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The REAL Cause of the Global Obesity Epidemic
World Wide Obesity Epidemic
Some 68% of all Americans are overweight, and obesity has almost doubled in the last couple of decades worldwide. As International Business Tribune reports:
Studies conducted jointly by researchers at Imperial College London and Harvard University, published in the medical journal The Lancet, show that obesity worldwide almost doubled in the decades between 1980 and 2008.
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68 per cent of Americans were found to be overweight while close to 34 percent were obese.
Sure, people are eating too much and exercising too little. The processed foods and refined flours and sugars don’t help. And additives like high fructose corn syrup – which are added to many processed foods – are stuffing us with empty calories.
But given that there is an epidemic of obesity even in 6 month old infants (see below), there is clearly something else going on as well.
Are Toxic Chemicals Making Us Fat?
The toxins all around us might be making us fat.
As the Washington Post reported in 2007:
Several recent animal studies suggest that environmental exposure to widely used chemicals may also help make people fat.
The evidence is preliminary, but a number of researchers are pursuing indications that the chemicals, which have been shown to cause abnormal changes in animals’ sexual development, can also trigger fat-cell activity — a process scientists call adipogenesis.
The chemicals under scrutiny are used in products from marine paints and pesticides to food and beverage containers. A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found one chemical, bisphenol A, in 95 percent of the people tested, at levels at or above those that affected development in animals.
These findings were presented at last month’s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A spokesman for the chemical industry later dismissed the concerns, but Jerry Heindel, a top official of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), who chaired the AAAS session, said the suspected link between obesity and exposure to “endocrine disrupters,” as the chemicals are called because of their hormone-like effects, is “plausible and possible.”
Bruce Blumberg, a developmental and cell biologist at the University of California at Irvine, one of those presenting research at the meeting, called them “obesogens” — chemicals that promote obesity.
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Exposed mice became obese adults and remained obese even on reduced calorie and increased exercise regimes. Like tributyltin, DES appeared to permanently disrupt the hormonal mechanisms regulating body weight.
“Once these genetic changes happen in utero, they are irreversible and with the individual for life,” Newbold said.
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“Exposure to bisphenol A is continuous,” said Frederick vom Saal, professor of biological sciences at the University of Missouri at Columbia. Bisphenol A is an ingredient in polycarbonate plastics used in many products, including refillable water containers and baby bottles, and in epoxy resins that line the inside of food cans and are used as dental sealants. [It is also added to store receipts.] In 2003, U.S. industry consumed about 2 billion pounds of bisphenol A.
Researchers have studied bisphenol A’s effects on estrogen function for more than a decade. Vom Saal’s research indicates that developmental exposure to low doses of bisphenol A activates genetic mechanisms that promote fat-cell activity. “These in-utero effects are lifetime effects, and they occur at phenomenally small levels” of exposure, vom Saal said.
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Research into the impact of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on obesity has been done only in laboratory animals, but the genetic receptors that control fat cell activity are functionally identical across species. “They work virtually the same way in fish as they do in rodents and humans,” Blumberg said. “Fat cells are an endocrine organ.”
Ongoing studies are monitoring human levels of bisphenol A, but none have been done of tributyltin, which has been used since the 1960s and is persistent in the marine food web. “Tributyltin is the only endocrine disrupting chemical that has been shown without substantial argument to have an effect at levels at which it’s found in the environment,” Blumberg said.
Concern over tributyltin’s reproductive effects on marine animals has resulted in an international agreement discontinuing its use in anti-fouling paints used on ships. The EPA has said it plans next year to assess its other applications, including as an antimicrobial agent in livestock operations, fish hatcheries and hospitals.
Bisphenol A is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in consumer products, and the agency says the amount of bisphenol A or tributyltin that might leach from products is too low to be of concern. But the National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, is reviewing bisphenol A, and concerns about its estrogenic effects prompted California legislators to propose banning it from certain products sold in-state, a move industry has fought vigorously.
