Cooking and eating at home with higher quality ingredients is very important for a lot of people. People these days eat out WAY too often and the expense and health. Restaurant food a lot of the times, even when considered healthy, uses a lot more salt, sugar, fat, poor quality carbs, poor quality oils and more than you do at home. It does add up over the longer term. Cooking healthy meals at home a lot of times really isn't hard. Just the basic stuff can be mastered very easily with a little bit of research or the odd Youtube video. A roasted chicken with potatoes and veggies literally takes 5-10 minutes of prep and can be done with salt/pepper/oregano/olive oil/lemon and tastes amazing.
Losing weight is great without a doubt, it's something I sometimes have struggled with as well. Eating healthy and being active is more important. Lot's of what the medical community calls TOFI out there. (Thin on the outside & fat on the inside) This means that due to poor quality diet and lifestyle choices, plenty of thin people have issues and inflammation markers for their vital organs like kidneys, heart, liver etc that lead to issues down the road.
One last thing for a lot of us is to try and live our modern lives a little more like we used to and how a lot of people do in poor countries that aren't developed. We don't need every gadget that makes everything easier. Not everything we need these days needs to be delivered. Going out for fresh air, walking, doing some manual labour around the house, cooking, cleaning and more adds a lot of movement to our days and adds up for general health.
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