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Weight Loss
Solutions
Weight loss solutions today seem to be everywhere. Afternoon TV,
late night TV, the Sunday circulars, and even radio is now getting
into the act. Yet as common sense tells us, many of these weight
loss solutions simply can’t be effective. If they were, one or two
successful methods would cannibalize the rest, by simple word of
mouth. As well, America (and more so, the rest of the world)
wouldn’t have an expanding obesity problem.
This is not to say that none of these methods work, as that would be
a blanket statement covering the truth, and the truth is, there are
methods that work. The first two considerations are your health and
time. You don’t want to sacrifice your health for -well, your health
(not to mention how you look). This wouldn’t make any sense. The
amount of time that you need to lose the weight in is an important
consideration.
Let’s consider health first. Any weight loss solutions that try to
sell you a drug –very often even natural drugs, should be
scrutinized carefully. The simple fact is, if you’re not “going
natural,” you’re probably endangering your health, if only to the
smallest degree. This is of course not entirely true, but is a good
rule of thumb, nonetheless.
The two truest weight loss solutions are also two of the oldest.
Both the father of medical science, Hippocrates, and his eager
student, Galen, the two foremost doctors of ancient western history,
both prescribed the same simple formula as both weight loss
solutions and paths to general health. These two simple yet
revolutionary ideas were that everybody should eat a proper amount
of good, healthy food (as opposed to fast food, which Hippocrates
never even dreamed of), and maintain a regular exercise regimen that
neither over-exerts, nor cheats the body of necessary usage. Diet
and exercise are the revolutionary ideas; the same recommendations
that are still made by doctors nearly 3,000 years later.
Let’s take a look at these most basic of weight loss solutions.
First, proper foods. It goes without saying that if you think
negative thoughts, you’ll begin to act negatively. Likewise, if you
spend time with negative or bad-natured people, you’ll follow suit.
So to eat poorly will also result in poor health. This means
avoiding excess salt and fat (such as oils), fried foods in general,
and even foods that are commonly dubbed GMO’s (Genetically Modified
Organisms) –because without testing, we just don’t know what these
foods will do to you.
As regards exercise, even if you eat the best of foods, you may
still require some weight loss solutions, of which exercise is
foremost. Exercise enables your musculature to maintain a healthy
hormone balance while at the same time enabling the mass within your
muscles to stay the same or improve –but certainly not to atrophy,
and at the same time, burning fat.
It is as with anything else: practice makes perfect. If you wish to
play the violin, you cannot just pick it up and sound like a master,
you must practice. So too with both your eating habits and your
exercise habits.
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