Why We"ll Live 10 Years Less Than Our Parents
The underlying message is one of lack of information in society.
Generally speaking, the fact that over a billion people in the world are overweight and and even larger percentage are malnourished, has entered the collective consciousness.
Fitness and weight-watch has undeniably become of the most prolific trends of the 21st century.
Unfortunately, authentic and proven methods for healthy diets has had to content with the advent of quick-fix dieting solutions and a proportionate rise in health woes and malnourishment.
Yes, losing weight is more often that not a noble endeavor.
But doing so with the aid of pills, laxatives and downright starvation has caused more harm than good.
The Phen fen case, where a synthetic dieting solution caused hundreds of deaths and irreparable damage that were sold freely for many years, despite the knowledge of how harmful the drug's ingredients were, is a testament to the power of the corporate forces we have to deal with.
But that is a problem for another day.
What I wish to stress in this article, is the extent to which obesity and weight-gain cause us harm.
I am not exaggerating when I say that at least 80% of all deaths are diet related.
After-all, we are what we eat.
Heart disease, vascular diseases, diabetes, sleep apnea, depression are just a minuscule sample of what obesity leads to.
When researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle) studied the lived of a cross-section of morbidly obese patients, they were staggered by the realization that these people had 41 diseases in common.
Granted, the majority of us are not morbidly obese.
We may have packed on a few pounds here and there, but in the main we are not sedentary.
And yet we are still at risk.
The most often overlooked aspect of contemporary diet, is that malnourishment is not a good substitute for weight gain.
In fact, in many scenarios it is more damaging.
All weight loss is not good weight loss.
The key to healthy weight loss and facilitated weight management thereafter is eating well.
Employ a varied diet, and combine your food with exercise.
That's all there is to it folks.
Generally speaking, the fact that over a billion people in the world are overweight and and even larger percentage are malnourished, has entered the collective consciousness.
Fitness and weight-watch has undeniably become of the most prolific trends of the 21st century.
Unfortunately, authentic and proven methods for healthy diets has had to content with the advent of quick-fix dieting solutions and a proportionate rise in health woes and malnourishment.
Yes, losing weight is more often that not a noble endeavor.
But doing so with the aid of pills, laxatives and downright starvation has caused more harm than good.
The Phen fen case, where a synthetic dieting solution caused hundreds of deaths and irreparable damage that were sold freely for many years, despite the knowledge of how harmful the drug's ingredients were, is a testament to the power of the corporate forces we have to deal with.
But that is a problem for another day.
What I wish to stress in this article, is the extent to which obesity and weight-gain cause us harm.
I am not exaggerating when I say that at least 80% of all deaths are diet related.
After-all, we are what we eat.
Heart disease, vascular diseases, diabetes, sleep apnea, depression are just a minuscule sample of what obesity leads to.
When researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle) studied the lived of a cross-section of morbidly obese patients, they were staggered by the realization that these people had 41 diseases in common.
Granted, the majority of us are not morbidly obese.
We may have packed on a few pounds here and there, but in the main we are not sedentary.
And yet we are still at risk.
The most often overlooked aspect of contemporary diet, is that malnourishment is not a good substitute for weight gain.
In fact, in many scenarios it is more damaging.
All weight loss is not good weight loss.
The key to healthy weight loss and facilitated weight management thereafter is eating well.
Employ a varied diet, and combine your food with exercise.
That's all there is to it folks.
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