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1 Of 7 Diet Secrets To Lose Weight Easy
100 years ago, we had basically the same genetic makeup as today. People seemed to maintain their weight and if they did start to gain they took the necessary steps to return to their natural weight. How did we become a nation in which 70% of our population is overweight? This was certainly not the case one hundred years ago. With all of the existing labor saving devices today, we consume many fewer calories. The physical activities in which we do engage, such as mowing the yard or trimming the hedges takes far less of our energy. Additionally, we have highly sedentary leisure activities such as watching football, basketball, or golf on television. Previously, the sensitivity of our appetite would have compensated for reduced physical activity and would have effectively controlled our weight gain. For some reason or reasons unknown, our appetite control, also known as our appestat, isn't functioning at its proper sensitivity level. Several extra baked beans a day can mean gaining 5 pounds in several years. Why Are We Now Unable To Control Our Appetite? The two major factors controlling your appetite are psychological and physiological. Psychological The utilization of foods to control anxiety has come to be known as comfort foods. Throughout the ages, people have used eating as a way to relieve anxieties and stress. Everyone has had the comfort of being held and pacified while being suckled at their mother’s breast. This is certainly a factor in one's appetite, but has been constant throughout history. This isn't something that's changed over the last 100 years. If these cravings have been the same for the last 100 years, our obesity problem must have more to do with our physiological cravings. Physiological On the other hand there has been a tremendous change in our physical food supply. Because the actual physical foods we consume are similar to what was common 100 years ago we are excluding the types of food as being the root problem as to why we as a nation are continuing to become more overweight. The major difference isn't the foods we eat, but rather the nutritional quality of the foods we eat. We know that the body will sometimes have a craving for different types of food. Have you ever had a craving for a steak, sea food, or spaghetti? It would be reasonable to assume the body is sending your appetite a signal for various vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and nutrients. We're therefore going to take a closer look at nutrition. We feel we have identified 7 obscure reasons as to why only 5% of the dieters maintain their weight loss after 3-5 years. For a complete report, see our Author’s box. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com The Author has been engaged in natural therapies for the last twenty years. His latest efforts in weight loss have resulted in a seven part, 21 page PDF report called 7 Diet Secrets. The report can be obtained in its entirety at: www.natural11.StopAge.org/ |
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