3 Reasons Why People Are Obese

Facing obesity, with all the products that exist, can be very overwhelming for most. If you are wondering why you just can't stop eating don't despair help is on the way. If you believe that you are the master of your body, listen to 3 reasons I looked at to try and explain why eating is such a part of our individual need to survive.

Reason #1: We eat as much as we can to survive. How long would you live if you had no food to eat tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day ,and the next day?This constant need to stay alive is embedded deep in your brain and is as basic as needing to procreate. We are human animals and the need for survival is part of who we are. The fear of losing something is greater to most than the desire to go out and hunt for more food if hunger strikes. Your behavior to want to eat all the time might be linked to this fear of not being able to eat everyday.

Reason #2:The need to store food for a rainy day is as old as religion. We all heard the stories of our forefather's living on the land to raise cattle and grain. The need to put food in barns to ward off winter conditions or summer droughts made people do incredible things. You can do a lot of research on this and look at all the hardships our ancestors went through to guarantee our long term survival. For some of us we heard about these struggles from our own parents and grandparents. I wonder if we don't have a gene somewhere in our brains that just make us want to store food for the winter, as the saying goes, and might explain why some of us just need to put it away. Their is no reason to store in most areas of the world today but it's the fear that makes us do it? Our behavior could be explained in this seemingly foolish idea.

Reason #3:As animals we needed to go out and hunt for food everyday to survive. This need to hunt is reason # 3. Think about it for a minute, if their is a hunting gene in your brain that made our ancestors get up everyday to go and hunt, their must be a need to eat and stay in great shape to "out hunt" the competition as well. In today's hectic world many are afraid of losing everything. Your basic need to survive just might be behind why you need to store food for as long as you can because their is a lot of competition for the "fresh meat" out their? Food for thought...==Trudel==