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"In all, two of every three Americans were defined as "overweight" in 2002. Of all children age six through nineteen, 31% were overweight.19 Suffice it to say: obesity, particularly morbid obesity, is associated with cardiovascular disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. A longitudinal study of more than a half million adults aged fifty to seventy, sponsored jointly by the NIH and AARP, found that overweight and obesity were associated with higher death rates for all demographic categories." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"If you are overweight, it is wise to be concerned about your health and important to learn healthy and proper ways to lose weight. The health risks associated with being overweight include increased risks of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, osteoarthritis (arthritis), gallbladder disease, high blood pressure (hypertension), sleep apnea, gout, pulmonary problems, and gastroesophageal reflux disease. The most effective and long-lasting ways to lose body fat require time and effort, but the benefits are numerous. (See also exercise, athletic performance, and energy/endurance." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Overweight There are more overweight people in the USA than in other nations. One reason for this might be the decrease in consumption of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). CLA is vital for good health. It is found in beef, lamb, turkey and some milk products. Human beings are unable to convert linoleic acid into the needed amount of conjugated linoleic acid. Decreased intake of conjugated linoleic acid and alterations in the manner of production and processing of the foods that contain CLA have led to overweight." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Please look at the possibility that Type 2 diabetics become overweight not because they are slovenly, but because they have the genetic predisposition for Type 2 diabetes. The fact might be that the genetic predisposition results in the overweight condition. An analogous comparison can be made to alcoholism: of all the people in the world who consume alcoholic beverages, only a certain percentage — those with a genetic predisposition—become alcoholic. In a world where there is a large percentage of overweight people, only 30% of this group ever develop Type 2 diabetes." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Solar Power, vitamin D, overweight and obesity Overweight is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) higher than 25, and obesity is defined as having a BMI higher than 30.22 BMI is computed by dividing body weight in kilograms by meters of height squared. BMI is a useful tool for most of the population, although it is inaccurate for people who carry much of their weight as muscle. Obesity and overweight are increasing rapidly in overfed, undernourished, undersunned, sedentary societies." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"Overweight: The Health Consequences It is estimated that nearly half of adults over forty in this country are more than 20 percent overweight. If you or any member of your family are quite a few pounds overweight, don't consider it just a nuisance. Obesity can be hazardous to your health in numerous ways. • Excess calories are transformed into fat which is stored in the fatty tissues throughout the body. But that's not all. • overweight can cause cellular hypertrophy or hyperplasia. If you are seriously overweight, it's more than possible that you are affected by both disorders." - Gary Null, The Complete Guide to Health and Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Such a person will tend to be overweight. We know that being overweight increases the risk of heart disease and the tendency to increased blood pressure. It may also pose problems with cholesterol and arterial disease. Diabetes is also a greater risk with the tendency to be overweight. This relates to the same pattern as tooth decay with a person tending to be "addicted" to sweet things. The pattern of disease in a person's mouth is therefore indicating general patterns in a person's health and life." - Philip Christie, Something to Chew On: A Mouth Map to Health (Get the book.)

