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Want the Key to Successful Weight Loss?

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Everyone is looking for the key to successful weight loss and sometimes it seems to be as elusive as the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow or the Holy Grail. Does one even exist?

Each day we are deluged with countless television commercials advertising a hoard of weight loss programs, diet pills that promise to easily melt pounds away, infomercials throughout the wee hours of the morning, exercise equipment galore, work out videos and fad diets. There are surgeries, herbal remedies, fat burners, counting carbs, points and exchanges and yet we are a nation whose obesity is increasing at alarming rates. In an article entitled “Childhood Obesity in the United States: Facts and Figures” from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, the following was reported.

“In a population based sample, approximately 60 percent of obese children aged 5 to 10 years had at least one cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor – such as elevated total cholesterol, triglycerides, insulin, or blood pressure – and 25 percent had two or more risk CVD risk factors.”

Coming from a medical background, I was fully aware of the increased risks of health issues from obesity. Why didn’t this sink in? ... continued at http://www.ranaesheart.com/2008/07/want-key-to-successful-weight-loss.html