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America The Obese: Is There A Multibillion Dollar Conspiracy To Make Sure Americans Stay Overweight?
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream,
According to Gallup, America is now fatter than it has ever been before. But how can this possibly be? After all, Americans spend an astounding 60 billion dollars a year on weight loss programs and products. After putting so much time, effort and energy into losing weight, shouldn’t we be some of the healthiest people on the entire planet?
Sadly, the truth is that obesity has become a national epidemic, and we are known around the globe for our huge size. The term “fat Americans” has become synonymous with overweight tourists, and other cultures mock us for our apparent sloth. But could there be more to this than just the fact that we eat too much? Could it be possible that we have been fattened up by design?
Before we get to that, let’s take a look at some of the cold, hard numbers. The following are some of the statistics from the Gallup survey that I mentioned above…
-The national rate of obesity has risen to an all-time high of 27.7 percent. That is up from 27.1 percent in 2013, and it is much higher than the 25.5 percent number that we were sitting at in 2008.
-At 19.0 percent, Hawaii has the lowest rate of obesity in the entire country.
-At 35.2 percent, Mississippi has the highest rate of obesity in the entire country.
-The rest of the top 10 includes West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri.
And remember, those numbers just cover obesity. You can definitely be overweight without meeting the official criteria for being “obese”. According to CNN, 70 percent of all Americans are overweight at this point. To say that we have a national crisis on our hands is a huge understatement.
One of the primary reasons why most of us are overweight is due to how our food is made. The American diet is highly processed and it is absolutely packed with obesity-causing ingredients such as sugar and high fructose corn syrup. And it is well documented that some of the additives that they put into our food are highly addictive and actually make you want to eat more. In fact, it has been reported that some of the additives are about as addictive as “opiates“, “heroin” and “cocaine“. The big food corporations want us to eat as much as possible, because when we eat more of their food they make more money.
Unfortunately, being overweight is not just an issue of not looking as good as we could. As Gallup explained, a whole host of health problems are related to obesity…
The national obesity rate in 2014 was the highest that Gallup and Healthways have measured since starting to track this measure in 2008. In a handful of states, more than a third of the population is obese.
Residents in these areas are less likely to eat healthily and exercise, and are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, depression, diabetes, cancer and heart attacks.
Obesity-related health problems could drive up healthcare costs and potentially have larger economic implications for states that suffer most.
The strong relationship between obesity and overall well-being suggests that interventions geared toward encouraging exercise and healthy eating, while important, may not be enough to reverse the upward trend in obesity. Gallup has found that Americans’ desire to lose weight is not matched by their efforts. The mismatch between desired weight loss and weight loss efforts may stem from deficits in other areas of well-being. For instance, if residents don’t have a strong sense of purpose, struggle financially or lack supportive relationships, it will be much more difficult for them to buy healthy food, exercise regularly and achieve their weight loss goals.
Cancer, heart disease and diabetes are all huge money makers for the medical establishment. If you can believe it, 100 billion dollars was spent on cancer drugs last year alone. So there are people out there that are becoming exceedingly wealthy from all of our misery.
In addition, it is a fact that being overweight shaves years off of our lives. Just consider the following information that was shared by Natural News…
Published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, a study comparing young men and women of healthy weights to young obese individuals found that those who were overweight lost about 8.4 years off of their lives if they were men and 6.1 years off of their lives if they were women.
Similarly, the young obese men suffered 18.8 more years of poor health leading up to their early deaths compared to men of healthy weight, while young obese women suffered 19.1 years of poor health. Even when obesity emerged just in old age, both men and women were found to lose years off of their lives: for men, an average of 3.7 years and for women about 5.3 years.
So why doesn’t the medical establishment do more to help us lose weight and keep it off?
Well, if we were all at a healthy weight they would lose a tremendous amount of money. Right now, if the U.S. health care system was a separate country, it would be the 6th largest economy on the entire planet. The sicker that all of us are, the more money the medical establishment makes.
