The Ideal Body Weight

The ideal body weight is one of the aims that Immunologists and Chest consultants should help their patients to reach. Whether it is the shortness of breath or the joint pain, both improve much when the patient reaches his ideal body weight. Obesity causes respiratory muscles overload with increasing effort to breath. At the same time joints specially the hip and the knees suffer from the overload. Some patients complain also from backache. Some patients use steroids and this increases the incidence of osteoporosis with increased incidence of fracture.