Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Roberts, claims that aspartame has even caused the obesity epidemic. Roberts says that aspartame makes you crave carbohydrates, which, of course, make you gain weight.
One case history in Dr. Roberts' book especially got my attention: "One of the terrible things aspartame did was to render my body unable to tell me when I was full. I was never, ever full! I could eat, and eat, and eat, and eat and still have room for more food — at least that is what my brain was telling me. |
Marshall Editions
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 The occurrence of the condition has increased five fold since the 1940s and experts now believe we are facing an obesity epidemic. The condition can be triggered by many factors. It can be due to heredity, so children of overweight parents are at increased risk; overeating and eating the wrong types of food; comfort eating, where food is used as an emotional buffer; irregular meals and skipping breakfast; a sedentary couch-potato lifestyle and lack of regular exercise. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 We know that the obesity epidemic is due to overeating—too big portions, too much rich food, and too little activity—but why do we crave too much of these rich foods?" says Eve Van Cauter, lead investigator on one of the new studies. Based on the results of her study, she postulates that it may be because "we are sleep deprived and unable to curb our appetites."25
These recent studies offer new hope for the overweight and may motivate people to establish more healthful sleep patterns. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Around the world, people from developed and developing countries are facing an obesity epidemic. This epidemic is driven by multiple ecological factors:
•Urbanism
?Expansion of global markets
?Changing family structures
?Changing work environments
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Gabriel Cousens
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 Although there are a number of causes for obesity, there is no question that one of the contributing causes for the obesity epidemic is the ever increasing use of MSG and aspartame.The damage to the hypothalamus is even worse in the womb and the first two years of life, when the young child is developing. The use of MSG during this critical developmental time may create severe endocrine problems later in life including decreased thyroid function, increased tendency toward diabetes, and higher cortisone levels than normal. |
Hyla Cass
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 According to the Center for Health Statistics, the American obesity epidemic started in the early 1980s—at the same time that the market was being flooded with low-fat products. Suddenly, the rate of overweight in adults went through the roof. At the start of the 1980s, 13 to 14 percent of adults were overweight; by the end of that decade, the rate of overweight rose to nearly 25 percent of adults.
Yes, there are "bad" fats—the trans-fatty acids found in most baked goods and many processed foods, for example. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 Considering we are facing an obesity epidemic, how long will the public warnings take this time?
Many of the new studies on leptin focus on cardiovascular health. It is now recognized in the scientific literature that leptin problems are a primary cause of cardiovascular disease. Leptin problems are directly involved with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, risk for stroke, and risk for heart attack. |
| It is our opinion that an epidemic of Candida Albicans infection, induced by the use of prescription antibiotics and the overconsumption of refined sugar, is a large factor contributing to the obesity epidemic in America today.
Candida is a yeast that is a normal part of the 3-5 pounds of foreign bacteria that comprise the natural fermenting environment of the gastrointestinal tract. In a state of natural balance Candida appears to be involved with garbage recycling functions and the absorption of heavy metal poisons. |
| Serious dangers regarding the ingestion of MSG and its contribution to the obesity epidemic can now be understood. All pregnant and lactat-ing women should avoid MSG as a priority. The reality is, MSG should be removed from the food supply as an unsafe neurotoxin that dysregulates leptin and contributes to obesity and therefore disease. As of April 2004 this problem is crystal clear in the scientific literature. It took American health officials 10 years to admit folic acid should be given to prevent 50,000 neural tube defects a year. |
| Another study announced that the obesity epidemic is continuing to worsen and is a major problem for our society.39 Their message is clear; America is getting fatter and drinking more.
It has been our observation over the years that many individuals who struggle with significant leptin resistance have a history with excessive alcohol and/or drug use. Thus, it is not at all surprising that the two trends are happening at the same time.
