First Ever ‘Fat Clock’ Launches

NEW YORK, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ — With more Americans than ever being categorized as obese, the DietDetective.com (http://www.dietdetective.com/), the nation’s leading online health and fitness network, has launched the first ever “Fat Clock.” The clock calculates in real time the aggregate amount of weight that all adult Americans are gaining every tenth of a second.

“The impact of the obesity epidemic is staggering and is a major public health crisis,” said Charles Stuart Platkin, JD, MPH., founder of the DietDetective.com, nationally recognized health advocate and syndicated columnist. The Diet Detective’s “Fat Clock” is the best visual representation of the growing weight Americans amass on a daily basis.

Platkin continued, “Obesity increases the risk for many diseases and health conditions, including Type 2 diabetes, Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, Hypertension, Osteoarthritis, Sleep apnea, respiratory problems, and even some cancers.

The “Fat Clock” can be found on the DietDetective.com’s home page. To create the “Fat Clock,” Platkin and colleagues developed a formula for predicting the aggregate weight Americans gain per tenth of a second using data provided from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Census. It started calculating at midnight on August 15, 2006.

DietDetective.com is a health and fitness network with thousands of original articles on subjects ranging from walking to in-depth investigations of food labeling. DietDetective.com also offers daily news on nutrition and fitness and a social networking community where individuals can lose weight and get in shape together by forming groups and clubs, or working one-on-one.

CHARLES STUART PLATKIN, J.D., M.P.H. is one of the country’s leading public health advocates, whose syndicated nutrition and fitness column, “The Diet Detective” appears in more than 165 daily newspapers across the country.

He is the founder of The Institute for Nutrition & Behavioral Sciences, a non-profit organization that conducts obesity-related research. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, a Juris Doctorate from Fordham University, and a Masters in Public Health from Florida International University. He is also a certified personal trainer and is currently completing his PhD in Public Health.

Platkin is also the founder of Integrated Wellness Solutions, and author of the best-selling book, Breaking the Pattern (Plume, 2005), and The Diet Detective’s Count Down (Simon & Schuster, 2007).

    Melissa Goldberg,    877.367.6199 ext 117    melissa@nutritionpr.com  

Charles Stuart Platkin, J.D., M.P.H.

CONTACT: Melissa Goldberg for Charles Stuart Platkin, J.D., M.P.H.,+1-877-367-6199 ext 117, melissa@nutritionpr.com

Web site: http://www.dietdetective.com/