There are four metrics to healthy living. But before we look at these metrics you need to understand the growing trend that’s beginning to wreck havoc on our overall well being. It’s obesity and overweight issues that lead to metabolic syndrome health issues like diabetes and heart disease.
Currently, of the five billion adults living on the planet Earth, one in eight are clinically obese.
When you do the math that 625 million people.
And a fifth of these obese adults live in six high-income countries: United States, Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
Currently, the United States government estimates that more people die of too much food than too little.
Four Metrics to Healthy Living
There are 4 key metrics that have been established for healthy living. And while we can argue the case that others are more important, they are:
Abstaining from smoking
Exercising
Eating healthy foods
Maintaining a healthy body weight
According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, of the 4,745 people who participated, 72% were non-smokers, 47% were moderately active, 38% ate a healthy diet, and 10% had a normal body fat percentage.
There are multiple ways to look at these results.
But I think the best way to look at these findings is in calorie consumption versus calorie expenditure.
This removes smoking and squarely targets metrics 2 and 3.
Lack of exercise coupled with a poor diet are the two key metrics.
Lack of exercise reduces your caloric expenditure. Poor diet typically increases your caloric intake. If you take in more calories than you burn off, the result is weight gain in the form of fat.
Metric 4 reflects this relationship.
Between lack of exercise and poor food choices, 90% of the population do not have a normal body fat percentage.
And while exercise is important, it’s your food choices that are causing most of the damage.
I’ll talk about this in my next post titled “The Original Whole30 Food Program!”
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