Is Human Nature keeping Us Overweight?

There is something in human nature that keeps us from accepting fact. We all know deep inside that there is no magic pill to make us beautiful, or slim, or fit. We know it, but we keep hoping. And we keep buying!

That fact is well known and even better understood by the huge $35 billion dollar diet and fitness industry. They know we want an easy way, and they are committed to selling it to us. There are absolutely hundreds of diet pills, programs, foods, and lotions advertised everyday. They all contain terms like, "Its Easy", or "Fat just melts off".

In reality if even one of these things worked our population wouldn't have 60% of us overweight, and diabetes, hypertension, and chronic pain wouldn't be ever increasing. We'd all look like the models on TV selling us the latest fad cure.

We all know we're getting older, we all know we will eventually pass on, that's life. However human nature allows us not to dwell on that fact, and live our lives.

That's good news and bad news. None of us would be happy if we spent our lives thinking dark thoughts about our certain end. However because we are programmed not to think of getting older, we give it no thought at all.

What we should be thinking about isn't the number of days but the quality of our days. We all have a finite period and there is nothing that can be done about that, but we can do a lot about how we live those days.

We can remain vital and healthy and active well into our eighties without "giving up all the good things in life". Or we can begin to deteriorate in our forties and be frail, immobile and sick as time catches up with us. The sad part of that is we need to make the lifestyle changes now in order to insure our future. Here comes good old human nature again, telling us it won't happen to us, or they'll have a cure for whatever ails us "later in life". The cruel irony of human nature is we are the biggest obstacle to taking better care of ourselves.

If you are waiting for drug, or diet or some other corporation to provide you with a healthy life, that dog won't hunt. Just look at the huge tobacco companies that sold us cigarettes for years. They knew they were dangerous, they also knew they were profitable, and guess what won out?

Why do we believe the diet industry is any different? They constantly make new products to make fitness and quality of life "easy". They know they aren't permanent solutions, but hey they make money so what!

I keep seeing ads about how Oprah lost weight, or approves this product, or featured that product on her show. You know what? Oprah has a personal trainer, and a personal chef, she doesn't use this stuff. She has made intelligent lifestyle changes. And that is the only path to fitness and quality of life.

The fact is most of us are confused and don't know where to begin with fitness and weight loss. We get so much bad information we don't know who or what to believe.

The only way to correct this is to take the time to learn what the body needs, and how to get it. There are huge sales dollars being bet everyday against us ever doing that.

Human nature is hiding the facts from us, and we're OK with that now. He have got to take responsibility for our own life and wellbeing.

Where are you in this scenario?

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