Contract manager Ace: 56 Height 5 feet, 6 inches Total Health start date: May 1999 Start weight: 178 pounds After weight 136 pounds Total weight loss: 42 pounds Start body fat percentage: 44% After body fat percentage: 29.5% Start fat pounds: 78 After fat pounds: 38 Total pounds of fat loss: 40 It's hard to believe that you can go through so much of your life with the wrong information. I've tried losing weight most of my life, and all these years I was eating the wrong stuff. I didn't think it was possible to lose weight and feel good at the same time. Every diet left me feeling exhausted and lousy. Some of them helped me lose weight, but only while I bought their prepackaged diet meals. As soon as I went back to real-world food, it was a constant struggle not to re- gain the weight. This program is different. For starters, I have a lot more energy, and I feel great! Total Health teaches you how to change your eating habits. It's not a diet, it's a way of eating, and you learn as you lose by eating the right kind of foods in the proper amounts. Everything you eat on this program, you can buy at the supermarket. Total Health is very easy to follow. And I like having a coach who can an- swer questions and show me how to make the program work for me. I've followed Dr. Markham's program for six months and lost 42 pounds. WHY THE TOTAL HEALTH PLAN WORKS People at work have told me how much more healthy I look. My skin looks better. I've also updated my wardrobe to go with my new body. My husband is on the Total Health program, too. He was seeing an M.D. every three weeks to treat his high cholesterol and blood pressure. His doc- tor prescribed medication and a low-almost no-fat diet loaded with pasta. He lost a little weight, but his blood pressure and cholesterol didn't budge. Then he started following the Total Health program. When he went for his regular checkup within three weeks, his doctor was astounded that his blood pressure and cholesterol levels were all down to normal. To date, my husband has lost 60 pounds. He's off his blood pressure medication and sees his M.D. only every six months for monitoring. My husband tells me that I literally saved his life. And he looks great! I've been married thirty years, and it's like I have a new husband. one out of three adults and one out of eight children is considered clinically obese. Obesity is defined as an excessive percentage of body fat which is considered unhealthy. An acceptable level of body fat in healthy women should range from 25 to 35 percent. A healthy range of body fat in men should be from 10 to 23 percent. Obesity contributes to an estimated 300,000 deaths every year and is surpassing smoking as the leading cause of preventable of death. More than $100 billion is spent on obesity-related expenses in the United States each year, not including the $42.6 billion spent annually to shed excess weight. More than 53.