weight loss diet

Overview:

Obesity is a physical state that refers to excessive body fat. Chances are you have experienced the frustrations of dieting at least once in your life
if you have problems with your weight. Close to a hundred million Americans go on a weight loss diet in any given year and up to ninety-five percent of them regain the weight they lose within five years. Worse
a third will gain back more weight than they lost
in danger of "yo-yoing" from one popular diet to another. The conventional approach to weight problems
focusing on fad weight loss diets or weight loss drugs
may leave you with just as much weight and the additional burden of ill health.

Today
an estimated sixty-five percent of all American adults are obese or overweight. Our culture obsesses about staying thin even as we grow fatter
but this isn’t about appearances. Obesity is known to be a precursor to many debilitating health conditions such as cancer
heart disease
diabetes
hypertension
osteoarthritis
and gallbladder disease. Obesity contributes to as many as 375
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deaths every year. In addition
the public health costs for obesity are staggering. According to researchers at Harvard University
obesity is a factor in 19% of all cases of heart disease with annual health costs estimated at 30 billion dollars; it’s also a factor in 57% of diabetes cases
with health costs of $9 billion per year.

Set Realistic Goals:

No doubt you have fallen for one or more of the weight loss diet schemes over the years
promising quick and painless weight loss. Many of these quick weight loss diet programs undermine your health
cause physical discomfort
flatulence
and ultimately lead to disappointment when you start regaining weight
shortly after losing it. Fad or quick weight loss diet programs generally overstress one type of food. They contravene the fundamental principle of good nutrition - to remain healthy one must consume a balanced diet
which includes a variety of foods. Safe
healthy
and permanent weight reduction is what’s truly lost among the thousands of popular diet schemes.

Some of the weight loss diet schemes reign supreme briefly
only to fade out. While some wane from popularity due to being unproductive or unsafe
some simply lose the public's curiosity. Examples of such fad diets include the South Beach Diet
Atkins diet
the Grapefruit diet
Cabbage Soup diet
the Rotation diet
Beverly Hills diet
Breatharian
Ornish Plan – the list goes on and on. These fad diets advocate a specific technique (such as eliminating a certain food
or eating only certain combinations of foods) in conjunction with the basic idea that the body makes up the difference in energy by breaking down and utilizing some part of itself
essentially converting matter into energy. This self-cannibalism
or catabolism as it is referred
typically starts with breakdown of stored body fat.