obesity america 2008 - I look around today, on the street and in the mall and I fear for the future. Roughly four out of every six people I pass are overweight. It is said by obesity america 2008, that in 1980, the national average of obese adults was 15 percent. Prior to that time it would not have been a large enough problem to need statistics.
According to
obesity
america 2008, in 1991, no US state had an obesity rate above 20 percent.
Today more than sixty percent of people are
overweight, not necessarily obese, but the figure for obesity for 2008 was
25%.
It will be well above that today
because the obesity numbers grow exponentially. The fact is that today, almost
2 thirds of the population is overweight, and they are all heading towards
obesity and type2 diabetes. You have ice in your veins if that doesn’t scare
you.
What we are experiencing is another form of human intervention. While
skeptics debate how we can stop the climate change we have caused, we are already
destroying ourselves from within.
No, it
is not our fault. We have all become victims of the adage: If you make any
statement long enough, loud enough and often enough, people start to believe it
and after a while it grows to become a fact.
People who are involved in the area of diet and exercise, have
always talked very loud and very often about their ideas and hunches for health
and nutrition.
In the very late
seventies, they spoke long and loud about their new healthy diet. It was based
on three serves of carbohydrate to one serve of protein.
It was designed for everybody to combat a new
threat called cholesterol and it came with a poster of a pyramid. No one dared
question it. Those who should have spoken remained silent.
It wasn’t long before all that reckless theory became fact. Today
it is still an unchallenged dogma. Not because it is true but because no one,
not even the people promoting it remembers where the dogma came from. Yet, it
is the foundation of hundreds of diets devised by many dozens of ‘expert’ and
the numbers of victims run into millions.
So how did it all begin? Since the Pyramid diet was devised in
the late seventies, right up till today, that diet has never been tested in a
lab. Neither has any of the hundreds of diet that followed. They did not go
through human trials and the people who came up with those diets were not
scientists.
These were diets that some
clever people devised with great enthusiasm because the stuff they were suggesting
to one another sounded healthy, wholesome and irresistible.
There is no doubt they believed their own voodoo, but it was not
science. The words Green and Natural became an ear piercing catch cry by every
wannabe food expert in the world.
It
sounds so good and it is natural right?
Well arsenic is natural, so are opium poppies, poisoned mushrooms and
hundreds of other substances that are natural.
No one, including me, spoke up at the time and asked for some
clarification. Some proof that it was safe to change a diet we had all been
accustomed to for generations and which had kept most of us slim and healthy
without giving it a thought. Why did no one speak up? Frankly, nobody wanted
to.
We all loved the idea of a modern diet,
something we, unlike our stodgy parents, could finally understand and call our
own.
We didn’t check anything because we wanted it to be true.
Most of us didn’t realize that no science had
been involved, but I doubt we would have cared. We rushed in and adopted a diet
that was basically the ideas of a few self proclaimed expert’s on what foods
were healthy and how we should eat them.
To this day, despite ever growing weight problems, obesity and
type2 diabetes, no one dares question the dogma of what is a healthy diet.
Not even the medical or scientific professions.
The medical profession will deal with the problem when diabetes threatens and
science is too busy with far more glamorous, revenue raising projects.
So before there is no one left to remember how all this began, I
thought I had better write it all down and put it on record. I would like to
see
obesity america 2008 have no
reason at all to produce new figures for 2018. What I have learned can make
that possible. For the past five years, it has solved my weight problem.
Perhaps it can do the same for you. We have to begin somewhere right?
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