How is our biology connected to weight gain?

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How is our biology connected to weight gain?

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We are faced with a really strange challenge in that we live in a time when food is incredibly abundant and activity is not required to be a successful human being but our bodies were created 200,000 years ago when we were all hunter gathers. We were all working every day. We could not just go somewhere and buy some Nikes for our feet. We had to create our own shoes. We had to create our own clothes. We had to find our own food. During that time, it was incredibly helpful if our bodies had the capacity to gain excess weight easily and keep that weight on. Over the past 200,000 years nothing has changed biologically. We have the exact same biologies as our ancestors with radical changes in our life style. We do not have to move and we can take care of ourselves by going to a corner store. So because of this biological change, a change in the way we function does not coincide with our biological heritage. Our biology has become our enemy. Our bodies want us to keep the excess weight that we get on our bodies either starting out in life or later in life if we gain weight then. So we are up against it. But every athlete is up against the same biological challenge. Biology is not destiny.
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Daniel S. Kirschenbaum, PhD, ABPP, is the President of Wellspring. He was Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Northwestern University Medical School, where he is Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Kirschenbaum is a Fellow and Diplomate in Clinical Health Psychology in the American Psychological Association and former president of its Division of Exercise and Sport Psychology. Dr. Kirschenbaum has provided invited addresses at many professional conferences world-wide, received numerous grants for research, and published 10 books and 150 journal articles on weight loss, sport psychology, and related topics. His books include: the first book published for professionals on the treatment of pediatric obesity - Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent ObesityWeight Loss Through PersistenceThe Sierras Weight Loss Solution for Teens and Kids (2007); and, The Wellspring Weight Loss Plan. Dr. Kirschenbaum’s research on sport psychology won the top prize for research on the mental game of golf from the World Scientific Congress on Golf (St. Andrews, Scotland) and Golf Magazine; in 2000, the American Council on Exercise and its Board of Directors unanimously endorsed his book, The 9 Truths About Weight Loss, as "the best book ever written for the public on how to lose weight and keep it off."

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