We don’t have to be told Australia’s obesity statistics are worsening. It is obvious from the increasing numbers of fat children and adults that we see every day. According to the Australian government, an estimated two million people under the age of 18 and approximately 58% percent of the adult population are considered overweight or obese. These statistics have doubled since 1994. If weight gain continues to follow this path, by the year 2020, 80% of all Australian adults and one third to half of all children will be in the grip of this disastrous epidemic. Indisputable evidence shows that being overweight or obese is a serious risk to both physical and mental health. Not only are they at risk or already afflicted with diabetes, stroke, heart disease and cancer, obese individuals are suffering with low self-esteem, high stress levels and poor socialization ability.

Being overweight or obese limits a person’s physical capabilities. The prospect of permanent disablement for the long-term obese is sending alarm through the Department of Health and Ageing. They are concerned that the estimated cost could ”cripple the nation’s burgeoning nursing home system” if the obesity epidemic continues.

What do Health Authorities say is the Cause of this Growing Trend?

Data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has shown that dramatic changes in our dietary, lifestyle and exercise patterns are the main contributory factors. We have become increasingly sedentary as the focus on technology takes over with people spending more time at work and less time at play. People are driving shorter distances instead of walking and spending more time in front of computer or TV screens. Compared to two decades ago there has been a 25% increase in our refined carbohydrate intake – pizza, chips, bread, cakes, biscuits and a 30% increase in refined sugar consumption – soft drinks, sweet snacks and confectionary. No wonder diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in Australia. The low fat, low kilojoule way to health introduced in the 1980’s has proved to be totally off the mark. Fats, in particular plant fats have been made out to be the villain in the obesity ‘war’. This has led to manufacturers to lacing their low fat products with high amounts of refined sugar and aspartame which has only served to make people fatter and sicker, keeping them stuck on the insulin resistance merry-go-round. With prolonged high insulin levels the body stores fat, especially around the abdomen. Men develop a pot belly and women thicken around the waist and midriff.

Weight Loss is Really About Losing Toxins

In response to the nation’s ballooning waistlines, the weight loss industry is booming.
Every week there is a new weight loss diet that promises to shed kilos, fast. The reason these diets don’t work in the long-term is that they contain the very foods that made people fat and unhealthy in the first place – carbohydrate-dense foods and refined sugar. Instead of focusing on the best quality of foods in terms of nutrition, they continue to play the game of “you can still eat the (addictive) foods you love” –just much less of it. This type of approach guarantees keeping you in a state of constant withdrawal from addiction. When you finally succumb to a blow-out by bingeing on three times the amount of low fat chips you were allowed with your 125 gram serving of steak, half a tomato, lettuce with 25 grams of low fat (sugar-laden) mayo – well, you can always blame your lack of willpower.

When you cut out the artery and colon clogging, processed sugary and fatty foods and replace them with plenty of enzyme-rich raw and living foods, excess kilos are released and stay off permanently. No more counting kilojoules, weighing portions and living in a state of mental torment. The enervating deliberation of choosing what to eat and what not to eat each day is not only time consuming, it creates a never ending cycle of guilt and self-punishment, knocking down your self-esteem.

Who wants to live like that? The liberating aspect of raw and living foods is that you can eat as much as you want. Raw and living foods act like an internal scour sloughing off toxic wastes stored in the colon and removing them in fat cells. As your body starts to receive the minerals it has been screaming out for, it no longer needs to send out continual signals of hunger.
Consequently, you are satisfied with far less food while building superior health.

Extracted from Katya’s new book The Rawjuvenate For Life Principles
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