The Problem
With Processed Food
The wrong
food is generally freely
available
The problem
with the food that most of the population eats on a
regular basis is the fact that is wasn't what nature
intended for us to eat.
Massive advertising campaigns are constantly trying to convince
us to eat a myriad of foods and they are all fueled by the same
desire to make bigger profits for the food manufacturers.
The human body was designed to eat specific foods to maintain a
healthy balance and that balance included a body weight that
ensured good health.
Obesity is becoming a bigger problem each year (if you will
excuse the pun) and it is due to the fact that more and more
people are eating the wrong food, feeling hungry due to the
lack of nutrition in that food to meet their needs and feeling
that they need to eat more to get their essential dietary
needs.
There is also so much conflicting information about what we
should and shouldn't be eating that many people are confused as
to what is good for them.
One minute chocolate is good for you and the next minute it is
bad. This wasn't so much of a problem for our ancestors who had
a simpler diet where only basic foods were readily
available.
One thing that they didn't need to contend with on the scale
that we see today is obesity.
Where obesity has now become an epidemic is was a rare
occurrence in the past. That says something for the foods we
eat today just by looking at history.
And it wasn't just because of a lack of money and a lack of
food because even those who could afford to buy what they
required didn't have the widespread weight problems that face
modern society.
If we look back in time and the occurrence of obesity in
different races of people it can generally be linked to the
introduction of changes in the types of foods that they began
consuming.
It is difficult to fight the urge to eat when the body is
feeling hungry even for those people with considerable will
power and that is why most people tend to fail when they go on
a diet unless all their nutritional needs are being met in some
way.
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