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What Determines Weight
Factors That Influence Overweight and Obesity
How to Control Weight

What Determines Our Weight

Our weight is determined by many factors, including our gender. These include the following four factors that determine whether or not we are fat. Two of them we can decisively influence:

• How Much Food We Eat
• How Much Physical Exercise We Take

The next two weight-factors are programmed into our bodies, but there is some evidence that we can influence them, at least a little:

• Our Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), our metabolic 'tickover' speed.
• Our rate of Thermogenesis, or the ability of the body to burn up excess calories as heat.

Calorie Needs to Gain Weight - Estimate Calorie Needs
Harris Benedict Calorie Needs Formula - Katch-McArdle Caloric Needs Formula - Body Surface Area
Basal Metabolic Rate - Energy Equation - Energy Intake - Very Low Energy Diets
Calories Needed in Pregnancy - Low Calorie Sweeteners - Fat Replacers/Substitutes

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