July 27th, 2011
Weight Loss and Age
There has been a strong current in the health and wellness community that elderly people can’t lose weight. Many elders above 60 are thinner and frailer people already so many don’t desire to lose weight, but for those who do, programs like Weight Watchers are effective for people over 60.
Weight Watchers is essentially calorie counting, and how can calorie counting not work? It just records what you eat so you can track it. The idea that elders don’t lose weight is a misnomer that has existed a long time. This is just not true.
The other rumor is that young people don’t need to watch their weight. Of course they do. Everyone should monitor their weight. Failure to monitor weight is how people wake up one day obese. It happens gradually and you really have to do something about it. Young people can have their weight run out of control by simply overeating too much. Young people can be fat and obese needless to say that growth alone can’t consume all those extra calories.
Childhood obesity is preparing kids for a lifetime of pain. Being obese your entire life can have devastating health consequences. These people are unfortunately going to suffer greatly. Knees, feet, ankles and other support body parts may carry weights like 250-plus pounds for 40 years. That is an uncommon task for human joints. Our children will suffer in ways we never did and maybe ways no human civilization ever did in the past.
Obesity will drain away the weakest ones of the coming generation. Many of them will die of cardiovascular-related illnesses at painfully young ages. We’ve seen how it can happen. Some young kid jumps on a court and before you know it, he just drops dead. Sadly in the next generation, this kid will die at home with his parents in his childhood bedroom. He will have been sick for years but nothing could stop him from overeating to enjoy himself. This is how these senseless deaths happen – one fork at a time.
