A FETCHING WEIGHT-LOSS PARTNER:.

Obesity researcher, Robert Kushner, MD, professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, recently tracked weight loss and energy expenditure in dog owners and people without dogs, all trying to lose weight. After one year, the dog owners were the biggest winners. They dropped nearly 5% of their body weight, were more physically active than their dogless peers, and had more fun slimming down because their exercise routine entailed walking and playing with their dogs. (“go, dog owner, go!,” Diane, The Curves Magazine, Summer 2005, p. 13).