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How to gain weight fast

The weight of an individual depends on many different factors. Some factors are out of the control of an individual. A taller person, for example, will have a higher body weight than a similarly built shorter person. This is simply because there is more physical body mass. Both people may be considered to be normal weight even though there is a variation in their weights.
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The weight of an individual depends on their height and the amount of fat in their bodies. When food is consumed, it is used for energy production in the body. Energy is required for all body functions to take place. Some food will be stored for use later in the day at times when nutrition is not readily available. This food is stored in the muscles or in the liver. Excess food is disposed of or stored in the body in the form of fat. Fat is a more permanent form of food storage as it is used only in emergency situations when the individual has no access to food or to temporarily stored food from his or her body.
The diet of an individual is one of the main factors associated with the development of fat in the body. Fast foods, oily foods and processed foods give the body improper quantities of various nutrients. This leads to the accumulation of fat in the body. In many cases, the lack of real nutrition in these foods leads to a quicker return of hunger.
 
It is also possible for an individual to be underweight. The normal and healthy body weight of an individual depends on the body mass index calculation. Anybody above or below this calculation is considered to be in an unhealthy state. A person with low body mass is underweight and should put on weight.

When it comes to how to gain weight fast, one should try and focus on healthy ways in which to do so. The first question when it comes to how to gain weight fast is the diet of the individual concerned. If the diet is not nutritious, then the individual will struggle to add weight. A focus on highly nutritious food sources should be made. Foods with high protein content may be preferred over other foods. The individual must couple this increased food consumption with exercise. It should be noted that muscle is actually heavier than fat as the tissues tend to be more densely interwoven. It is therefore better to put on muscle than to put on fat. Muscle also increases the strength of the individual and ensures that certain physically intensive tasks are easy to perform.

When it comes to how to how to gain weight and muscle fast, one should focus on muscle intensive exercises like weight lifting and other similar non-endurance exercises. These exercises should be performed under supervision from a trained exercise specialist. This is essential because it is very easy for an individual to push his or her body beyond the limit without realizing. This can cause long term injury and may negate the effects of the exercise regime as the individual will have to stop exercising while the injury is healing.

Therefore, the two important aspects for gaining weight and gaining muscle are protein rich nutrition and physically intensive exercise. With these two processes, the individual will surely gain weight quickly and will do so in the form of muscle rather than fat. By simply increasing one’s food intake, one will gain weight in an unhealthy manner. This is not good either in the short term or in the long term as a rapid increase in weight is stressful to the body.

Submitted on September 30, 2010
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