Similarly, the Daily Beast noted in 2010:
{Bad habits] cannot explain the ballooning of one particular segment of the population, a segment that doesn’t go to movies, can’t chew, and was never that much into exercise: babies. In 2006 scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health reported that the prevalence of obesity in infants under 6 months had risen 73 percent since 1980. “This epidemic of obese 6-month-olds,” as endocrinologist Robert Lustig of the University of California, San Francisco, calls it, poses a problem for conventional explanations of the fattening of America. “Since they’re eating only formula or breast milk, and never exactly got a lot of exercise, the obvious explanations for obesity don’t work for babies,” he points out. “You have to look beyond the obvious.”
The search for the non-obvious has led to a familiar villain: early-life exposure to traces of chemicals in the environment. Evidence has been steadily accumulating that certain hormone-mimicking pollutants, ubiquitous in the food chain, have two previously unsuspected effects. They act on genes in the developing fetus and newborn to turn more precursor cells into fat cells, which stay with you for life. And they may alter metabolic rate, so that the body hoards calories rather than burning them, like a physiological Scrooge. “The evidence now emerging says that being overweight is not just the result of personal choices about what you eat, combined with inactivity,” says Retha Newbold of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in North Carolina, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Exposure to environmental chemicals during development may be contributing to the obesity epidemic.” They are not the cause of extra pounds in every person who is overweight—for older adults, who were less likely to be exposed to so many of the compounds before birth, the standard explanations of genetics and lifestyle probably suffice—but environmental chemicals may well account for a good part of the current epidemic, especially in those under 50. And at the individual level, exposure to the compounds during a critical period of development may explain one of the most frustrating aspects of weight gain: you eat no more than your slim friends, and exercise no less, yet are still unable to shed pounds.
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Newbold gave low doses (equivalent to what people are exposed to in the environment) of hormone-mimicking compounds to newborn mice. In six months, the mice were 20 percent heavier and had 36 percent more body fat than unexposed mice. Strangely, these results seemed to contradict the first law of thermodynamics, which implies that weight gain equals calories consumed minus calories burned. “What was so odd was that the overweight mice were not eating more or moving less than the normal mice,” Newbold says. “We measured that very carefully, and there was no statistical difference.”
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`Programming the fetus to make more fat cells leaves an enduring physiological legacy. “The more [fat cells], the fatter you are,” says UCSF’s Lustig. But [fat cells] are more than passive storage sites. They also fine-tune appetite, producing hormones that act on the brain to make us feel hungry or sated. With more [fat cells], an animal is doubly cursed: it is hungrier more often, and the extra food it eats has more places to go—and remain.
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In 2005 scientists in Spain reported that the more pesticides children were exposed to as fetuses, the greater their risk of being overweight as toddlers. And last January scientists in Belgium found that children exposed to higher levels of PCBs and DDE (the breakdown product of the pesticide DDT) before birth were fatter than those exposed to lower levels. Neither study proves causation, but they “support the findings in experimental animals,” says Newbold. They “show a link between exposure to environmental chemicals … and the development of obesity.” [See this for more information on the potential link between pesticides and obesity.]
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This fall, scientists from NIH, the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and academia will discuss obesogens at the largest-ever government-sponsored meeting on the topic. “The main message is that obesogens are a factor that we hadn’t thought about at all before this,” says Blumberg. But they’re one that could clear up at least some of the mystery of why so many of us put on pounds that refuse to come off.
Pthalates – commonly used in many plastics – have been linked to obesity. See this and this. So has a chemical used to make Teflon and other products.
Most of the meat we eat these days contains estrogen, antibiotics and powerful chemicals which change hormone levels. Modern corn-fed beef also contains much higher levels of saturated fat than grass-fed beef. So the meat we are eating is also making us fat.
Antibiotics also used to be handed out like candy by doctors. However, ingesting too many antibiotics has also been linked to obesity, as it kills helpful intestinal bacteria. See this and this.
Arsenic may also be linked with obesity, via it’s effect on the thyroid gland. Arsenic is often fed to chickens and pigs to fatten them up, and we end up ingesting it on our dinner plate. It’s ending up in other foods as well.
