activity
environmental effects, +
affordable food, learned behavior:
decreased physical „ do as your parents
activity did, not as they said”
OBESE ADULTS
Vicious circle
Obese children become
obese adults with higher
risk than a non-obese
child.
9. What is in the background?
Genetics – opposite to the public opinion – is not that
determining to hide behind it.
Certain type of endocrine * (adrenal, thyroid) and
neurological diseases, but according to experts finding
hormonal causes in background is rare.
Certain medications (steroids, medicaments used in
psychiatry)
Mental causes: stress, depression, etc.
10. Why is it important
to fight against obesity?
There are well-known aesthetic aspects.
11. Why is it important
to fight against obesity?
BUT it is much more important to step into the way
of overweight or obesity increases the risk of several
non-communicable diseases, like cardiovascular and
heart diseases, diabetes, cancers, etc.
12. Why is it important
to fight against obesity?
With each pound of fat you lose
- You can decrease your high level of
cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting
glucose.
- The risk of diabetes, coronary heart
diseases, strokes and several type of
cancer (e.g. breast, colon) decreases.
- Your joints release from an unhealthy
pressure that can lead to joint
diseases.
13. Typical mistakes during a weight loss diet
Improper diet
• Poor in high quality, low energy dense food.
• Poor in vitamins, minerals (can lead to under-nutrition, vitamin
deficiencies, while the person is obese!).
• Poor in whole protein, complex carbohydrate, (poly)unsaturated
fatty acids.
14. Typical mistakes during a weight loss diet
Diet deviation
• Inability to resist to hunger.
• Inability to resist to carbohydrate
hunger ”attacks” of sweeties, cookies.
15. Typical mistakes during a weight loss diet
Choosing wrong kind of sport, suddenly started excessive
physical activity.
• Can lead to injuries, relapses of existing musco-sceletal diseases.
• Can lead to grumpiness about physical activity.
16. How to lose weight?
Increase your
physical activity!
+
Change your diet!
= If you need help,
take it! *
Reach energy
balance!
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Ensure proper supply of vitamins and minerals
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Citrimax&Chromium is completed with
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transformation of carbohydrate into fat.
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Its complex amino-acids may protect your body to lose
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and boost metabolism, while HCA found in it could help
to handle appetite.
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and niacin for a proper vitamin supply, what’s more, it
contains extra chromium in a well-utilizable organic form,
chromium-picollinate, that may help resist carbohydrates.
22. How can CaliVita® help?
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Hoodia gordonii is getting more and more popular
due to its great ability to control hunger.
HCA extracted from Garcinia cambogia and the extra
chromium can help in case of yearning of
carbohydrate, while HCA can help mobilize fat .
To complete its effects we added high quality green
tea extract that may support your stamina during
everydays or workouts!
23. How can CaliVita® help?
All you need is in one tablet.
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keep your diet and give energy to the physical
activities.
High quality green tea extract, L-carnitine and HCA-
extract may give extra energy and boost fat burning
supporting the effectiveness of body mass
decreasing diets.
To keep appetite under control we added organic
bounded chromium, while the well known nopal
cactus has great effect the whole body and
metabolism.
30. Sources
• Lowering Effect on Postprandial Glycemic Response of Nopales Added to
Mexican Breakfasts - Montserrat Bacardi-Gascon, MD, Dulce Dueñas-Mena,
BSC, Arturo Jimenez-Cruz, MD, Nutrition Graduate Program, Medical School,
Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
• A double-blind, placebo-controlled, exploratory trial of chromium picolinate in
atypical depression: effect on carbohydrate craving - Docherty JP, Sack DA,
Roffman M, Finch M, Komorowski JR., J Psychiatr Pract. 2005 Sep;11(5):302-
14.
• www.who.org
• Új Tápanyagtáblázat – I. Rodler, Medicina Könykiadó Zrt., Budapest 2006.