Most
of
Us Gain Weight*.
The average American gains at least
one pound a
year after
age 25.
Think about
it. If you're like most Americans, by
the time
you're 50, you're likely to gain
25 pounds
of fat, or more.
In
addition, your metabolism is also slowing down,
causing
your body to
work less efficiently at burning the fat it has. At the same time,
if you don't exercise regularly, you lose a pound of muscle each year.
Consequently, people are
not only increasing their body fat stores,
increasing
their risk of disease, but they're also losing muscle, increasing the
risk of
injury, decreasing activity performance, and further slowing down
metabolism.
Very few Americans exercise in any significant
way. The President's
Council on
Physical Fitness and Sports estimates that only one in five Americans
exercises
for the healthy minimum of 20 minutes, three or more days a week. In
fact, the
average American gets less than 50 minutes of exercise per week.
Even worse,
two out of five Americans are completely sedentary.
The Answer: Healthy
Eating and Physical
Fitness Forever.
But there is hope. Moderate weight loss-of fat, not
muscle-and a healthy and
active lifestyle-not dieting-have been found to lower health risks
and medical
problems in 90 percent of overweight patients, improving their heart
function,
blood pressure, glucose tolerance, sleep disorders, and cholesterol
levels, as
well as lowering their requirements for medication, lowering the
incidence and
duration of hospitalization, and reducing post-operative complications
eight
times less likely to die from cancer than the unfit, and 53 percent
less likely
to die from other diseases. Fit people are also eight times less likely
to die
from heart disease.
Are you willing to be patient and make gradual changes in your life
that will
lead to a healthier, happier you ? Once you have made the
decision to go forward
and accept change, the hard part is over. Sure, there is plenty of work
to be
done, but it really doesn't matter how long this new process takes. If you allow
changes to take place over several years, your body will adjust
comfortably,
and you will be more likely to maintain the healthy lifestyle
permanently and forever.
When you begin achieving improvements in energy and physical and
psychological
performance, the fun and excitement you experience will make the change
well
worth the effort.
Action
creates motivation!
* Chad
Tackett’s
article was used.
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