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3 Reasons Not To Diet

Diets don’t help you lose weight long-term.

Biological factors ensure your attempt at losing weight while dieting will fail. There are metabolic and hormonal as well as neurological changes that contribute to the attempts to lose weight. When you go on a diet, because in your mind your trying not to eat you actually tend to notice the food that much more. Once you do start to lose weight the hormones that make you hungry increase and the ones that make you feel full decrease. Your metabolism slows down as you lose weight as well and as your body is using fewer calories the extras’ get stored as fat. Overtime even sticking to the diet will only make you gain the weight back as it will just catch up to you.

The early life — probably the first thousand days after conception, or up to around age 2 — is incredibly important for our health as adults. The risk for disease — heart disease, lung disease and others — is programmed in early life. You can’t give somebody a pill to redress childhood abuse and you can’t put a stent in a coronary artery to redress the stress resulting from the lack of support your parents gave in your early life. Every country in the world has a national policy that gives working moms paid time off work after they have babies, except for Papua New Guinea, Suriname, a few South Pacific Island nations and the United States. We also have the most child poverty of all rich countries in the world. We don’t invest in the part of life that really matters.

Eating healthier isn’t always an option.

Most don’t eat healthy because it’s cheaper just to buy the unhealthy options. More sugars, sodium, and saturated fats increase the risk of chronic diseases. American diet has become energy-rich but nutrient-poor, partly because agricultural methods have stripped nutrients from the soil. We eat more processed food with less fiber, fewer micronutrients, and fewer phytochemicals to protect against things like heart disease and diabetes. Although it’s not like the FDA doesn’t know this however if more people eat unhealthy then they will eventually have a reason to go to a doctor and get meds for their problem.

That only helps big pharma not you. So when you’re unable to buy more healthy choices then you should look into growing your own nutritional choices. It wouldn’t take much room nor much time to start your own little mini garden. You could even do it indoors if absolutely necessary, just get a few pot hangers to hang from the ceiling.

Stress causes weight gain!

If we are not eating more, why are we so much fatter these days? Well an enormous difference in daily work-life balance stress levels is one of the reasons our diets are calorie-dense and nutrient-poor. Being stressed causes us to forget to eat or eat fast and choose our meals poorly.

We tend, in this country, to think that the choices you make are what determine your health. But individual behaviors are less important for the health of a society than we think. Diet and exercise are important, but not as important as other factors in a society. Healthier societies have a smaller gap between the rich and the poor than we do. That gap causes an enormous amount of stress in our society — road rage, air rage, stress at work, child abuse. I say stress is the 21st century tobacco. We have learned that inequality kills. We have changed from a country that, in the 1950s, believed in economic justice. We had high tax rates on the rich, and we had welfare programs for other people. But we have changed from a community focus, or a collective focus, to one in which today we have to pursue our health as individuals.

That may be because of the tremendous amount of stress and frustration in our society, and everyone is affected. The nature of relationships changes in big-income-gap situations: We drive bigger cars to show that we are superior to others, and we wear designer clothes to make a statement. Some of these things may be harmless, but we have higher rates of heart disease and lung disease and almost all other causes of mortality, except for cancer, than comparable countries.

So better health habits aren’t the fix to our problem?

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We tend, in this country, to think that the choices you make are what determine your health. But individual behaviors are less important for the health of a society than we think. Diet and exercise are important, but not as important as other factors in a society.

First, modern agricultural methods have stripped increasing amounts of nutrients from the soil. We forget, sometimes, that the nutrient value of the food we grow depends on the nutrient levels of the soil in which they are grown. and how stress directly shifts metabolic functions toward fat creation and fat storage. But there is one more very important difference. The food we eat has about the same nutritional value and tastiness as the packaging it’s wrapped in. We eat and eat and eat, and yet our bodies are not satisfied.

Second, our diets contain more processed foods and fewer fresh foods that are good for us. Processed food generally contains less fiber, fewer micronutrients, and fewer phytochemicals that protect against heart disease and diabetes, according to recent studies. As a simple example, apples are chock full of fiber and micronutrients.

So having expectations

Essentials our bodies need that aren’t in most diets:

  • Vitamins A, D, B, C, E, and K and all of these can be found in fresh fruits, veggies, whole grains, low fat milk, fish and eggs.
    • Minerals
  • Sodium
  • Potassium
  • Chloride
  • Calcium
  • Phosphorus
  • Magnesium
  • Sulfur
  • Zinc
  • Iodide
  • Selenium
  • copper
  • fluoride
  • chromium
  • molybdenum
  • manganese

We can make adjustments as needed to eat a healthy meal at least once a day!!

The Scarcity Loop

TraumaThe scarcity loop is a cycle that most people get stuck in. Not having enough money has mostly negative outcomes and the lack of money is even worse. The fear of money causes most people to make more poor choices as the pressure is just too much to think logically. So a little Self reflection exercise I like to do with people helps them to understand the psychology of money in a way that is helpful.

