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submitted: Sep 30th 2008 | by: HenryJohn | Total views: 1 | Word Count: 378 | |

They say that health is wealth. It's a very true statement. Most people would give all their wealth for good health. Some take health for granted - until something goes wrong and then they regret past excesses or lack of attention to diet and exercise.

Youth has little or no time for anything as boring as health, yet our early years are very important when it comes to building a 'health platform' for our future. When you're young you don't give a second thought to health - that is until something goes wrong, but you believe that it never will.

Diet is somebody else's concern when we are young, we don't worry ourselves about it. All we are interested in is getting more of what we like - which is usually candy, cake and cookies washed down with copious quantities of cola.

Only when we reach our teenage years do we take more note of the way we look. Now we notice if we're fatter than our friends. It starts to matter.

Parents often have a difficult job convincing their children to eat green vegetables. At an early age, we are not the least interested in what is good for us. We rebel against what we don't like, and in far too many instances parents lose out to headstrong children. The resulting diet in those crucial years is often not as good as it should, or could be.

Arriving in early adulthood overweight is not helpful. To have so many ingrained bad habits as far as eating and exercise is concerned makes doing something about it difficult - although not impossible.

The most important thing is to break bad habits and that requires developing an awareness of what they are. Many of the bad habits will have been endorsed by upbringing. To go against this can be a challenge. What has been accepted as a family culture in terms of diet and exercise takes real resolve and determination to change.

To make a real and lasting difference it's not diets that are needed, but a more fundamental change in behaviour. The only really successful way to do this is to learn new habits, slim habits, that will enable lasting change to take place.

About the Author

To be able to say goodbye to diets forever is something all dieters dream of. Henry John, a writer, speaker and authority on permanent weight loss and behavior change, has been involved in developing a new weight loss system that delivers permanent weight loss. Find out how to lose weight and keep it off. Click here

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