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¶ … outstanding fact: Americans love to diet. The South Beach Diet, Lo-Carb Diet, Slimfast, Weight Watcher's, diet pills, gastric bypass sugary. These are all examples of ways that adults in America are trying to lose weight. This obsession with losing weight seems to be spinning out of control. The question is why do people diet? Is it to lose the couple pounds you packed on during the holiday season, to look like all the other stick figures on television, or, is there a deeper reason? The reality of it is that there are 100 million overweight adults living in America today, and that 300,000 people a year die from diseases that are directly related to obesity. Obesity in America has become such a problem that it is the 2nd cause death that can be prevented, only narrowly behind smoking. There must be some positive, even essential reasons to diet. The most positive reasons to diet are for health reasons, self-esteem issues, and the quality of a person's life.
Health is the most important and most positive reason for dieting healthy. Obesity can lead to a number of serious health problems. Stroke, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are just the most serious of...
Other risks include depression, high blood pressure, problems with reproducing, arthritis, back problems, breathing problems and the list goes on and on. The chances of being effected by these problems reduce greatly with healthy weight loss. There are many health benefits to dieting. By dieting you are lowering your chances of heart disease, and keeping your blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol low.
Another important reason for dieting, especially for women, is to boost a persons self-esteem. Of the 100 million adults out there that are overweigh, a majority of them also suffer from low self-esteem. They look in the mirror and all they can see is fat. They feel alone and hopeless. They feel like they don't fit in anywhere. They feel that none of their clothes fit and wish that they could live up to the unrealistic version of what the media portrays as "the perfect body." In reality the average size of American women is a size 12. But how many size 12s do you see in Cosmo? The problem is magnified when, in order to feel better, they turn to food for comfort. It is a scientific fact that obesity leads to…
U.S Department of Health and Human Services. The Surgeon General's Call to Action
To prevent and decrease overweight and obesity. [Rockville, MD]: U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General; [2001].
For instance, British researchers of late administered natural Vitamin E supplements at the rate of 40-800 IU daily to men and women who had suffered a heart attack. Following an average of eighteen months, people who got Vitamin E were seen to have 77% less heart attacks compared to those given a dummy tablet. An additional example can be taken of Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD of Victoria, Canada who
" The patients in the study had "previously failed to lose weight in multiple medically supervised attempts, and were given a standardized form with instructions on the amylase-free diet (Jancin, 2001)." There was no exercise program provided, as the patients were unable to exercise without extreme difficulty. The results showed that "three-quarters of participants who were compliant with therapy averaged a 4.6% loss in body fat and a 3.1 pound gain
Mustalahti, K., et.al. (2002). Gluten-Free Diet and Quality of Life in Patients With Screen-Detected Celiac Disease. Effective Clinical Practice. 5 (3): Key areas of research SPECIFIC DATA ANALYSIS Overview of celiac disease with a focus on patient consequences and lack of treatment options. Limited, in this case. Brief overview, but no substantial literature review presented. Used Gastrointestinal Symptoms Rating Scale (GSRS) and Psychological General Well-Being Questionnaire (PGWB) to establish quality of life index. Analysis of data based
Beneficial effects of the Mediterranean Diet on Type 2 Diabetic Patients in the United Kingdom. The beneficial effects of the Mediterranean Diet on Type 2 Diabetic Patients in the UK Science of the problem Type II diabetes progresses through two stages. The initial stage is referred to as insulin resistance. During this stage, the pancreas produces enough insulin, but the body's cell are unable to respond to insulin. The pancreas increases the production
Drinking alcohol in large quantities lowers the level of serotonin in the brain. Serotonin is a chemical that helps people to feel good and be in a good mood. Overconsumption of alcohol can destroy this chemical. Antidepressants are made to increase the levels of serotonin in the brain, but if too much alcohol is consumed it can take a long while for the antidepressants to work because there is
Therefore, understanding the ways in which insulin resistance can be counteracted is critical toward developing strategies to help individuals with insulin resistance issues. Kaoru et al. explain that increasing fatty acid utilization fights insulin resistance, and that exercise is known to increase utilization (109). The question mark, as the authors explain, is how much exercise and at what level is required in order to facilitate fatty acid utilization. Therefore