In the past, and I'm talking about past times when people never knew when there would be enough food, it made sense to eat a lot in times of plenty and gain weight in the process, and that extra weight would slowly disappear again in leaner times. Human bodies are excellent at storing excess food as fat and slowly releasing that fat to burn for energy when the need arises.
Problems come in when there is always excess food. Your body will keep storing it as (more and more) fat and never releases any fat to burn for energy. You become overweight and stay overweight. Being overweight for extended periods of time has many negative effects on your body. To name a few: wearing out of joints in the hips and legs, fat around the organs, higher blood …show more content…
Drugs prescribed by doctors are often crude tools, comparable to hammers. Most drugs happen to have a beneficial effect, say lower blood pressure, but they have many other, usually negative effects. This is why, when you hear commercials for drugs, you might hear "side effects can include this and that and sometimes even death." Yes, I heard the death side effect in an actual T.V. commercial. Sadly, you sometimes need to take even more drugs that counteract the side effects of other drugs. Taking drugs makes you healthier and sicker at the same time and you just have to hope you gain some health overall.
Let me be blunt here. Being overweight or obese causes many of the health problems people have. Those health problems then require people to take (more) drugs only giving them more health problems. Many, if not most of those health problems will lessen or disappear when you lose weight and arrive at a normal BMI number and weight.
I saw the results of a survey that asked what the prime reason is why people want to lose weight. Guess what? No, it's not because people want better health. Many overweight and obese people don't think their extra weight causes health problems (really!). Instead, it's because they want to look better. OK, I know, any reason to really want to lose weight is good. Still, realizing you're unhealthy because you're overweight is a great motivator to start losing
Problems come in when there is always excess food. Your body will keep storing it as (more and more) fat and never releases any fat to burn for energy. You become overweight and stay overweight. Being overweight for extended periods of time has many negative effects on your body. To name a few: wearing out of joints in the hips and legs, fat around the organs, higher blood …show more content…
Drugs prescribed by doctors are often crude tools, comparable to hammers. Most drugs happen to have a beneficial effect, say lower blood pressure, but they have many other, usually negative effects. This is why, when you hear commercials for drugs, you might hear "side effects can include this and that and sometimes even death." Yes, I heard the death side effect in an actual T.V. commercial. Sadly, you sometimes need to take even more drugs that counteract the side effects of other drugs. Taking drugs makes you healthier and sicker at the same time and you just have to hope you gain some health overall.
Let me be blunt here. Being overweight or obese causes many of the health problems people have. Those health problems then require people to take (more) drugs only giving them more health problems. Many, if not most of those health problems will lessen or disappear when you lose weight and arrive at a normal BMI number and weight.
I saw the results of a survey that asked what the prime reason is why people want to lose weight. Guess what? No, it's not because people want better health. Many overweight and obese people don't think their extra weight causes health problems (really!). Instead, it's because they want to look better. OK, I know, any reason to really want to lose weight is good. Still, realizing you're unhealthy because you're overweight is a great motivator to start losing