Risk Factors of Obesity
Do you ever wonder why so many people are overweight and on a diet today, and why weight loss is on everyone’s mind?
Do you ever wonder what is triggering the physiology of so many people to store so much fat and feel like they have a food addiction or food compulsion?
If you struggle with your weight, this is a "must ask" question. Wisdom quickly reveals a timeless truth: we cannot change or manage what we do not understand. As you begin to understand what is driving the current obesity epidemic, you begin to see the "bullets" that must be dodged.
Current National Institutes of Health (NIH) reveal that sixty-five percent of US adults are overweight (above ideal body weight), and that thirty-three percent are obese (20% or more above ideal body weight). Further, we have watched these numbers climb consistently over the last fifty years.
Just a few short years ago, my grandparents' generation (born around 1890) enjoyed what seemed like an inalienable right to a slim and fit physique. Not so today. What is causing this relatively sudden obesity epidemic? An understanding of the answer to this question should reveal clues to the solution (hint: it has little to do with "willpower" - the current generation has not all of the sudden "lost its will"!).
What has changed in the last fifty to one hundred years? The most profound nutrition change is the introduction of high starch, high sugar, nutrient poor, explosive tasting … stuff in boxes, bags and packages (I cannot bring myself to call this stuff food - and your body agrees!) in massive quantities.
This type of food, for most of us, is like flipping the fat switch to "store". The good news is that if it can be flipped to "store", it can be flipped back to "burn"!
Are you interested in learning to flip your "fat switch" to burn? Of course you are! In the process you will likely achieve the following "bonuses":
- Decrease food cravings,
- Decrease drive to overeat
- Decrease carbohydrate difficulty
- Decrease emotional eating
- Decrease binge eating
- Decrease fatigue
- Decrease depressive tendency
There are four clinically proven nutrition steps that will achieve the above (which would be considered a miracle if a medication did it!):
1) Eat protein each time you eat (try one ounce for snacks and three to four ounces for meals).
2) Minimize (note: I did NOT write "avoid" - be cautious about triggering deprivation) intake of insulin stimulating - imagine turning the "fat storage switch" on - high glycemic carbohydrates (sugary foods, bread, cereal, pasta, baked goods, potato, rice, etc.) - save them for special occasions or important times.
3) Eat a minimum of five to six times per day. As hunger goes up, freedom to choose goes down; frequent eating tends to be healthful and is an effective technique to manage blood sugar and insulin (and the "fat storage switch"!).
4) Consume the supplemental nutrients and herbs that science has proven important for blood sugar regulation and insulin function (chromium, biotin, omega-3 fatty acids, vanadium, vitamin E, Zinc, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Cinnamon, gymnema sylvestra, bitter melon, to name a few).
To strengthen this response even more…
5) Live an active lifestyle.
6) Sleep eight to nine hours between 9:00pm and 7:00am, the earlier the better. Rule out sleep apnea; you can evaluate yourself with an online evaluation on many of the sleep apnea sites.
7) Engage some form of stress management (deep breathing, yoga, meditation, etc.).
That's the way it looks from here at the Weight Wizard University Castle!
Gary Avignon, a nationally recognized psychotherapist known as “The Weight Wizard”, specializes with the psychology of nutrition, compulsive eating and weight loss. He is the author of a revolutionary new book, Weight Wizardry 101: Introduction to The Psychology of Successful Weight Control. YOU can nab Chapter One, “The Single Biggest Secret That Causes Diet Failure”, for *FR*EE* for a limited time at http://www.theweightwizard.com.
Do you ever wonder what is triggering the physiology of so many people to store so much fat and feel like they have a food addiction or food compulsion?
If you struggle with your weight, this is a "must ask" question. Wisdom quickly reveals a timeless truth: we cannot change or manage what we do not understand. As you begin to understand what is driving the current obesity epidemic, you begin to see the "bullets" that must be dodged.
Current National Institutes of Health (NIH) reveal that sixty-five percent of US adults are overweight (above ideal body weight), and that thirty-three percent are obese (20% or more above ideal body weight). Further, we have watched these numbers climb consistently over the last fifty years.
Just a few short years ago, my grandparents' generation (born around 1890) enjoyed what seemed like an inalienable right to a slim and fit physique. Not so today. What is causing this relatively sudden obesity epidemic? An understanding of the answer to this question should reveal clues to the solution (hint: it has little to do with "willpower" - the current generation has not all of the sudden "lost its will"!).
What has changed in the last fifty to one hundred years? The most profound nutrition change is the introduction of high starch, high sugar, nutrient poor, explosive tasting … stuff in boxes, bags and packages (I cannot bring myself to call this stuff food - and your body agrees!) in massive quantities.
This type of food, for most of us, is like flipping the fat switch to "store". The good news is that if it can be flipped to "store", it can be flipped back to "burn"!
Are you interested in learning to flip your "fat switch" to burn? Of course you are! In the process you will likely achieve the following "bonuses":
- Decrease food cravings,
- Decrease drive to overeat
- Decrease carbohydrate difficulty
- Decrease emotional eating
- Decrease binge eating
- Decrease fatigue
- Decrease depressive tendency
There are four clinically proven nutrition steps that will achieve the above (which would be considered a miracle if a medication did it!):
1) Eat protein each time you eat (try one ounce for snacks and three to four ounces for meals).
2) Minimize (note: I did NOT write "avoid" - be cautious about triggering deprivation) intake of insulin stimulating - imagine turning the "fat storage switch" on - high glycemic carbohydrates (sugary foods, bread, cereal, pasta, baked goods, potato, rice, etc.) - save them for special occasions or important times.
3) Eat a minimum of five to six times per day. As hunger goes up, freedom to choose goes down; frequent eating tends to be healthful and is an effective technique to manage blood sugar and insulin (and the "fat storage switch"!).
4) Consume the supplemental nutrients and herbs that science has proven important for blood sugar regulation and insulin function (chromium, biotin, omega-3 fatty acids, vanadium, vitamin E, Zinc, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Cinnamon, gymnema sylvestra, bitter melon, to name a few).
To strengthen this response even more…
5) Live an active lifestyle.
6) Sleep eight to nine hours between 9:00pm and 7:00am, the earlier the better. Rule out sleep apnea; you can evaluate yourself with an online evaluation on many of the sleep apnea sites.
7) Engage some form of stress management (deep breathing, yoga, meditation, etc.).
That's the way it looks from here at the Weight Wizard University Castle!
Gary Avignon, a nationally recognized psychotherapist known as “The Weight Wizard”, specializes with the psychology of nutrition, compulsive eating and weight loss. He is the author of a revolutionary new book, Weight Wizardry 101: Introduction to The Psychology of Successful Weight Control. YOU can nab Chapter One, “The Single Biggest Secret That Causes Diet Failure”, for *FR*EE* for a limited time at http://www.theweightwizard.com.
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