Weight On - Weight Off

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention from 1960-62 to 2003-04 obesity in U.S. adults has increased dramatically from 13.3% to 33.9%.  Now that's a lot of obesity.

Here are some thoughts from Sherry Boschert from the Family Practice News.  Based on studies there are eight strategies that are successful in keeping weight off once it has been lost.

Now this isn't rocket science, but it is worth thinking about.

Eat a low-calorie, low-fat diet.  Very few of us today work at plowing a mule or loading pulp wood.

Engage in a high level of physical activity.  Couch taters be gone.

Limit TV viewing.  But, what about those Andy Griffith reruns?

Step on a scale often.  It makes you painfully aware.

Maintain diet consistency.  What's a little discipline!

Limit diet variety.  Find your type and stick with it.

Eat breakfast.  Now how many times have you heard that?

Limit fast food.  Could this put McDonald's in danger of financial devastation?

Save a life.  It could be your own.

By Dr. E. Glynn Taunton on April 27, 2008 1:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)