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Article: The 10-percent solution: experts today counsel overweight and obese people to start their recovery by losing a tenth of their body weight.(WEIGHT LOSS)
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- Healthy Years
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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If you're too heavy, reducing your weight by about 10 percent will set you on the road to better health, according to the Obesity Education Initiative of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Why 10 percent? It seems to be the "sweet spot" goal when it comes to balancing objectives with meaningful and sustainable weight loss. "Many doctors and experts today are suggesting a goal of 5- to 10-percent reduction in total body weight in overweight or obese patients," says Bruce Ferrell, MD, professor in the division of geriatrics at UCLA. "This would mean, for example, that someone who was overweight at 160 pounds would shoot for an initial weight loss of 8 to 16 ...