Are you alert and vertical? Does your house look like a bomb went off in it?
We are unfit as a society today. What has changed us? How have we “morphed?”
The change began with the Industrial Revolution. Inadvertently, we built a society, that puts low quality food on every block in America, in large quantities. Because we drive everywhere, we have a lack of physical activity.
9/11 did not exist 100 years ago. We didn’t have that stuff. The worst crime was being burglarized. Terrorism - we didn’t have that crap!
Weather is bad. Today, there’s crowding. On top of it, the entire family structure is changing.
I’m 51. When I was a kid, there was one fat kid and one kid from a divorced home in the whole school. Now it’s an option. If things don’t work out, “Dump ‘em,” they say.
Here’s the real deal: we’ve created a society with very strange stresses. We have sophisticated ways of killing ourselves slowly, ie. micromanaging bosses. Our bodies are ill-equipped to handle this. We are made for physical activity.
What is Toxic Body Fat? What causes it and how does it affect the body?
The bottom line is: if you’re looking for a way to play with all this — prescriptive view — rein in the two kinds of fat - menopot fat, which is under the skin against the abdominal muscle wall and the deep fat.
The fat deep inside, the visceral intradominal fat, if excessive, is highly toxic and leads to cancer and cardiovascular disease.
After age 40, a woman is perimenopausal. She is at a point when she’s looking at decreasing good lifestyle habits, becoming sedentary, making poor lifestyle choices, and having hormonal change — estrogen withdrawal. Stress — helplessness and defeat, is associated with this fat and it becomes ten times easier to put on weight deep inside. I hope you’re below 35 inches across the bellybutton. This is very important. Most women are absolutely astounded to find out they are 38 or 39 inches across.
First, you must adapt and adjust to stress, devote your life, become mentally fluid and flex. Or none of it works.
Second, after age 40, pay attention to your nutrition. What goes into your mouth? There are bad things going on inside the mouth. One of most important things to do, rein in total calories. Quality makes the difference. In Quantity, most women get and F-. The body is not as efficient in breaking down calories. Eat less but eat better, enjoy and eat slower, add value to your food.
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