Obesity is the accumulation of fat to the point that it presents a risk to your health. Obesity is a body mass index (BMI) over 30. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), in the 1990s, the most obese state in the USA had a rate that was under 15%. Today, the least obese state has an obesity rate of over 20%. If you were wondering the prize for the slimmest state goes to Colorado.
How could this happen? What changed? Who is to blame?
Obesity is a modern problem; historically, people were not obese because, in the past, food was not as available as it is today. If early men and women wanted food, they had to go out and hunt it down and bop it on the head and drag it home. Later on, they learned how to grow it. Even then, once the food was in hand, there were very few reliable ways to store it and keep it fresh, so going hungry was a way of life.
Today food is everywhere. We have gone from not having enough food to eat to eating all day long!. The average American eats breakfast, lunch, dinner, and then snacks 3 to 4 times between meals. We are eating all the time!!! The result is the dramatic increase in stroke, heart attack, fatty liver disease, cardiovascular disease, and other obesity-related diseases.
A snacking society is doomed to die of obesity.
Wow, that’s a lot of gloom and doom, but I have good news. Let’s not die of a preventable disease; let’s learn how to trim down. It may not be as hard as you may think. In this blog, I will be bringing you some good, even great news about dieting. In the past few years, the fastest-growing health kick is IF – Intermediate Fasting. Every day people are learning how to modify their lifestyle to trim down and get healthy. So can you. In the months to come, I will bring you fasting tips and tricks and ways to avoid the pitfalls of IF that can sabotage your diet plan. Remember, all diets are hard, but of all diets, this is the easiest.
Please join me and learn how to Love This Diet.
