Subject: Eat Your Way to Better Health and Longer Life
Get the facts you need to help you eat right and control your weight
successfully.
WHY is it so hard to eat right and control your weight?
You know that eating right will help you maintain a healthy weight.
You know that watching what you eat helps you stay fit and trim.
You also know that a healthy diet may even protect you against a variety of
chronic health conditions:
* coronary heart disease
* diabetes
* osteoporosis
* high cholesterol
* high blood pressure
* arthritis
* certain types of cancer, like colon cancer.
So WHY is it so hard to eat right and control your weight?
Because there are so many obstacles to your healthy eating:
* your busy lifestyle
* the ready availability of high-calorie convenience foods
* super-sized portions
* too little time for physical activity
* conflicting information on what really works when it comes to nutrition
and weight loss.
* Lose unwanted pounds.
* Decide which weight loss tips are best for you and which don't work.
* Do exercises that help you lose weight and keep it off.
* Shop for, prepare, and enjoy a health-promoting, balanced diet.
* Learn the basics of good nutrition.
Despite the vast amount and variety of foods available, you might not
be getting the best nutrition. In fact, the most recent report from
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Behavioral Risk
Factor Surveillance System notes that only 33% of people get the
recommended servings of fruit and 27% get the recommended servings of
vegetables.
In addition, according to the National Health and Nutrition
Examination Survey, 67% of the population is overweight or
obese.
Yet many don't realize that they have a weight problem, and so they
ignore health advice and warnings.
You might also think that dietary changes made later in life will have
little effect on your health. But changing dietary habits and losing
weight in middle or even old age can significantly improve how you
feel--and decrease your risk of chronic diseases.