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The first rule of maintaining a healthy weight is to adopt a healthy well-balanced diet, and aim to follow these healthy eating habits. An adult's nutritional needs remain high despite the fact that the body has stopped growing and developing. Women do need to pay extra attention to their body and take special care. Maintaining a good healthy diet along with moderate physical activity will help keep the energy level, alertness and immunity high, and it also helps reduce the risk of obesity and other chronic diseases.
The American people are in the midst of an obesity epidemic that will soon rival cigarette smoking as the leading cause of preventable deaths.
• According to the year 2000 statistics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 60% of adults in the
• Over the past two decades, the percentage of children who are overweight has nearly doubled (from 7% to 13%) and the percentage of adolescents who are overweight has almost tripled (from 5% to 14%).
Five major advantages of a soy protein-based diet for weight loss programs are:
1. Combating co-morbidities of obesity, e.g. high cholesterol and diabetes. 2. Balanced weight reduction.
3. Soy is so versatile in developing many different types of food products, making it so easy to prepare foods for breakfast, lunch, dinner and of course snacks for all members of the family.
4. Maintenance of the weight loss due to balanced weight reduction and diversity with soy foods makes it very easy to maintain the weight loss in a fun and pleasurable way.
5. May help in building lean muscle mass while losing weight.
• A pound of body fat contains 3,500 calories. To lose a pound in a week, you need to eat 500 calories less each day (7 x 500 = 3,500).
• Include (soy beans, soy foods and snacks, tofu and soy protein) in your meal or salad to improve your health.
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