The Two Main Reasons People Are Overweight and Obese

The staggering statistics are that in 2009 our United States population is more than 60% overweight and more than 30% obese. These figures have increased significantly in the past half century and it appears as though there is no end in immediate sight. I have been trying to figure what the cause of it all may be and came up with a reasonable conclusion and also, based on recent research, what can be done about it. What in the world caused all this overweight and obesity anyway?

I think we can trace the whole situation back to the agricultural revolution about ten thousand years ago when the good old homo sapiens (that is you and me, folks!) turned from being hunter gatherers to being farmers and cattle raisers. They no longer had to walk great distances to find food, gather it from where it was growing, and chase after it with a long spear to conquest it.

Suddenly, because of learning the good old science of agriculture, the food of mankind was right out there in the field or walking around in the corral. People adapted to this way of life with ease and became relatively sedentary after a short period of time. Does this mean that it is human nature to be lazy? Not at all.

It is human nature to want companionship and be accepted by others, just as it is throughout most of the animal kingdom. People saw others adapting to a slow and sedentary lifestyle, enjoying the plentiful supply of food, and copied the behavior of their kind in order to be acceptable. Afterall, what could be easier than being sedentary and enjoying a plentiful food supply? The thinking very well may have been: Well, I want to have friends, therefore I had better do what I see other people doing so that I will be accepted by them. With all this food available right on our farm, nobody is running around hunting and gathering, so I certainly will not do it either!

Today we are still a society wanting to be accepted by others, nothing has changed in that regard. We eat, watch the good old TV, eat some more, and sit around even more. Almost everybody is doing it, it has become an acceptable way of life, and here we are more than 60% overweight! We no longer feel or look like the lean and fit hunter gatherers who searched and chased down their dinner.

We have convenience stores open twenty-four hours a day and cooking channels on TV. Has eating and food become an obsession with so called civilized humans? We also have gyms and exercise studios, both large and small, in nearly every town across the nation. Has fitness and health become an obsession with good old civilized humans? One thing for sure, there is a paradox occurring right before our eyes! The two main reasons people are overweight and obese are:

1) Society itself has adapted to a sedentary lifestyle starting from the agricultural revolution.
2) People want companionship and to be accepted by others and thereby conform to the sedentary lifestyle of their peers.

The point is, overweight and obesity is not healthy and it certainly needs to change. Mankind was created to be lean, fit, and healthy and to live a long, loving, and fruitful life. This is simply common knowledge to all of us.

What changes need to take place in the overweight and obese? They need to create a calorie deficit by eating slightly less and being slightly more active with an emphasis on the word slightly! Crash programs are never good for the mind or body. Losing only one pound of body fat per week may not seem like much, but it is actually fifty-two pounds in a year!

Recent studies have shown that having a clean and healthy colon is most beneficial in accelerating the loss of body fat as well as gaining a new surge of health and vitality. Good advice: Eat intelligently, stay active, and get clean.
Dallas Cove is the author who lives in Southern California. He is happy to provide additional information about losing significant body fat and improving vitality which you can find by visiting this website: http://Greystoke.AllInOneHealth.com