| Ever wonder why in the world America's population is | | | | loss? The caloric intake breaks down to how much |
| so fat and unhealthy? The other countries don't | | | | energy a certain food contains and provides your |
| seem to have this problem. Or do they? If you | | | | body with. So basically, the less calories a person |
| happen to look a little closer you will find most | | | | consumes, the better for their overall health and |
| "developed" countries do have this problem. It has | | | | longevity. |
| obviously got something to do with all the fast food | | | | This starts to make perfect sense when you look |
| chains, soda pop, and lack of exercise going on there. | | | | into other far away cultures such as the ancient |
| On the other hand, look back a few decades and | | | | gurus in India, reports of people living well into their |
| find our ancestors eating low calorie "diets" and doing | | | | 100's, and simply dying of old age. Did they have to |
| fine with their weight! Hmmm, makes a person | | | | lose weight? What did they eat? Well, they ate |
| wonder if gramma and grampa really had it right all | | | | mostly vegetarian food diet, but they ate it in very |
| along! | | | | small quantities, along with regular fasts. (I'm not |
| If you are familiar with some of the different diets | | | | saying people have to eat a vegetarian diet, but just |
| on the market today, you will find most of them | | | | that they need to be eating LESS!) |
| advise people to steer clear from too many calories. | | | | The plain and simple fact here is that people are |
| But what is a calorie and how does it relate to | | | | consuming way too many calories throughout their |
| weight loss and diet? The definition for calorie is the | | | | day and doing this non stop EVERY day! This is the |
| amount of energy, or heat, it takes to raise the | | | | reason people are so very overweight and need help |
| temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius (1.8 | | | | to find a weight loss plan. People have to be made |
| degrees Fahrenheit). | | | | aware that eating a low calorie diet plan is the natural |
| So WHAT does this have to do with food or weight | | | | way to eat for health and longevity! |