Weight Loss Is A Cure For Arthritis

Arthritis in the knees is a common occurrence for people as they get older than forty. Younger people get knee arthritis if they exercise too heavily. My business attorney had to go in to have both his knees and his hips surgically replaced by the time he was sixty. He was a lifelong marathon runner. His example alone keeps me from running. Here's the reason arthritis occurs so commonly in our knees. The weight convergence of our bodies is four pounds to one at our knees. That means all your upper body mass is represented as four times the weight as it sits on your knee joints. Think of the weight of your car at four thousand pounds sitting on the ground side of its tires and the weight being a thousand pounds on each tire covering an area the size of your hand. So then, with every pound of weight you lose, you take four pounds of pressure off your knees. If that isn't bad enough, running triples the pressure on your knees. Each pounding jog puts three times the down force on your knees as walking does. That's a lot of force! No wonder our knees become arthritic! So give your knees a break and lose that weight! My book is the best instruction manual on how to lose weight painlessly, without hunger, and easily. I have used it's techniques to stay slim and trim my whole life. Get started today and avoid the deleterious changes that arthritis can bring to you. You need your knees. They are meant to last a lifetime!
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Dr. Doug Ikeler