State of Slim - Fix Your Metabolism and Drop 20 Pounds in 8 Weeks on the Colorado Diet

Zusatztext “The book's user-friendly approach! upbeat tone! and easy recipes will attract readers to the lean and active Colorado lifestyle no matter where they live.” — Publisher's Weekly Informationen zum Autor James O. Hill, PhD, and Holly R. Wyatt, MD, with Christie Aschwanden Klappentext One state--Colorado--has bucked the trend of obesitsy. It's the leanest state in the nation! but it's not because of something in the air or the water. It's the perfect interplay among diet! activity! and environment. This book breaks down the elements of this healthy lifestyle. What Makes Colorado Special? CHAPTER 1 WE'RE FREQUENTLY ASKED BY the media and by people we meet at parties why America is getting so fat. Is it because we spend too much time sitting in front of the TV? Is it because we drink those huge sugary soft drinks or that junk food advertising is often geared toward kids? Everyone has an opinion: Healthy food is too expensive. Schools are the problem, since most did away with recess and serve unhealthy food. Our portion sizes are too big, and we're eating too many wheat-based products. The list is endless. People want to blame someone or one specific thing--and everyone wants a simple solution. There's no doubt that overweight and obesity are huge health problems in our country. Americans have been gaining weight year after year since the early 1980s. In fact, we published a study in Science in 2003 showing that the average weight gain in adults is about 2 £ds per year. This may not seem like a lot, but it adds up to 20 extra £ds in a decade! What has caused this increase in weight gain? The American lifestyle has changed so much in the past 30 years--nearly everything about the places we live, work, and play is different--that it's impossible to assign blame to any one, two, or even three things. More important, though, we don't believe that "Why is America getting so fat?" is the right question. There are people who are lean and healthy. Some of them have always been this way; others have managed to lose weight and keep it off for a very long time. We've been asking, "How do these people do it?" With the Colorado Diet, our focus is on what people have done right. Colorado is a perfect learning laboratory in which to study what's effective and what isn't for weight loss because there are many, many people here doing it right. While the rest of the nation has been packing on the £ds, Coloradans have avoided the high rates of obesity seen elsewhere. The state has the lowest obesity prevalence in the nation, about 26 percent below the national average. However, not everyone in Colorado is lean--just being a Coloradan doesn't give you immunity against the factors that contribute to obesity. You have to live the Colorado lifestyle actively. In studying the Colorado lifestyle, we discovered six key factors that make healthy living easy and are necessary for developing a Mile-High Metabolism (we describe this in greater detail in Chapter 2). We think they explain why Coloradans are the leanest people in the nation. What's more, in comparing the habits of lean Coloradans to those of the participants in the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR), we determined that you don't need be a Colorado resident to adopt this lifestyle. Those people live across the country, proving you can be a weight-loss success story anywhere. In the chapters that follow, we'll go into greater detail about each one of the factors and show you how to incorporate them into your daily life. But for now, we wanted to give you an overview. 1 / Be Active Every Day A few years ago, we worked with Harris Polls to research the walking habits of people across the United States and published the results in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Participants wore pedometers to count the number of steps they took each day. Turns out that...

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• Authors: Chris Aschwanden, Christie Aschwanden, James O Hill, James O. Hill, Holly Wyatt, Holly R Wyatt, Holly R. Wyatt
• Publisher: Rodale USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2013
• EAN: 9781609614911
• ISBN: 978-1-60961-491-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Guides > Health > Diet