What word comes to mind when you say the word “MONEY”? If you live with scarcity then these things may be true:

  • Belief that money is bad
  • You tend to overspend
  • You sacrifice your financial well-being
  • You have trouble sticking to a budget
  • Avoid looking at bank statements
  • Money is the root of all evil
  • Rich people are greedy
  • If I make a lot of money I’m a bad person
  • People wont like me if I’m rich
  • Just want to help others make money and I don’t care about money
  • I don’t deserve money

If you worship money however you would have the mindset of :

  • Overspending
  • Hoarding possessions
  • Ignore finances
  • Trapped in credit card debt
  • Spend compulsively
  • Put work before finances
  • Give to others even if you can’t afford it
  • Money is the key to happiness
  • Financially dependent to others
  • I never have enough money
  • I can never be happy if I’m poor
  • Money gives my life meaning
  • Money solves all my problems
  • If I had more money things would be better

If you believe your net worth = your self worth you might do these things:

  • Overspend to look good
  • Depends on others financially
  • Gamble
  • Lie about spending
  • Think your only successful as the amount of money you spend
  • Think others will like you the more money you make

If you’re a money vigilance you may:

  • Anxious about financial well being
  • Have a hard time enjoying spending money
  • Think people only want money
  • Giving to poor encourages laziness
  • Shouldn’t spend money on myself
  • Have to work hard for money
  • Can’t trust people with my money

Questions you can ask yourself to see how you feel about money:

As a child what did your friends and family say about money?

If you grew up hearing things like: “Money don’t grow on trees” or “Money is the root of all evil” chances are you’ve gotten the notion that money is bad and that’s just not true. However it has probably caused you to be scared of money (subconsciously) and that in turn has created more of a scarcity mindset. It has always been a struggle when it comes to making more money and you’ve probably struggled just to make ends meet.

What was your first memory of money?

What did you learn watching your mom and dad?

were there restrictions on money or allowances given?

Have you ever seen anyone loose everything?

Psychological research on scarcity

Being poor requires such an excess of mental energy that those with restricted implies — be they sugarcane ranchers in India or New Jersey shopping center attendees — are bound to pursue missteps and terrible choices than those with greater monetary pads.

This is the psychology research of scarcity investigating how individuals’ psyches are less productive when they believe they need something — whether it is cash, time, calories or even friendship.

This world view limited by fear consumes what I call “bandwidth of our minds” — intellectual prowess that would somehow or another go to less squeezing concerns, preparing and critical thinking. This hardship can prompt a daily existence consumed by distractions that force continuous mental shortfalls and support pointless activities.

By and large, there have been two methods for pondering destitution: A big part of the scholarly conversation guarantees that needy individuals are completely level headed and go with totally sensible money saving advantage choices in light of their conditions. The other half spotlights on this culture of destitution that depends on unfortunate qualities and absence of arranging. We felt that there was a third other option. We don’t think anyone is completely judicious, and there’s not a great explanation to think the poor are frightfully obsessive or surprising in any extraordinary manner. Imagine a scenario in which we simply consider them confounded and one-sided, as we as a whole are, and that when you commit those errors with regards to neediness, the results are substantially more extreme than when you have more solace.

Over the long haul, we began getting more information and noticing situations where the poor appeared to be making more outrageous mistakes than those with more prominent means. That continuously driven us to the possibility that there’s an exceptionally specific brain science that arises when we need something more and that this brain research prompts extremely terrible results.

How does shortage prompt these awful results?

Each psychologists comprehends that we have extremely restricted mental space and transfer speed. At the point when you center intensely around a certain something, there is simply less brain to commit to different things. We call it burrowing — as you commit increasingly more to managing shortage you have less and less for different things in your day to day existence, some of which are vital for managing shortage. There’s a ton of writing showing that destitute individuals don’t work out quite as well in numerous parts of their lives. They are in many cases less mindful guardians than the people who have more cash, they’re more regrettable at sticking to their prescription than the rich, and, surprisingly, unfortunate ranchers weed their fields less well than the people who are less poor.

Then they get up the following morning and take on this unimaginably exorbitant loan once more, consistently for a normal of around 10 years, and on the off chance that they saved somewhat more or acquired somewhat less they would before long be sans obligation and could twofold their pay. It appeared to have its very own rationale — this need to zero in on the everyday and not having the ability to change long term.

We then, at that point, finished a battery of studies where we saw that controlling scarcity hugely affects individuals’ mental limit. In the first place, along with Jiaying Zhao, who was then an alumni understudy, we went to a shopping center in New Jersey where we requested that individuals complete tests estimating mental control and liquid knowledge, a part of level of intelligence. We had them do these things while they were pondering a monetary situation — something sensible, requiring $150 to fix a vehicle that stalled, or seriously requesting, requiring $1,500 in vehicle related costs. We separated the members by family pay and found that the rich individuals in the shopping center excelled on the mental tests, whether they were thinking about the difficult or the less difficult situation connected with the vehicle. The less fortunate individuals in the shopping center were similarly proficient intellectually and did similarly too on liquid knowledge as the rich when they were contemplating the sensible situation. Be that as it may, when they mulled over the seriously difficult situation, their scores went way down. Basically being engrossed with this requesting monetary test exacerbates them.