"A longitudinal study of more than a half million adults aged fifty to seventy, sponsored jointly by the NIH and AARP, found that overweight and obesity were associated with higher death rates for all demographic categories. Increased risk was highest for those who never smoked: death rates were 20-40 percent higher for the overweight, and two to three times higher for the obese.20 According to one estimate for the year 2000, obesity was responsible for 111,909 excessive deaths.21 WTiat has been the medical community's response to this major threat to our health?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Certainly, you have a higher propensity for developing insulin resistance if you have a family history of type 1 or type 2 diabetes, or if you are overweight. Folks with metabolic syndrome or insulin resistance (IR) are regulars in my practice, so I am quite familiar with this scenario. Many with IR also have high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol levels, and high triglycerides, the typical metabolic trio of IR. According to research, triglyceride levels fall when people take magnesium, and I've seen it happen over and over." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Very few studies have examined vitamin D metabolism in the morbidly obese, but it does appear that compared to those who are not obese, overweight folks have a diminished response to UVB production of vitamin D. If you weigh 300 pounds or more, the above calculations may slightly overestimate or underestimate your needs. Rounding down dose calculations and monitoring your D level every two months will provide the information you need to adjust your dosing safely." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "If you are overweight, this all may sound like really bad news. You're having lots of leg or knee pain, and you need to lose weight to feel better. You also can look at it from the other side: this problem is fixable without too much trouble. Losing as little as 11 pounds reduces the symptoms of osteoarthritis of the knee by 50 percent. A CDC National Health Interview Survey showed that 31 percent of obese Americans have arthritis, but only 15 percent of normal or underweight Americans have arthritis." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "If your BMI is higher than 25, you're overweight, according to CDC standards. Obesity is more common among Hispanics and Native Americans of both sexes and more common among African American women than among European Americans. High blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease are more prevalent in Native Americans, African Americans, and Latinos than in European Americans. Ethnicities with high skin melanin are at greater risk, and women and children are the fastest-growing sectors of these populations at risk." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Gary the slightly overweight Ph.D. student at Harvard in the 1960s, and ?Gary the quite overweight Yale professor in the 1970s and '80s, and ?Gary, the exercising, weight conscious, energy psychology professor in the 1990s. All those Garys are supposedly traveling in the vacuum of space, stored in a gigantic space camcorder of sorts, every microsecond of information and energy remarkably and reliably preserved. Talk about miracles? This is, in essence, the accepted story in physics and astrophysics." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"Research and cultural data worldwide show that moving to a plant-source diet means the prevention and elimination of overweight, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, hypertension, depression, and constipation, to name a few. It is a shift from an egocentric way of eating for oneself to a world-centric way of being as an Act of Love for all as well as oneself. When it comes to prevention of disease, and particularly reversal of diabetes, the conventional understanding of moderation with its attractive appearance of intelligent balance, is anything but prudence and wisdom." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Over 60 percent of the American population is overweight or obese. Men, women, and children in this condition suffer mainly from fluid retention (with relatively minor fat accumulation). The retained fluids help trap and neutralize noxious substances that the liver can no longer remove from the body. This helps the overweight or obese person to survive a major, possibly fatal, toxicity crisis such as a heart attack, septic poisoning, or massive infection." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

"Why we are overweight is a no-brainer. Americans at the beginning of the twenty-first century are consuming more food and several hundred more calories per person per day than did their counterparts in the late 1950s (when per capita calorie consumption was at the lowest level in the last century), or even in the 1970s. The U.S. food supply in 2000 provided 3,800 calories per person per day, 500 calories above the 1970 level and 800 calories above the record low in 1957 and 1958." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"MONTY I was "semi-vegeterian" and slighdy overweight. I ate dairy, had digestive problems, angered easily, and was a student of Chinese medicine and herbology. I studied German electro-acupuncture. I lived in Italy for many years and am a trained psychologist but have a defensive anger. I joined a support group to learn the protocol for myself and my patients. My eating patterns have improved by being vegan and by juicing. I feel a stronger vitality. Boundaries are easily set. I will not tolerate abuse. I've developed insight into my former behavior and my tendency to get angry." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Overweight or obesity is a precondition for many of the preventable causes of death now experienced in the developed world. A special report in the New England Journal of Medicine found that obesity is now such a significant factor that "it is larger than the negative effect of all accidental deaths combined (e.g., accidents, homicide, and suicide), and there is reason to believe that it will rapidly approach and could exceed the negative effect that ischemic heart disease or cancer has on life expectancy." