A new government funded study shows that Transitions will have plenty of customers over the next 40 years. The study projects that if the trends of the past three decades continue, that every US adult will be overweight 40 years from now. This may seem impossible but even if the number of overweight Americans increases just a little it will be a large cost to the US. Two-thirds of the US population are already overweight and with the trends continuing as they have over the past 30 years we are definitely going in that direction. If the trends continue researchers estimate that 86% of American adults will be overweight by 2030 with 51% being obese and by 2048 all US adults could be at least mildly overweight. Based on these trends healthcare costs will double each decade as waistlines increase reaching $957 billion by 2030. The good news for the US is that there are at least 1200 Certified Transitions Lifestyle Coaches that can turn these alarming trends around.
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8/14/2008
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I agree. Transitions is merely the common sense solution with low-glycemic eating and fine effective nutritional supplements that could abate the increasing obesity and overweight problem plauging the U.S. and the world.
I lost 25 pounds in about five weeks following the Transitions program, merely because Transitions taught me for the first time in my life the proper way to eat. Recognizing how consuming lots of foods and beverages with sugar defeated everything I was doing, like exercising several times a week, was really a wake up call to get off the sugar. This alone, as well as the introduction to the great Transitions shakes I drink after every work out, was more than worth the price of admission.
I have to laugh at all these other programs that instruct people to continue to eat substantial amounts of foods containing sugar, in lieu of cutting calories.
This is the wrong approach and people following such programs likely just waste a lot of time losing muscle and gaining even more fat.
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