Clearly, in that trial, we controlled for all that we could, yet by the day’s end, these are rich versus poor and you could say that they contrast in things like wellbeing and training. So then we went to India and concentrated on sugar stick ranchers, who procure the main part of their pay once a year after they reap, and afterward need to ensure their assets push them along until the accompanying harvest. These are individuals who are fundamentally rich after the reap however poor previously, so we led these mental tests on similar ranchers, two months prior and two months after collect. It’s similar individual, same instruction and values, however they, as well, scored what might be compared to 10 intelligence level focuses less before collect contrasted with after gather.

What impact do these mental movements have on conduct and direction?

One of the exemplary mistakes that unfortunate Americans are scrutinized for is taking “payday credits,” those extremely exorbitant loans that right now appear to be a decent arrangement yet after fourteen days make them owe exorbitant interest. Thus, we chose to run a review with college students, who no one would agree are unsophisticated. We had them play a “Family Fight”- like PC game and haphazardly relegated them to be rich or poor in how much time they needed to respond to questions, giving the rich 50 seconds for each round and the unfortunate 15 seconds. A big part of the members were likewise given the choice to get time, yet consistently they acquired cost two seconds from the whole pail of time they had accessible for the game.

We found that when individuals were rich with time they were exceptionally sensible, required it less, and, truth be told, incidentally took a credit. However, when they were time-poor, these complex Princeton understudies snatched these accessible credits to attempt to do well in the game and wound up getting less cash than the time-unfortunate understudies who weren’t given the choice to get. These understudies misstepped the same way that we saw among needy individuals.

What shocks you most about scarcity?

The effects it has on us mentally. Such trauma it causes.
Most striking that these discoveries make an extremely impressive case for the possibility that individuals who look exceptionally terrible in states of shortage are similarly pretty much as fit as most of us when shortage doesn’t force itself on their brains. What’s intriguing about a great deal of social exploration is that we don’t have full natural admittance to it. For instance, research on the utilization of cellphones in vehicles has been striking since we as a whole have the deception that we can oversee calls fine and dandy. In any case, the discoveries are certain that when you are on a cellphone in the vehicle, in any event, when it’s not hand held, your response time is similar to being lawfully smashed. That is not naturally accessible to us on the grounds that the vast majority of us simply don’t feel it. Exactly the same thing occurs here. Individuals realize they’re occupied and diverted, however the effect and the results of that interruption are substantially more amazing than we understand.

What impact is scarcity having on America?

There’s an exceptionally huge extent of Americans who are concerned and battling monetarily and consequently conceivably ailing in transfer speed. Each time new issues raise their appalling heads, we lose mental capacities somewhere else. These discoveries might try and recommend that after the 2008 monetary emergency, America might have lost a ton of liquid knowledge. Individuals are strolling around so worried about one component of their lives that they don’t have space for things on the outskirts.

Are there any arrangements?

To the degree that you can stand to, give yourself a little room to breath. At the point when you pack your life too firmly and don’t leave slack, the smallest surprising occasion leaves you stuck. You don’t have the foggiest idea what will occur yet unavoidably something will — a water line will break, the vehicle will stall, you’ll get a leaving ticket — or on the other hand in the event that you’re occupied and pressed your time too firmly, you might get a startling call or hit a gridlock en route to a gathering.

How would you create slack?

While you’re managing a scarcity situation, plan a couple of seconds of slack over the course of the day — a half-hour anywhere purposefully left open so that assuming anything comes up you can profit yourself of that unaccounted-for time and deal with what you hadn’t expected. I assemble it having a conference with yourself. At the point when you’re poor, obviously, that is difficult. However, building reserve funds for a blustery day can assist you with managing an unforeseen bobbed check or stopping ticket, giving you some place to draw from so life can proceed.

We likewise have heaps of thoughts regarding how to “resist poverty” the world with regards to orchestrating strategies for poor people. We wouldn’t charge individuals $200 or $300 to join an advantages program, for example, food stamps, in light of the fact that the general purpose is they have no cash. Yet, when you give them an exceptionally muddled structure or request that they be some place precisely on time three days straight, you’re forcing an enormous data transfer capacity charge. Rather than burdening them cash, you’re burdening them transfer speed, which is additionally something they need more of. Thus, you are causing what is going on where they will undoubtedly come up short. We recommend that policymakers give their very best for make the world a spot where when I come up short briefly in view of botching my scarcity, there is a method for moving out, as opposed to sink further.

Conduct scientists are having an effect — it’s occurring gradually, however like never before previously, and the interest keeps on developing.