Weight Loss Diet

any given day about half of all American women (and girls) are on a diet. We spend over $40 billion on diets and weight loss products. But 65% of us are still significantly overweight, and the failure rate of the fad diets and the diet chains (Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig included) is over 97%.Clearly there are powerful factors that push us toward weight gain and all its related health problems. But the equally important question is, why even with dieting can’t women lose weight?Natural weight loss with a vegetarian diet or raw food diet is healthy weight loss. Natural appetite suppressants like hoodia weight loss or green tea weight loss are the best weight loss supplements. There are no weight loss vitamins, only natural appetite suppressants.People who have shifted to a raw vegan (plant based) diet have experienced natural weight loss, improved health, increased energy, and a variety of other benefits. Many have experienced weight "just slipping off!" It seems that when we return to a diet natural for our bodies, they work more efficiently, and health returns to us. It is common for "raw foodists" to eat all they want, as long as it is raw, and still enjoy weight loss. Friends of mine have lost as much as 100 pounds, with more possible, depending on the starting weight. While this diet has not been well studied, common sense tells us that before we learned to cook with fire, we healthy were eating raw foods. Over the centuries we continued eating much raw food. In the last century, in our most recent generations, we have been eating more and more cooked, preserved, and processed foods, including canned and other packaged foods. Cooking foods is known to destroy enzymes, as well as destroy or reduce many other nutrients. It should be no surprise that diseases have been on the rise, and obesity is an epidemic.Here is the requested recipe. It can be changed around according to your taste. More about Healthy Thursdays at the bottom.Ingredients:16 oz. noodles (elbows, ziti, shells, whatever you like. whole wheat or regular)4 slices of bread white or wheat (pulse in a food processor to make crumbs)6 tbls. unsalted butter (or light butter, reserve 2 tbls.)3 cups skim milkone block mozzarella cheese (about 10oz, part skim)1/2 cup shredded cheddar (this is optional)1tsp Worcestershire sauce1/4 cup floursalt and pepperDirections:Preheat oven to 400 degrees and spray a 9 x 13 baking dishBoil pasta according to package instructionsWhite your pasta is cooking, melt 4 tbls. butter in a saucepan. Wisk in milk, flour, worcestershire sauce, and season generously with salt and pepper. Let boil for about a minute or two, reduce heat and mix in cheese until melted.When noodles are done, drain them and place in a large mixing bowl. Pour sauce over noodles and stir well. Put contents in your pan and sprinkle with bread crumbs and remaining butter (melted). Bake for about 45 minutes.The result: This is very good. Of course, it's hard to go wrong with noodles and cheese. Its not the healthiest food on earth, but I tried to make it better and I really stuck with small portions of it. I ate a one cup serving. 8 servings per pan at about 400 calories a serving.Light changes: use light butter, skip the bread topping, reduce amount of butter, cup milk to 2 cups, try 1/8 cup white flour and 1/8 cup whole wheat flour, use part skim and reduced fat cheeses, and try using whole wheat pasta! Also, this could be made into a meal by adding a protein and vegetable into the mixture.

The main reason to lose weight is for health, and not good looks. Many people forget about this and this is why we should remind some of those who forget about it, some real facts. Almost 112,000 deaths per year may be attributable to obesity because the risk of death rises with increasing weight. Furthermore, even moderate weight excess (10 to 20 pounds for a person of average height) increases the risk of death, particularly among adults ages 30 to 64.Moreover, people who suffer from this have a higher risk of excess death (they are more likely to die) from all causes, compared to people at a healthy weight. Obesity is now recognized as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, which can lead to heart attack. The consequences of weight gain are serious for other health issues as well, actually. A weight gain of 11 to 18 pounds increases a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes to twice that of people who have not gained weight. Over 80 percent of people with diabetes are overweight or obese.
Overweight and obesity are associated with an increased risk for some types of cancer including endometrial (cancer of the lining of the uterus), colon, gall bladder, prostate, kidney and even postmenopausal breast cancer. Moreover, women gaining more than 20 pounds from age 18 to midlife double their risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, compared to women whose weight remains stable.
Obesity is associated with a higher prevalence of asthma. For every 2-pound increase in weight, the risk of developing arthritis increases by 9 to 13 percent. Symptoms of arthritis can improve with weight loss. There are millions of people who are trying to lose weight all over the world but a small percentage of it is trying to do it for medical causes, that is for looks, but we’ll talk about it in the next chapter.