Happy Booster: How Positive Attitude Promotes Health, Reduces Stress, Enhances
Performance, Accelerates Success, and Boosts Happiness
Watching my obese and diabetic patients struggling with body weight and blood sugar control, I saw how important it is to encourage them to practice positive attitude in their daily lives. The biggest challenge for most obese and diabetic patients is not the body weight or blood sugar control, but the rebound afterwards. With comprehensive interventions, more and more obese patients are able to lose weight. Yet, it takes much more effort to maintain the desired body weight afterwards. This makes them more frustrated and stressed out. Their stress hormone cortisol goes up. Excessive cortisol increases fat production and thus further weight gain, which, in turn, becomes a vicious cycle. I keep encouraging my patients using positive attitude to adjust their mood, boost their immunity, regain their strength to fight back. Those well-compliant ones reached a better longterm effect. Simply, with positive attitude, we secret more “happy hormones” and less stress hormone, thus lose more weight and be able to maintain the desired body weight afterwards.