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Rock Your Health: Avoid New Year weight gain with a clean sweep!

Nurse Leader Insider, January 7, 2016

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Weight gain is common during the first months of the year despite our New Year's resolutions to lose weight. Small yearly weight gains of one to two pounds may be a significant contributor to the high rate of obesity in America, and weight gain over the holiday period may be responsible for much of this yearly weight gain.

A study published in PLOS ONE shows that despite people's best intentions to eat less in the New Year, they may actually be taking in more calories during the first three months of the year.

Our good intentions may be resulting in us buying more healthy foods, but we are also buying the same unhealthy foods and therefore eating more of both. For me, that means we need to do a clean sweep of all the unhealthy stuff before re-stocking with the healthy choices.

This clean sweep needs to happen at home and at work. A good first step is to team up at work and re-start the New Year with new food choices that support healthy lifestyles and focus on using healthy foods for celebrations and not always cakes!

Contact me if you want for find out how to do a Clean Sweep. carol@carolebert.com



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