When you are following the traditional Mediterranean diet your body will absorb all the natural and healthy nutrition that it needs daily, helping you to lose or maintain your weight and health. You will eat vegetables and fruit that have fiber, needed in your daily diet.

Most Mediterranean lifestyles are very simple, and lived at a slow pace of life. This helps with the idea of taking the time to cut and chop your meals instead of using a can opener for most of your meals. Sticking with fresh and natural foods. Cutting out canned and processed foods will help you become healthier faster. The additives in canned and processed foods are hard on your body. Even though they are quick and easy they will not give you the good nutrition that fresh fruit and vegetables will give you.

Olive oil is the main part of the Mediterranean diet, it is healthy in many ways. Other oils when used all the time can clog your arteries. Olive oil helps reduce cholesterol and will not clog your arteries. Changing your oil intake over to olive oil will help prevent a heart attack, stroke, many diseases, and cancer.

Eating healthy foods that are rich in minerals, essential acids, proteins, nutrition, and vitamins is how we should have always been eating. Having healthy foods in our daily diet is necessary for our bodies to stay healthy and fit.

White meats are more common in Mediterranean eating and they are healthier. Red meats does have healthy values in it. However a lot of red meat consumed each week can end up hurting you. Sticking to freshly prepared fish and chicken is a better eating choice for your health.

However, we still want to eat in moderation.

Many people say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. That is true. One should never skip breakfast. Breakfast should be a prepared and healthy meal. Start it off with dairy and whole grains; then a very lean piece of meat such as ham. End your meal with a small piece of cheese or fruit. Be sure to to drink a large glass of water during your meal. There is not a better breakfast to start your day and fill you up with out filling you with fat and calories.

Mediterranean diet foods are mostly fruit and vegetables, beans, potatoes, fish and cereals that are high in fiber; and olive oil – the “Mediterranean gold”. You want to make sure that you are taking in the correct amount of vitamins and minerals in your diet. You can also add nuts that are rich in fatty acids, and berries high in antioxidants. When you include all of this into your daily diet you will feel better, healthier and more fit.

If that were true, however, why is this problem suddenly exploding onto the scene only now, but was never a problem for past generations?

Something is clearly not completely genuine about this proposition.

To paraphrase Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain): A hurtful truth has no value over a hurtful lie. Neither should be uttered. The man who speaks a hurtful truth, thinking to save his own life, should stop and think; that sort of life is not worth preserving.

Neither is it worthy living a lie, yet that’s just what science fiction, posing as science fact, would have you do.

The great deception of evolution — despite no real convincing evidence of it in nature or the fossil record (How many people on 9-11 faced with the choice of death sprouted wings and flew away unharmed?) — was just the beginning.

Now an entire generation has been trained to look upon scientists as “saviors” who will solve all our modern ills, even while they busily create new and worse ones every day.

Genetic research, in particular, has become the new “holy grail” of scientific inquiry and tampering.

Once upon a time, in the thirties and forties particularly, radioactivity was thought of in the exact same light, with all manner of admittedly “miraculous” properties being ascribed to it.

You wouldn’t know it from recent movies on the comic fiction “hero” based on a poisonous insect, but the story line originally — as late as the early sixties — was that the spider was radioactive, the same thing credited with creating another more monstrous but just as popular comic book, TV and movie fiction a lot more hulkish in nature.

At one time, in those days just after the assassination of president Kennedy, as a junior high school student, I wrote and drew my first and only comic book, the main character of which received super powers from a similar accidental exposure to a nuclear bomb test.

The reality of radiation poisoning, sickness and death never occurred to my immature mind, so steeped as I was in the mythic lore of pseudo-science taught and encouraged from every quarter in the decade of the space race.

Gamma rays, another form of solar radiation, was even credited with creating a certain phantasmagorical foursome in yet another comic book fiction of pseudo-scientific nonsense.

As I grew up I discovered many of the flaws in what was seriously taught as “science fact,” and by my senior year of high school — the year men supposedly walked on the moon for the first time — I was giving lectures before my earth science class on the impossibilities of evolution and proofs exposing it as among the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated upon a gullible and eagerly receptive public.

