We Human’s today evolved from a species that lived in an environment in which food was not abundant. We had to hunt and forage to find sustenance and it wasn’t always guaranteed.
Food that is cheap, abundant, tasty but lacking the correct nutrition that takes absolutely no physical effort to obtain has upset the balance we have within our bodies to be able to know how much of the Right foods to eat. This balance within the body is the very existence of our beings.
In recent decades the population has bloated to a point that lean people are a minority. Scientist are trying to figure out why and about all they have figured out is that there is no easy answer. It is a combination of Biology, physiology, genetics, and environment, they all need to be counted to a certain degree.
In an environment of unprecedented food excess and a steady diet of pizza’s, doughnuts and hamburgers can trigger in some the same cravings as a drug addict. Some people may think that is a lack of willpower or self control, these could be reasons but it is much more complicated than that.
As anyone who has battled obesity realizes, the battle is mental as much as physical. Sadness, disgust, frustration, self-hatred and many other negative emotions accompany obesity. Bad health encourages a bad frame of mind and a bad frame of mind causes illness and disease.
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