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Below is an article from the New York times about Holiday weight gain.
While the news is good that most people of a healthy weight only gain an average of one pound during the holidays each year (many believe it to be much more), it was found that this pound is rarely lost after the holidays are gone.
Also, people who are already overweight tend to gain 5 or more pounds during the holidays.
Because of this, the Eat Right Module is a great ally to have during the Holiday season. It can help take the edge off when those cocktail weenies, deep fried turkeys and that last piece of pumpkin pie come calling!
You can read more about this Module here.
Article:
Reports of your holiday weight gain have been greatly exaggerated. Media stories often suggest that the average person gains 7 to 10 pounds between Thanksgiving and Christmas. And in surveys, people say they gain, on average, about five pounds this time of year.
But several studies now show that the average weight gain during the winter holidays is just one pound.
The news isn’t all good. Most people don’t ever lose the pound of weight they put on during the holidays, according to a report in The New England Journal of Medicine. Since the average weight gain during adulthood is about one to two pounds a year, that means much of midlife weight gain can be explained by holiday eating.
For people who are already overweight, the holiday weight news is worse. Although the average gain is only one pound, people who are already overweight tend to gain a lot more. One study found that overweight people gained five pounds or more during the holidays.
And we start packing on that extra pound of holiday weight early in life. Researchers at the University of Oklahoma studied holiday weight gain among college students during the Thanksgiving break. The students were weighed the day before Thanksgiving, then weighed again about two weeks later. The average weight gain for the 94 students was about one pound. Students who were of normal weight gained about a half a pound during the period. Students who were overweight, meaning their body mass index was 25 or more, gained about two pounds.
While the news is good that most people of a healthy weight only gain an average of one pound during the holidays each year (many believe it to be much more), it was found that this pound is rarely lost after the holidays are gone.
Also, people who are already overweight tend to gain 5 or more pounds during the holidays.
Because of this, the Eat Right Module is a great ally to have during the Holiday season. It can help take the edge off when those cocktail weenies, deep fried turkeys and that last piece of pumpkin pie come calling!
You can read more about this Module here.
Article:
Reports of your holiday weight gain have been greatly exaggerated. Media stories often suggest that the average person gains 7 to 10 pounds between Thanksgiving and Christmas. And in surveys, people say they gain, on average, about five pounds this time of year.
But several studies now show that the average weight gain during the winter holidays is just one pound.
The news isn’t all good. Most people don’t ever lose the pound of weight they put on during the holidays, according to a report in The New England Journal of Medicine. Since the average weight gain during adulthood is about one to two pounds a year, that means much of midlife weight gain can be explained by holiday eating.
For people who are already overweight, the holiday weight news is worse. Although the average gain is only one pound, people who are already overweight tend to gain a lot more. One study found that overweight people gained five pounds or more during the holidays.
And we start packing on that extra pound of holiday weight early in life. Researchers at the University of Oklahoma studied holiday weight gain among college students during the Thanksgiving break. The students were weighed the day before Thanksgiving, then weighed again about two weeks later. The average weight gain for the 94 students was about one pound. Students who were of normal weight gained about a half a pound during the period. Students who were overweight, meaning their body mass index was 25 or more, gained about two pounds.