Why and How We Gain Weight
To go about sane and effective weight loss programs, we first need to understand why and how we gain weight. Most simply, weight gain occurs from some combination of a lack of exercise and eating too many wrong foods. The change in our diet over the last thirty years has been dramatic and really quite alarming. What we accept as food these days is, chemically speaking, not food at all and certainly not healthy. Processed foods are filled with non-nutritive flavourings and additives that put a tremendous stress on the body and sometimes render the food undigestible. Undigested, unprocessed food is stored in our body as fat. The calories that don’t pass through our body are sent to our fat cells, thus making them larger.
If there were one simple change we could make to improve the quality of our health and the weight of our body, it is simply this: eat more foods in their most pure, natural state. More fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, brown rice and other whole grains, breads made with non-refined flours, nuts, seeds, legumes, and lean meats that are not fried. Fewer packaged foods, fast foods, deli meats, fried foods, and foods with artificial ingredients.
Even the high fructose corn syrup contained in our sodas and many other prepacked foods is a non-natural sweetener. The saccharides in high fructose corn syrup break down very quickly in the body, signaling very sharp rises in insulin, which in turn tells the body to store fat. High fructose corn syrup is one of the single greatest reasons for obesity in the world today.
A diet of wholesome, nourishing foods can taste good and be very filling and satisfying. A healthy diet does not require you to give up sweets. There are quite a few excellent healthy alternatives to sugar. The amount of your food intake does not have to change as much as the quality and nutrition of the food you eat.
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