Statistics in the United States indicate that obesity and rates of people being overweight have reached epidemic proportions. 11% of children, for example, are obese, according to the World Heart Federation Fact Sheet, 2002. 50% of women aged 20 to 74 are overweight or obese, according to The National Women's Health Information Center. The statistics for men in all age groups are no better. A weight loss solution is needed.

There are health risks associated with being overweight, the main issue being heart disease and the risk of heart attacks. Bear in mind, though, that only a doctor can determine if you are overweight as everyone's body is different because of the fat and muscle ratio to body weight. Be careful about dieting, then, as a doctor's okay is a prerequisite before starting an established, reliable weight loss solution.

Conventional methods of losing weight should be avoided. These methods include a reduction in calories or virtually starving yourself in combination with excessive exercise. Use instead an established and successful system that allows you to eat 4 regular meals per day, and at the same time only moderate exercise is incorporated. This type of program ensures you are kept satisfied through a wide variety of food being at your disposal.

The "Shifting Calories" eating method is an innovative system that shifts certain calories when you eat using a manipulative eating style. It is an irregular style that shocks the body into raising a high metabolism that leads to weight loss. Thousands of people worldwide can vouch to the system's success.

In the Shifting Calories eating program certain calories are shifted at each meal. Fat calories are excluded, though, as only carbs and proteins are involved. A large menu of food is presented from which you are shown how to manipulate so as to achieve maximum weight loss. You don't deprive yourself at meal times; eating enough so that you finish your meal satisfied, but stopping before you are "full".

The foods you will eat each day are presented to you, and these will be the foods you will rotate. They can be eaten in any order, as long as you follow the laid down carb and protein combinations. To make it easier for you, there is an online diet organizer that generates your daily menu for you!

You have probably been advised that you should be aware that "low carbs" and "low fat" are ways to lose weight. These suggestions are just not true. Sugar is the biggest culprit in weight gain, with fat being secondary.

Your aerobic exercise should not be intense. This type of exercise burns mainly carbs, not fat. Intense work-outs tend to raise the heart rate and breathing excessively. Whereas an exercise like walking gently raises the heart rate and breathing so that you will burn stored body fat.

For an effective and permanent weight loss solution, then, the Shifting Calories program is without equal.