You may well have a genetic predisposition to illness affecting one bodily organ or system over another, but this has absolutely nothing to do with the cause of the disease, which is invariably either some form of malnutrition, toxic poisoning, or environmental contamination.

Obesity, for instance, like heart disease or diabetes, runs in families that have the same dietary customs, learned and indulged by habit from childhood and rarely changed or altered in adulthood.

My own pre-diabetic hypoglycemic condition — following the same diet as my parents and grandparents (both parents and maternal grandfather became diabetic), and my siblings, several of which also became diabetic — cleared up over forty years ago and never returned, after I drastically overhauled my lifestyle and diet.

The only thing “genetic” about this condition was how the bad diet I once had affected my body at its weakest “link.”

It’s remarkable how easily I changed and avoided this “genetic predisposition” to diabetes, by simply changing my outer and internal environments for the better.

There is even recent evidence that electropollution, or dirty electricity emitted by electrical power lines, some computers, cordless and mobile phones, compact fluorescent lights, and even treadmills, can cause what Dr. Magda Havas (Trent University, in Peterborough, Canada) has labeled Type 3 diabetes (Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine).

Basically some people’s genetic makeup (and most likely diet also) predisposes them to being sensitive to electropollution from dirty electromagnetic fields (EMFs) — even from devices plugged in near them — which causes a diabetic spike in blood sugar levels.

Apparently the spike in blood sugar, other than strictly dietary in source, may be caused by the effect of electromagnetic pollution on the pancreas, by lowering its production of insulin, or possibly on insulin’s ability to deal with blood sugar properly.

This should not come as any surprise, considering the fact that the cells of your body all communicate with one another by means of minute electrical impulses, often in the microwave range.

It stands to reason, therefore, that certain levels of electropollution smog can have an adverse effect on whatever systems of your body are most susceptible to this pernicious but mostly hidden influence.

Electromagnetic radiation can also adversely effect your heart rate, estrogen and adrenaline levels, hormone balance, can damage your DNA, and causes stress that can result in cancer as well.

Statistics are just now beginning to trickle in linking long term cordless and cell phone usage with brain tumors, just as electric blankets and even alarm clocks plugged in and situated near where you sleep have also been implicated in increased risks of developing fatal cancers.

It has been long known — for more than thirty years that I am personally aware of — that high tension power lines are linked to a higher than average rate of leukemia and other forms of cancer in children.

Radar from airports and military bases has been shown to cause high cancer-incidence locales in those living within the range of these facilities, just as children of radar operators also have a statistically significant higher incidence of leukemia.

I know about this first hand, because my dad used to work for the FFA (Federal Flight Administration), before it became the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), and one of his co-workers had a son about my age, I used to play with, who died of leukemia.

This is especially interesting, considering the fact that the children themselves are not exposed to the radar. Only their fathers are exposed on a daily basis, who then apparently develop a genetic abnormality as a result of this exposure, which is then passed onto their children in the form of a predisposition to this particular form of cancer.

Little wonder, as most of science spins its wheels looking in the wrong direction of the chimera called genetics, that no progress is being made toward discovering either the direct causes of the virulent diseases running rampant in our age, much less any actual cures.

Monkeying around with the genetic code, splicing in genes from species entirely foreign to a plant, animal or human, can only have unforeseen adverse effects, some of which will threaten the existence of all life on earth if not halted in time!

Amazingly, when you consider how evolution-tainted science today so despises anything smacking of religion, this was all prophesied long ago:

“For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now — and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened” (Matthew 24:21-22; Mark 13:19-20).

Science comes from the Latin word scire, to know, meaning: “knowledge.”

Though some of that knowledge is good, a lot of it is pure evil (witness all the terrorist weapons of mass destruction now threatening to exterminate all life on earth hundreds of times over).

Science is the path mankind took when it first sinned, choosing the fruit of the tree of the knowledge (science) of good and evil over the tree of life (Genesis 3).

