JANA KLAUER, MD, METABOLISM EXPERT:
Diets often fail, or don't work in the long run, because the person doesn't see it as a life change.
ANNOUNCER:
Doctor Jana Klauer specializes in helping people lose weight and keep it off.
JANA KLAUER, MD, METABOLISM EXPERT:
It's a very complex question as to why obesity is such a problem, and I think there are many answers; environmental, metabolic factors, hereditary factors. But I think the overlying thing is that we're just exposed to so much food and so little exercise.
ANNOUNCER:
Two thirds of American adults are overweight. Krystin is tired of being one of them.
KRYSTIN:
Just to feel healthier, to have more energy to do something, that if at a moment's notice, somebody says, "come on, let's go do this." I can go do that and not feel I have to get in shape to go do that.
JANA KLAUER, MD, METABOLISM EXPERT:
Weight and health are linked. It is very important that people see it that way, that they not see it just as a cosmetic issue because it is not. It is one of the things that determine your health.
ANNOUNCER:
Thanks for joining us on today’s Once Daily.