Individuals recovering from alcohol abuse do not like to be hungry as it triggers the cravings for alcohol. |
| It would be relatively easy for parents and schools to help solve both the apparent need for Ritalin and the general obesity epidemic in our youth. Parents could ensure their children eat a good breakfast, one with a good protein base and void of sugar sweetened cereals. Schools could replace morning snacks with morning exercise, and forbid snack-ing before lunch (except with instructions from a medical doctor). These simple changes would drastically change the prevalence of what is now being called ADD/ADHD and the rampant increase in obesity in our youth. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 As of 1999, $321 million was spent on medications for obesity, a figure that will undoubtedly grow as the obesity epidemic continues and newer drugs come to market. The medications for obesity currently approved by the FDA are very specifically limited for use in adults with a body mass index (BMI) of 27 or more who also have obesity-related medical conditions, or for adults with a BMI of 30 or more who do not have obesity-related med-
2,3 ical conditions. (To compute your BMI easily, go to the website listed in Resources. |
Michele Simon
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 Indeed, CCF has gone so far as to advance two seemingly contradictory positions: one, that lack of exercise is the principal cause of obesity, and two, that there is, in fact, no obesity epidemic. Apparently, logical inconsistency of argument poses no barrier to deployment. |
| CCF's press releases, op-ed articles, letters to the editor, and purchased ad campaigns are shrewd PR tools that are highly effective at sowing doubt about the seriousness of the obesity epidemic, and lending credence to the industry view that its products can be safely consumed as directed.
Second only to the CCF, the American Council on Fitness and Nutrition (ACFN) is one of the most infamous front groups in the business. The name certainly sounds innocuous enough. Who could be against fitness and nutrition? |
| Too often, people mistakenly think that if food companies just saw the impact that the obesity epidemic is having on health-care costs, for example, they would change their business practices. But food makers need not be concerned about the negative public health consequences associated with the over consumption of their products. In their minds, those are someone else's problems.
Corporations don't commit suicide
For all these reasons, we should be very suspicious when a company talks about scaling back the production or marketing of certain foods in the name of public health. |
| Responsibility for the obesity epidemic is thereby shifted away from junk food makers and dumped squarely into the laps of individual consumers.
Disturbingly, both the Sun-Times and the Oregonian identified Finn only as ACFN's chair, neglecting to reveal her group's industry biases and backing. When media outlets fail to make such corporate affiliations clear, readers are left with the misimpression that writers like Finn are speaking solely from a position of impartial, professional authority. |
| Food companies, trade associations, and industry front groups love to portray lack of exercise as the "true cause" of (and hence the solution to) the obesity epidemic. This is, of course, a great way to deflect blame while changing the subject. For example, in responding to pressure to get soda out of schools, the American Beverage Association indicts our couch potato culture with this ready quip: "It's about the Couch, Not the Can."9 Other times, the goal is to position obesity as being too complex to be reduced to a single "solution" (e.g. |
| In recent years, the issue has taken center stage in the national debate surrounding the causes of the childhood obesity epidemic. Also, children are increasingly experiencing health problems previously seen only in adults, such as Type 2 diabetes and early signs of heart disease.
With children being bombarded with forty thousand commercials a year, combined with an ever-increasing onslaught of high-tech vehicles to reach kids anytime and anywhere, parents and professionals alike are saying enough is enough. (Schools are another area of great concern, which we will cover in Chapter 10. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| There are also many copycat fly-by-the-night startup operations trying to take advantage of the obesity epidemic and the breaking news about leptin. The first question to ask is "How long have you been in business?" Consumer beware.
Individuals wishing to explore nutritional supplement options to facilitate weight loss and improve the natural structure and functions of the body are invited to visit www.WellnessResources.com. There you will find an interesting leptin quiz, breaking news about leptin, and tips for keeping a healthy weight loss program on track. |
Mike Adams
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 Carbohydrates and obesity
"Some scientific studies suggest that part of today's obesity epidemic is being fueled by over-consumption of high-glycemic carbohydrates that induce chronic insulin overload."
