Are We Programming Ourselves To Be Overweight?

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Humans developed a natural urge to eat too much but have no built-in control to keep from becoming overweight or obese, according to researchers from the University of Exeter in England.

That’s because being overweight was not a significant survival threat to our ancestors while being underweight was dangerous. And the compulsion to maintain body fat is even stronger in the winter when our ancestors typically had trouble finding enough food, the study authors explained in a university news release.

The investigators used computer modeling to predict how much fat humans and other animals should store. Their findings were published Jan. 5 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

“You would expect evolution to have given us the ability to realize when we have eaten enough, but instead, we show little control when faced with artificial food,” study lead author Andrew Higginson, of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, said in the news release. “Because modern food today has so much sugar and flavor, the urge humans have to eat it is greater than any weak evolutionary mechanism which would tell us not to.”

Higginson said the model also predicts all animals and humans should gain weight when food is harder to find. “Storing fat is an insurance against the risk of failing to find food, which for pre-industrial humans was most likely in winter. This suggests that New Year’s Day is the worst possible time to start a new diet,” he said.

That’s right, Winter is a bad time to start a diet if you live in a cold climate. Your body tells you to eat more, but today that urge to eat more isn’t necessary. Finding food isn’t a concern today, but your body doesn’t know that. That’s the reason we have to use more common sense today. We should eat what our body needs not what we feel like eating. Salt and sugar are addictive and create food cravings. Always ask yourself “Am I hungry or is this just a craving”. If you think it’s a craving, put a little salt or sugar on the tip of your finger and taste it. It can make the craving go away.

If you want to restore your body to the fit and trim body you once had, you have to start eating the right way and lose your body fat. If you do that, the weight will drop off.

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