window.document.getElementById(’post-122′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;South Beach? Jenny Craig? Weight Watchers? Discount Vitamins? Discount Herbs? As America’s waistline grows, more of us are looking for help in fighting the battle of the bulge. However, we’re bombarded by nutrition information overload, much of it contradictory. Perhaps we can help make some sense of this subject.
First, the simple truth; we gain weight when we burn up fewer calories than we digest. No hocus-pocus can change that. To lose weight, we must reduce the amount we digest, or the amount we burn up. Most weight loss programs target one or more of these points. Some math is inevitable, and we apologize. A pound of fat represents roughly 3,500 calories. A moderate walk might burn 300 calories an hour, so for each pound you want to lose, plan to walk almost 12 hours and 36 miles, about one and a quarter laps of Manhattan Island, or 21 times across the Golden Gate Bridge. There are many benefits we realize from exercise, but losing weight strictly via exercise is a tough road. Therefore, most people end up tackling the calorie intake part of the problem. Here, we have countless choices of diet programs, but most fall into […]

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