Nurses have a special problem with obesity. The BBD program can help.You can be the One in a Million to help & benefit from this program

Nurses have a special problem with obesity. "The Brown Bag Diet". I can help.

Hi. I'm Erwin Posner. I'm a pharmacist and author of "the BrownBag Diet- tips & clues for dieters from the pharmacist's notebook". We don't know exactly why people in certain professions have a higher incidence of being overweight than the general society but nursing is one of the professions in which this phenomena is found. We think that it has something to do with being part of the healing arts.

Nurses, who are giving care to others in time of their illness become absorbed with their duties. This creates a condition of selflessness in which the giver of care sometimes neglects his or her own needs. That is one speculation but naturally we can't test this theory scientifically. However we can help nurses focus on themselves in order to return to normal weight.

I originally wrote the "BBD" book to give pharmacists a tool to use when counselling patients. I didn't realize how useful this tool was to the others in the allied medical fields. When I showed the "BBD" book to head of nursing at a very large health plan she told me that pharmacists are a nurses best friend. I was flattered.

It is simply the way I presented the subject and that subject is learning the technique of retuning to habits that will allow you to take weight off without so called "withdrawal symptoms". ( No starvation )

Now we are engaged in a program to recruit one million people, nurses and everyone else, to join together and make a pledge to lose just one pound. This is the modest action that will kick off our 2008 year with success. As you know almost everyone knows how to lose one pound.

Thiis baby step is the small beginning we need in order to get started. From this point we can learn the basic principles of the Brown Bag Diet.

I've already set out the basic principles of the program in earlier posts. Take a few seconds to read them. Then read the posts that I will publish two or three times weekly. Each of these should have a tip or clue to help you that week.

Our kickoff for the million pound push will be approximately the third week of January. That will give everyone time to get back to their normal routines.

In the meantime I will give you this assignment. Recruit as many as possible of your colleagues to join us in our million pound effort. Pass out our blog address and ask them to recruit others to join us as well.

Our blog address is

Brownbagdiet.blogspot.com

We can all be the "One In a Million".