- Disease Prevention and Treatment by the Life Extension Foundation
Obesity is another disease that's caused by the excessive consumption of carbohydrates. Obesity and diabetes go hand in hand, and the mechanism of how carbohydrates promote obesity is very similar to the diabetes mechanism discussed above. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Despite the fact that relationships between sedentary behavior and obesity are somewhat unclear, intervention research with children and adolescents focused on reducing television watching shows promise as an obesity prevention and treatment strategy [97]. The work of Epstein et al. [65, 98-100] has figured prominently in the literature on decreasing sedentary activity as a strategy for promoting higher levels of physical activity. |
Elaine Magee
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 The icing on the obesity cake, so to speak, is our practice of dieting, losing weight fast, and gaining it back. Many chronic dieters have lost the ability to eat when they are truly hungry and to stop eating when they're comfortable.
Years of dieting have taught us to follow a certain plan to the letter and deprive ourselves until we can't stand it anymore. We are born with the ability to eat when hungry and stop when comfortable, but this is an easy thing to lose in an environment of fad dieting, with tempting food everywhere you go.
We have our work cut out for us, but it can be done. |
Andreas Moritz
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 H. Pylori regulates the production of leptin and ghrelin. Leptin is a protein hormone with important effects in regulating appetite, body weight, metabolism and reproductive functions. Ghrelin, a circulating growth hormone-releasing peptide derived from the stomach, stimulates hunger and food intake. Destroying H. pylori in the stomach, can upset the balance of these hormones and lead to spiraling effects of weight gain and injury to all organs and systems in the body. |
Jacky Law
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 Some say it also obscures the fact it is rather unlikely that our biological mechanisms governing weight have become dysfunctional so suddenly and on such a global scale. The obesity epidemic is relatively new, no more than a generation old at most. Obesity expert, Dr Andrew Prentice of the International Nutrition Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, suggests the roots lie not in eating too much but in eating food that is too rich. His theory, reported in the New Scientist, suggests that the richness of modern food may be to blame. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 The damning, much-needed 14-page report, "Food without Thought: How U.S. Farm Policy Contributes to Obesity," issued by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), astutely explains that Americans have been gaining weight, in large part, because for the past 50 years, U.S. food policy has been driving down the prices of a few farm commodities, particularly corn and soybeans, so that they're "artificially cheap. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Do they think the obesity epidemic in this country is the fault of a couple of needle-toting lab researchers who have been sleuthing across the country, jabbing skinny people in their sleep and transforming them into overnight diabetics?
For those of you paying attention to the way the world really works, you've probably already figured out the scam behind this virus explanation for obesity. It goes like this: If obesity is caused by a virus, then drug companies can invent a vaccine for obesity!
Ah, you knew that one was coming, didn't ya? |
Byron J. Richards
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 However, public-health officials who harp on this message are doing little to solve the obesity epidemic. Society needs to learn how to eat to be in harmony with leptin. The food supply needs to be cleaned up. The environment needs to be cleaned up. The widespread use of brain-altering medication in children needs to stop. A new priority needs to be placed on the health of women entering childbearing years, a program that should be a continuation of proper early-life education on the subject. |
| There is no question that the chemical contamination of our environment is a major contributing factor to the obesity epidemic.
Sometimes examples are dramatic, as in the case of Felipe Franco, born without arms or legs. Throughout her pregnancy his mother picked pesticide-covered grapes in the fields near her home in Bakersfield, California. The risk of farming and working in the fields with these poisons is associated with increased rates of breast cancer, suicide, infertility, and birth defects. Government investigations into the obvious find no conclusive proof of any harm. |
| Their menus contribute in a big way to our society's obesity epidemic and poor quality of health. They market directly to the subconscious problems of a society full of food addicts—a situation they helped to create in the first place.
The number of calories that should comprise a meal varies based on a person's physical size, activity level, and any needed weight loss. The daily calorie need for women generally falls somewhere in the 1,200 to 1,800 calorie range; for men the range is somewhere between 1,600 to 2,200 calories. |
| Considering our huge obesity epidemic, avoiding MSG is essential. The substance should be banned along with aspartame.
Traditional Foods Are the Foundation of Your Eating Plan
Eat foods prepared in the traditional manner of your heritage.
Understand what kind of diet your recent ancestors ate when they were at their healthiest. These foods, prepared in their traditional ways, should form the foundation of your food plan. If you are of European descent, why would you concoct a diet grounded in soy products? |
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