Sharjah 24: The Health Promotion Department (HPD) of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs in Sharjah organised a health awareness session, the first during the current year, for the participants in the "Weight Challenge," titled "Secrets of Losing Weight in the Right Way."
Dr. Osama Al Lala, a health awareness specialist at the Abu Dhabi Sports Council, presented the session, with the aim of promoting health and the safety of Sharjah government employees.
The session included introducing the audience to the secrets of body wellness, the biological clock and biorhythm and their relationship to obesity in an interactive way.
It also touched on the secrets of sleep and its relationship to obesity, psychological stress and its connection to weight gain, dehydration and its link to metabolism, physical activity and the secrets of exercise.
The "Challenge Your Weight and Gain Your Health" programme, which runs from January to June, includes a series of educational lectures for participants on healthy food and physical activity, free nutritional examinations and consultations, and follow-up with nutritionists, in addition to incentive prizes and discounts on clubs and restaurants.
The programme aims to define obesity as an excessive accumulation of abnormal fat that harms the health of the individual, and to emphasise that the main cause of weight gain and obesity is the imbalance between the calories that enter the body and the calories that it burns, in addition to some other reasons.
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