Will America really gain 300 billion pounds during the holidays?

We’ve been told for years the average American puts on up to 10 pounds over the holidays. Can this be true? If so, America as a whole would gain 300 billion pounds as a result of holiday indulgence.

It’s no secret that the holiday season is ripe with fattening, high calorie food, but the real story of American weight gain may be far less dramatic.

According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the far more believable truth is that Americans gain, on average, less than one pound between the months of November and January. How’s that for an anticlimactic moment?

This is a far cry from what is commonly reported in mainstream media.

So, get over the holiday weight gain fear and concentrate on staying fit during the rest of the year by caring more about your health every single day.

Here’s to your health in 2016: Make it a year of high quality, nutrient rich food that eliminates toxic hunger. When your diet is full of high nutrient food, you crave less junk, sleep better and have more energy. It’s much easier to maintain a calorie deficit, if you need to lose weight.

Source:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200003233421206