Overweight

The Foundation has found that overweight people differ from normal and obese people in two respects.  In a small pilot study, the Foundation found that overweight and normal people exercise at similar levels.  This suggests the possibility that exercise is not a factor in the development of overweight. 

However, overweight people showed a greater degree of refined food addiction than normally weighted people.  This suggests that the overweight population might benefit from a diet free from refined foods.  Indeed, educators and practitioners who work with refined food addicts report the same release from cravings and obsessive thinking about food that are found in work with the obese.  Overweight people also experience the same weight loss of 2 lbs per week as the obese population under a food plan that eliminates refined foods.