Obesity on the Rise in Minnesota – What You Can Do

A study released in January 2008 by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and the Minnesota Department of Health states that if obesity in Minnesota continues to rise it could cost the state an additional $900 million annually by 2010, and $3.7 billion more annually by 2020.

Minnesota ranks 25th in the nation for obesity according to another study, by the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH).

Minnesota’s adult obesity rate is 23.0 percent, and Minnesota has the 13th highest overweight levels for low-income children ages 2-5 at 13.2 percent. If obesity in Minnesota continues to rise it could cost the state an additional $900 million annually by 2010, and $3.7 billion more annually by 2020.

Nearly 119 million American adults, 65 percent of the population, are currently overweight or obese. The direct and indirect costs of obesity in America are more than $117 billion per year. “The added weight of the obesity epidemic to our already ailing health system is causing it to burst at the seams. Americans’ growing waistlines are leading to escalating disease rates and costs,” said Shelley A. Hearne, DrPH, Executive Director of TFAH. The study found that obesity and obesity-related disease rates are escalating throughout the nation; Minnesota is not out of the ordinary.

TFAH recommends that the impact of marketing and advertising on children’s diet and health be studied, and to investigate root causes and origins for unhealthy eating, physical activity, and obesity.

What can you do? Understand the influences on your diet, including fast food advertisements. The subconscious forces at work that result in eating too much and the wrong kinds of food can be eliminated through hypnosis. By reprogramming your subconscious mind you can change your actual behavior. Over-eating is a habit that has been learned over the years. As we all know, a habit is difficult to break on your own. Through the use of hypnosis, suggestions are given that will cancel out the negative habit. Once the negative habit has been removed, suggestions are then given that will start a new positive habit of eating the proper type and quantity of foods and liquids.

Awareness of the problem is the first step. Start a healthy program of proper eating and getting enough exercise for weight loss. But creating new habits is hard, and hypnosis can help you to enlist the power of your subconscious mind in making positive change. Hypnosis can actually eliminate the cravings you have for bad foods, and replace them with cravings for healthy foods. Hypnosis can actually make you DESIRE to exercise.

According to the Blue Cross study, 23 percent of Minnesotans fall into the obese category now, and if left unchecked that number will rise to 31 percent by 2020. Don’t let yourself be a statistic, start a program of healthy eating and exercise today, and don’t be afraid to get help from hypnosis!

By: Cindy Locher

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