Key is to find a strategy that you can live with forever

It's scary that we are becoming increasingly unhealthy and unfit, it's even scarier that so few people end up effectively helping themselves when they decide to do so, and sometimes the scariest thing is the extremes we end up going to in order to deal with it when we decide to change.

It's easy to choose a seemingly reasonable strategy that ends up fighting our own biology eventually. And there are fads and gimmicks all over the place that promise just exactly the kinds of "clinical results" people think they want, but which just makes the problem worse in the long run by adding another short term illusory success and longer term failure to their experiences.

A strategy that can't be maintained indefinitely is simply not an acceptable strategy if the goal is health for the long term. Severe dietary restriction are futile except for anorexics and unhealthy for them, and activity/exercise has to be kept up (forever !) in order to be of value.

The answer isn't in tricks but in healthier lives.

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