To lose weight EATING WELL is the most important thing. For me it is shocking to watch the calories argument, and almost saying that you have to starve in orde

To lose weight EATING WELL is the most important thing. For me it is shocking to watch the calories argument, and almost saying that you have to starve in order to lose weight. 40 years ago Americans, or most Europeans did not starve, and being overweight was rare. They ate lots of fat, for example with consumption of butter(calories) three times what it is today. Traveling around the world I see people that eat well(I have eaten their food) and nobody is fat there. They cook their food though. People in the Western world eat very badly. Most of their food is precooked, frozen and stored in plastic. That alone removes lots of necessary components of food, like vitamins or fiber, or degrade it making them not usable by the body. So when the body needs essential components, and could not get it the normal way, it enters panic mode and craves for more food. One of the most overweight people I have seen in my life were native Americans Indians in reserves and in Alaska or native people from Hawaii. They are so poor and eat so badly no matter how much they eat their body never says enough. People in Hawaii were known for being slender before colonization. There are natural limitations on industrial food, and we are paying for it. Industry instead of solving he problems(which is hard) has tricked be body into believing the food is totally ok, with things like artificial flavoring.