Diet pills are frequently not enough as they will produce a 10 to 15 percent weight loss. To reach your goal, a supervised diet or less than 1200 calories may be needed. An important factor in maintaining a desired goal weight is involvement in a formal physician supervised program that helps you make permanent lifestyle changes. A good program can help you to be successful and not fall into the 90 to 95 percent group that regain their weight in one or two years. The truth is out.
Obesity is a chronic disease.
Dr. C. Everett Coop, and other national experts just issued guidelines for obesity treatment urging physicians to take obesity seriously as a chronic illness. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in this country. It affects over a third of the adult population, and 20 percent of teenagers. In addition to being a health risk itself, obesity caused or aggravates many other chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure, adult onset diabetes and heart disease. Unfortunately, many physicians and the general public aren't convinced that obesity is a disease.