And then of course there is the massively bloated weight loss industry. As I mentioned above, 60 billion dollars a year is spent on weight loss programs and products in the United States. If we were all at a healthy weight, we wouldn’t need to spend all of that money.
Tragically, most of those programs don’t work in the long run anyway. At least that is what one scientific study discovered…
In the end, the advice and products offer virtually no long-term return on investment—measured, of course, in pounds permanently lost. According to a 2006 study reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, most people who participate in weight-loss programs “regain about one-third of the weight lost during the next year and are typically back to baseline in three to five years.”
So what is the solution?
The key is to make healthy choices a lifestyle and not just a one time event.
If you “go on a diet” or you “do a cleanse”, but then you just go back and do the same things that you did before, you are going to end up at the exact same place you started.
If we want to be healthy, what we need to do is to design our lives so that we are doing the right things consistently. We need to be physically active, we need to eat healthy (lots of fruits and vegetables), and we need to avoid the things that we know will make us fat.
In the end, it isn’t that complicated. Thanks to the Internet, there is lots and lots of great health information out there that you can access for free. But you have got to be willing to make the right choices and to do the right things consistently.
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Here ya go. Eat all you want: (239 to 165, currently 175 after two years)
Lifestyle Medicine Clinic, Duke University Medical Center
"No Sugar, No Starch" Diet: Getting Started
This diet is focused on providing your body with the nutrition it needs, while eliminating foods that your body does not require, namely, nutritionally empty carbohydrates. For most effective weight loss, you will need to keep the total number of carbohydrate grams to fewer than 20 grams per day. Your diet is to be made up exclusively of foods and beverages from this handout. If the food is packaged, check the label and make sure that the carbohydrate count is 1 to 2 grams or less for meat and dairy products, 5 grams or less for vegetables. All food may be cooked in a microwave oven, baked, boiled, stir-fried, saute'd roasted, fried (with no flour, breading, or cornmeal), or grilled.
WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY, EAT YOUR CHOICE OF THE FOLLOWING FOODS:
Meat: Beef (including hamburger and steak), pork, ham (unglazed), bacon, lamb, veal, or other meats. For processed meats (sausage, pepperoni, hot dogs), check the label; carbohydrate count should be 1 or less gram per serving.
Poultry: Chicken, turkey, duck, or other fowl.
Fish and Shellfish: Any fish, including tuna, salmon, catfish, bass, trout, shrimp, scallops, crab, and lobster.
Eggs: Whole eggs are permitted without restrictions.
You do not have to avoid the fat that comes with the above foods.
You do not have to limit quantities deliberately, but you should stop eating when you feel full.
FOODS THAT MUST BE EATEN EVERY DAY:
Salad Greens: 2 cups a day. Includes arugula, bok choy, cabbage (all varieties), chard, chives, endive, greens (all varieties, including beet, collards, mustard, and turnip), kale, lettuce (all varieties), parsley, spinach, radicchio, radishes, scallions, and watercress. (If it is a leaf, you may eat it.)
Vegetables: 1 cup (measured uncooked) a day. Includes artichokes, asparagus, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, eggplant, green beans (string beans), jicama, leeks, mushrooms, okra, onions, peppers, pumpkin, shallots, snow peas, sprouts (bean and alfalfa), sugar snap peas, summer squash, tomatoes, rhubarb, wax beans, zucchini.
Bouillon: 2 cups daily -- as needed for sodium replenishment. Clear broth (consomme strongly recommended), unless you are on a sodium-restricted diet for hypertension or heart failure.
FOODS ALLOWED IN LIMITED QUANTITIES:
Cheese: up to 4 ounces a day. Includes hard, aged cheeses such as Swiss and Cheddar, as well as Brie, Camembert, blue, mozzarella, Gruy', cream cheese, goat cheeses. Avoid processed cheeses, such as Velveeta. Check the label; carbohydrate count should be less than 1 gram per serving.
Cream: up to 4 tablespoonfuls a day. Includes heavy, light, or sour cream (not half and half).
Mayonnaise: up to 4 tablespoons a day. Duke's and Hellmann's are low-carb. Check the labels of other brands.