The National Research Council has also found:
The effects of fluoride on various aspects of endocrine function should be examined further, particularly with respect to a possible role in the development of several diseases or mental states in the United States.
Some hypothesize that too much fluoride affects the thyroid gland, which may in turn lead to weight gain.
No, Everything Won‘t Kill You
In response to information about toxic chemicals in our food, water and air, many people change the subject by saying “well, everything will kill you”. In other words, they try to change the topic by assuming that we would have to go back to the stone age to avoid exposure to toxic chemicals.
But this is missing the point entirely. In fact, companies add nasty chemicals to their products and use fattening food-producing strategies to cut corners and make more money.
In the same way that the financial crisis, BP oil spill and Fukushima nuclear disaster were caused by fraud and greed, we are daily exposed to obesity-causing chemicals because companies make an extra buck by lying about what is in their product, cutting every corner in the book, and escaping any consequences for their health-damaging actions.
In fattening their bottom line, the fat cats are creating an epidemic of obesity for the little guy.
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Watch what people buy at the Supermarket, what they eat at the fast food restaurants and the ansurd volume they eat to know the source of obesity.
The claim that Bisphenol is causing obesity is just part of the EPA campaign to get it banned.
Just be careful with what you publish about this subject.
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.de/2012/03/media-hypes-bpa-ban-endangers...
Due to the economy, I spent a year and a half taking care of my own horses. It's hard work, which involves carrying 50 lb. feed bags, 40 lb. saddles & 40 to 60 lb. hay bales, plus cleaning stalls, grooming of the horses, and exercerising them. It took 4 to 5 hours every day. It's hard work. I would be dripping sweat after about 30 minutes. But did I lose any weight? Not really.
And its not just me. At the horse shows now, the kids are like little heifers, despite getting mosre exercise than about 90% of other kids. Even the horse trainers, most of whom are very physically active for 10 to 12 hours every day are fat now.
I eat pretty well for an American-no fast food--make most things from scratch--grow some veggies. I think its either something in the plastics that are used for bottled water, something that is being fed into our meat supply. and/or preservative chemicals (formaldehyde is a biggie) used on fresh vegatables.
But whatever is causing this, I am tired of being a chemical experiment for the food & beverage industry.
unlike others, I'll not diagnose you in-thread, but these words in your post caught my eye:
I don't know what you eat from the "meat supply" but I would encourage you look into what gets fed to "meat" before you get hold of it.
also know that most supermarket veg is irradiated, which depletes nutrients, among other things. this article may interest you:
http://www.diet-and-nutrition-now.com/food-irradiation.html
but yes, the "plastics used for bottled water" - bisphenol-A, as the OP illustrates.
none of this will change through voting or force. the only way to change is simple---get the truth out there and change your own consumption patterns.
the only way to deal with ALL encompassing corruption and evil behavior is to isolate yourself from it by personal choice. hence : religion.
read about the real corruption in ancient times. entire societies co-opted by the social hierarchies of various types of immoral behavior institutionalized by the kings and supported by the masses of wicked people. this presumption that it is ALL top down corruption is at odds with the reality that people will happily trade their freedom and the 'better' choice in the long run, for benefit and the worse choice now. many are willing slaves. many on the bottom desire the state of affairs status quo and will fight you without being told to by the 'top down' mechanism. this is something that people on the left don't seem to get very well. or at least, not as well as those on the right.
this is why abraham found god. it is one reason why many people generally find 'god' in the real sense, why cults are started, why insular groups are actually formed and maintained. i'm not talking simply about finding a reason to quit drinking.
it's not easy to do it alone, and group support of a tight knit community helps. but with or without one, if you don't want plastics in you than you have to commit to behaving differently because you cannot change the world. the world will collapse onto itself ( the obesity epidmic will help push the healthcare system into oblivion completely unable to support the costs of itself ) , and when you have enough people on your own side....and perhaps after that, one day many years in the future, after all the waiting and plastic-abstinence you can force through change the only real way that is possible---not by money, not by 'persuasion' but the good old fashion way.........
