There is almost no injury that won’t be improved with exercise.  What exercise and how much depends on the injury.  Running a marathon on a broken leg is unwise, but doing stretches and other activities to keep the surrounding muscles supple and supportive is an excellent idea.  The right weight loss plans will help the injury heal and make you feel better all over.

Low-Fat Isn’t The Same As Healthy

Being healthy isn’t just a matter of being thin.  In fact, simply being skinny can mean that you’re almost as unhealthy as someone who is significantly overweight.  It may also mean that you’re on the road to gaining back all the weight you lost, if something like diet dissatisfaction or a slip on the stairs derails your process and undoes your progress. 

Diet dissatisfaction can come in range of guises.  Far too many weight loss plans involve foods that have had the appetite satisfying fat removed and replaced with sugar and salt.  While unhealthy fats are certainly to be avoided, processes that remove them don’t distinguish between healthy and unhealthy, meaning that any advantages the food had are gone. 

In addition, this process means your body has to work harder to process the calories, meaning that you receive less energy from the food and wind up hungry that much sooner.  This isn’t good for maintaining a diet or health.

Being Lighter Helps You Heal

If, either before, or after you find yourself on this unsatisfying and unhealthy diet, you suffer an injury, or if you are dealing with some sort of chronic condition like arthritis, a plan that helps you lose fat and pounds will make healing easier on a number of levels.  Especially if this diet is nutritionally balanced at the same time.

Just as there is no injury that will not respond positively to the right kind of exercise, there is no healing that won’t be facilitated by a reduction of weight on the relevant joint or body part.  And no fat loss that won’t be accelerated by eating healthy foods that work in conjunction with your metabolism to speed the fat burning.

Healthy Food Is Satisfying Food

The best part about a weight loss plan made up of healthy, nutritious, single ingredient, organic food is that you don’t spend your days hungry.  And, because your body is getting the vital nutrients your muscles, organs and bones need for optimal health, you will actually heal faster while reducing your weight and improving your energy.  All this from tasty, healthy foods that leave you satisfied and with enough energy to get through your day.

The reason this type of weight loss plan works is because we are designed to eat organic foods and derive maximum nutritional value from them.  Chemically processed foods with most of their nutrients were not part of our development. Our bodies burn through the few vitamins they posses and store anything else that’s in them as fat.  This is why so many diets require vitamin supplements.

Which is ridiculous, when almost the first thing you see when you walk into a grocery store is a brilliantly colorful array of fruits and vegetables that have everything a body can ever need to stay healthy and heal up from an injury or improve a chronic condition.  A weight loss plan that optimizes the way these nutritious foods work with our bodies to maximize fat loss and energy is the proverbial icing on the cake – except with less sugar and far more flavor.

 

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