Weight Loss

Weight Loss, Is It Impossible?

It’s scary when turn the TV on or just you look around, there’s fat people everywhere and we just keep getting fatter. You would think we could figure this problem out, wouldn’t you? There’s something staring us right in the face and we don’t see it. No one seems to be concerned enough to weight loss. To me, the problem is as obvious as the nose on our face. It’s all about what the food industry is doing to us. They offer us processed foods loaded with fats, sugar and salt. They use chemicals to change our food. It is altered through additives such as flavors, flavor enhances, binders, colors, fillers, preservatives, stabilizers, etc. To make a long story short, we no longer eat natural food. Ya, I know life is busy and we don’t have time to cook at home, so lets all stop at the fast food restaurant. Seems simple enough to address the problem – doesn’t it?

There are many well respected places one can go online to check out the impact of being overweight. A diet exclusive in processed foods will almost certainly lead to health problems in the long run. For example, some suggest countless diseases exist because chemically-synthesized substances disrupt the biochemistry of hundreds of billions of microscopic living cells which make up the body. Some of these diseases cause weight gain and is another reason to lose weight.

If you really study the make up chemically and biologically, our bodies are designed to eat natural, raw foods; there’s no doubt about that. Raw foods contain beneficial enzymes and nutrients that are destroyed through processing. To be realistic though, there’s no way we could all eat only raw foods, but it is recommended that we eat as many fresh fruits and vegetables as possible. Eliminating all processed food is probably not going to happen for most of us. And weight loss will probably not happen to all of us

If the above information describes you, relax and know there are simple options available to you to start your journey back to health. We can make better food choices and supplement our diets with missing components. We can opt for the apple over the apple juice. We can choose a baked potato or salad over french fries. We can choose whole-grain bread over the white fluff that is passed off as bread. We can take the time to read food labels. Chances are, if you can’t pronounce it, you shouldn’t be eating it. We can choose processed foods with a very short list of ingredients; the longer the list, the more processing involved, the more nutrition lost, and the less chance of healthy weight loss.

Start by realizing what you put in your mouth will make a difference. Just talk to any health care provider if you don’t believe me. We need to show our bodies more respect. We need to take better care of it by dieting to accomplish weight loss. Our bodies are amazing organisms, capable of extraordinary things. They are designed to filter out toxins at an astounding rate. They have a highly sophisticated defense system. They have an amazing ability to recover from serious damage. The key lies in providing our bodies with the necessary building blocks to accomplish what they were designed to do-to keep us alive and weight loss is extremely important.

Janet Whalen

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