If you were to eat a healthy nutritious diet that is low in calories and fat you would find that eventually you would lose weight and maintain the optimal body shape that is possible for your body type.
If you have never eaten what is considered a healthy diet chances are you really do not know what your real body shape looks like.
Because it is estimated that two thirds of all Americans are either overweight or obese, most individuals are looking at a body that has too high of a fat content.
When you look at athletes who are in good shape you really get to see how ideal a body can look.
When the fat is gone a body can be sinewy and cut.
It wasn't that long ago in human history, just about 30-40 years ago, that obesity or being overweight was not a significant health issue in this country.
At that time, smoking was considered the number one health problem facing Americans.
Smoking is still a health issue in this society, but it is been supplanted by obesity as the number one cause of health problems.
The difficulty in dealing with the health problems of obesity is that they can be chronic conditions, which afflict a person for much of his or her life.
On the other hand, people who smoke often get cancer and die quickly as a result.
As a society, we now have to deal with a heavy financial load the chronic medical conditions are putting on our health care system as a result of obesity.
If we can ever bend the curve back towards a society where healthy eating is the norm, we will begin to see normal sized bodies again.
When bodies are not burdened by extra weight they are more efficient and are less likely to break down with chronic health problems.
Not only that, but people will have a much healthier self-image when they're looking at their true body proportion as opposed to a body laden with fat.