| Being overweight can incur serious health | | | | recommend a goal of losing about a pound a week. |
| consequences. This is a fact that most people knew | | | | A total reduction of 3,500 calories is required to lose |
| about. Many of these include risk of heart disease, | | | | a pound of fat. A reduction of 500 calories per day |
| stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, gallstones, and | | | | can help achieve this goal. A way to lower your |
| some forms of cancer. Weight loss can help you | | | | calorie intake is to put into practice healthy eating |
| reduce some of these risks. | | | | habits. |
| Here are some general pointers to keep in mind | | | | Avoid the use of phony devices and gadgets. They |
| when confronted with weight loss products. Many | | | | can range from those that are simply ineffective to |
| weight loss programs that claim that you can lose | | | | those that are truly dangerous to your health. Save |
| weight with ease are false. To lose weight, it is either | | | | your money. Some of the deceitful gadgets that |
| to reduce the number of calories you eat or to | | | | have been marketed to dieters over the years. |
| increase the number of calories you burn through | | | | These include electrical muscle stimulators that are |
| exercise. It has been agreed by many experts to | | | | used in physical therapy treatment. The FDA has |
| recommend a combination of both. | | | | taken a number of them off the market because |
| Many low calorie diets are not without risk. They | | | | they were promoted to lose weight and body toning. |
| should be pursued only under medical supervision. A | | | | If used improperly, muscle stimulators can be |
| very low calorie diets can deprive you of important | | | | dangerous and cause electrical shocks and burns. |
| nutrients and can be potentially dangerous. | | | | Avoid appetite suppressing eyeglasses. These are |
| Many fad diets effects are only temporary and you | | | | common eyeglasses with colored lenses that claim to |
| may gain back your weight just as quickly. Sudden | | | | project an image to the retina that suppress the |
| and drastic changes in your eating patterns are | | | | desire to eat. There is no such evidence that these |
| difficult to maintain over time. Many of these crash | | | | work. |
| diets often send a dieter into a cycle of quick weight | | | | Avoid magic weight loss earrings and devices custom |
| loss and then followed by a return to weight gain | | | | fitted to the person's ear that purport to stimulate |
| once normal diet habits resume. They may | | | | acupuncture points controlling hunger have not been |
| experience more difficulties to reduce weight when | | | | proven effective. |
| attempting the next dieting plan. | | | | Losing weight is simple but it is not easy as some |
| To lose weight permanently over a long term and | | | | claim to be. Stick to the basics of exercising and |
| safely requires you to adjust your daily eating and | | | | eating moderately and you will be on the way to |
| exercising habits. Many health professionals would | | | | losing weight effectively. |