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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Lose Weight Through Exercise And Optimum Food

By Karen V Jackson

These days obesity and being overweight has reached almost epidemic proportions. Our inactive lifestyle along with the consumption of what is referred to as the "Standard American Diet" has affected our waistlines and our bathroom scales in ways that are not welcome and definitely not beneficial. We eat too much and we work out too little.

All the way through the past our bodies evolved in such a way as to ensure survival. This means that our bodies naturally conserve energy and fat to defend us in times of famine. The problem today is that the only famine we ever really come across is the self-imposed one that we get when we go on limiting diets.

However, our bodies cannot discriminate between a starvation 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 reason why our dieting efforts get more and more difficult with every successive diet.

One remedy to this predicament is to stop dieting and begin eating. In other words stop depriving yourself of food and start eating the way your body was designed to eat.

It is more than simply starting to eat again, however. The Standard American Diet, which is also known by the fitting acronym SAD greatly contributes to obesity and being overweight. The cause why is that our bodies were never planned to eat the unhealthful, nutritionally bankrupt and processed foods that are so abundant in our society.

Our bodies were intended to eat the healthful, nutritious and organic foods that are found lavishly 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 better it is for our bodies.

As humans we were also designed to move and keep fit. None of our ancestors led a sedentary life. They were always up and around, moving about in the course of living. If you want to achieve optimum healthiness including losing weight you need to integrate both exercise and an optimum nutrition diet.

Fighting obesity, losing weight for good and creating optimum fitness starts with including the healthiest foods in nature into your diet and incorporating an work out strategy into your life. You will see the results and your body will thank you. - 17269

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