By:Dianah Mutimura
Habyarimana Anastase, a doctor with the American society and China Green World International in Rwanda says that when a person gets to know that he or she has too much weight the first step is indulging in vigorous physical exercises to minimise the weight.
He adds that it’s better when a person wants to reduce on weight to first consult the doctor for the advice on how to reduce weight instead of using his or her own methods that might have side effects on one’s health.
The doctor further explains that, “you can do exercises thinking that the weight is reducing yet you are adding more because there wasn’t any advice from the doctor to describe for you what type of exercise that conducive for your health”
According to him the most important thing is that when a person knows that high weight can cause some diseases like debate, high blood pressure, and heart disease, he or she adjusts accordingly. This physiotherapist emphasizes that not all people who want to reduce their weight succeed as they wish.
“The weight that is caused by the food, more especially of animals, reducing it is very simple but there are others who increase weight through family inheritance which is not easy for that person to reduce weight apart from being strong and also reduce few weights.
Adelphine, one of the patient at Green World International in Nyabugogo said that after two months, she has been following the doctor’s prescriptions, she has lost 8kg over 80kg she had, which were not making her comfortable because the weight contrasted with her height.
“The doctor recommended me to do exercise of walking every day, drinking a lot of clean water at least 3 litters per day, and even to drink tea called “thé d’amaigrissement” to reduce on my fats in the body”. Adelphine explains.
She went on to say that if she acquires the size she wants, she will try her best to avoid what was causing her fatness because it kills her figure.
If your child is five years old, pay attention to the unexpected gain, and the body weight will slowly increase normally as he or she gradually gains maturity.
It’s in five year period that kids gain weight easily and it’s most common for kids from seven years to twelve years because a children’s weight increment may relate to their widened diet and appetite. Dr. Habyariman observes.
Fattiness is seen as a disease now days, where a number of people have huge weight and in developing countries like Rwanda, hospitals or clinics which are specialized in physiotherapist are rarely found where majority of the clinics are foreign clinics which even follow their foreign currency to treat people according to Dr. Habyarimana
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