CaloriesCount.com - Helps You Lose Weight
Calorie Control Council
The Calorie Control Council's site: CaloriesCount.com is a comprehensive
site committed to educating and assisting people achieve a healthy weight,
primarily through a balanced diet incorporating their favorite foods and
appropriate physical activity. It focuses on sensible methods of weight
control that help people lose weight and keep it off, helping people learn
how to adopt a healthier lifestyle.
Online Weight Management Programs
Dr. John Foreyt, Director of the Nutrition Research Clinic at Baylor College
of Medicine, and a scientific advisor for the new site, said, "Research
shows that individuals who join online weight management programs are
often more successful in losing weight and keeping their weight off."
The site contains tools, calculators and information to help consumers
obtain a healthy weight and includes features such as:
Meal Plans that are customized and creative,
designed to help each member meet their specific weight loss goals healthfully.
Access to the new comprehensive Calorie
Calculator, available online for tracking daily calories in foods you
eat.
Articles, tips and the most current information
necessary to make informed weight management choices.
Live chats with weight loss experts as
well as access to a caring online support community sharing your desires,
and frustrations.
Overweight & Obese Americans
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC estimates that
almost 65 percent of Americans are overweight and 31 percent are clinically
obese (which means that an individual's weight is 20 percent or more above
what is considered to be her/his healthy weight). And being overweight
can put adults and children at an increased risk of chronic diseases,
including diabetes and heart disease.
Source: Press Release For more information
about the site, visit: www.caloriescount.com. Calorie Control Council,
January 7, 2003.
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