The American Healthy Life Problem!

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Americans, on the whole, are fatter than just about any other group of people in the world.  They also have some of the highest rates of Type-II Diabetes and heart problems in the world.  Why are we so fat?  Weight gain is usually a combination of two things: an unhealthy diet and a lack of exercise.  Most people, when they decide to try and lose weight, only tackle part of the problem.  They try dieting or taking pills or living off of lemon juice and cayenne pepper for awhile, but usually it doesn’t work.  Though a healthy diet is important to losing weight, it’s still only part of the equation.  If you cut down your calories but still sit on a couch or in an office every day, you’re not going to lose much weight.  Interestingly enough, though many people are happy to try dieting, there aren’t many who only work at the other side of the equation: exercising.

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