There’s much perplexity over how to lose weight and maintain weight loss. Many viewpoints and any amount of concepts have their share of passionate advocates and fans, but the well-known bigger picture is one of chaos.
What we do know is this: weight is lost when the calories taken in are less than the calories burned. From this simple fact ( or, maybe, not so simple there are one or two who dispute such a simplistic notion for so complicated a matter ) proceeds the various spread of methods and systems meant to help us lose weight and keep it off.
Some say that diet alone is sufficient. Others claim that exercise alone is. Still others believe a combination of the 2 is best. There are yet others who say that it’s usually up to genetics which would reveal why many find weight loss and weight upkeep so hard to achieve.
For after well over thirty years, US people are fatter than ever before and the rest of the world is catching up, too. Obesity is increasingly a worldwide epidemic as globalization spreads the fast-food culture most closely linked to this illness. But there are other factors that are highly suspect, too, such as our inordinately sedentary lifestyles. Way too many Americans sit in the car on their commute to work, then sit at work for hours at a time, then go home and sit in front of the television.
A study that compared Amish farmers versus Amish craftsmen revealed that the farmers were far healthier due to their more physically comprehensive lifestyles, as the craftsmen were much more sedentary by comparison. Nevertheless relative to the rest of the nation, the Amish were far fitter overall in spite of traditional diets rich in fats and sugar because they avoid modern conveniences and do everything the old style way, by hand, with sweat.