The Food Pyramid Is Making Us Fat By Joel Edwin Peng

The food pyramid is advocated by many health authorities worldwide as the healthy way to eat and stay lean and slim. However, obesity is still growing at an alarming rate. According to World Health Organization, the obesity rate doubled since 1980. In 2008, there are 1.4 billion obese adults. For the last 30 years, health experts and authorities kept advocating about the food pyramid but obesity rate is still on the rise, in fact it doubled. This is a cause for alarm that something is seriously wrong. If what the health authorities believed about the food pyramid is true and that it is a healthy way to eat, then why it is that the obesity rate is growing? For lots of tips and information, www.weightlosstips4today.blogspot.com The truth is the food pyramid recommended way of eating is making us grow fat. The food pyramid recommends us to eat 7 to 11 servings of rice and alternatives, 2 to 3 servings each of meat, vegetables and fruits and less use of oil and fats. This is also what many people called the balanced diet where you eat food from across all the food categories. The idea of the balanced diet is flawed because human beings were never built to eat in such a way. Why do I say so? Thousands of years ago when there were no technologies for distribution and transportation of food, what do we eat and survive on? If you were a fisherman, you would go and fish every day and ate only fishes for food. If you were a hunter, you would go and hunt for animals and ate only animals for food. If you were a fisherman, you lived by the sea, how would you get access to the other food like, vegetables, fruits, rice and grains? How do you eat according to the balanced diet? You do not eat according to the balanced diet; you simply eat what you catch. You will eat only fish. For lots of tips and information, www.weightlosstips4today.blogspot.com The idea of eating a balanced diet is flawed, we do not need a balanced diet and the food pyramid is wrong in one main area. The food pyramid is wrong with the recommendation of 7 to 11 servings of rice and alternatives like breads, pasta, cereals and starchy vegetables. Rice and alternatives are commonly known as carbohydrates. The recommendation of 7 to 11 servings of these carbohydrates is the main cause of our obesity. If you were a fisherman, where do you get your carbohydrates? All you ate were fishes. The truth is we do not need a lot of carbohydrates. The recommendation of the food pyramid is too much for our bodies that is why we are growing fat. As a fisherman, you get proteins, nutrients and fish oil from the fishes you ate. These are all the essential things our bodies need. Our bodies do not need 7 to 11 servings of carbohydrates every day. You grow fat due to the excessive intake of carbohydrates. At one time, I was also skeptical when a good friend told me that carbohydrates were the cause of my obesity. Because I had exhausted all means to lose weight, I thought that there was no harm giving it a try. I learnt to reduce my carbohydrate intake and I lose over 20 kilograms in 7 months. Learn to adopt any good low carbohydrate diet, approach or program and learn to cut and reduce your carbohydrate intake and experience it for yourself. This is the truth; excessive intake of carbohydrate according to the food pyramid's recommendation makes us grow fat. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Joel_Edwin_Peng Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/7790009 For lots of tips and information, www.weightlosstips4today.blogspot.com