No!
The real cause is that we are eating foods we have not evolved to be eating. Excessive quantities of grains or sugar cause blood sugar spikes which the body tries to curb by releasing insulin, which in turn causes fat accumulation. Excessive here means as little as a few dozen grams, because for hundreds of thousands of years our ancestors would rarely if ever encounter that much. Over time, this abuse makes us functionally diabetic, even if we are not yet obese.
Look up High Fat - Low Carb, or Paleo nutrition. Podcasts such as Livin' La Vida Low-Carb or The Paleo Solution or Heathy Mind Fit Body are good places to learn more.
Obviously toxic chemicals don't help any, but the main cause is wheat, corn, soy and sugar. Try going without sugar for a few days to realize just how addictive it is.
Yep, all inflammatory acidic foods. Alkalizing will cause your body to release the toxins stored in fat and you lose the fat. Our diabetic situation is almost all self induced but can largely be reversed quickly w/ diet changes. Same with heart disease. There is paleo diet studies that show our focus on cholesterol is actually wrong in heart disease. The problem is inflammation of the circulation system by bad diets and the normal cholesterol(your body needs it) gets caught at the choke points. Again our medical community is prescribing pills to treat symptoms, not get at the easier to fix causes.
I wonder the coorelation between alkalinity and diabetes...
It is amazing how few people know about maintaining body alkalinity. I love seeing the light go on behind peoples eyes when you explain to them that their digestive organs sole purpose is to keep your body's PH at 7.1 or 7.2. Tossing back a bunch of soda and sugary drinks punishes your kidneys on an insane scale. I know quite a few guys i work with who have had kidney stones multiple times and they arnt even 25 because they suck down energy drinks all day.
Its hard for me to start a day without coffee but it really puts your body on the acidic side early in the morn. kombucha and almonds for lunch!
...on a personal note a few months ago I started doing green shakes to supplement my diet because I wanted to loose a few inches around my waste and improve my diet while eating less junk. (tip from a Joe Rogan Pod Cast) Anyways it did help me quite a bit and it does surprisingly fill you up so you don't have hunger pains if you substitute it for one of your meals. You do have to have a special blender but this is the recipe: 3 kale leaves, 3 celery stalks, 1 green apple or pear, 1 cucumber, piece of ginger root, grind up flax seed first. makes 2 servings .It's not that bad really plus you get your nutrients and it costs 3 to 4 times as less than a fast food meal $$$.. Also stopped drinking soda long ago and almost completely cut out fast food. I stopped eating American size portions of meat and bread and now only eat human size portions. It's amazing what a common sense approach to your diet will do for your health. Too bad they do little to emphasize this in our school system.
Amazing what giving up soda does for you, isn't it? I stuck to diet, caffeine-free soda for years after losing 70 pounds on Atkins, but have always had problems sleeping. The wife and I finally decided to give it up about three years ago and it immediately made a difference in sleep quality and energy levels. And the best benefit by far is getting your taste buds back. I actually started developing my wine palate after that and for the first time in my life developed a taste for beer.
As for fast food, I tell my friends to try to eat it with water instead of soda. Ever try washing down a Big Mac and Fries with water? Absolutely disgusting. The soda actually helps mask the low quality of the food.
aahhhh, aspartame.
http://www.naturalnews.com/026849_aspartame_poison_health.html
rummy thanks you all for playing. good for you for getting off the stuff.
+1. I've been a juicer every day for 20+ years and swear by it. There is no other reason for me to be alive, given the daily assaults from the females living under Rainman's roof. Any fruit or vegetable is eligible to be juiced. But be careful with red beets...too much will give you the screaming sheets, just as with grape juice. It's an aquired taste, but stick with it !! Juice from concentrate will eventually taste like sugary crap, which it is. V-8 is a good substitute for travel, but has way too much salt.
Just drink mass quantities of alcohol to pickel and preserve your body making it immune to microscopic attack from chemical and biological aggressors.
