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Three things define your future weight: your present weight, future activity, and future food intake.

If you are healthy your present weight is a good indication of your history of activity (or lethargy), eating habits, and, to some extent, your age. That's history and you can't do anything about it.

Your future activity and future food intake reduce and increase your weight respectively. So any person who's weight is constant, or nearly so, is in balance. The amount of food that he or she eats is just sufficient to maintain the weight with whatever exercise or physical work he or she does. That balance is OK if the weight is not excessive. Unfortunately, excessive weight has serious adverse consequences such as high blood pressure and susceptibility to other diseases like diabetes. Moreover too much weight is itself wearing on the body and its organs. Excessive weight shortens your life.

Drugs

Many television and newspapers advertisements guarantee very large weight reductions: 45 pounds off in two weeks; 30 pounds reduction while eating all that you want; and so on. It's big business. Searching the Internet for weight reduction pills' bring more than four-and-a-half-million hits, some of which advertised a weight loss of 12 lb in 72 hours. The drugs include Phentermine, Kava, Xenical, Bontril and Meridia, which are supposed to control appetite and reduce the production of certain enzymes. Many are herbal concoctions.

Be aware of two dangers: First, if you do manage to take of 45 pounds in two weeks they will almost inevitably return in the following two weeks unless you adjust your balance of activity and food intake and give your metabolism time to become accustomed to the change. Secondly, all drugs have side effects if they suppress your appetite in your brain what other damage do they do there? Phentermine and Kava, for example, are expressly noted as possibly resulting in death and the others are all dangerous.

o Do not take drugs without a reputable doctor's advice and certainly none that profess to reduce your weight. They are simply dangerous con jobs.

o No drugs are advertised that will increase your activity the other side of the weight reduction coin. That side will require your initiative read on.

In summary, to reduce your weight there are only two safe options increase your activity and physical work, or reduce your food intake. It's that simple!

Activity

Increasing activity probably means modifying your lifestyle although very simple changes can produce

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