Weight Creep Begins At Holidays

Nobody gains 20 pounds all at once. Extra weight creeps up on us over time. Especially around this time, said Lisa Randall, a dietitian and diabetes educator at the INHS Community Wellness Center. The season of weight gain starts with Halloween (candy), then moves to Thanksgiving (feasts) and continues through the holidays to New Year’s (parties, cookie platters, cheese plates, more feasts). “Our obesity crisis is based on a 5-pound weight gain per year, and most people do that over the holidays,” Randall said. “… People think they take it off after January. They don’t really ever. By the time the next year comes around, they put on another 5 pounds”/ Adrian Rogers , SR. More here.