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High stress, mental worries, faulty eating habits and being underweight deprive your body of calories and essential nutrients mainly vitamins and minerals. All these factors can cause premature graying of hair and adversely affect your health. The rough skin is an indication that your body lacks vital nutrients necessary for growth and well being.
Muskmelon is considered valuable in the underweight home remedy treatment. Consume muskmelons thrice a day for about 40 days and see its wonderful effects. Musk melon is one of the most effective home remedies for thinness. If the melon cure is properly carried out, a rapid gain in weight can usually be achieved. In this mode of treatment, only musk melons are taken three times during the day for forty days or more. In the beginning, only three kilograms of melons are taken daily for three days. Then the quantity is increased by one kilogram daily till it is sufficient to appease the hunger. Only the sweet and fresh fruits of the best variety are used in the treatment.
Some more tips:
Drink 6-8 glasses of distilled water a day.
Eat frequent but small meals.
Eat lots of raw fruits and vegetables (green leafy vegetables are great)
Do not drink coffee, alcohol, soda pop,...
Do not eat processed foods; white sugar, white flower,...
Avoid red meat and animal fats.
Reduce intake of dairy products.
Do not smoke and avoid second hand smoke.
Causes of Underweight:
Following is a list of causes or underlying conditions (see also Misdiagnosis of underlying causes of Underweight) that could possibly cause Underweight includes:
* Malnutrition
* Reduced appetite
* Loss of appetite
* Difficulty chewing
* Elderly difficulties - simple problems with shopping or cooking.
* Anorexia nervosa
* Body dysmorphic disorder
* Female athlete syndrome
* See also causes of symptoms weight loss or thinness
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Home Remedies For Underweight
Each person has an idea of what their weight should be based on their age, sex and height. But there are those people that do not have an ideal weight. A person that weighs ten percent less than their medically ideal weight is considered moderately underweight.
A person that weighs twenty percent less than their medically ideal weight are considered underweight.
There are many reasons why a person may be underweight. They may be below their medical weight range because of genetics, because they do not eat a proper diet or as a result of a physical or psychological health condition.
