Nutrition and Effective Weight Loss
To approach sane and effective weight loss diets, we first need to understand why and how we gain weight. Primarily, weight gain results 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 passes for food these days is, chemically speaking, not food at all and surely not nutritious. Processed foods are loaded with non-nutritive preservatives and additives that put extraordinary stress on the body and often will render the food undigestible. Undigested, unprocessed food is stored in our body as fat. The additives that don’t pass through our body are distributed to our fat cells, thus making them fatter.
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 natural state. More fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, brown rice and other whole grains, breads baked 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 found in our sodas and many other prepackaged foods is a non-natural sweetener. The saccharides in high fructose corn syrup break down very quickly in the body, signaling intense rises in insulin, which in turn tells the body to store fat. High fructose corn syrup is one of the single biggest contributors to obesity in the world today.
A diet of wholesome, nourishing foods can taste good and be very filling and comforting. It isn’t even necessary to give up sweets. There are many healthy alternatives to sugar. The quantity of your food consumption does not have to change as much as the quality of the food you eat. Learn about detoxification and weight loss. A diet detox program is an excellent way to launch a successful weight loss program.
