Boost Your Mood Not Your Food: Optimism: A Key to Health

Michelle Walters

Published on: 02/12/2022

You’re in the majority if excess food is a concern. A Cleveland Clinic study in 2019 found that 74% of Americans are concerned about their weight. The CDC stated in 2020 that the rate of obesity in the U.S. was 41.9%. The same report estimated the cost of obesity was over $173 billion in 2019 dollars. Awareness of the hazards of overeating is not the issue; individually taking the right actions to act and eat healthfully is.