Diets
Anyone who has been on a diet has been through this scenario before. At first it seems to work, the pounds are shed, but then it becomes increasingly difficult to stay trim. What is going wrong?
Canada has a population of 33 million people. 65% of all Canadian men between the ages of 20 and 64 are overweight or obese and 52 % of Canadian women are also suffering with weight issues. Needless to say, more than half of the total adult population are unhappy with their figure. As a result, new diets appear on the market daily but even so the general population is still not losing weight. Why? Well diets simply don't work, in fact they have a tendency to cause weight gain. The reason for this is the so-called yo-yo effect. You can only achieve your ideal weight and maintain it when you make a long-term nutritional adjustment that is tailor made for your metabolism. The personal nutrition plan created by healthy & active, is a scientifically proven method to help you lose weight and keep it off while optimizing the metabolism.
Nutrition today is often associated with "fat-free carbohydrates" like breads, pasta, potatoes, rice and soft-drinks. Important Vitamins, minerals and trace elements are often lacking in these foods. This leads to so many common ailments which are caused by poor nutrition.
Paradoxically vitamin and mineral supplements that are taken to try and balance a poor diet often don't get these ailments under control. A dose of chemically made supplements and medication may reduce the symptoms but cannot cure the cause. The food industry supports the misleading belief that fat-free carbohydrates are healthy. In order to thicken these low-in-nutrient foods it is necessary to add more starch to achieve the right consistency. This causes weight gain and the nutritional value, if any at all, is negligible. Hormone research has proven that it is not lack of exercise or fats that block our metabolism, but rather the "fattening- up" with simple (fat-free) carbohydrates.