The Effects of Being Overweight

Biologically, the body is an energy system. It takes in food, creates heat and energy and dumps the waste. Whatever increases or maintains that energy is good. To the contrary, whatever inhibits or obstructs that energy is bad. An abundance of energy is an abundance of health. Sickness and disease is an energy crisis, and the total absence of energy is death.

Obesity and overweight are the result of an energy imbalance. Consuming too many calories without engaging in the physical activity to metabolize those calories causes this imbalance.

Energy balance is like a scale. When the calories consumed are equal to the calories used there is no change in weight. If the calories consumed are less than the calories used, weight loss occurs. And when the calories consumed are greater than the calories used, weight gain is the result. When this occurs over a long period of time the body rebels against this imbalance by producing diseases that cause 300,000 premature deaths a year.

When you continually consume more calories than you expend you’re creating diseases. Included in these diseases are high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, gout, gallbladder disease, respiratory problems, osteoarthritis, poor female reproductive health and psychological disorders just to name a few.

The mental, emotional and spiritual complications of being physically overweight is expressed as depression, eating disorders, distorted body image and low self esteem. The impact of these imbalances initiates the creation of more physical imbalances.

To end this vicious cycle of imbalance we must begin by eating a balanced diet. Remember, you are what you eat. More specifically, you are what you assimilate and what you don’t eliminate. If it doesn’t come out, it becomes you.

My point is, that there has to be some original diet that we were biologically designed to eat for optimum health. It is. The basis of nutrition is simple, its Raw Plant Food. Fruits, vegetables, sprouts, nuts and seeds contain all of the vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, proteins, carbohydrates and fats known to man. They also contain all of the undiscovered elements of nutrition that man may never discover. These are the foods we lived on and thrived on from the beginning of our existence.

For example, fruit, the most cleansing food, contains more vitamins per calorie than any other food on the planet. It cleanses the body naturally, provides immediate energy and serves as fuel for the brain. It restores the body on a cellular level, relaxes the organs and promotes vitality. Most importantly, it supplies living water, fiber and the necessary nutrients for reparation and life. With that in mind, we can move on to vegetables.

- Dr Romeo Brooks

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