Because you clicked on the title of this article, and are reading it now, you likely have a weight problem of some sort. Well, welcome to the most popular club in America today. Two thirds of American adults are overweight, or clinically obese.

Being overweight doesn’t come by itself. It brings along all kinds of other health problems with it. Of course, without the extra weight, many of these problems will vanish.

Why are so many Americans overweight? It wasn’t always like this. In the old days, most people were generally slim. In order to understand why so many more people are overweight now compared to then, we need to look at two major issues.

In the old days, most people weren’t lucky enough to sit at a desk all day. Work meant physical labor. Eight hours a day, five days a week.

If most of us are lucky, and are blessed with superhuman motivation, we go to the gym once or twice a week. The rest of us get little, if any, exercise.

The second, and much more complicated reason is that the food we eat today is vastly different than the food we ate a hundred years ago. Before, most of the food people at was very fresh, and grown locally.

Contrast that to now, when most everything you can find to eat has been processed, chemically altered, and filled with preservatives. This can’t be good for us.

The biggest difficulty with this is that it can be next to impossible to find something to eat that doesn’t seem like it was developed in a laboratory. And even if you a natural food grocer, it can be too expensive to eat on a regular basis.

All the food you can find today, no matter where you get it, is likely filled with preservatives and chemicals.

And these foods are designed this way not for our benefit, but for the benefit of the corporations and big companies that make billions of dollars every year.

When you consider that it can be hard to find the time, and the motivation to exercise, and nearly impossible to find the most healthy food to eat, it becomes clear there is something else going on.

But when you figure out how to eat healthy, and get a little bit of exercise, you can start to take your life back, little by little. It may take a little motivation and willpower, but it’s your life. It’s important.

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