Don T Waste Your Time Analysis

Clean eating, healthy eating, or dieting. Whatever name people want to give it, one fact the majority of people can not deny is that they do not do it. The reason more people do not take more of an advantage of this disease treating or curing, all around beneficial lifestyle is unknown. Mary Woodbury Hooper reveals statistics about obesity in her article “Weight Management.” Hooper writes “According to data from the World Health Organization, approximately 13 percent of the world’s adult population was obese and 39 percent were overweight in 2014.” With numbers like this, it would be assumed that more people would have a desire to live healthier lives by, first, eating healthier, more nutritious foods. This is not the case, though. Americans …show more content…
Sue Stanley, the author of “Don’t Waste Your Time Dieting, Use Exercise to Lose Weight” states his personal views of how diet and exercise work together in his article. He states, “Regular activity is much more effective at keeping weight off, long-term, than a diet.” To back up his opinion, Stanley provides his readers with information on how to start an exercise plan. Stanley’s first advice is: “If you’re just starting an exercise program, begin with as little as 15 minutes of low-impact aerobic exercise three times a week. Gradually increase your program to 30 minutes four times a week.” Thirty minutes is the recommended amount of exercise to keep a person’s body healthy. Although this is well-known information to fitness advocates, beginners of this lifestyle may be clueless to all of this information. Another issue people seem to be clueless on about exercise is that it helps treat and sometimes even cure health problems. In the article “What’s Best For You, Diet or Exercise” by Sarah Marinos gives insight on a few problems that can greatly improve with exercise. Depression is the first issue that can be treated with exercise. The National Health Service in the UK has seen, first hand, how depression is reduced if patients got the recommended amount to 150 hours of exercise each week. Exercise allows a person to sleep better as well. This works because exercising allows a person to relax and focus on his or her training rather than the struggles of the day, along with fatiguing the body. With a clear mind and tired body, better sleep is almost guaranteed. Along with these other issues, regular exercise also has been credited to reducing the risk of cancer. The example used in the article is how exercise reduces the risk of breast cancer. Women who are not active and do not have much muscle produce more estrogen than women who do. Estrogen is an imbalance that ups the