obesity america 2008

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} According to obesityamerica 2008 , in 1991, no US state had an obesity rate above 20 percent.   Today more than sixty percent of people areoverweight, not necessarily obese, but the figure for obesity for 2008 was25%.   It will be well above that todaybecause the obesity numbers grow exponentially. The fact is that today, almost2 thirds of the population is overweight, and they are all heading towardsobesity and type2 diabetes. You have ice in your veins if that doesn’t scareyou.   What we are experiencing is another form of human intervention. Whileskeptics debate how we can stop the climate change we have caused, we are alreadydestroying ourselves from within.   No, itis not our fault. We have all become victims of the adage: If you make anystatement long enough, loud enough and often enough, people start to believe itand after a while it grows to become a fact.   People who are involved in the area of diet and exercise, havealways talked very loud and very often about their ideas and hunches for healthand nutrition.   In the very late seventies,they spoke long and loud about their new healthy diet. It was based on threeserves of carbohydrate to one serve of protein.   It was designed for everybody to combat a new threat called cholesteroland it came with a poster of a pyramid. No one dared question it. Those whoshould have spoken remained silent.   It wasn’t long before all that reckless theory became fact. Todayit 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, itis the foundation of hundreds of diets devised by many dozens of ‘expert’ andthe numbers of victims run into millions.   So how did it all begin? Since the Pyramid diet was devised inthe late seventies, right up till today, that diet has never been tested in alab. Neither has any of the hundreds of diet that followed. They did not gothrough human trials and the people who came up with those diets were notscientists.   These were diets that someclever people devised with great enthusiasm because the stuff they were suggestingto one another sounded healthy, wholesome and irresistible.   There is no doubt they believed their own voodoo, but it was notscience. The words Green and Natural became an ear piercing catch cry by everywannabe food expert in the world.   Itsounds so good and it is natural right?   Well arsenic is natural, so are opium poppies, poisoned mushrooms andhundreds of other substances that are natural.   No one, including me, spoke up at the time and asked for someclarification. Some proof that it was safe to change a diet we had all beenaccustomed to for generations and which had kept most of us slim and healthywithout giving it a thought. Why did no one speak up? Frankly, nobody wantedto.   We all loved the idea of a modern diet,something we, unlike our stodgy parents, could finally understand and call ourown.   We didn’t check anything because we wanted it to be true.   Most of us didn’t realize that no science hadbeen involved, but I doubt we would have cared. We rushed in and adopted a dietthat was basically the ideas of a few self proclaimed expert’s on what foodswere healthy and how we should eat them.   To this day, despite ever growing weight problems, obesity andtype2 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 andscience is too busy with far more glamorous, revenue raising projects.   So before there is no one left to remember how all this began, Ithought I had better write it all down and put it on record. I would like tosee obesity america 2008 have noreason at all to produce new figures for 2018. What I have learned can makethat 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?   http://www.my-own-plan.com/cap/index4.html   Kirsten Plotkin Author

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