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How
to lose weight?
Diet,
exercising, and discipline are key to losing weight and keeping it off
| Do we have a obesity problem in America?
I like to believe my own eyes. No matter where I go in the country, I see
obese people. And I see them in all age brackets, all races, and even all income brackets. When I get to sit in business class sometimes with the movers and shakers, I see
overweight people all around me. And remember that these are people who are literally running this country. I have seen
out of shape CEOs, senators, congressmen and congresswomen, celebrities, and the list goes on and on. Looks like no one has been spared.
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for men)
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And if you would rather believe hard numbers, here is some data from the
Center for Disease Control (CDC), our very own keeper of statistics on health of Americans:
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weight one ounce at a time)
| Percent of adults age 20 years and over who are overweight or
obese |
64 |
| Percent of adults age 20 years and over who are
obese |
30 |
| Percent of adolescents age 12-19 years who are
overweight |
15 |
| Percent of children age 6-11 years who are
overweight (Weight
loss surgery for children) |
15 |
There is another piece of data that is interesting. While men have always had a bigger weight problem than women (up
to 1994, the difference in percentages of overweight men and women was 10% or more), it seems that either women are catching up with men or men have slowed down: the difference now is only 5% or so.
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weight the easy way)
Recently, we have started to hear
that obesity is competing with smoking as the number one cause of preventable death. This is simply unacceptable. We are literally eating our way to death when we know by eating less we could enjoy better health, quality of life, save money on all the extra food that we eat and then what we pay to doctors to cure all the nasty diseases.
(Interesting article: Losing
weight can be easy if you start taking care of the small things)
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