A day does not go by without hearing about all the health problems the citizens of the western world are facing and despite all the billions of dollars we spend every year to solve those health problems, the health of the western world is getting worse.The truth is that the solution to the health problems that we are facing, is very simple, but the solution does not make money for anyone, and therefore there are very few people out there promoting the real solution.
Many people are waiting for the medical industry to solve the bad health epidemic. What People need to realize, is that the medical industry is not into preventing bad health, they are into managing bad health because that is where they make their money. Don't get me wrong, I am not against the medical industry. The medical industry has made great contributions to human society but the fact remains that they are not into prevention. Besides, the vast majority of the diseases that people are suffering from, are easily preventable by few changes in their habitual behaviors. The medical industry is not going to help you change the habits that got you the disease, it will only give you a pill that will manage the disease.
The industry that is into preventing bad health is the fitness industry but they are not doing a very good job. Here is a very interesting fact. Since 1992 in America alone we have more than doubled the amount of money we spend on weight loss products and services and yet the obesity rate went from 12.6% to over 36% today. Isn't it obvious that whenever the weight loss industry is doing is not working? Spending more money on solutions that don't work will not make them work any better. One of the main reasons the weight loss industry if failing is because most fitness professionals, who create all those diet and weight loss programs to help people get in shape, they don't understand people who hate exercising and dieting, which is most people. So, they create weight loss and diet programs that the average person can’t follow or can’t follow for a very long time. This is why, only around 5% of the people who lose weight, are able to keep it off!
Our habitual behaviors hold the key to sustainable weight loss and better health. If you want to lose weight get in shape, and more importantly stay in shape for the rest of your life, you must first identify the habitual behaviors responsible for your bad shape and replace them with healthy behaviors that will help you lose weight and improve your health. There is no other way to achieve sustainable weight loss and better health.
The reason we are losing the weight loss battle and our health is getting worse is because very few weight loss programs and fitness professionals focus on helping people make permanent changes in their habitual behavior. Their focus, unfortunately, is to deliver what people want, fast results, which don't last.
This is one of the biggest reasons why we are losing the weight loss and health battle and this is what I am trying to change through my sustainable weight loss project.
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