Does it shock you how much money is being wasted on diet pills and other junk?!
Question: the human body wasn't designed for pills or the need for treadmills and other exercise machines. it surprises me how much the diet industry exploits our sense of vanity by making us think we need all this junk when really, a little common sense is all that's required. when hungry, eat. when restless, move. variety in everything will never steer you wrong. the body is extremely efficient, it doesn't need intervention by profiteering diet complanies.
Answers: the human body wasn't designed for pills or the need for treadmills and other exercise machines. it surprises me how much the diet industry exploits our sense of vanity by making us think we need all this junk when really, a little common sense is all that's required. when hungry, eat. when restless, move. variety in everything will never steer you wrong. the body is extremely efficient, it doesn't need intervention by profiteering diet complanies.
the human body was designed for an active lifestyle. THAT is why we have gyms and treadmills and all that equipment. our lifestyles today have become sedentary due to the fact that machines and technology do all our work for us. we don't have to run several miles chasing a deer, spear, drag it home and then skin, clean, cut it not to mention the extra work that goes into making those animal products into useful items like clothing or weapons. we evolved bipedal to be able to walk vast distances because it is the most efficient form of long distance movement.
yes, you eat when your hungry but now a days we have an abundance of food. you don't have to walk anywhere to gather it you simply get in your car drive to the resturant or store, get it and drive back. very few calories expended. not to mention food today especially fast food and resteraunt food is very calorie dense but not very nutritious. not what the average person orders anyway. it doesn't help that commercials plague the TV with the basic goal of trying to MAKE you eat. why some of us are impervious to this brainwashing i don't know.
because we are a society used to immediate gratification its no wonder that all those diet companies with their pills and supplements are prosperous. people grow up so used to technology doing everything for them that when they finally see that its made them fat, even obese, they want to lose the weight pronto so they invest in the advertisements not realizing that most of those products are false. and if they do actually work in some capacity there are always health risks that go along with using them. TV sends us two very conflicting messages: one being 'EAT EAT EAT even if you are not hungry EAT!' and the other from hollywood saying 'thin is in.'
our bodies are only as efficient as the situation we're in. so hundreds and thousands of years ago when it was up to us to go out and get everything done by hand, our bodies we super efficient. those are the conditions that catered to our evolution. today, we no longer live in those conditions yet we haven't lived long enough in our current conditions to make any signifigant evolutionary changes that would make our bodies efficient in today's world.
I agree with you. Our bodies are extremely efficient and listening to your body is all it takes.
However our bodies are no longer being exposed to the environments it was built for. Our bodies were build to walk, dig food, run to catch our prey not to go to the local shop and pick food off the shelf. Our lifestyles have changes SO much that by walking a little or eating healthily isn't enough. The amount of junk that these supermarkets put in so called "healthy food" drives me crazy. Everything from the soups to takeaway are loaded with salts, trans fatty acids, carbs, sugars and these are seriously polluting our system.
No one in this day and age is going to go back to growing their own food, ploughing the field, running to catch the hen to cook. We all go to work in a car, sit down in from of a computer for hours, and come home to TV. That is why gyms have exploited us so much!
No one will go back to basics and treat their bodies with respect. People will just go to gyms and take pills as quick fixes and hope it works. It not the people faults..it the multimillion industries that have pumped into our heads that gyms are the only way to loose weight.
We all need to trust ourselves, and take care of our bodies and wallets.
I couldn't agree with you more. All these companies do is promise and never deliver. We are the only ones that can make things happen. Pills can't do that.
i dont think that we can be fit without exercise nor proper nutrition... take your multi vitamins and drink protein powders