Weight Loss and Exercise Addiction

Weight Loss
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Physical exercises, water, caloric intake, and healthy eating are vital components for healthy weight loss. Besides, maintaining a low caloric balance because of sex, height, age, weight, and exercise can help achieve weight loss goals. Reducing the daily consumption of calories by approximately 500 can reduce a person’s weight by at least 1lb weekly. The quality of food an individual consumes plays a vital role in enhancing the weight loss journey (Wallace, n.d.). One of the best strategies for losing weight is encouraging people to consume fruits and vegetables, whole-grains, and low-fat or fat-free dairy products. Besides, drinking water and increasing physical activities, such as cardio, can help in weight loss.
Exercise addiction is an unhealthy fascination with physical fitness and exercise. The condition emanates from body image and eating disorders. Lichtenstein, Bolette Emborg, & Hansen (2017) aver that addiction is the most appropriate term because it consists of dependence and compulsion. In their research fi...