Eat Healthy, Exercise and Lose Weight Fast!

Summer is the greatest time of year for getting in shape fast! A bounty of healthy eating choices give us many natural and healthy ways to lose weight fast! Enjoy a healthy salad today. Get some exercise four or five days a week and watch your waistline start to shrink.

Some of us enjoy fruits and vegetables because of fond memories - like watermelon or corn at cookouts, your mom's green bean casserole, or tomatoes your dad brought in from the backyard garden. Or you may simply like them because most are quick to prepare and easy to eat.

Whatever the reasons you select certain fruits and vegetables, the important thing is that we make them a part of our daily diet and encourage children to do the same. With such a large selection of fruits and vegetables to choose from this time of year we can easily enjoy a wide variety of healthy eating choices.

Fruits and vegetables give you many of the nutrients that you need: vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, water, and healthful phytochemicals. Some are sources of let vitamin A, while others are rich in vitamin C, folate, or potassium. Almost all fruits and vegetables are naturally low in fat and calories and none have cholesterol. All of these healthful characteristics may even protect you from some diseases.

Enjoy a healthy and nutritious variety of fruits and veggies this summer and you'll be on the road to better health - for a lifetime! Take advantage of the many natural and healthy ways to lose weight fast. Eat healthy, exercise and lose weight fast!

Just the facts... Start Getting in Shape fast

Summer is the best time to continue - or even start - getting in shape fast. More time for outdoor activities and sports. Warmer temeratures help us burn more calories. Start today - exercise and lose weight fast.

Check out these disturbing facts and you'll want to get out and get moving.

Adults 18 and older need 30 minutes of physical activity on five or more days a week to be healthy; children and teens need 60 minutes of activity a day for their health.

Significant health benefits can be obtained by including a moderate amount of physical activity (e.g., 30 minutes of brisk walking or raking leaves, 15 minutes of running, 45 minutes of playing volleyball). Additional health benefits can be gained through greater amounts of physical activity.

Thirty to sixty minutes of activity broken into smaller segments of 10 or 15 minutes throughout the day has significant health benefits.

Moderate daily physical activity can reduce substantially the risk of developing or dying from cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers, such as colon cancer. Daily physical activity helps to lower blood pressure and cholesterol, helps prevent or retard osteoporosis, and helps reduce obesity, symptoms of anxiety and depression, and symptoms of arthritis.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death among men and women in the United States. Physically inactive people are twice as likely to develop coronary heart disease as regularly active people.

37% of adults report they are not physically active. Only 3 in 10 adults get the recommended amount of physical activity.

Poor diet and inactivity can lead to overweight/obesity. Persons who are overweight or obese are at increased risk for high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, respiratory problems and some types of cancer.

41 million Americans are estimated to have pre-diabetes. Most people with pre-diabetes develop type 2 diabetes within 10 years, unless they make changes to their diet and physical activity that results in a loss of about 5-7 percent of their body weight.

Obesity continues to climb among American adults. Nearly 60 million Americans are obese. More than 108 million adults are either obese or overweight. That means roughly 3 out of 5 Americans carry an unhealthy amount of excess weight.

The percentage of adults in the United States who were overweight or obese (body mass index greater than or equal to 25) in 1999-2002 was 65 percent. Overweight and obesity cuts across all ages, racial and ethnic groups, and both genders. A new study in the Netherlands found that excess weight cuts years off your life.

16 percent of children and teens aged 6 to 19 were overweight in 1999-2002, triple the proportion in 1980. Fifteen-percent of children in the same age group are considered at-risk for overweight. The percentage of overweight African American, Hispanic, and Native American children is about 20%.

More than 10 percent of children between the ages of 2 and 5 are overweight, double the proportion since 1980.

Scary numbers and potentially scary outcomes. Don't succumb to a sedentary lifestyle. Start your fitness quest today! Start getting in shape fast!

Don't become a statistic - Exercise and lose weight fast!