Don't Be a Statistic - Profit from Yourself

Why are there weight loss centers in every corner now days? They seem to be popping up everywhere like fast food restaurants. Has the rate of obesity decline since this has happened? No! A report was assembled and presents that there has been a 44.8% to 66% increases in obesity from 1960 – 2010, and still continues to increase day to day. But why still an increase when there are a growing amount of weight loss centers in business to stabilize and decrease the epidemic? It is predicted that 3 out of 4 Americans will be overweight or obese in the year 2020 and per John Hopkins University Journal Obesity predicts a staggering over 85% will be obese or overweight by 2030. Obviously, something is totally wrong with this picture. More food chains go up and obesity clearly increases; more weight loss centers go up, and oddly obesity still increasing. Are these weight loss centers patient-centered or are they profit driven? The egos of greed become evident in a rapid growing market that oozes out profits from desperate individuals wanting to no longer be a statistic, but just seek assistance to lose weight and become healthy.
The weight loss business has become a billion dollar industry, and sadly enough to say businesses and institutions profit from the expectations of increased numbers of poor health conditioned and overweight consumers. One could stand corrected to say these people seeking clinical weight loss services are being regarded more as consumers and not patients. Again, what is wrong with this picture? This is not a bashing of Doctors of any sort, but why are Doctors who receive little or any training in nutrition go into the weight loss business? There are OBGYNs, Chiropractors, Family Physicians, and other medical professionals that have ventured into the weight loss market because of its high demand and profit gains. Some have been a blessing to their community because of this transition or addition to their practice, and unfortunately most have just become a new business to the community thriving on the population’s failures to lose weight and become healthy on their own. Would it be too much to expect your doctor to focus on the underlying causes of your symptoms, which more than likely is linked to or the byproduct of you being overweight? But instead, your doctor gives you a prescription for that particular symptom and suggests that you make an appointment at his/hers weight loss business for your serious weight condition. Has our health been negotiated to dollar amounts by the health care industry? 
Hippocrates believed that the human body has an innate capacity for self-healing. We are our own physicians. “Physician, heal thyself” –Jesus. The power to lose weight and get healthy is under our control, but we throw away that power because of misunderstanding our own self worth and value. We steal money from ourselves to increase the value of someone else, by paying them to assist us on losing weight that we had accumulated by ourselves without their assistance. We become prisoners to our own bodies. If you commit the crime, you have to do the time. So if you were the reason of your weight gain, then let’s do the time and become the reason for our weight loss. No pills, no B12 shots, or surgeries will deliver you from being overweight. Start investing in you and your well being, not a billionaire dollar industry. Instead of throwing money away on so called “industry profiting diet pills” and “industry profiting b12 shots” for weight loss, spend your funds on organic whole foods, essential natural supplements, active living, and a purposeful driven life. Dr. Linus Pauling of forty eight PhDs and two unshared Nobel Prizes quoted, “Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.” A good thing never came from not working for it, so become your own profit by working for it and investing into yourself. Don't Be a Statistic.

“Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.” – Sophia Loren