Tips And Secrets For Over Weight Loss

Obesity in America is at an all time high and it is a growing problem for other countries as well. In the United States, the most recent estimates are that 60 of the adult population is over weight and the percentage continues upward each year. The vast majority of the problem lies in the life style that we choose including the foods we eat and the level of physical activity that we choose. High fat, high carbohydrate high salt foods are a significant and perhaps major factor. The fast food industry in this country is a major supplier of these unhealthy foods.

The American public's lack of willingness to take personal responsibility for their health in their choice of foods along with this quick and readily available supply of these unhealthy foods is tragic and is going to have many long term effects on people’s health and the health care system in this country. Fast foods and obesity go hand in hand. With the spread of our fast foods to other countries, we are also spreading this national disgrace. In the past few decades, if you saw an overweight person in most overseas countries, there was a better than 50% chance that he or she was and American. That is no longer true.

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The incidence of Type 2 diabetes and heart disease increases significantly in this over weight population.

For people who commit themselves seriously to a weight loss program it is important to look at and carefully evaluate their eating habits. The purpose of a weight loss diet should not be primarily to lose weight but should be to establish long term eating habits that will result in permanent control of weight problems. If those habits are learned, the weight will decrease in a slow and permanent manner. It appears that for most people who go on a diet, the goal is to drop the weight so that they can go back to their old eating habits as soon as the get the weight off. The end result is they play a YoYo game, getting the weight off and then, only within a few months, regain the lost weight and, an additional 10 or more pounds.

Most people know what foods cause the problem and if they don’t know, there are many good sources for that information. Many well meaning dieters think that eating fewer meals each day, perhaps only one meal each day is the answer. However, this does not work well because their metabolic rate (the rate at which they burn calories) drops way down between each of these 1 or 2 meals each day. As a result, with the consumption of a meal, it takes their metabolism perhaps an hour to catch up to the level of calorie intake allowing some of the calories in each meal, to be converted to fat before the metabolic rate increases to a level to burn the calories. If a person divides his calorie intake into 6 feedings a day, the metabolic rate remains at a relatively higher level and will burn up the calories more efficiently. Using this technique, people can lose weight eating more calories than they consume when eating only one, two or three meals per day.

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