Why diets don't work.

Do you ever wonder why diets don’t work?

You can’t turn on the TV, drive down the road or go to a party without being confronted with America’s hottest obsession: weight. Diets are a billion-dollar industry; companies spend millions and millions luring you to try the latest diet (low carb, high protein, low fat, no fat, you name it) with promises that this will (finally!) be the solution—your shortcut to a thinner body. Advertising efforts also deeply affect our children, who develop distorted body images and are often on diets as early as nine or 10 years of age.

Our culture touts diet pills, celebrity workouts, convenience foods and trendy diets to help us achieve our desired weight, but these quick-fix solutions have backfired. America’s populace has reached its highest weight in history. About half of Americans are overweight; one-third are obese. Diets steer us away from our common sense and dip deeply into our pocketbooks while eliciting few, if any, lasting results. Why?

I think the main reason is that we have steered ourselves away from eating real food.  I am taking about the foods that come directly from the earth and meat that comes from animals that have eaten real foods, the foods that their bodies were meant to have.  

We are also sitting more...we are a "sitting" culture.  We lack movement, especially the movement that brings us outside.  Outside so we can get the fresh air that we so desperately need.