Over 70 million adults in U.S. are obese (35 million men and 35 million women). 99 million are overweight (45 million women and 54 million men). Recently, scientists at Yale University started wondering: Why are people overweight??
So they conducted a controlled study of over 15,000 people. White, black, brown, homosexual and straight, male and female, Martians and homo sapiens [two types of "homo's" took part in this study].
And this is what they found: There is a direct correlation between eating a high fat, high calorie diet, with oversized portions, combined with not exercising - and being overweight. So a lot of oily hamburgers and fries, Ben and Jerry's ice cream [boycott them!!!] and cookies [six hours later!!], five helpings of kugel and a plateful of cholent to warm up before eating lunch馃構馃構 , coca cola and pepsi etc. etc. together with a stationary lifestyle and bingo - the midsection expands.
This was TRULY groundbreaking!!! Who would think that there is a connection between diet and weight problems???
In addition they found that there are other factors: Genetics, health conditions and medications, stress, emotional factors and poor sleep.
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Mussar Haskel: The BEGINNING of Teshuva is to restore homeostasis to the body. The body works hard to keep us healthy and we do things to impede that process or at least we don't promote it. A healthy body is a healthy mind and soul. One can't properly serve Hashem if the body is not in order. That is step one. Then we progress to the higher spiritual levels.
So eat well, sleep well, exercise, get your emotional world in order and it is much more likely that you will be healthy and not suffer from the collateral damage of extra weight.
Hatzlacha馃槉馃槉馃槝馃槝
