Did you also know that of the major causes of death from lifestyle related disease processes, the lack of physical activity and poor diet rank second only to cigarette smoking? In fact, as a result of these lifestyle choices, conservative estimates suggest that over 40% of Americans will die from cardiovascular disease alone.

These statistics should be very alarming to you. In fact, they should be down right scary! Clearly, our lifestyles have caught up with us to the point that we're paying with our lives for the poor choices we've made over the years.

Fortunately, there is an alternative choice you can make that will greatly improve the quality of your life forever. What is that choice? Very simple... You can choose to be healthy.

For this choice of good health to be successful, however, you will need a good plan, have the necessary tools to implement your plan, and be willing to follow-through with each step of the plan.

The purpose of this article is to give you the strategies necessary in developing a healthy weight loss program. My goal is to provide you with the tools necessary to execute your healthy weight loss plan successfully. By equipping you with the essential tools for healthy weight loss plan implementation, you will have the keys to good health and a long life.

For a healthy weight loss and lifestyle enhancement program to be successful, three very specific criteria must be met:

1. The program needs to be simple to use.

2. The program needs to be medically safe and scientifically sound in its principles.

3. The program needs to be sustainable. In other words, you must be able to adapt the program into your lifestyle.

Once a program is found to have met these key fundamental criteria, the combination of the following essential health principles must represent the core values of the program:

* Essential Nutrition

* Essential Exercise

* Essential Health Habits

Extracted from these essential elements of optimal health are the specific program components that include:

* Properly combined meals of protein, carbohydrate, and healthy fats.

* 30 - 45 minutes of an individualized aerobic exercise routine 3 days per week

* Adequate water consumption for your body weight every day.

* Supplements of Vitamins A, C, E along with calcium every day.

* Adequate amount of sleep daily

* Appropriate skin care regimen for your specific skin type

By making small, but consistent changes in your health choices, you can single handedly bring about major lifestyle changes and increase your life expectancy by as many as 10 - 15 years or more, decrease your body fat to a healthy level, and eliminate unnecessary body weight. In other words, you're going to have more energy, look younger, feel stronger, look leaner, and generally feel better than you can ever remember feeling in your life.

So, what are you waiting for? Begin today!