{"id":7297,"date":"2015-02-06T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T19:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2015-02-06T12:47:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T19:47:06","slug":"somi-wellness-5-myths-about-losing-weight-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/somi-wellness-5-myths-about-losing-weight-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"SOMI WELLNESS – 5 Myths About Losing Weight This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/a>

DOCTOR BREAKS DOWN WHY IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT<\/strong><\/p>\n

More than a third of adults in the United States \u2013 35.1 percent \u2013 are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Nearly 70 percent are at least overweight, and obesity in adolescents\u00a0has quadrupled in the past\u00a0three decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDespite all the attention, an unhealthy amount of body fat remains an insidious problem,\u201d says Dr. Eleazar Kadile, who specializes in treating patients with obesity and associated chronic disease.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMost of us know we\u2019re facing a national health crisis, yet diets for millions of Americans continue to be based in heavily processed foods. Obese people often live in perpetual shame, and many others believe they are right to blame the overweight and\u00a0obese for their problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Kadile, director of the Center for Integrative Medicine and author of \u201cStop Dying Fat\u201d (), says poor attitudes and lack of understanding contribute significantly to this national crisis, which contributes to our national healthcare difficulties.\u00a0He debunks five myths about being overweight and obese.<\/span><\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s your fault that you\u2019re fat.\u201d <\/b>Obesity is caused by complex imbalances within a person\u2019s body and his or her environment. Some imbalances are exacerbated by poor dietary choices based on bad dietary information, personal history and psychological patterns. Together, the physiological, psychological, social and environmental causes of the disease of obesity create a predicament that obese people are drawn into and unable\u00a0to get out of.<\/span><\/p>\n

–\u00a0<\/b>Obese people are among the \u201cfat and happy.\u201d<\/b> Large people can be masters at suppressing the indignities they suffer in society. The obese often have to pay first-class fare since cheaper seats for transportation are designed for thinner people.\u00a0Most advertisements employ beautiful people who are thin, and rarely attractive actors who are larger. National campaigns to battle obesity do not focus on the factors beyond diet and exercise that keep people overweight. Obese patients also spend an average of nearly $1,500 more each year on medical care\u00a0than other Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n

–\u00a0<\/b><\/b>Obese and overweight people just need the right diet.<\/b> There\u2019s no shortage of diets promoted by beautiful people who promise amazing results. If only overweight people eat what these beautiful people eat, then they\u2019ll be beautiful, too. But that\u2019s just not true. What and how one eats is just a part of an excessive body mass index level. Other important factors to achieving a healthy BMI include good information regarding one\u2019s health, sustained motivation to change, continuous learning, vigilance and an ability to be extremely honest.<\/span><\/p>\n

–\u00a0<\/b><\/b>Food is not an obese individual\u2019s friend; exercise is.<\/b> Eat less; exercise more; lose weight \u2013 those have been the commandments in the religion of weight loss. But most obese people have tried this and it hasn\u2019t worked. More than being a source of pleasure, comfort and survival, food is medicine.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve developed a complementary set of protocols that target an obese person\u2019s specific set of problems,\u201d Dr. Kadile says. \u201cSometimes, you need to eat fat \u2013 the right kind \u2013 in order to burn fat. And, many exercises can actually harm an obese person.\u00a0You can\u2019t impose cookie-cutter solutions to this complex problem and expect them to work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

–\u00a0<\/b><\/b>Fat people need to \u201cjust do it\u201d<\/b> \u2013 lose weight. This attitude is\u00a0not based in reality; it\u2019s an over-simplistic response for a frustrating problem.<\/span><\/p>\nEleazar Kadile, M.D. Dr. Eleazar Kadile is a complementary physician who specializes in treating patients with obesity, who may suffer from heart disease, hypertension, type-2 diabetes, arthritis, depression or ADHD. With decades of medical experience throughout the United States, he has been developing a comprehensive and systematic approach to battling obesity. He is the director of the Center for Integrative Medicine in Green Bay, Wis. ().\n

\u201cMorbidly obese patients need plenty of preparation,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen a patient comes to me, I go through a rigorous list of questions regarding medical and family history. I ask about eating, sleeping and activity patterns, as well as medical conditions, emotional patterns, stress histories, good times and bad times, etc. I also have them go through an extensive battery of medical tests. That\u2019s the effective and safe way of doing it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, \u201cjust do it\u201d just doesn\u2019t cover it. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DOCTOR BREAKS DOWN WHY IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT More than a third of adults in the United States \u2013 35.1 percent \u2013 are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Nearly 70 percent are at least overweight, and obesity in adolescents\u00a0has quadrupled in the past\u00a0three decades. \u201cDespite all the attention, an unhealthy amount of<\/p>\n

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