Olives (Black or Green): up to 6 a day.
Avocado: up to 1/2 of a fruit a day.
Lemon/Lime Juice: up to 4 teaspoonfuls a day.
Soy Sauces: up to 4 tablespoons a day. Kikkoman is a low-carb brand. Check the labels of other brands.
Pickles, Dill or Sugar-Free: up to 2 servings a day. Mt. Olive makes sugar- free pickles. Check the labels for carbohydrates and serving size.
Snacks: Pork rinds/skins; pepperoni slices; ham, beef, turkey, and other meat roll-ups; deviled eggs.
THE PRIMARY RESTRICTION: CARBOHYDRATES
On this diet, no sugars (simple carbohydrates) and no starches (complex carbohydrates) are eaten. The only carbohydrates encouraged are the nutritionally dense, fiber-rich vegetables listed.
Sugars are simple carbohydrates. Avoid these kinds of foods: white sugar, brown sugar, honey, maple syrup, molasses, corn syrup, beer (contains barley malt), milk (contains lactose), flavored yogurts, fruit juice, and fruit. Starches are complex carbohydrates. Avoid these kinds of foods: grains (even "whole" grains), rice, cereals, flour, cornstarch, breads, pastas, muffins, bagels, crackers, and "starchy" vegetables such as slow-cooked beans (pinto, lima, black beans), carrots, parsnips, corn, peas, potatoes, French fries, potato chips.
FATS AND OILS
All fats and oils, even butter, are allowed. Olive oil and peanut oil are especially healthy oils and are encouraged in cooking. Avoid margarine and other hydrogenated oils that contain trans fats.
For salad dressings, the ideal dressing is a homemade oil-and-vinegar dressing, with lemon juice and spices as needed. Blue-cheese, ranch, Caesar, and Italian are also acceptable if the label says 1 to 2 grams of carbohydrate per serving or less. Avoid "lite" dressings, because these commonly have more carbohydrates. Chopped eggs, bacon, and/or grated cheese may also be included in salads.
Fats, in general, are important to include, because they taste good and make you feel full. You are therefore permitted the fat or skin that is served with the meat or poultry that you eat, as long as there is no breading on the skin. Do not attempt to follow a low-fat diet!
My wife and I are ON this diet. CARBS, sugars OUT. And yet, with the same amount of exercise here in America, it takes way longer to cut weight. There is something in even the best foods here in America that is causing us to keep weight. This year, we head to Portugal once again for 5-6 months. WE WILL FEEL BETTER. There has to be something up there....I feel better when I am over there and my gut feels way worse when I return. It may be the fat content in our meats or hormones (growth). The meat tastes better there. The Whole chickens we buy here are, I think, full of SALINE and other additives to ADD WEIGHT so that shit makes us sick. When we cook chicken in Portugal, there is not all of that JUICE when baking whereas here, the Chicken oozes all sorts of fatty juices and the chicken floats in that shit when we are done cooking whereas in Portugal the chicken is DRY at the end (cook 45 to 60 minute, oven, 375 and nothing but herbs on both sides of the Ocean). WE HAVE A PROBLEM here in the USA!
This may be a result of the body storing fat to sequester toxins that it cannot purge in large quantities away from vital organs. If anyone ever wants to lose weight don't eat a single grain of flour for 90 days. After about a week you will begin to lose a pound a day minimum. It's the grains. Once you slow down the toxic intake the body can more effectively deal with and purge the stored toxins.
My take as a European is that it's just way more expensive and complicated to eat healthy in the US compared to here. Every time I'm on your side of the Atlantic I find it frustratingly difficult to avoid all the fast food chains because they are, well fast and cheap and easy to spot. If you wanted to eat healthy you had to look for these special organic stores which at least for a foreigner are not so easy to find and once you're inside you realize how everything is extremely expensive. But most of the non processed food is only avialble there, you won't find it at Wal-Mart and the like. Now, over here even if you go to an ordinary supermarket you find loads of organic food and generally it is easier to eat healthy and not much more expensive. Plus fast food costs more here, this depends a bit on the country but in some places it can go up to 15$ for a fast food meal! Every Ketchup package they sell you for an additional 0.2$ and so forth, you know you're being ripped off for what you get.
