The whole truth about the development of overweight and weight loss
More and more people worldwide are overweight. Over the last 50 years, the number of overweight people has increased sixfold. The market for diets and weight loss products is growing steadily and attracts pharmaceutical companies, renowned food manufacturers, nutritionists and self-proclaimed experts with high profit margins. Everyone wants a piece of the cake and tries to win new customers with ever new inventions and promises. However, weight loss has followed the same unchangeable principle since life existed on earth.
Why are people getting fatter?
The answer is simple: People consume more calories than they burn, or in other words: People burn fewer calories than they consume. The reasons for this are manifold. Whether you look back to the Stone Age or just 50 years ago, food has never been available in such excess always and everywhere as it is today. Neither long walks nor much money are necessary to obtain food quickly.
While Stone Age people ate on average once a day and accepted great physical exertion for it, eating today has become a convenient all-day occupation. Here, the eating breaks are missing, during which the slowly degrading insulin is regulated back to its original value.
The amounts that are eaten are also getting larger. A scientific experiment has shown that we today view portions as too small that were previously considered normal. Packaged ready-made meals and portions in fast food chains and many restaurants are getting larger and contain sugar everywhere. Film tip: „super size me“
One of the reasons why we suddenly need larger portions to feel full is the declining quality of food. Due to mass cultivation, monocultures, short ripening cycles and chemical fertilization, fruits and vegetables provably contain fewer and fewer nutrients.
The nutrients in meat and animal products also decrease with factory farming, accelerated rearing and the use of medication. However, certain vitamins, minerals, trace elements, amino acids and fatty acids are essential for the body. It cannot produce them itself and depends on an adequate supply. If food contains less and less of them, the logical consequence is: The body needs larger amounts of food to meet its needs.
The feeling of hunger shows the body that its need for essential nutrients is not being met. Since it is about the body's pure survival and the human survival instinct is greater than their reason, knowledge and will, people give in to hunger in most cases. If they then feed the body unhealthy food with low nutrient density, such as fast food or ready-made meals, they provide it with energy in the form of calories, but not with the needed nutrients. The consequence: After a short time, the body screams for more food with cravings and performance decline!
The most important building block of nutrition is protein. Only when the body has received the necessary amounts of individual amino acids will the feeling of hunger be reduced.
Thus, in recent years, a vicious cycle has emerged that makes people heavier and heavier – much to the delight of the diet industry. With ever new diets and supposed miracle cures, companies and self-proclaimed experts promise a solution to the weight problem. However, if you keep the reason for hunger in mind, you must realize that the diet industry does not solve the problem but, on the contrary, makes it worse.
For example: If natural fats contained in foods are removed, this volume is replaced by carbohydrates to keep the package contents constant.
Another modern-day problem is the fact that we come into contact with more toxins. Many of these are fat-soluble. If the liver, which is responsible for this detoxification, lacks the vital nutrients needed for detoxification (e.g. sulfur-containing amino acids, R-alpha-lipoic acid), the toxin must be stored outside the circulation to protect the organs – that is, in fatty tissue. We see that sometimes extra fat deposits are created to store toxins.
Similarly, fatty tissue obeys the commands of hormones and certain medications. Simple examples that illustrate rapid weight gain are, for example, cortisone therapy, pregnancy, or certain psychotropic drugs. To clarify this, a blood test is worthwhile.
Occasionally, comfort eating is rooted in an emotional problem. This can be recognized in retrospect: "I have increased my weight since...“. In this case, one should first consult a therapist before beginning with the following recommendations.
The simple principle of weight reduction
Weight loss has worked according to the same principle for millions of years: through a calorie deficit. Weight loss is a simple calculation: One kilogram of fat contains 7,000 kilocalories. To break down one kilogram of fat, you must achieve a calorie deficit of 7,000 kilocalories.
This works in two different ways:
- lower calorie intake
- increased calorie expenditure
If you achieve a calorie deficit of 500 kilocalories every day, for example, you will lose half a kilogram of fat in a week. If you combine both ways to achieve a calorie deficit, greater weight loss is possible. Once you understand this principle, you unmask the promises of diet books and pills, such as losing 7 kilograms in 7 days, as what they are: nonsense!
We at Sanopoly see the person as a whole and respect the body's needs. That's why we developed PriosaSHAPE Day & Night, a shake that can help people achieve a calorie deficit. Unlike other manufacturers, however, we are honest: You do not need PriosaSHAPE to achieve a calorie deficit. The perfectly balanced ratio of high-quality carbohydrates and plant-based protein in PriosaSHAPE simply makes it easier. The shake keeps you full for a long time, the contained guarana suppresses appetite, and the raw cocoa promotes the production of happiness hormones and prevents diet frustration and bad mood. This makes it easier to stick with it.
One serving of PriosaSHAPE contains approx. 113 kilocalories. Two calculation examples show how PriosaSHAPE can help achieve a calorie deficit: For example, if you replace your meals with a PriosaSHAPE shake in the morning and evening, eat a balanced meal with 600 kilocalories at lunch, and additionally do an hour of moderate exercise three times a week, you will achieve a weekly calorie deficit of almost 12,000 kilocalories with a daily calorie requirement of 2,000 kilocalories. You thus burn 1.7 kilograms of stored fat per week.
If you prefer to take it more slowly, replace only breakfast with PriosaSHAPE and eat balanced meals with 600 kilocalories each at lunch and dinner. If you additionally do 2 hours of moderate exercise per week, you will achieve a calorie deficit of just under 6,000 kilocalories per week with a daily calorie requirement of 2,000 kilocalories. You thus burn almost one kilogram of stored fat per week.
If you want to lose weight, you must provide your body with the nutrients it needs to survive. This is the only way to prevent cravings and loss of performance and achieve lasting weight loss. Adequate supply of vital nutrients becomes more difficult the less you eat. If you limit calorie intake to achieve a calorie deficit, you consume less food. If you then also consume food with low nutrient density, nutrient deficiency in your body is pre-programmed. Since even natural and healthy products such as vegetables, fruits and animal products contain fewer and fewer nutrients, the supply of essential nutrients is particularly recommended during a calorie-reduced diet. Only when the body gets everything it needs to survive does it allow the path to permanent weight reduction.
Furthermore, it makes sense to exercise and have a truly individual nutrition plan created. (e.g. www.vitalplan.info). This way, easily digestible, satisfying, varied dishes can be prepared, which prevents yo-yo effects and ensures long-term success. If you have overindulged on individual days, you can simply and healthily reduce the calorie amount with PriosaSHAPE in a delicious way.
If you are one of the victims of modern-day problems mentioned above (toxic exposure, hormone therapies), you should consult a practitioner to identify toxins and eliminate them in a controlled manner, otherwise your body cannot simply break down the fat deposits necessary for storing toxins.
You should become alert if you do not feel better shortly after beginning a nutrition optimization, or if a weight loss plateau sets in, the weight stagnates, even though you are doing everything right in your regular diet. Hormonal checks and therapeutic adjustment of the same belong in experienced medical hands.
Both modern-day problems mentioned are correctable and should not stop you from beginning to shed a few pounds with the above recommendations once this has been done. It works. Together we can do this!
