DD #3: The Dangers Of Excess Body Fat

From FatForWeightLoss, I’m Aaron Day, and this is the Daily December Segment of the FatForWeightLoss Show. Let's get to it. Every day in December we’ll be covering a new topic, from events, to travel, to nutrition and physical performance. Let me know what you want to cover, and we’ll dig into it for 6 minutes every day in December. Thanks so much for listening, be sure to subscribe for more episodes like this, or get in contact with me over on Instagram to suggest a topic we could cover for the next episode, until then! • 2.3 Billion Adults are overweight, 700M Obese • Overweight BMI > 25, Obese BMI > 30 • 3 Million people die each year due to associated risks • http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/ • Those who genetically store fat would have had a survival advantage when food was scarce or in famine • Modern environment causes a survival disadvantage • If your parents were overweight, you have a 10X increase risk of being obese • Obese families even have overweight pets, so its not genetic • Developed and developing countries have luxury to bombard themselves with “empty calories” – i.e. nutrient deficient high caloric foods • Deficient in vital nutrients, your body screams for more • High caloric foods + decrease activity = dangerous combination • Type 2 Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer (breast or colon), Brain strokes, Complications in pregnancy (gestational diabetes), Mental health issues? Poor gut health • Being overweight isn’t caused by how much food you eat • It's mainly caused by WHAT you eat • Incomplete theory that weight gain is caused simply by calories in / calories out • Eating the RIGHT types of food has been shown to be the key to weight loss success, and creating eating habits workable for the rest of your life