By Francine Hemway

Author of Beauty and the Yeast Beast: from Fat to Fairy Tale 

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From Big Bad O:
Cancer victims, heart attack victims, and those struck by lightning have a better survival rate than the obese in recovery. 

If 30% of the obese stopped eating junk food today, the American economy would crash.  

Our seasonal weight yo-yo, within a narrow range, was a natural survival mechanism. Nature's control of the yo-yo is gone, and it has become diet failure syndrome.

Food 24/7-365 _Diet Failure Syndrome and Obesity.

We are approaching the point of no return. It is time for America to choose and act. Taking no action is a costly consequential action.

Table of Contents

A Candid View of Obesity Defining the Issues Latest Obesity Statistics Risks of Obesity/Morbid Obesity Excuses, Excuses& Diets (To Name a Few) Types of Diet Pills Types of Weight Loss Programs Commercial Weight Loss Programs Weight Loss Supplements Types of Exercise Government Programs The Profit Of Obesity The Financial Cost of Obesity The Personal Cost of Obesity Lies and Deceptions Behind Our Backs The New Normal Why This Happened Mother Nature Made Me Do It Over Complication/Over Simplification The Food Industry Sabotage Home Alone The Yeast Beast The Fix /The Options The Sleeping Giant: Nine Million Obesity Blogs on Google Obesity Is Here To Stay How Could I Not See? How Can They Not See? Who Is At Fault for Fat? Life After Obesity What if? Corpulent City The New Order The Lame Duck Fit 'till 45: Keep America Alive   Part One: The Fitness Act Part Two: Who Will Not Walk Shall Not Eat Epilog: From the Other Side of the Mirror Appendix: Proposal to the U.S. Congress for Legislation

The Curse of the Beast
Obesity Rehabilitation is not easy, but you can achieve Obesity Rehabilitation without life threatening bariatric surgeries as I did. No Sugar, No Starch, and No Flour, an antifungal and a probiotic: you are on your way to weight loss. Now add exercise, and you will shed pounds in a healthy way that will help you mediate the need for, or get you ready for ,the skin surgeries you may require to remove redundent (excess) hanging skin.

We are a nation of fatties, according to the World Health Organization, but were not the fattest in the world. That dubious honor goes to seven Pacific Island nations, whose population of the rotund varies from 78 percent in Palau to a staggering 94 percent in the (geographically) tiny island nation of Nauru. Nearly 31 percent of Nauruians have type 2 diabetes.

The United States is close behind, ranking as the ninth fattest nation in the world, right after Kuwait. Seventy-four percent of us over the age of fifteen are overweight. Today, the world holds 1.6 billion overweight adults. That number is projected by the World Health Organization to expand by forty percent in just ten years, due to the globalization of the western diet and increasingly urban lifestyles in developing countries. (For a complete list of how 194 nations stack up in the obesity department, visit Forbes.com and search for Worlds Fattest Countries.)

Source: Forbes.com, February 2007