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Home > Weight Loss News > America's Silent but Highly Visible Sugar coated Epidemic
America's Silent but Highly Visible Sugar-coated Epidemic
(PRWEB) September 1, 2005 -- The United States is suffering from an epidemic of obesity that threatens to soon surpass cigarette smoking as the leading cause of preventable death. A recent report by the Trust for America's Health indicates that the percentage of obese adults is growing in 49 of the fifty states. Approximately four out of every 10 American children are overweight and will develop life-threatening diabetes as a result. At least 60 percent of adults in this country are overweight or obese. And yet, neither the government nor the general population is making sufficient headway to curb this unprecedented healthcare crisis.
A lack of exercise, healthy diet, and basic nutrition is at the heart of the problem, and is compounded by the fact that modern Americans have an addiction to junk foods and fast foods. We eat foods high in calories and low in nutrition, so as we gain unwanted weight, we lose energy. The result is that instead of "running off" what we eat, we instead prefer to "eat on the run."
Once the habits that cause obesity are acquired, it is an uphill battle to reverse the unhealthy pattern. In order to break the cycle, one has to accomplish two things at once – eat less and burn more calories. The idea is simple but remains easier said than done for most of us, who need as much help as we can get. John Cantu of Gold Star Nutrition recommends speeding up the metabolic rate while slowing down the tendency to eat for "comfort" or out of unconscious habit.
For his proprietary blend, Cantu uses Nutratech's patented ingredient "AdvantraZ." The chemical compound is the only patented, thermogenic replacement for ephedra and is found in products sold under his Power Thin label of weight loss formulations. According to Cantu, his formulations work because they suppress the appetite while boosting metabolism and adding fire to the "fat furnace" in our bodies. As fat is blocked from previously ingested calories, the increased metabolic rate helps to burn up potential "incoming" fat, to both reduce weight and help to keep it from coming back.
His Power Thin Phase II contains no dangerous ephedra, and is an all-natural herbal, vitamin and mineral formula. Cantu says that 83 percent of his customers reorder the weight loss formulation. One repeat buyer, Willie Parker of Cleaton, KY, says he "lost 14 pounds on one bottle" of the product.
But Cantu is quick to remind his customers that Power Thin is no magic bullet, miracle drug, or magic pill. He agrees with medical and fitness experts who emphasize that a healthy, nutritious diet, combined with daily aerobic exercise, is essential in order to lose weight and keep it off without unwanted repercussions. An overall lifestyle involving nutrition combined with physical fitness is the only magic cure, it seems, for ailing America. Time will tell if Americans will rise to the challenge, or succumb to a life of sloth, sweets, and avoidable deadly disease.
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