Trying To Lose Weight Can Be Frightening! And huge business empires have grown out of this. The turnover of the weight loss industry is colossal – it amounts to billions of dollars – and so there are plenty of opportunities to profit from our ambitions to be slim.
OK, How Large Has This Got? Maybe you’re not classed as obese, but you’re probably somewhat overweight if you’re reading this. Statistics taken recently suggest that weight issues are a problem for around seventy per cent of Americans. Put another way, that’s 210 millions! And many other countries will shortly have a similar situation. But we don’t want this to happen!
In Great Britain, it’s estimated that one quarter of the adult population is at least 30-40 pounds overweight. But look at this – It might be around twenty five per cent now, but it could be ninety per cent by the middle of the century.
And yet why should it be that way? No-one wants this trend to continue. Sensible dietary advice is the key – not expensive products that line the pockets of big business.
Very overweight individuals are more susceptible to contracting the following – Heart Failure & Disease, Cancers, High Blood Pressure, Diabetes (Type Two), Mental Health Issues, Sleep Apnoea, High Cholesterol, Osteo-arthritis and Disease of the Liver. Obviously with the threat of all these health issues, reducing our weight is a major priority.
Reducing your weight and getting into good physical shape is more important than being thin. In truth, we most likely have a gut feel for the weight that works best for our body.
When we have a family, we need to consider how they can learn to eat well. It’s our responsibility as the adults in the house to help our children adopt sensible habits where diet is concerned. The odds are on that our children will grow to be obese if we don’t change things now. Who wants to be that kind of benefactor?
This means we MUST get to grips with healthy eating. Understanding good and bad nutrition is paramount. We have no chance of teaching our offspring how to eat well for good health if we don’t know how to do it ourselves. Look at this over the long haul. Generations down the line will be impacted on the actions that you take right now.
