You are what you eat!

‘You are what you eat’ was a BBC program that aired in the UK some years back and was widely well received by the viewing audience. Viewers were surprised to see positive changes in people’s lives simply based on a diet change. It really was a new and strange thing to learn that eating good nutritious food is important and so is eating the right portion at the right time!

With the current fashion trend, where size zero is the in-thing for young women and 6-pack, the in-thing for the men, the issue of diet and weight loss has been brought to the front burner in many countries today – in private lives as well as the general populace.

So on one side of the divide, we have a set of people crazy about their weight and what they look like and check the calorie number of any food product before they buy it; and the other side where people have simply given up and have become overweight or obese.

As at today, one-third of Americans are thought to be obese. In the UK, the figure is thought to be much higher (in terms of percentage of overall population). Surprisingly, the 2014 data from ‘Public Health England’ showed that 62% of the adult population in the UK were overweight. In 2005, the World Health Organization measured that 1.6 billion people in North Africa and Middle East were overweight and 400 million were obese. These figures are expected to have risen for 2015 when 2.3 billion people in N Africa and Middle East would be overweight and 700 million would be obese. Sub-Sahara Africa that used to be the ‘face of famine’ advert is rapidly changing too. It has changed so much that a new Africa initiative was launched in 2015, called the ‘new African Centre for Obesity Prevention’.

What can we do? Or rather, what can YOU do? Let the change start with YOU! You are what you eat. Learn to eat right – for your age, size, shape, and well-being!

For some people, the challenge is that they simply do not have the willpower to make a change, in as much as they want a change. Or really do not know what changes to make and how to set themselves realistic goals that they can carefully work to achieve over a set period.

At Treatwithfood, we understand implicitly how food can affect not only your body system, your health, but also your emotions, your mental health and general wellbeing.

Get in touch with us today to see how we can help you.