Trying To Lose Weight Can Be Frightening! And huge business empires have grown out of this. The turnover of the weight loss industry is colossal – it amounts to billions of dollars – and so there are plenty of opportunities to profit from our ambitions to be slim.
Just How Much of a Problem Is There Then? Whether you personally are obese or not, the chances are you’d be happy to lose some weight. It’s now believed that in the USA alone, around seventy percent of people are too heavy. Which amounts to some two hundred and ten million folks… But overseas it’s not much better – a startling sixty percent! It’s a sorry state of affairs.
It’s thought that in Britain alone, around one quarter of over 18′s are obese, which equates to a minimum of thirty to forty pounds overweight. Future predictions look even worse… The current figure of 25 percent could reach 90 percent by 2050.
It really does not have to happen though. Nobody would wish this problem on either themselves or others. But we don’t have to fall for the commercial pills and potions – what we need is reasonable, workable advice.
It’s a well known fact that obesity can lead to many major problems – Type two diabetes; mental health problems; high blood pressure; heart disease & heart failure; cancer; liver disease; osteoarthritis and high cholesterol. This illustrates that we don’t just need to lose weight so that we can look more attractive.
Losing the pounds doesn’t have to mean getting STICK THIN! You just need to aim for the right weight for you. Although that’s going to be different for each of us, we should look to maintain a comfortable weight for our height.
Those of us with kids should be thinking about their health as well. Parents need to lead by example, and guide their kids towards healthy choices. Nothing will change if we keep doing the same thing. Do you really want that burden for your offspring?
So we have to understand the basics about nutrition – it’s just as important to know what’s good for us as it is to know what’s bad. It’s only when we’ve got a handle on healthy eating ourselves that we can teach it to others. Let’s be honest, our children’s children could escape obesity if we put the right habits into the family today.
