Body Mass Index Chart

Some 60 percent of Americans are overweight; one fourth are obese. Divided up among us, that’s at least one member in every family. Obesity causes approximately a thousand deaths each day. Some of obesity’s complications place in the top three for disease-related premature death. One-half of cardiovascular deaths and one-third of cancer deaths are due to being overweight. Only cigarette smoking outranks obesity as the largest cause of preventable death. And besides inducing heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes, obesity is responsible for high cholesterol, stroke, pulmonary emboli, gout, gallstones, arthritis, certain kinds of cancer, and sleep apnea. Recently researchers have also linked obesity to cellular oxidation, which is the process that kills cells, speeding aging and death.

In the past, physicians, dieticians, and personal trainers have tried to manage the body alone without results. Then psychologists did the same with the mind only. But rather than focusing on limited areas of expertise, success is only possible by treating the mind, body, and soul simultaneously, thereby addressing the destructive components of the disease in its various forms.

From the beginning, then, my goal has been to seek out the very best treatments in each of these three fields of science and – for the first time – unite them, to use them together. My criteria for choosing the best treatments are simple. It must give consistent results. Through experience and modification, these treatments have been streamlined so that they can be applied to the majority and with a success rate that will halt the obesity epidemic. Their presentation is with no frills and no gimmicks – the simple truth on how to lose weight, feel great, and never regain if for the rest of your life. And for me, that’s the only definition of success.