Maintaining ideal body weight and avoiding obesity can prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, and is beneficial to health.
Body mass index (BMI): weight (kg) / height2 (meter2)
- BMI 18.5-24: Normal
- 24 ≦ BMI < 27: Overweight
- 27 ≦ BMI < 30: Mild obesity
- 30 ≦ BMI < 35: Moderate obesity
- BMI ≧ 35: Severe obesity
Dietary principles
- Eat a calorie-restricted and nutritionally balanced diet, with three meals in set amounts of food at regular times.
- Take proper exercise.
- Avoid high-calorie or concentrated foods, such as candy, egg rolls, Chinese and Western sweet and salty snacks.
- Habitual drinking is not encouraged.
- Peeled meat is recommended.
- The speed of weight loss should not be too fast, with currently required calories minus 500 kcal per day.
- Foods should be boiled, steamed and stewed; long-term eating out should be avoided.
- Slow down the speed of eating, and eat food with lower calories, such as clear soup and vegetables.