All is not lost though and even when America has been labeled as the world’s fattest nation – thanks to easy and affordable fast-food options that drip oil to make for their tongue-tingling tastes that are often addictive, it is not out of the scope of healthy living for people who resort to proper dieting with a sensible approach to healthy cooking and eating. All that is required is a change in attitude so that a change in lifestyle can also be achieved; this is why one is advised to now look beyond the glitz and glamour of advertising and easy living and decrease dependency on machines or unhealthy living standards, including food and exercise habits so as to promote sensible dieting and fit living for a lifetime of good health.

Instead of living like caged animals confined to our boxes, what is required is out-of-the-box thinking to break away from conventional attitudes towards eating filling foods as we have none of the farming, fighting and physical labor inducing jobs of our ancestors as life as been made easy by machines and mechanized living – so we need less food, less calories and more healthy activities to keep the metabolism going. Once people understand this concept to healthy cooking and eating and also incorporate regular exercise into their diet plan, they will find that there is nothing much to the body beautiful that every one can aspire to if not side-tracked by new-age marketing mantras for fad-diets, pills and even soaps that advertisers are ready to offload on to the trusting public keen to shed those extra kilos, fast.

It pays to remember that if a weight loss technique promises rapid weight loss, it is bound to have an adverse effect such as rapid weight gain also, as binge eating, yo-yo dieting and loss of energy are all associated with any get-thin-fast scheme, which is a proven scientific fact revealed to us by research studies conducted on this topic.

We first need to analyze where the fault lies: sedentary lifestyles are a common problem that most overweight people find hard to accept, but if the only exercise you can think of when your daily regime is talked about is getting up from bed and making it to the loo/breakfast table, car and office chair routine and back to the couch and bed routine, then you need to do some serious thinking about your lifestyle.

Since working on the farm like your ancestors probably did, which equaled nearly 15 miles of jogging daily, is not likely to be your lot in the city, you need to incorporate this necessary physical activity into your daily routine so as to stay atop disease control and prevention, shed that excess baggage and keep it at bay with proven, scientific and healthful methods of dieting and exercise.

Consciously seek out health tips and apply these to see which works best for you i.e. combination of dieting and exercise, change in lifestyle patterns (eating less, working out more or with friends to stay motivated, walking the dog, watching telly while exercising on the stepper/exercise bike etc.) and being aware of what comprises a healthy diet for you, including calorie counting and switching to healthier cooking methods.

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