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Along with the conditions associated with metabolic syndrome, these youngsters also had higher C-reactive protein levels, which are an additional risk for cardiovascular problems. Besides being overweight or obese, several other risk factors are associated with metabolic syndrome among young people. If, for example, you are a woman who has diabetes and you have a child who weighed more than 9 pounds at birth, your child is at significant risk of developing metabolic syndrome in childhood and diabetes later in life." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Please consult your health professional or Tree of Life counselor about the appropriateness of this excellent method for moving out old matter, particularly if you are overweight and have been constipated for many years. Generally we do not recommend more than three colonics in a week over a long period of time, as they weaken the downward energy (apana). Skin brushing: The skin is one of the five main elimination channels of the body, throwing off up to one pound of toxic material each day in the form of perspiration and dead skin." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"If you are forty pounds overweight and your goal is to be a sizs eight next week, that is not a realistic time frame. Nevertheless, keep the grand scheme in mind and build toward it as you gain experience. It is also important to overcome your natural skepticism. The idea that yc ur thought can affect physical reality may not fit your current world paradigm, but neither would the concept of gravity if you were living in the Middle Ages. CHOOSE YOUR INTENTION SPACE A number of scientific studies suggest that conditioning your space magnifies the effectiveness of your intentions." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Given that more and more children and adolescents are overweight and obese, these findings are a warning that the combination of obesity and metabolic syndrome will continue to be a serious problem unless we take action. As a mother, father, or other individual who is responsible for a child's health and welfare, you need to help protect and preserve the future health of your child. THE BOTTOM LINE An understanding of insulin resistance is important if you are to successfully prevent, reverse, or treat the conditions it causes." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"If you are older and overweight, if you snore and are sleepy during the day, it is important to talk to a physician about the possibility of sleep apnea." Cardiovascular and digestive disorders also contribute to insomnia. "Angina, in which the heart muscle receives insufficient oxygen, can cause a person to awaken during the night with a choking pain," Dr. Pearl explains. "Coronary artery disease and hypertension or high blood pressure, can also influence your sleep. Medication prescribed for hypertension—usually diuretics—can cause you to awaken frequently during the night to urinate." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Most vegetables are so low in calories and so nutrient rich that even if you eat large amounts you will not gain weight, and if you are overweight, eating more of these will help you lose excess pounds." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"Schauss explains, "In morbid obesity—when people are so significantly overweight that it could shorten their lifespan or increase their risk of disease—there is an inverse relationship between the level of obesity and the level of zinc. The more obese they are, the less zinc they have in their body. We don't know yet whether this is cause and effect, but it's a very important observation because at the other end of the continuum, with anorexia nervosa, self-induced starvation, people are always zinc deficient." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"People with NASH are recommended to reduce their weight if obese or overweight, follow a balanced and healthy diet, increase physical activity, and avoid toxins that strain the liver. All of these steps are basic features of the RENEW program. It's amazing what you can do without any help from drugs or pharmaceuticals to turn a condition like NASH—or diabetes, for that matter—around. The principles of RENEW will help you get on that path of wellness." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Are you overweight, underweight, or do you have cellulite deposits? ? Does your occupation expose you to toxins? ? Do you drink alcoholic beverages regularly? ? Do you eat fish more than twice a week? ? Do you regularly swim in a pool or lake? ? Do you live in a major metropolitan area? ? Do you live near an airport? ? Do you work in an environment using fluorescent lighting? ? Do you drink non-organic coffee? ? Do you feel tired, lethargic, or sluggish upon waking and even throughout the day? ? Do you have difficulty concentrating or have slow or surreal thinking? ?" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"In I960, almost no one in Sardinia's Blue Zone was overweight. Now 15 percent of adolescents are. The most important and unique longevity factors have disappeared or are disappearing quickly from residents' everyday lives. SARDINIA'S LONGEVITY SECRETS So what was the secret to longevity in Sardinia? Did it begin in the Bronze Age, when islanders retreated into the mountains, turned inward, intermarried, and developed a strong allegiance to community and family?" - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"For example, the drug company Roche created a program for overweight patients who were prescribed Xenical, its weight loss drug. The company asked doctors in Iowa and throughout the country to give their patients starter kits for its Xenicare program. Roche asked these patients thirty personal questions, logged the information into its sophisticated database, and then used it to act like a coach or well-wisher to the person. The company sent holiday cards and congratulatory notes as the weeks passed and the patient continued taking the pills." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

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