Weight Loss
A Healthy Diet for Controlled Weight Loss
We are fast becoming a very sick and unhealthy population. With all the advances in modern medicine we could be forgiven for assuming that our health should be improving whereas the truth of the matter is our health in this day and age is far worse than any other time in recorded history! There is no doubt that sickness affects us directly, causing untold suffering and hardship.
In the year 2000, the U.S. population was 276 million. Nearly half of the population — 125 million Americans — lived with some type of chronic condition. About 60 million lived with multiple chronic conditions. Examples of chronic conditions are diabetes, cancer, glaucoma and heart disease. The number of people with chronic conditions is growing at an alarming rate and this does not include the over-weight and obese people, who are trying and failing in their attempts at weight loss.
So Why Are We Sick?
It may appear to be cynical but basically we get sick because poor health is economically profitable for a lot of big companies and shareholders. Including:
* The food industry with all the ‘designer’ junk foods and beverages that hold no nutritional value and actually make us fat(overweight) and sick.
* All the polluting industries that fill our lives and bodies with harmful chemicals and toxins.
* The ’sick care’ industry that figured out long ago that there’s a lot more money to be made in treating symptoms with drugs and surgeries in expensive hospitals than in patient education, prevention and natural medicine and weight loss.
We live in the age of fast food, canned food, frozen food, packaged food, and many other types of processed and ‘convenience foods’. All this food is intended to cater for the modern stressful lifestyle we are all leading. If you wish to lead a healthy life it is important to realize that you need to take responsibility for the food you eat. You need to educate yourself to understand the effects that processed foods can have on your health and also for those who are obese the effect processed food can have on your weight loss.
Foods that are now termed partially hydrogenated vegetable oils contain trans fats, which are harmful. Trans fats increase the bad cholesterol (LDL) and deplete the good cholesterol (HDL) levels. They make arteries rigid and clog them, resulting in heart problems. They cause insulin resistance and contribute to Type 2 diabetes. Trans fats pose a serious overall health risk, much more serious than saturated fats found in meat and dairy products. Don’t be tempted by their claims to improve weight loss.
It can be very tempting to buy processed foods that state that they are “low-calorie” or “healthy” or “diet” or “low sugar” and so on. Despite their labels, they are probably more likely to add to your weight problems and your health risks. Even ready-to-eat meals supplied by the food outlets that seem to make your life comfortable and easy may have used processed food products, so be wary particularly if weight loss is what you are aiming for
Depend more on fresh foods, do not be discouraged just because they are a little more expensive. Eat wholesome fresh foods in the interest of maintaining good health and ensuring healthy weight loss.
Jan Whalen
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