First, exercise. You cannot outrun your fork.
Exercise is essential to your health, your longevity, your quality of life, and your weight. No one can lead a good life without regular, healthful exercise. Everyone should find some activity that they enjoy doing so that they are motivated to do it regularly.
That said, hours of exercise calories can be eaten easily and mindlessly in moments. Bodies are evolved to survive in the wild and are very efficient. A handful of cookies can power you to walk for miles.
So, second, diet. Different kinds of foods affect you in different ways. Food composition is important to your metabolism on both a molecular and cellular level. Molecularly, you need specific nutrients for health. But, additionally, food affects you based on its cellular form. So, eating whole broccoli is more taxing for your body to digest. The whole plant fibers act as food for commensal bacteria. Sugars packaged in intact cell walls are absorbed more slowly, and produce smaller hormonal responses in the body.
The biggest problem everywhere are so-called highly-palatable foods. Candy, sweetbreads, soda, smoothies, white flour products, pop-tarts. These food-like substances come in what is effectively a partially digested state. Your body integrates their calories almost instantly. They feed festering bacteria rather than beneficial bacteria. Everywhere these foods are introduced, obesity is the result.
Current nutritional research is woefully inadequate. The best studies, controlled environment studies, are heinously expensive and impossible over the course of years. Furthermore, the provision of funds for nutritional research is primarily done by biased, interested parties, so much of it is colored by funding sources.
First, exercise. You cannot outrun your fork. Exercise is essential to your health, your longevity, your quality of life, and your weight. No one can lead a good life without regular, healthful exercise. Everyone should find some activity that they enjoy doing so that they are motivated to do it regularly. That said, hours of exercise calories can be eaten easily and mindlessly in moments. Bodies are evolved to survive in the wild and are very efficient. A handful of cookies can power you to walk for miles.
So, second, diet. Different kinds of foods affect you in different ways. Food composition is important to your metabolism on both a molecular and cellular level. Molecularly, you need specific nutrients for health. But, additionally, food affects you based on its cellular form. So, eating whole broccoli is more taxing for your body to digest. The whole plant fibers act as food for commensal bacteria. Sugars packaged in intact cell walls are absorbed more slowly, and produce smaller hormonal responses in the body.
The biggest problem everywhere are so-called highly-palatable foods. Candy, sweetbreads, soda, smoothies, white flour products, pop-tarts. These food-like substances come in what is effectively a partially digested state. Your body integrates their calories almost instantly. They feed festering bacteria rather than beneficial bacteria. Everywhere these foods are introduced, obesity is the result.
Current nutritional research is woefully inadequate. The best studies, controlled environment studies, are heinously expensive and impossible over the course of years. Furthermore, the provision of funds for nutritional research is primarily done by biased, interested parties, so much of it is colored by funding sources.
I invite you to examine the evidence presented by those such as Dr Greger: https://nutritionfacts.org/
And I encourage you to look into this yourself.