Why Are We Over-Weight?

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I believe you have to understand why you have a weight problem if your going to lose weight. In the U.S. we’ve been very fortunate. Since the 1950′s the economy has made big gains, we live much better. So much so that the under 50 year olds don’t remember when the average blue-collar worker made very little money, less than 100 dollars a week. They lived in cities close to the factories or buildings they worked in and lived in old apartment buildings in neighborhoods that were not very nice. Many families didn't have a car. Parts of the country have seen more trouble than others, but overall the American people have done pretty well over the last 50+ years. And it’s this prosperity that has causes us to become overindulgent. We overindulge in everything, and food is at the top of the list.
 So when I say that overall the American people have done pretty well, I guess what I mean is that there’s not a lot of people skipping meals any more. Forty or fifty years ago we ate better than we do today. You ask why? Well today we have more spendable income, more fast food, more highly processed foods, and we have way more restaurants. We also work more and have less time to prepare meals. All these things are causes for our overweight problem, but the biggest reason, the one that's at the top of the list, "is that our food today doesn't have as much nutritional value. When you eat food that lacks nutrition you'll get cravings for more food and you end-up over-eating.
Beside the lack of nutrition, I understand that everyone is looking for convenience today. The population is over worked, stress-out, and looking to somehow make their lives a little easier. So we try to spoil ourselves whenever possible. If you think about it a minute, this is the reason for more than one of our problems today. Somehow people need to return to eating the way we did in the 50′s. The way they still eat in other parts of the world were Cancer and other health problems are not so common place. Supermarkets are a great convenience but we’re eating fresh food that ripens in trucks during shipping. Fruits and vegetables should stay on the vine or on the tree until ripe. But growers can’t get it to the market fast enough, so it’s picked weeks early an ripens in transit. Picking early causes a loss nutrition. Your paying for something you're not getting.
Shopping for food grown locally is the only way to get real fresh food. In outdoor markets the grower is selling you the products he grows. Now I know that limits you, all your able to buy is whats grown in your area, but that’s the way it use to be. Even frozen vegetables are grown by the large growers that only produce for the mass markets. And yes they do freeze the fruit or vegetable at the time their picked so their as ripe as possible, but those large growers use chemicals to grow their products and their lies the problem. Organic is better if your buying supermarket food but is it ripe? Did it stay on the plant or tree long enough to get the nutrition your paying for? Who knows. I prefer to get the product from the farmer, if the farmer says it’s organic it probably is.
Part of eating small portions or eating less to lose weight is get the most nutrition you can from what you eat. I believe that if you get enough nutrition from your food you won’t have cravings between meals. Cravings are an indication that your body needs nutrition.

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