{"id":2457,"date":"2024-01-26T00:56:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T00:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2024-01-26T00:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T00:56:40","slug":"why-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=2457","title":{"rendered":"Why Lose Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Weight can can lead to obesity and obesity is a serious, chronic, and progressive disease and is associated with a significant increase in mortality,, and many health risks including type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and coronary heart disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The benefits of weight loss include less diabetes, better blood pressure, better control of cholesterol, less heart disease, e reductions in urinary incontinence, sleep apnea, and depression, as well as improvements in quality of life, physical functioning, and mobility, like better performance in the gym. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Losing only 5% will lower systolic BP by 3 points, diastolic BP by 2 points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten percent loss lowers your Hba1c by 1.0 points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weight loss will improve your sex drive, and will improve your sleep, and for those losing 10-15% of their body weight in a year will have improvement in sleep apnea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weight loss has been associated with anti-aging in every way, including fewer wrinkles and better skin health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can modify your diet, excellent, if not successful, come and discuss with us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weight can can lead to obesity and obesity is a serious, chronic, and progressive disease and is associated with a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-lifestyle","category-eat-antiage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4145,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}