With the growing epidemic of diabetes and obesity in our country, we fitness experts must education you on how to slow them down or give you some form of prevention guidelines.

First, what does it mean to be obese? Obese means that at least thirty percent of your weight is made up of fat. Most people become obese from poor eating habits and lack of exercise. You could also say that aging plays an in direct role in obesity, too. The older we become, the muscles naturally start to deteriorate. This increases the fat percentages in our bodies.

Most of you gauge your progress or lack of progress on what the numbers on the scale say every day. Unfortunately, most of the time this is a misleading number. The scale never really tells the truth. But, it