We have outsourced responsibility for our health. We don’t want to change the way we live despite documentation that lifestyle is one of the most powerful determinants of health. Vitamins are necessary to convert food into energy and when people don’t get enough vitamins, they suffer diseases. The question isn’t whether people need vitamins. They do. The questions are how much do they need, and do they get enough in foods?
But I’m very sceptical of anyone who has a pill to cure the man-made epidemics of our time, and it turns out scientists know large quantities of supplemental vitamins can be quite harmful indeed. But sales are good.

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These six things are all part of the 20% of things to give us 80% of our health.
– Take-out fructose from your diet.
– Take-out simple carbohydrates. Have more complex carbohydrates, fat and protein.
– Take-out food for 2 days per week. (5:2 Diet) for a period of time if you want to loose weight fast.
– Take-out a calorie counter for a short period. Become aware.
– Take-out seed oils from your diet.
– Take-out sitting down for more than 30 minutes at a time. Try to get some form of exercise.
Review these things in the context of the 3 legged stool. Our physical body, our mental attitude, and the society we live in. Change is challenging. Understand why diets fail. But can succeed.

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If you are under 40 – most are overweight, but you still keep on slowly but surely over 40 – you become obese.. It is what you eat. Not your resolution for diets, exercise. Unless you make a change in food intake, you will put on about 1% of your weight each year.
If you do make a change, you can lose that weight and the easiest way is cut out carbohydrates, starting with added sugar

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