My Dad died at 95. His diet consisted of nothing but fatty foods including 5 lbs of butter a week. He drank lots of beer in the summer. Every night before going to bed he would have a tall glass of 130 proof home distilled from pure fruit, or Graves Pure Alchohol. "No ice, ice cold drink are bad for your stomach". He was active to age 90 from nine in the morning till six at night. Example, He spend most of one day with a big chain saw cutting down firewood at age 88. So, may take is exercise will keep you lean and healthy and burn off those calories. Todays kids and their video games is probably one of the reason for weight gain.
again, did you read the article?
your dad most likely didn't consume foods tainted with bisphenol-A because most of these chemical experiments are post WWII - post FDA meddling in the food supply, post "food pyramids" that promoted whatever fud the corporations wanted you to eat that week, post "margarine" as a "butter" substitute because all that "fat" is bad for you, which many leading nutritionists are now challenging. . .also, as the article mentions, there is a genetic component at play, and we're a couple generations down the road since the chemical / pharma industry got it's hands on amrkn food supply.
Drink beer. Beer is food.
Obesity epidemic is causing an epidemic of diabetes. 26 million Americans are diabetic and 80 million Americans have metabolic syndrome or prediabetes.
350 million people in the world have diabetes.
Obesity is killing us - slowly and painfully and very expensively.
Avoid processed foods and exercise and keep your waist to height ratio below 0.45 - you will be healthy and safe from diabetes.
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And the cup holder in automobiles! Obesity in the US took off after cup holders were put in cars, which made eating in cars common. Many people frequently do not leave the house without drink or food for the trip (even local trips).
I've worked in health care in the U.S. for the past 20 years so I work directly with many of the morbidly obese. (Think 350 to 400lbs.) Some look so far gone and sick as if they have been thoroughly poisoned. Sure many of their diets consist solely the cheap poison food that all grocery stores sell. Sure many may have never eaten a vegetable in 20 years but I think there is more going on than just the horrible American diet. Look at all the obese children at the public pools. When I was growing up there was one "fat" kid in every school. Now that same "fat" would blend in quite normally in today's public school system. He may even be considered normal weight in some schools.
visited the University of Illinois recently for a weekend... didn't see anyone that i wouldn't call obese
I concur with your assessment. The kid(s) we called "fat" back in Elementary school (late 60s, early 70s) would be considered the upper range of normal today. Today's obese kids would have been considered mutants back then. Over-eating is definitely part of it. When I went on Boy Scout outings with my son, I was absolutely shocked to see how ignorant parents are in the care/feeding of their kids. Smores, candy bars, pop, and Doritos are not something to feed an already overweight child. The composition of todays food is probably to blame as well. Too much cheap crap, high fructose corn syrup (vs. real sugar), pop, sweets, and bread (wheat today is not the wheat of old). Cooking "real" food takes too much time and $$; modern parents apparently can't be bothered. Lastly, when I was a kid, I ate tons of junk food and stayed rail thin. Of course, I played outdoors and rode my bike constantly. Few kids even go out and play anymore--always in front of a screen of some kind.
Not sure how to explain the obese 6-month olds though. Would not surprise me if there are addiitonal factors as work.
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indeed, should you care to actually READ the article you're posting on, there ARE additional factors pointed out for you.
my god people, do you even care, or is this just another ZH hate fest??
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Behold the effects of the newest epidemic: iShit.
I wonder if it is possable to starve to death and still be fat. Or it might be time to raise the BWI to redefine what thin is. Lets get the government involved so that schools and hollywood to help americans have a healthy BMI of 35 or 40. Anything less is starving and a crime. You can't have starving kids and you cant employ unhealthy actors.
Since even the starving Chinese have a BWI of at least 30 a healthy american much have at least 35 or 40.
