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2005/05/20, 03:41 PM
Here is an article I just read....
Top 2 Reasons We're Still Fat
Fully 72 percent of Americans are overweight or obese, but only 30 percent are actively trying to lose weight. There are two big reasons why we're not slimming down despite the seeming obsession with dieting: We are not motivated, and we don't know how to do it.
That's the word from the Yankelovich Preventative Healthcare Study of 6,000 U.S. adults, which notes there are more than 100,000 sources of healthcare and diet information to help us slim down. Of course, that's part of the problem. There's just too much information, and a lot of it is contradictory and confusing.
Barriers that are dulling our motivation to lose weight:
Dislike of exercise: 22 percent
Enjoying junk food too much: 21 percent
Lack of will power to stick to a plan: 15 percent
Barriers arising from misunderstanding or lack of education include:
Inability to afford a successful weight loss program: 20 percent
Insurance not covering weight-loss programs: 19 percent
Inability to figure out the best way to lose weight: 14 percent
We're paying a big price for this. The study also found that 29 percent of adults have felt healthy and full of energy for only two weeks or less during the past month, including 9 percent who have not experienced health and energy at all. The least healthy tend to be unmarried, under the age of 40, or have children under the age of six. Almost 75 percent of U.S. adults have a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or greater, which is considered overweight by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Yankelovich study asked respondents to rank the top 10 ways to maintain health. Alarmingly, diet and exercise didn't even make the list! Instead, coming in at No. 1 was "maintaining personal hygiene and cleanliness," followed by "maintaining a positive attitude" and "maintaining/cultivating good family relationships." Diet and exercise placed a distant 13th and 17th respectively.
Perhaps the most startling reason we're still fat is we just don't know how to lose weight. "We are battling a lack of health education," said Steve Bodhaine, group president of Yankelovich and director of The Segmentation Company. "Almost 65 percent of people have never been to a nutrition class and about half have never taken an exercise or fitness class. Those are staggering numbers."
It's time to get smart and get in shape.
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:Hard work equals great results!:
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2005/05/23, 09:29 AM
You'd have to never read a magazine or newspaper and never have contact with the outside world not to know how to be healthy. Everywhere you look theirs diet plans and advice and get fit reality programs.
The information is all there, why do people have to be spoonfed like babies?
I think they missed out the third and most important reason: being dumb or lazy
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2005/05/23, 06:19 PM
:)Good point mariebrom. Great article sbroyhill, I do strongly agree with mariebrom, you cant not know how to be healthy, or atleast the basics. (ofcourse you could be a person that shivers when he/she hears about health and therefor purposely avoids it, but I don't think most people are like that ;)
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2005/05/24, 08:54 AM
It is not that anyone does not know how to be healthy it is just that not everyone really tries. They Lack motivation and then like the article said. . .
"Barriers that are dulling our motivation to lose weight:
Dislike of exercise: 22 percent
Enjoying junk food too much: 21 percent
Lack of will power to stick to a plan: 15 percent
Barriers arising from misunderstanding or lack of education include:
Inability to afford a successful weight loss program: 20 percent
Insurance not covering weight-loss programs: 19 percent Inability to figure out the best way to lose weight: 14 percent"
People just want a quick fix to lose weight and many do not want to work for it.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer
\\"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.\\"
Jim Rohn
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2005/05/24, 08:56 AM
Good points, everyone. :big_smile:
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2005/08/18, 12:40 PM
MOTIVATION is the key
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