Diet Vs. Exercise For Healthy Weight Loss

Everyday there is a new fad diet that is being touted to eliminate the need for diet and/or exercise, but losing weight and being healthy can still only be done through some combination of the two. And to be effective the two must be done in conjunction.

Working out without watching your diet is often ineffective because you aren’t getting the nutrients your body needs to build muscle which fights fat and you may be eating more calories than you are burning in your work outs.

Lowering your calorie intake and not working out will likely lower your weight but this is not sustainable and most people regain the weight they lose shortly thereafter this way.

So one without the other can work but to truly manage one’s weight at a healthy level takes both diet and exercise.

The diet in the United States is nowhere near the recommended guidelines from the US Department of Agriculture. According to their studies the average American eats 14 times more sugary foods than they should. Sugar like this has no nutritional value and contributes to fat on your body.

So, it’s a matter of what calories you are taking in and not how many. This is an important distinction that is not understood by many. When one hears diet in America they assume they have to cut the amount of food they eat.

Exercise ties it all together by burning the calories. Those that are able to consistently keep weight off and not have their weight fluctuate are patient and workout everyday.

The key is to get to a point where your lifestyle becomes a virtuous cycle of working out because it feels good and feeding your body the nutrients it needs so you feel good. After a while you won’t want to counteract your workout with unhealthy calories.

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Some Important Leaders Taking The Giving Pledge

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet started The Giving Pledge in 2010 in an effort to bring visibility to important issues and to get high profile billionaires to pledge money to help improve the world. The number of people that have signed the pledge to give over half of their money to charity is now over 125. Many of them are household names and arguably their biggest contribution is putting their names on the list.

One symbolic pledger is Ray Dalio. Dalio started the biggest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates. Dalio is worth an estimated $15 billion. Dalio signed the pledge in 2011. Dalio is a completely self-made success and sits at one of the most visible positions in the finance industry. Dalio is important because hedge funds were often vilified after the crash of 2008. But many hedge fund managers have philanthropic foundations with billions of dollars, Dalio has started to give more and more money to his foundation.

Tim Cook recently joined the ranks of pledgers. What differentiates Cook is not only that he took over for the most important tech entrepreneur of all-time after his tragic passing but his relatively low net worth. At just $800 his net worth is nothing compared to the likes of other pledgers Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Larry Ellison whose assets sum to more than $150 billion. But Cook is the CEO of Apple and along with entrepreneurs like Ellison and Gates this pledge is an endorsement for philanthropy.

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook has also taken The Giving Pledge. Zuckerberg is just 30 years old and is worth more than $37 billion dollars. As Facebook continues to add value to users and expand to other countries Zuckerberg stands to be the richest on this list in the future, helping to make the Giving Pledge last across generations. The millennial generation are already staring to show they would rather work for and buy from mission driven companies that seek to do good. The future looks promising!

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