You asked "I wonder if it is possible to starve to death and still be fat." I first started getting a clue when I saw a news story about one of those shut-in people who got up to something like 800 pounds and then needed to go to the hospital. They needed to take a wall down so they could get the guy out of the house, then loaded him on a flat-bed truck to get him to the hospital. The first thing they treated him for? MALNUTRITION! The poor sap was living on a diet of pure junk food. He was, quite literally, starving to death while swimming in a sea of blubber. So the answer to your question is "yes!" It is, in fact, entirely possible to quite literally starve to death while being incredibly obese.
who can junk a post like this? m*nsant* trolls?
yes in the fire department there is a orwellian name for that.. call it a home extrication or something like that.. In locales like san antonio tx they take special home extrication classes for the people who have grown to big to fit thru the doorway.. It sounds easy just cutting out like 6 studs or something like that butt you have to account for the sheer strength on the load bearing wall. just ridiculous. I find its good to just imagine the worst when you are out eating at a restaurant. Imagine the guy making your salad is a Junkie with Hep C and a runny ass nose. Learn to cook. Restaurants are such a huge expense and many are just about the bottom line. I look at all the folks going to eat in these slow ass chinese restaurants where the cooks and waiter hardly speak english. I think much of this obesity can be attributed to people always eating in restaurants and not cooking their own food. I love making chili beans.. I always would use italian sausage and ground meat. After learning of this pink slime i thought i would do it the same but without the meat and the result was very very desirable. Hard to even tell the diff.. peace out folks
It's certainly possible to be obese and malnourished - no reason to think some condition related to a lack of essential nutrients might eventually kill you. Just like being cast-away on a raft loaded with nothing but Saltine crackers might keep you alive long enough to die of scurvy.
A good reason for the obesity epedemic is that both America and Europe (and other countries) can over-produce food to the tune of over 30% their needs
so much for food scarcity eh?
I'm a bit overweight, don't know about you GW, but that's as far as our responsibilities take us... leave the whailing to those who can't mind their own business of other peoples lives and want to take forward the food fascism/socialism Govt agenda
let fat people be fat, pass the popcorn
Europe imports most of its food, The US imports a lot of out of season foods all year long. Europe has Africa, North America has South and Central America.
I think you might have missed the point of the article. Yeah over consuming can get you there, but chemical byproducts that slowly poison you bring about similar effects. Scary to think eating all the healthy organic food you want and it still comes in a poison lined cans. Thanks to NDAA growing your own food or questioning the methods of big AG makes you a terrorist. They need obese people with poor immune systems so their sister pharma's can sell you meds to "fix" it.
Best part of it is nexdt year my over taxed ass gets to pay EVEN MORE so 30mil fat americans can get cheaper insulin and di-a-beet-us testing supplies. Not to mention knee and ankle replacements from toting around the extra 2hundy. Pass the lethargy you fat fuck
fair comment i did "miss" GW's point about chem trails in food because i thought the more important point was the pressure (push) is on by AG to flog/tempt us into food as there's so much of it (30% over production)
our beloved shills, politicos, spend so much time crying "Wolf" that nobody believes a word. And odds on that's good because every topic i've researched every scare story Govt peddles is chock full of lies from top to toe
like those most corrupt of human scum in the EPA, everything from smoking, DDT spraying to banning Chinese toys, something you'd have to lick for 20 years to get a tiny blister on your tongue (probably from licking, not the trace of a banned chemical)
the EPA are just another fascist/socialist Govt tool to stop others free trade
Finally (phew!) regards chemicals the best option is always buying from small producers or shops and even farmers markets (more natural) that you trust ..it's the Big Boy retailers you are just a number and need all the chemicals and packaging
Yes, having eugenicists in charge of the food supply is a problem.
I am personally convinced that the single biggest cause of obesity in the US is malnutrition. People are eating "food" that would more properly be called "industrial byproducts," over-processed swill that is not fit for either man nor beast. So what happens to the poor saps who eat this garbage? They get tons of calories but no actual nutrition, no vitamins, no minerals, nothing that can actually be used by the body. The brain processes the information it gets from the body, determines that while 20,000 calories may have just been ingested there was nothing in all of that rancid, foetid recycled roach crap that actually resembled food, and has no choice but to trigger the hunger response in a pitiful and wretched attempt to actually secure something that provides sustinance.
