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Global Obesity Battle: What You Eat and How You Think
Los Angeles resident Kathleen Mulcahy has been fighting

with her weight

for 55 years.


"My parents had a baby,

a son,

and he died at birth.


I was 7,

and I think that was the time

I started gaining weight.


My mother died

when I was 12,

and then my weight just escalated."


She is not alone.


A growing number of people are overweight or obese

particularly in urban areas worldwide,

including developing countries.


"Fast foods, transnational corporations,

soft drink companies

going into these developing countries

are having a very huge influence

on the overweight and obesity epidemic,

because they are adding calories and processed foods,

salt and sugar

into the diet

that these people have not normally been eating."


People's lifestyles are also changing

in developing countries.


"As people urbanize

and make more money

and have more sedentary lives,

they're also putting on weight

and following the pattern of the United States."


While fad diets may help with quick weight loss,

keeping off the weight is more of a challenge.


"At sustaining that weight loss,

the studies overwhelmingly show that

plant-based diets are good

long term."


Instead of focusing on what you eat,

Solomon helps people maintain weight loss

by working with the mind

to change a person's eating behavior.


She helps her clients like Mulcahy

be more self-aware

by having them write down everything they eat,

before they eat.


"That awareness,

that sense of conscientiousness,

becomes more powerful

than the immediate gratification of food.


But you have to learn it.


It has to become a habit."


It worked for Mulcahy,

who has sustained her current weight

for almost three years.


Maintaining a healthy weight not only helps

for the positive self-image,

but it will also fend off health problems

such as heart disease, diabetes,

and even some forms of cancer.


Elizabeth Lee, VOA News, Los Angeles
 

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