The New Buzz-Word In Dieting

I've come across a new word to do with diet, eating, and I suppose you'd have to say to do with exercise, health and fitness (or the lack of them), as well. Obesogenic, apparently, is Government-committee-speak for British society, which allegedly takes less exercise than at any time in known history, and is obsessively focused on eating all the wrong kinds and quantities of food.

According to a new report, the majority of British people will by 2050 be seriously overweight - obese, in fact. The risk to health and fitness of such a level of obesity has been described as a potential catastrophe second only to global warming.

I don't know quite how true that is - statistics can be interpreted and projected to back up almost anything you want - but I do know that it doesn't have to be that way.

Unless it's caused by a medical condition or a disability, obesity isn't something that just happens, without anything that you can do about it. Becoming overweight is the result of regularly taking in more calories than you can use, and those extra calories being stored as fat.

It isn't pleasant being overweight. It isn't comfortable, either physically or emotionally. It isn't good for you... and it's seriously bad for how you feel about yourself.

You don't have to put up with it, though. Just make yourself a promise that you'll eat a little less, and exercise a little more... and keep it.

Eat a salad once a day, instead of junk food. Walk to work, or to the shops, instead of using transport. To tone your muscles with as little physical demand on you as possible, try the gentle exercise of yoga, qi gong, or t'ai chi.

A regular, committed effort will do far more lasting good than a crash diet or exhausting fitness schedule that you'll struggle through for a week or so and then give up on.

If you need some help to change your diet or your eating habits, you could visit Achieve Your Perfect Weight - And Stay There, and for encouragement to take more exericse and to improve your health and fitness, you might want to click on Teach Your Mind To Train Your Body.

Whatever kind of fancy name it's given, obsessing about people being overweight won't put the situation right.

Focusing on the outcome that you want, not one you don't want, can.