| If you were to eat a healthy nutritious diet that is | | | | by obesity as the number one cause of health |
| low in calories and fat you would find that eventually | | | | problems. |
| you would lose weight and maintain the optimal body | | | | The difficulty in dealing with the health problems of |
| shape that is possible for your body type. If you | | | | obesity is that they can be chronic conditions, which |
| have never eaten what is considered a healthy diet | | | | afflict a person for much of his or her life. On the |
| chances are you really do not know what your real | | | | other hand, people who smoke often get cancer and |
| body shape looks like. | | | | die quickly as a result. As a society, we now have to |
| Because it is estimated that two thirds of all | | | | deal with a heavy financial load the chronic medical |
| Americans are either overweight or obese, most | | | | conditions are putting on our health care system as a |
| individuals are looking at a body that has too high of | | | | result of obesity. |
| a fat content. When you look at athletes who are in | | | | If we can ever bend the curve back towards a |
| good shape you really get to see how ideal a body | | | | society where healthy eating is the norm, we will |
| can look. When the fat is gone a body can be | | | | begin to see normal sized bodies again. When bodies |
| sinewy and cut. | | | | are not burdened by extra weight they are more |
| It wasn't that long ago in human history, just about | | | | efficient and are less likely to break down with |
| 30-40 years ago, that obesity or being overweight | | | | chronic health problems. Not only that, but people will |
| was not a significant health issue in this country. At | | | | have a much healthier self-image when they're |
| that time, smoking was considered the number one | | | | looking at their true body proportion as opposed to a |
| health problem facing Americans. Smoking is still a | | | | body laden with fat. |
| health issue in this society, but it is been supplanted | | | | |