I believe you have to understand why you have a weight problem if you're going to fix it. In the U.S. we’ve been very fortunate. The U.S. has prospered like nowhere else on Earth. Sometimes that’s a good thing and sometimes things just progress too fast. When the economy grows too fast this puts a lot of stress on those people who have trouble keeping up with others.
I guess I’m one of those who never had to struggle. Some people complain today about how they don’t have the things they want, but if you go back to the big depression when there were no jobs and there was little or no welfare programs and people were living on $20 a week in cold-water flats, well for most of us our lives are better today.
So when I say that overall the American people have done pretty well, I guess what I mean is that there’s not a lot of people skipping meals anymore. On a whole, our standard of living is much better. But today’s lifestyle is much more stressful than 40 years ago, before computers, cell phones, and the internet. The pressure to keep our jobs, make enough money to survive in today’s fast-paced economy, adds a lot of stress to working people.
The population is overworked, stressed out, and looking to somehow make their lives a little easier. So we try to spoil ourselves whenever possible. If you think about it a minute, this is the reason for more than one of our problems today. Somehow people need to return to eating the way we did in the ’50s. The way they still eat in other parts of the world where cancer and other health problems are not so commonplace.
Supermarkets are a great convenience but we’re eating fresh food that ripens in trucks during shipping. Fruits and vegetables should stay on the vine or on the tree until ripe. But growers can’t get it to the market fast enough, so it’s picked weeks early and ripens in transit. Picking early causes a loss of nutrition. Your paying for something you're not getting.
Shopping for food grown locally is the only way to get real fresh food. In outdoor markets, the grower is selling you the products he grows. Now I know that limits you, all you are able to buy is what's grown in your area, but that’s the way it use to be. Even frozen vegetables are grown by the large growers that only produce for the mass markets. And yes they do freeze the fruit or vegetable at the time they're picked so they're as ripe as possible, but those large growers use chemicals to grow their products, and there lies the problem. Organic is better if you buy supermarket food but is it ripe? Did it stay on the plant or tree long enough to get the nutrition you paying for? Who knows. I prefer to get the product from the farmer, if the farmer says it’s organic it probably is. One big step forward for the consumer is that you can buy organic fruits and vegetables frozen. It keeps the price down by eliminating spoilage.
Part of eating small portions or eating less to lose weight is getting the most nutrition you can out of what you eat. I believe that if you get enough nutrition from your food you won’t have cravings between meals. Because of today’s lifestyle, the food we buy, and the way we eat; we are causing our own health problems.
Gym memberships and exercise equipment, diet pills, or low-cal foods won’t make you healthy. Good health starts with eating healthy food with lots of nutrition and over time your body will burn off your body fat and being more active and sitting less will strengthen your bones and muscles. Your body will take care of itself if it gets the nutrition it needs.
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If you really want to lose your body fat then look for my e-books at the websites listed below. You’ll get information on Healthy eating, exercise, and diet. Instead of spending hours on the internet reading dozens of posts, you can save time by picking up one of my e-books.
There are two e-books. “How Bad Do You Want To Lose Weight?” is available at all the online bookstores selling for $3.99. Go to any of the websites below and search the title to find my e-book. This book gives you all you need to lose weight without spending money on gym memberships, diet plans, or meal plans. Look for my book. at Amazon.com, B&N.com, iBooks, Kobo.com, Scribd.com, or Gardner Books in the U.K.
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