Americans and Dieting

Posted on May 14, 2008 in Health by admin

According
to the Centers for Disease Control, 34 percent of adult Americans are obese
whereas just 15 percent were in the 1970s. And remember, we’re talking about
being obese, not being overweight. 

Diet. It’s a word that any woman and many men have incorporated and
applied into their own lives in some form or another. On any given day
in this country, almost half of all American women are on a diet. On
any given day, one in four men are on a diet. We spend 40 billion
dollars each year on diets or diet-related products. When polled, 80
percent of ten-year-olds are afraid of being fat.

It is safe to say that not only is dieting and the American
lifestyle about as common as a coupling as peanut butter and jelly but
also given these staggering statistics, it’s also safe to assume that
we’ve gone a bit overboard with our obsession with being thin and the
means we will employ to get there. It is not that dieting is bad alone
in and of itself. In fact, there are certain diets which are safe and
successful to creating long-term weight loss and to making life-saving
health changes. But the problem lies more in what we do with the , 1995.

About the author

Jim Mackey is a renowned dietician. He has been advising people
on how to maintain a proper diet and how to lose those extra calories.
If you want to know more about Diet,weight lose,south beach diet,diet plans,diabetic diet you can visit www.dietsinreview.com

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