The prevalence of obesity has been increasing worldwide over the past 50 years and obesity is now a significant public health challenge.
Pandemic obesity is a major public health problem because of its association with non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes mellitus and all-cause mortality worldwide, which can be improved/delayed with weight loss. Thus, there is a need for simple, sustainable, and safe dietary approaches that promote good dietary choices, effective weight control, and favorable metabolic outcomes. several scientific societies and governments have launched guidelines to reduce body weight and adiposity or, at least, to avoid weight gain. In spite of the abundant studies, there is still challenging to find a weight loss program that is safe, sustainable and effective.
Globally traditional diets (typically higher in quality plant-based foods), have transitioned to a “Western-style dietary pattern,” characterized by high consumption of calories, highly processed foods (refined carbohydrates, added sugars, sodium, and unhealthy fats), and high amounts of animal products. “Western-style” dietary patterns with more red meat or processed meat, sugared drinks, sweets, refined carbohydrates, have been linked to obesity. and also linked to increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions. Along with the negative human health impacts associated with this nutrition transition, this dietary pattern is also unsustainable.
Defining a “Healthy Diet”
In 2019, the EAT-Lancet Commission developed the world’s first scientific targets for healthy and sustainable food systems, including a “healthy diet” with defined daily consumption ranges for each food group. This dietary pattern—characterized by a variety of high-quality plant-based foods and low amounts of animal-based foods, refined grains, added sugars, and unhealthy fats—is designed to be flexible to accommodate local and individual situations, traditions, and dietary preferences.
The Healthy diet is modeled on the Healthy Eating pyramid by the Harvard School of Public Health. The emphasis is on high amounts of fruits, vegetables, whole-grain breads and cereals, legumes, with moderate amounts of fish, poultry, eggs, and dairy, and low amounts red meat and consumption healthy fats.
Strong evidence supports that higher adherence to this dietary pattern is associated with protect against weight gain and appears to be promising for weight control, too, protect against heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions, greater longevity and acts both as a preventive and therapeutic target for many prevailing non-communicable disease.
Exercise plans to help you lose weight
The best way to support people with obesity or overweight lose weight in addition to a healthy diet is to encourage regular physical activity, as part of usual care advice by their health care providers. One of best predictors of success in the long -term management of obesity is ability to develop and sustain an exercise program.
Evidence suggests that behavioral interventions aiming to improve physical activity and/or eating behavior have modest effects at supporting adults with obesity lose weight.
Our program not only will help you burn extra calories, but will also improve your general health and wellbeing.
Karimi, H.
Master of clinical Nutrition & Dietetics
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