Overweight and obese adults make up almost seventy percent of the U.S. population.

The statistics for children and young adults are not encouraging either, with seventeen percent of those between two and nineteen years old reportedly obese.

In addition to affecting your health, being overweight or obese can hurt your self-esteem, harm your relationships, lower your job performance, and drain your energy.

Fortunately, there are plenty of examples of people losing weight, keeping it off, and improving their health–and Dr. Richard Ng helps you duplicate their example in this guide to losing extra pounds. He shares how to:

• identify the causes of being overweight or obese;

• recognize the risk factors that go along with being overweight or obese;

• engage in exercise that efficiently burns calories; and

• avoid foods that contribute to being overweight or obese.

He also explores how losing weight can improve your sex life, why you should look at sugar as a potential poison, how weight gain can result in cognitive impairment, and what foods you can safely eat to keep your weight under control.

Start losing weight today with the insights and action steps in Overweight or Obese?