Once I wised up, started eating better and doing daily "juicing" with fresh organic apples and carrots, I am now actually able to control my weight. It's all about getting actual nutrition in your diet, and cutting out the processed offal being passed off as "food" to those unable to tell the difference.
You are right on. I also think it has something to do with soil depletion and GMOs. When I go to Europe and stay for a sufficiently long period, I always lose weight. I've noticed that food that is lacking in nutrition is also lacking in taste. You tend to eat more when the body attempts to get more nutrition out of nutrition-free garbage, as you mention. It's really a big project to get nutrition in America.
Always liked Michael Pollan's phrase, "an edible foodlike substance." That pretty much sums up most of what passes for "food" nowadays.
Its also being given products that increase appetite and being sold suppressants to compensate." Difficult to see, the dark side is". - Yoda
"Some hypothesize that too much fluoride affects the thyroid gland"
It is more than a hypothesis.
"What makes it infinitely worse, is that fluorine, being a halogen (chemically related to iodine), but very much more active, displaces iodine. So that the uptake of iodine is compromised by the ejection, as it were, of the iodine by fluorine. To condemn the entire population, already having marginal levels of iodine, to inevitable progressive failure of their thyroid system by fluoridating the water, borders on criminal lunacy."
Also fluoride in water leads to lower IQs:
"24 studies have now reported an association between fluoride exposure and reduced IQ in children "
http://rense.com/general57/FLUR.HTM
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/12/fluoride-a...
The story is that the whole idea of fluoride in water was originally thought of by the Germans. Purpose: make concentration camp prisoners accept authority and oppresssion with far less resistance.
Now ponder about that very well... and do not forget that certain U.S. organisations where almost completely invaded and compromised by a certain German group after the war.
Certain researchers have pointed out that Germany signed a capitulation document after the war. The Nazi party did not.. (read e.g. the Nazi International by J.P. Farrell)
The author brings up excellent points, I would like to add a theory of mine that supplements the above. I think part of the problem is that our food supply has been so refined and over processed, along with the fact that our soil has been mostly killed by harsh chemical fertilizers that the vital nutrients in our food have been mostly destroyed or are missing to begin with. Add to that irradiation of our fruits and vegetables, which in turn destroys natural enzymes that help with metabolism. Supplements are mostly ineffective and not absorbable.
The body knows it is not getting what it needs and is calling for more vital absorbable elements which manifests as hunger , and instead it gets more of the refined high caloric substance leading not only to obesity, but lethargy,disease and mental dullness.
The amount of magnesium in a whole bread is nowadays less than the amount of magnesium in a single slice of bread in the beginning of the 20th century..
I agree, if you eat quality nutrient dense foods your hunger drops dramatically.
However, the new Taco Bell Nacho Dorito shell tacos are awesome!
Uh yeah blame anyone but me for myself and my condition. I am sheeple.
Of course it does not help weight that they keep most in constant stress with easy cheap calories around.
Baa-baa. Baaaaah. The end is near zero has gone to the Dark Side.
Semi-sarc :???/
cool, I'm a victim and have no responsibility for my obesity
I'm oppressed. The government needs to stick a gun in someones face and force them to give me "free" diet pills and a personal trainer.
I have rights!!!
Sure, do what you want. This is a free country after all. Just don't look to me to pay your hosptial bill when they cut off your feet from diabeties.
Santorum/Palin 2012!
ha, ha, don't worry, I will put a plastic bag around my neck and die w/o any taxpayer paying for my death!
"Just don't look to me to pay your hosptial bill when they cut off your feet from diabeties."
You talkin to me dingleberry?
I never attended Georgetown Law so I don't ask others to pay for anything ;-)
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Likewise, please don't look to me to pay your hospital bill when they cut off your head due to your obvious case of cerebral necrosis.
PS: A good brand of enema (I recommend "Fleet") will take care of that messy Santorum problem of yours --- assuming you were the bottom partner, which I do.
Wow the trolls are thick as theives today...