Anyway, there are fat people too over here and there is lots of temptation. Go outdoors you have some stunningly beautiful sceneries to go hiking and burn that fat away! :)
My wife and I live in Portugal every other year. We eat then ONLY vegies from a local Farmer's market. We walk more. I even DRINK more. BUT, the interesting thing is that my gut feels better only after a month. THERE IS SOMETHING in the food in America. I AM NOT KIDDING HERE. I actually get all sorts of issues from the very same food here as compared to what I eat in Portugal. I am not imagining it as it crept up on me that after a couple of weeks, I lose weight there, and my bodily functions get better (less gas, better everything, if you know what I mean). This is not a fluke. It has occurred to me over a 15 year period. We eat less here and yet I feel terrible most of the time gut wise. I have cut out alchohol here, and eat a lot of veg's....I think it might be hormones or additives.
I have no problem believing that. It's all of the above. We need to remember that the buillt in pesticide in GMO (derived from the defense mechanism of a bacteria) it punctures holes in the small intestine causing leaky gut. This is the mechanism that kills insects on the plants, apparently it is doing the same to us and God knows what else.
The process works something like this: "Sections of the DNA from the bacteria known as Baillus turingiensis ae isolated an inserted into the plant cells by a process known as genetic transformation... There are thousands of different Bt strains that produce protein crystals toxic to insect pests. Particular strains are chosen to target specific plant pests. The resulting plant contains the Bt toxin in it's cells. When the plant is eaten by the target insect the toxin binds to receptors in the insects gut, causing the gut wall to break down and allowing toxin spores and normal gut bacteria enter the body. As spores and bacteria enter the body, the insect dies" N.L. Swanson the examiner. Emphasis added.
Latino immigration duh.
http://stateofobesity.org/disparities/ Latinos are 30 %fatter.
More Latinos more obesity.
There is a multi billion dollar conspiracy to promote mass immigration, ask Sheldon Adelsohn and Bill Gates and the Fannie Mae Foundation.
I read that entire article and he did not mention gluten one time. Snyder is as ill-informed as the rest of the fat americans. one star.
Unfortunately, GLUTEN is not the evil part: THE ELBOW IS. EAT FUCKING LESS.
Take away 70 percent of fast food joints in America and your unemployment would be 70 percent.
It's incredible how fats have been vilified by the media for years. Low fat and fat-free options aren't necessarily healthier, as they replace fats with more sugars and/or sodium.
Fat buildup in the arteries isn't necessarily from consuming fats. Or all fats for that matter. "Bad" cholesterol or LDL has been shown to correlate with trans fats. And while the media has chastised them as well, labeling rules allow for a product to be "Free of Trans Fats" if it contains less than half a gram of trans fats per serving. Eat more than a serving, you're likely to intake a significant amount of trans fat. It's really bullshit. I would be in support of a European system, requiring nutrition measurements to the hundredths place. If not that at least tenths place, not always rounding down by a half gram.
For the most health-conscious among us, I would recommend the following dogma. 1. Eliminate empty carbs, only consuming carbs when also consuming fiber--fresh fruits, etc. 2. Consume fats moderately--saturated and unsaturated. 3. Increase your Omega-3/Omega-6 ratio. Whatever yours is, chances are that it's too low.
Obesity rates and percentage of population that is black are closely linked. So when a arrogant Northerner talks about Southern states having a relatively high obesity rate, they are dog-whistling their dislike of black people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqn-Xe_2iCw
Interesting documentary which sheds some light on obesity epidemics.
Btw: In addition it is interesting to explore role of proteins in feeling hungry. Also glycemic index is of high importance.
Funny according to OECD data, Greeks are the fatest by far.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?docex=1&url=http://www.oecd.org/health/49...
Just a spoonful of high octane and let er rip
Twice weekly or when the mood hits