About 70,000,000 Americans are tryingto lose weight. That is almost 1 out of every 3 people in the United States. Some people eat 1 food and they hardly have any fats or sweets. Others do running, exercise with machines, take medicine, or even haveoperations. 2 you can see losing weight is 3 work, and it will also cost a lot of money. But 4 do so many people in the United States want to lose weight? Many peoplein the United States worry about their look of the body. For many people, looking nice also means to be 5. Other people worry about their health as many doctors6 overweight is not good.
Most people want to find a (an)7 way to take off fat, and books of this kind are very popular. These bookstell people how to lose weight. Each year a lot of new books like theseare 8. Each one says it can easily help peopletake fat away.
Losing weight can be 9. Some overweight people go to health centres, like La Costa in California. Menand women 10several hundred dollars a day at these health centres. People live there for one week or two, 11 exercise, eating different foods. Meals there may be just a little. Allthese work for losing weight. 12 4 days on the programme, one woman calledMrs. Warren lost 5 pounds (2.27kg). At $ 400 a day, she spent $ 320 to loseeach pound. But she said she was still 13 to do so. Health centres, books, medicines, operations, running and exercise machines all 14 a lot of money. So in the United States, losing weight may mean losing 15 too.
