Obesity Research
Obesity has many definitions, but generally it is a condition in which body weight is 20 percent above the normal weight based on height. Some people have a high metabolism rate which keeps their weight down despite eating too much. Other people can put on weight with merely a slight increase in daily calories. Research indicates hereditary factors influence about one third of weight, and this varys from person to person. However, the principal factors in weight control depend on exercise and daily calorie consumption.
A number of different diets have been successful in causing weight loss, but in many cases when a person abandons the diet, the lost weight returns. Weight control has to be a lifestyle change: A change to a healthy life style of proper nutrition and a scheduled exercise of thirty minutes a day, three to six times per week. Proper nutrition means to eat no refined carbohydrates or refined glucose, to eat fruits, vegetables, lean protein, cold water fish and fiber. All soft drinks must be eliminated, as well as other sugar products. A recent study of the diets of young children and young adults in the United States indicated that up to 30 percent of calories a day per person consisted of soft drinks. Once a person is on a healthy diet, the reduction in weight will depend upon the amount of calorie reduction per day from the maintenance level. The maintenance level is the level of calories that a person has been eating each day to maintain the same weight.
