These days obesity and being overweight has reached almost epidemic proportions. Our inactive lifestyle along with the utilization of what is referred to as the “Standard American Diet” has affected our waistlines and our bathroom scales in ways that are not pleasing and definitely not healthy. We eat too much and we work out too little.

Our bodies have evolved throughout history to guard us from food crisis. That means that our bodies logically preserve fat and energy to keep us alive in case there is no food obtainable. However able our bodies might be at doing this the fact is that these days the only famine that we ever experience is the self-imposed one from the limiting diets that we go on.

However, our bodies cannot make a distinction between a food crisis and a restrictive diet. We start dieting and our biology sabotages us by slowing down our metabolism and conserving every little bit of fat and energy that it can. That is one rationale why our dieting efforts get more and more grueling with every consequent diet.

A large part of the answer to this predicament may be to just stop dieting and begin eating. Begin working with your biology instead of against it by discontinuing the silly diets and eating like you are supposed to.

The answer encompasses more than just eating however. The Standard American Diet or the apropos acronym SAD is to a great extent contributing to our tribulations with obesity and overweight. Our bodies were never designed to eat the detrimental, nutritionally void and processed foods that are so plentiful in our way of life.

Human beings were intended to eat the logically healthful, healthy foods from nature. This planet that we live on provides the foods that are optimal for our bodies including fruits, vegetables, whole grains and even fish and lean meats. The a lesser amount of processed and more natural a food is the better and more healthful it is for our bodies.

Human beings are also designed to move about, work out and be active. Our ancestors did not lead the inactive lives that many of us have today. They were moving about, up and around as part of the course of their lives. Achieving optimum health and losing weight for good requires both exercise and optimum diet.

Combating obesity, losing weight for good and creating optimum physical condition starts with including the healthiest foods in nature into your diet and incorporating an work out strategy into your life. You will see the outcome and your body will thank you.

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