Right now in the United States obesity and being overweight has reached very nearly epidemic proportions. Our lifestyles are deskbound and we consume too many nutritionally vacant foods in the Standard American Diet. We don’t work out enough and we eat too much.
All the way through the past our bodies evolved in such a way as to ensure survival. This means that our bodies logically preserve energy and fat to shield us in times of shortage. The problem today is that the only food crisis we ever truly go through is the self-imposed one that we get when we go on limiting diets.
Even though our bodies do not discriminate between a restrictive diet and a scarcity. We go on a diet and our bodies impair our hard work by slowing down our metabolism and conserving every smidgen of fat and energy that it can. That is one of the reasons why it gets more tough to lose weight with every ensuing diet.
A big part of the answer to this problem may be to just stop dieting and start eating. Begin working with your biology instead of against it by discontinuing the senseless diets and eating like you are supposed to.
It is more than just starting to eat again, however. The Standard American Diet, which is also known by the apt acronym SAD greatly contributes to obesity and being heavy. The rationale why is that our bodies were never intended to consume the detrimental, nutritionally bankrupt and processed foods that are so abundant in our society.
Our anatomy was intended to eat the healthful, nutritious and natural foods that are found in large quantities in nature. Nature provides the foods that are optimal for our bodies. Fruits, vegetables, whole grains and even fish and lean meats. The less processed and the more natural the food the healthier it is for our bodies.
As homo sapiens we were also designed to move and keep fit. None of our ancestors led a inactive life. They were always up and around, moving about in the course of living. If you want to reach optimum health including losing weight you need to integrate both exercise and an optimum nutrition diet.
So if you’re dream is to combat obesity and lose weight for good not to mention generate optimal health start eating the healthiest foods in nature and begin an work out program. Your body will thank you and you will see the results on your bathroom scale.