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The never ending saga of the “quick fix” diets goes on and on like a poorly scripted soap opera on afternoon television - Atkins Diet...Weight Watchers... Jenny Craig...South Beach Diet…Cabbage Soup Diet…etc. General practitioners (family doctors), who are generally not nutritionists, often, steer their patients toward whatever fad diet is the current rage on the front pages of the checkout lane tabloids. I am blessed to have a physician that isn’t worried about losing my business ($$$$$$) as the result of telling me the truth. Unfortunately, most family doctors simply avoid telling the obese patient the straightforward medical facts about their medical condition; hence, the patient leaves the doctor’s office with a prescription for high blood pressure medication, a few kind words, a reassuring pat on the back and the current buzz word diet of the day. These misguided souls follow the specifics of any current fad diet for a few weeks and most of them will lose 6 to 10 pounds of excess weight. A small percentage of patients might even lose as much as 25 to 30 pounds. Of course, 25 to 30 pounds could be miniscule by comparison if you are 175 pounds overweight! Did the diet work? Unfortunately, it’s our nature to swear by that with which we have had recent success. Sadly, the weight returns, the patient is disappointed and the cycle begins again. In the final analysis, there's really only one diet that works: Eat less and exercise more.

NEWSFLASH!!!! Wake up chunky bunch. This is important stuff. If you really want to lose the weight and then keep the weight off permanently you need to pay attention to this important announcement. NOW HEAR THIS: The ultimate key to any successful weight-loss plan is to eat a variety of foods and burn up more calories than you take in. How to do this? Simple -- Eat less, get up off your backside and take a walk!

# posted by David @ 12:27 AM