Right now in the United States obesity and being overweight has reached roughly epidemic proportions. Our lifestyles are inactive and we eat too many nutritionally empty foods in the Standard American Diet. We don’t exercise enough and we eat too much.
Our bodies have evolved throughout the past to protect us from food crisis. That means that our bodies logically preserve fat and energy to keep us alive in case there is no food available. However capable our bodies might be at doing this the fact is that these days the only famine that we ever go through is the self-imposed one from the restrictive diets that we go on.
However, our bodies cannot discriminate between a famine and a limiting diet. We start dieting and our biology sabotages us by slowing down our metabolism and conserving every little bit of fat and energy that it can. That is one rationale why our dieting efforts get more and more difficult with every successive diet.
A huge part of the answer to this problem may be to just stop dieting and begin eating. Begin working with your biology instead of against it by discontinuing the fanatical diets and eating like you are supposed to.
It’s much more than just starting to eat normally again. We must redefine what “normal” eating is. The Standard American Diet or as it is also known SAD contributes by and large to our troubles with obesity and overweight. Our bodies were never intended to eat the standard fare of processed, nutritionally void and damaging foods that is so plentiful in our culture and that many of us are used to.
As humans we are intended to consume the nutritious, nourishing, natural foods that come from nature. The earth unsurprisingly supplies the foods that are optimal for our bodies and that includes fruits, vegetables, whole grains and even fish and lean meats. It does not include the foods that are found in a package in the middle of your local superstore. The less processed and more natural a food is the better it is for our bodies.
Human beings are also designed to move, keep fit and be active. Our ancestors did not lead the sedentary lives that many of us have today. They were moving about, up and around as part of the course of their lives. Achieving optimum health and losing weight for good requires both exercise and optimum diet.
If you want to fight obesity, drop weight for good and create optimum healthiness start by shifting your diet to comprise the healthiest foods from nature and include an exercise plan into your days. Your body will thank you and the pounds will drop off.
