Are you overweight/obese and tired of people telling you that you are greedy and should be eating less?

A person who gains weight has a higher calorie requirement. There are two reasons for this. Having to carry a greater mass around and service a more massive body uses more calories. And having a bigger surface area means greater heat loss, since heat lost is proportional to surface area. - A greater calorie requirement results in greater appetite/hunger, so, really, overweight people need to eat more than people of normal weight. If the overweight eat insufficient calories (ie if they 'diet') they may lose weight, but it is at the cost of being hungry. There has never been the slightest evidence that the practice of fewer calories in and more calories out by way of exercise reduces obesity! - It is often confidently stated that fat will be lost by doing this. - Sadly, what is more often lost is lean tissue, usually an irreversible adverse effect.

The result of the misunderstanding of the cause of obesity is the well-known fact that over 95% of dieters actually gain weight in the long term! - They cannot be expected to go hungry all the time. - Nor would staying hungry all the time benefit them. - With insufficient calories for the body's needs, the body feeds on itself. - The skin becomes thinner; the bones become less dense; there is some hair loss, etc.

Contrast this with the safe, effective, fast way to lose excess weight - by eating less sodium. - Eating less sodium releases some of the excess water held in the blood stream. This lowers the blood pressure and, significantly, lowers the weight. - Weighing less results in a lower calorie requirement so very gradually less food is eaten and this becomes a virtuous circle because less food eaten results in lower sodium intake.

In societies in which no salt is eaten (what some might describe as undeveloped or uncivilised societies) there is no obesity and no hypertension.

The cavemen and women who were our ancestors lived for millennia without added salt. Our bodies evolved on a low sodium and high potassium intake. The modern diet has reversed this to high sodium and low potassium. The intake of salt has massively increased in recent years - as has the incidence of obesity.

I submit that the universal 'slimming' advice - to eat fewer calories/less fat and take more exercise - is a major cause of obesity. - All that is usually necessary to lose weight is to eat less salt/sodium. This is a drug-free, cost-free course of action. There are no hunger pangs and no adverse side-effects. It requires no visits to the doctor or to the gym and it WILL work.

Lose weight by eating less salt!-Go on!-Try it! My website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk provides more details and advice.

Obese? - Do not try to lose weight by exercise! - It doesn't help! - Lose weight by eating plenty of fruit and veg and cutting down on salt/sodium.

Exercise can be beneficial in lots of ways, but exercising strenuously to use up calories will not help you to lose weight, because obesity is not caused by overeating/too many calories.

Obesity is caused by fluid retention. - To lose excess weight you need to lose some of the excess fluid from your body. This is most easily done by eating less salt/sodium and making sure that you eat plenty of fruit and fresh vegetables. As well as reducing your weight it will lower your blood pressure and improve your health in many other ways. - See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/conditions.html for associated health problems that will benefit from reducing fluid retention. Salt reduction is a safe, reliable, cost-free way to lose weight and it involves no drugs and no hunger.

Strenuous exercise when you are obese can be very harmful. It raises the blood pressure, which is very likely high already. You risk falls and knocks. You may feel self-conscious and embarrassed when exercising where anyone else can see you, and they may also add to your problems by insulting you or sneering. Strenuous exercise is likely to exhaust you and make you breathless and uncomfortably red (or redder!) in the face.

Exercise that may be worth your while to do is walking and a bit of stretching and a few gentle exercises that help to keep you as supple as possible and help to maintain as full a range of movement as possible so that you do not become disabled (or more disabled).

Since exercise is so enjoyable when you are NOT obese, the best course of action is to lose weight (i.e. reduce the fluid retention) first, and THEN take whatever exercise you favour. - You'll then get the benefits of exercise and not the disbenefits.

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel sooo much better!
See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
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Tomato diet model dies of anorexia

Tomato diet model dies of anorexia

What a pity! - A young woman's needless, avoidable death! - If only the truth were widely known about obesity and healthy 'dieting'! - To achieve a lower weight without compromising your health, just eat as little salt/sodium as possible and also make sure you are eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables and enough of all the other essential food groups - protein, healthy fat and micronutrients. - That means not using salt in cooking, not sprinkling it on your food and checking the labels on the packets/tins of food you buy to make sure they contain only a low concentration of sodium. (0.5g sodium or more per 100g food is high sodium, 0.1g sodium or less is low sodium). Essentially, you are better avoiding processed food and instead eating fresh food that you cook yourself from scratch. - THERE IS NO NEED AT ALL TO RESTRICT THE AMOUNT OF FOOD YOU EAT OR THE NUMBER OF CALORIES. - IF YOU ARE HUNGRY, EAT! - AND DON'T TRY TO DECEIVE YOURSELF THAT YOU ARE NOT HUNGRY WHEN REALLY YOU ARE. See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it!
See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)