Weight Management

Success to weight management is a result of balancing the calories you eat with the calories you burn. The calories you eat can easily be identified and tracked, but what about the calories you burn? You burn calories through daily activities such as working and doing household chores, and you also burn calories through planned exercises such as walking, running, biking, and working out at the gym. But the majority of the calories your body burns are those just to keep you alive each day. The calories you burn to maintain normal body functions such as breathing, keeping your heart pumping and your brain working is called your resting metabolism, or Metabolic Fingerprint, which accounts for as much as 75% of the calories your body burns each day.

Obesity

The rise in the number of overweight people has become a major health issue in the UNited states, and increasingley across the Glove. Over 65% of the adult population is now overweight or obese which contributes directly to over 360,000 deaths each year - almost as much as smoking. Consuming more calories than you burn can cause you to become overweight or obese.