The Slim Fast Diet Plan: How to Overcome Obesity

Obesity applies to individuals who are more than 20% -25% above the normal body weight. Our society wants to label obesity as a disease, but obesity is mostly caused by ‘making a choice' to consume more calories than you burn daily. Obesity has become an epidemic in America for many reasons. A combination of the lack of exercise, eating lots of foods high in saturated fat & carbohydrates and the manufacturing methods used by the food industry to keep up with the demand of foods and finally, the ingredients used to increase the shelf life of food are the top reasons for the obesity epidemic. A few other contributors to obesity are: hormonal imbalances, some pharmaceutical drugs, excessive alcohol & soda consumption, stress and

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