Read the text below which is entitled “Small Steps for Big Results” in order to answer question.

Small Steps for Big Results
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19th June, 2006 (Adapted)

For the past 30 years, my colleagues and I at the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and the School of Medicine at the University of California, SanFrancisco (UCSF), have conducted research showing how powerful changes in diet and lifestyle can be.

Nevertheless, we concluded that information is not usually enough to motivate lasting changes. If it were, no one would smoke. We need to work at a deeper level. In our studies, I asked people, “Why do you smoke? Overeat? Drink too much? Work too hard? Abuse substances?
Watch too much television? These behaviors seem so maladaptive to me.”

They would reply, “You just don’t get it. These behaviors are very adaptive because they help us get through the day.” As I wrote in an earlier column, loneliness and depression are epidemic in our culture. If we address these deeper issues, then it becomes easier for people to make lasting changes in their behaviors.

The author proposes the attainment of changes