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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
People don't have to be model slim and just moderate exercise and a better diet including less packaged foods can do wonders for overall health.
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Exactly, and like others have said overall health should be the goal. Physical and mental.
I've been doing a lot of reading and thinking lately and I appreciate the positive input into it, for me it kind of sums up and brings together what I've been seeing.
I was raised to eat terrible food and carried those habits into adulthood. I didn't know the consequences until far too late. I've probably lost my entire body weight at least once over through diets over the years.
Like DA says, I don't know if there was ever a more true example of an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure. We need education, not just about how to be healthy, but about how nearly impossible it is to come back from that path once travelled (rather than spreading the near-myth of long term weight loss). About how food companies will spend millions in testing to make their foods at just the right level of taste to be appealing, but not so tasty as to trigger the brain and hormones into feeling full.
They may find better weight loss methods in the future, but it seems now the only way to improve things is to prevent it in the first place.