Anyone else really annoyed by peoples ignorance about diet and exercise?

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Answer 1

I'm annoyed that people are not properly educated. For decades people focus on how much they weigh versus how healthy they are. If education was focused on body fat percentages, we might not have the obesity epidemic the United States is experiencing today. Furthermore, schools barely touch on proper nutrition and exercise. It's a gloss-over at best. For those reading my answer and would like so more information and getting fit. Check this out:

Let's start by clarifying a couple of things:
1. weight is not the best indicator of your health (because muscle weighs more than fat, two people of the same height can weigh the same and be drastically different in terms of health).
2. Body fat percentage is a true indicator.
3. Fat is burned by reducing overall caloric value.
4. If you burn more than you consume, you will lose fat (lower body fat percentage)
5. If you exercise and strength train, you can burn more calories and replace fat with muscle which will allow you to burn calories even when you rest.

If you are trying to lower your body fat percentage there are literally hundreds of ideas out there. In my opinion, the best way, which has been proven time and time again, is a two part method: Eat right and exercise. First, exercise is a no-brainer. You have to burn more calories than you take in for exercise to be considered exercise. How you do it is worth another answer all to itself. So, that brings us to the Eating Right part. If you understand how your body works, you've got a head start on the world. Food is fuel for the body. Once you've accepted that concept as more important than the idea that food is entertainment, then the rest will be relatively easy. If you are American, and I assume you are, the Nutrition Facts label that you find on all foods bought in the U.S. are the next thing you need to understand. Go grab something from your kitchen (i.e. jar of peanut butter or a bag of chips...anything with a nutrition label). OK, yeah you need vitamins and minerals and all that. But focus on these three items: FAT, PROTEIN, and CARBOHYDRATES.
Let's take these one at a time:

FAT is basically divided into good fats and bad fats. The body needs good fats (mono- and poly-unsaturateds). You'll find these in stuff like olives and avocados where the bad fat is minimal if not nonexistent. The bad fats are your saturated and trans fats that you'll find in meats and oils. If you are trying to lose weight, keep these to an absolute minimum. My suggestion (based on a 1500-2000 calorie diet) is to limit yourself to no more than 15g of saturated fat per day. This is hard to do if you're used to eating fast food. It's also hard to do if you drink whole milk, eat cheese (even the 2% variety), and eat fried foods. All of these are high in bad fats. The good news is that you can substitute your diet to eat the very things you like to eat but with better ingredients. If you eat cheese, buy fat free. If you drink milk, buy skim. Slowly take yourself down from whole milk or 2% to 1% before going skim/fat free if the transition is too radical to do all at once. If you eat a lot of ground beef, use the extra lean variety (96% fat free/4% fat), or substitute lean ground turkey instead. Do whatever you have to do to get the bad fat grams down to less than 15 per day.

PROTEIN: The building block of nutrition (aside from your vitamins and minerals) is protein. You need it strengthen your muscles and it will be essential with your exercise routine. Without protein, you can't build muscle tone or lean body mass. And guess what? Just having lean body mass (muscles) allows your body to burn more calories even when you are sleeping. Therefore, you are able to lose weight (bad weight, that is) just by sleeping. But, you have to exercise!! Don't forget that. You can find foods that are high in protein but also high in saturated fat, so be careful. Stick to poultry (chicken, turkey), fish (tuna is a great source), and beans. Don't fry your meats because if you do, you just added a bunch of bad fat to your otherwise healthy protein filled meal. Instead, grill, broil, or bake. You can do this! Don't forget to exercise to exponentially reap the rewards of consuming protein.

CARBS. In my opinion, the no-carb diet is crap, because you need carbs for energy, especially because you are exercising! That's right, you can't forget you are supposed to be exercising. The trick is choosing the good carbs. You'll see on your nutrition label Total Carbohydrates and Sugars. Sugars should be kept to a minimum and should be avoided within hours of going to sleep. The calories associated with them get stored (for energy) but are not easily burned when it comes time to burn them. Therefore, it's harder to lose the weight associated with them. That's why it's not good to eat lots of candy, cookies, and ice cream that have a lot of sugar. The other kinds of carbs (complex carbohydrates) are essential. You can get these from grains and potatoes. Good stuff!!

Now that you have a brief understanding of these three nutrition components, time to get to it. Not as easy as it sounds? That's because, you're human. If you treat your body right (and I mean very right, by limiting your saturated and trans fats, limiting your sugar carbs, and eating plenty of protein), then you deserve a day when you can eat whatever you want. The body has cravings and you should be able to fulfill these cravings IF you can stand to wait until the end of the week. I call this one day of decadence your cheat day. After 12 weeks of exercising and eating right in this manner, you'll get to the point where you don't even crave the bad stuff anymore.

For more on this method, I encourage you to check out www.bodyforlife.com. The principals I wrote about are spelled out in greater detail there. Consult your doctor before drastically changing any diet or exercise routine. Good luck!

Answer 2

I have the same problem! Are you actually overweight though? Well, if you want to increase the chances of a heart attack when it probably won't work for you anyway then sure, take the diet pill but there must be something you can still try. Instead of all of these fancy shmancy exercising, run every morning and every evening for an hour. It burns more calories. Bicycle rides don't really do anything for you because you're just sitting and pedaling. Plus, your age can have something to do with your weight. Well, whatever it is, before you try using a pill, work on increasing your metabolism. If your desperate, get a trainer or an extreme workout video plan. Then, if you're still not convinced, the only pill plan I would suggest is the Acai berry pill plan. It seems the least harmful. Hope that helps and good luck.

Answer 3

It can be annoying. But, half of the problem with weight in the mid western society is the lack of education and correct parenting. And, although classes exist and home economics is offered, people do not care and claim to be too busy. Oddly enough some people do not know that obesity increases the risk for hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and hypertriglyceridemia. People always want a quick fix. The best way is the route of diet and exercise, so you can gain muscle and become more diciplined. A dietian, prescribed diet menu, structured physical therapy with core strengthening and cardio, and of course the diet pill. The best diet pill, although you must monitor for hypertension is phentermine. If you want to avoid the risk of hypertension, and have issues with cholesterol or high blood pressure, then xenical is a good choice.

Proper eating starts with the family, and needs to be reinforced by the school and community. A better question is how come alot people on welfare are morbidly obese?

Answer 4

no, it is a free world, and people can make any choices that they choose, just because a person does not exercise does not always mean that person is not physically capable of doing it, but just looking at the person you would never know.

Answer 5

Sure. I am constantly amazed that people don't understand that if you want to look like you eat healthy and work out, that you have to eat healthy and work out....

Answer 6

nah..i can see people getting confused..there is so much out there, if your first starting out, it can get confusing on what is right.what is a fad..what can harm or hurt you. What annoys me ab it is people asking.."am i pregnant?"..gee..i don;t know..let me use my magic wizard over here to see thru thr comp to your body to see!!!" go to the Dr..take a test...sheesh

Answer 7

some are very stupid... lol How much weight can i lose in a day?? lol HELLO Are you ready to run to china an back 4 times today??? lol

Answer 8

Yes. especially when those people lecture me about smoking.

Answer 9

Yeah, alot. But sometimes it is fun even for one who knows to ask and to get the answers..LOL