The Solution to Healthy Weight Loss by Marilyn Pokorney

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The overweight and obesity epidemic is a worldwide problem.

There are no official statistics for spending on diet

products, but estimates vary from $40 to $100 billion in the

US alone, much of that on scams and fad diets that promise

the impossible.

Research shows that 95% of people who have lost weight find

that they regain it back when they return to their normal

eating habits.

According to the Center for Disease Control's Chronic

Disease Center, in 1991 in the United States, only four

states had an obesity prevalence of 15 percent to 19

percent. In 2003, 15 states had an obesity prevalence of

15 to 19 percent, 31 states had an obesity prevalence of 20

to 24 percent, and four states had a prevalence of 25

percent or more.

Major medical problems associated with obesity include

gallbladder disease, high blood pressure, high blood

cholesterol, diabetes, and osteoarthritis.

If that isn't incentive enough to lose that excess weight

statistics show that overweight people are usually given

lower paying jobs, get lower salaries, receive little in

raises, and are, as a whole, looked down upon by 40 percent

of fellow employees and employers.

In 2002 The American Heart Association reported that more

than 10 percent of US children ages 2 to 5 are overweight.

That is up from 7 percent in 1994. The situation is

probably even worse now, said Dr. Robert H. Eckel,

president-elect of the heart association and professor of

medicine at the University of Colorado.

The obesity problem among children has increased with

school-age children as well. Four million children ages 6

to 11 and 5.3 million in age group 12 to 19 have increased

by 75 percent from 1991.

Food habits adopted in childhood can be hard to change. As

a result hypertension and high cholesterol leading to heart

disease, strokes, and diabetes are going to become the

nations top health problem with people of all ages within 10

to 30 years. These are ailments that usually afflict the

middle age to elderly population. More than a million new

cases of diabetes are already being diagnosed each year,

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BIO:

Author: Marilyn Pokorney
Freelance writer of science, nature, animals and the
environment.
Also loves crafts, gardening, and reading.
Website: http://www.apluswriting.net

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