Top 10 Fat Facts of 2011

Posted by Shayla on Monday, December 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Happy Holidays! Here are the Top 10 Fat Facts of 2011 based on your responses.

Apparently you take your facts very seriously, from disbelief to surprise and a few LOLs! I always enjoy reading your responses to the facts so keep them coming. If you can guess which of these 10 facts resulted in the most responses, positive or negative, you can win a gift certificate valid for 60 minute health coaching session or a body composition analysis.

A hint, there were two Fat Facts that many found harder to believe. You only need to guess one. I will post the answer with the Top 10 Fit Facts on Wednesday, good luck!

Take care and the Fat Facts will return in 2012.

1. 51% of women would give up having sex for one whole year if it meant being thinner.

2. Starbuck’s new super size serving the “Trenta” holds the equivalent of 5 cups of coffee, 31 ounces or almost one liter.

3. Remember when smoking was cool? The latest evidence shows there is no safe level of alcohol when it comes to cancer. Any amount of alcohol increases your risk.

4. At low levels of exercise your body weight is strongly related to food choices, but the more you exercise the lower the affect of your diet.

5. Diet drinks increase your belly fat. Two or more diet drinks a day can increase your waistline by 500%.

6. Stress eating? Stress causes a temporary response in the part of your brain that regulates your food consumption that is made worse by the absence of food.

7. Marriage affects your weight. Women gain more weight after marriage, men gain more weight after a divorce.

8. The most dangerous time of the year is now. From Halloween to New Year’s Day the average person gains weight, stops exercising, eats more high calorie foods and drinks more alcohol than any other time.

9. Fatty foods are addictive. Processed, high sugar, high fat foods cause reactions in the brain similar to cocaine, nicotine and other drugs.

10. Are you one of the 5%? 95% of North Americans have cardiovascular risk factors regardless of their age.