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Skinny People Guide To Gain Weight

Posted Apr 04 2009 11:12pm

UnderweightObesity or overweight issues are one of the most common issues encountered by several people today. There was also a phase in everyone’s life where people especially young teenage girls suffered from anorexia or bulimia due to their obsessiveness of becoming thin.

Being underweight does more damage than just lowering a person’s self esteem. It can also becoming a life-threatening issue since these people with underweight may cause their body to become frail. With that come osteoporosis and the most common cases happened to underweight women are hip fractures. However, erectile dysfunction may be the case for underweight men. Eating disorders, chronic diseases, heart failure and even cancer are among other risks involved when you are underweight.

Don’t be disappointed if you are normally thin and have been struggling to gain weight but were not successful. Being normally thin and skinny does not mean that you will likely inherit the problem above due to your thinness. You are just naturally skinny. It can be something that is inherited or you just happened to have higher metabolism. People with higher metabolism burn fats much faster compared to others.

But if you are thin, how do you add some pounds? Obviously, if you eat more you will likely gain some. Increase your food intake but eating without a plan is unhealthy as you may add up those junk foods and also greasy foods. These are unhealthy and many junk foods contain saturated fats. Saturated fats can bring damage your health eventually when consumed regularly. Increase your calorie intake by eating healthy food and get healthy fats by eating lots of salmon, tuna and walnuts. Fish, poultry, lean meats, seeds and legumes are a good sources of protein. Also, add vegetables, fruits and whole grains into your diet for that variety.

Eat more often and divide your meal plan into 8 light meals a day. Dividing your meal into several times a day is a good eating habits as you train your stomach to a condition of fullness minus the bloating. Besides dieting, add supplement, vitamins or mineral into your daily meal plan.

Protein supplements may contain certain blend of amino acids that will aid to increase the muscle mass much faster. We recommend GNC Pro Performance(r) Weight Gainer 2200 Gold - Chocolate.

Add some exercise like resistance training and lift weights for muscle increase. Aerobic exercise is not suggested as it is more for people who wants to lose weight. Regularly perform this and you’ll be in time seeing the new you. Patience is the key here as other programs are and you will succeed.

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