One of the worst mistakes of pretentious science today is the entire myth of genetic-caused diseases, and the false “savior” hope in genetics to somehow “save” us from ourselves.

Only once mankind is finally forced to turn its collective back on genetic manipulation and experimentation will society finally learn the incredible truth, that we truly are our own worst enemies, and that worshiping before the monstrous altar of modern science (industrial, military and especially medical and pharmaceutical) is what has been largely responsible for the explosion in so many deadly diseases in recent history.

Obesity is the most important factor that accelerates the onset of diabetes, particularly Type II diabetes. According to recent studies, 1/3 rd of the children born today will be affected by Type II diabetes which is primarily obesity induced.

Obesity is a contributory factor in not only diabetes which, in turn, increases the risk of blindness, kidney problems and limb amputation, it also induces heart diseases and strokes. Therefore, it is imperative for those who are either at pre-diabetes stage or have developed Type II diabetes, to keep a tab on their body mass-index.

Body-Mass Index

Body-Mass Index (BMI) is a number that tells you how much fat your body consists of as a percentage of body weight. The number is not 100% accurate, particularly when based only on height and weight figures, yet it gives a good estimate, good enough to help you in your weight reduction efforts.

Ideally, you should determine your BMI in consultation with your doctor. He can not only provide you with some additional insights about its meaning, but also advise you on how you should begin your weight loss program in order to make it sustainable.

Nonetheless, if you are in a hurry to know how much fat your body consists of, you can use online calculators, by searching the term BMI or body mass index.

If you have no patience even for that, use this formula to calculate BMI-

BMI = Weight (in kg)

Height2 (in m)

For an average adult, a BMI of less than 20 means underweight, 20-25 means normal, 25-30 overweight and over 30 obese.

If your BMI falls above 25, that is you are obese or overweight, you are in real danger of developing Type II diabetes. Remember, it may lead to several complications including heart and kidney problems, blindness, even loss of limbs through amputation. So, immediately set out with a plan to lose weight, preferably in consultation with your doctor, and religiously adhere to it. In this way, you will not only keep yourself safe but also contribute to a healthy, diabetes free America.

Body mass index

The body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet index, is a statistical measurement which compares a person’s weight and height. Though it does not actually measure the percentage of body fat, it is used to estimate a healthy body weight based on how tall a person is. Due to its ease of measurement and calculation, it is the most widely used diagnostic tool to identify weight problems within a population, usually whether individuals are underweight, overweight or obese. It was invented between 1830 and 1850 by the Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet during the course of developing “social physics”.[1] Body mass index is defined as the individual’s body weight divided by the square of his or her height. The formulae universally used in medicine produce a unit of measure of kg/m2. BMI can also be determined using a BMI chart, which displays BMI as a function of weight (horizontal axis) and height (vertical axis) using contour lines for different values of BMI or colours for different BMI categories.
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We’ll take a look at what causes obesity in this article.

• One reason for this is that the amount of time the modern person is physically active has decreased. There is not much need for physical activity in a modern society. Modern technology has made life very convenient for us. Instead of walking, we drive. We spend a lot of time watching television and in front of the computer. The only reason we are active is when we consciously choose to do so, like engaging in sports.
• Another factor that contributes to obesity is the easy availability of food. When food becomes easily available, people can just reach out without thinking and start snacking. In addition, food portions are bigger. There’s no food shortage in a modern society so people just buy more and eat more.
• Metabolism rate in general has also gone down. Due to a lack of physical activity, our bodies have no need to keep up a sustained rate of metabolism. What this means is that less fat is burnt, and are instead stored in the body.
• There can also be medical reasons for obesity. Cushing’s disease, for instance, can be a cause. So can certain medications. In such a case, a doctor should be consulted as soon as possible. He will be able to advise what medications to take and what to avoid.

Barring medical reasons that cause obesity, in order to lose weight, one would be required to change his or her lifestyle. There is no avoiding it.

Unhealthy habits need to be removed, and good habits need to be developed.