The real cause of obesity

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Obesity has been around since there were people. It’s been around for 50,000 years easy, and it was around before Mcdonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s and all the other junk food we indulge in. Obesity is simply part of the human condition. In just 30 years we’ve gone from being svelte to being unbelievably sick. That’s what an epidemic looks like, or a pandemic in this case. This is on par with plague, or influenza. So the question is how do we account for this, and if it was just gluttons and sloths, then how do we explain the obesity epidemic in six month old children. Clearly we cannot say that our kids of six months are gluttons and sloths. the truth is that this pandemic goes far beyond personal responsibility. Lets dig deeper.

It is wide spread belief that the reason for this epidemic are calories. We’ve all heard it before, “a calorie is a calorie”. If you eat more than you burn, you will gain weight, and if you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight. No matter what, a calorie is a calorie and it doesn’t matter if it comes from carrots or cheese burgers. Well the bottom line is this just doesn’t apply.

The average individual today simply does not have time for food, and this might be the biggest problem we have when addressing the issue of obesity. Even with all of our labor saving devices like cars, computers, cell phones, we have manged to reduce our time and not free up more which is the desired result. It is the reason that the industrial global diet has taken over the world. This western diet that we all prize, package and export all over the world has now become this industrial global diet. Well why is that? It’s because it’s cheap, portable, has no depreciation, and is designed to taste really good to keep people eating. This is now everywhere. The whole globe has been exposed, but it doesn’t even stop there.

There has been a number of changes in the past 30 years in terms of our food supply.There is over 24,000 different foods that enter the market place every year. It is almost impossible to buy packaged foods without getting a lot of excess sugars that are toxic to your metabolism. One should be suspicious of all items that say fat free, low fat, or diet because that means that the manufacturers have to compensate with lots of added sugars.

So we’ve narrowed it down and found the real culprit. It is not calories, or even the fat content of our food. It is simply sugar which is a totally different animal. It is a beast that is putting mankind to an early grave via obesity and a host of other diseases.

In my next post I will go in depth about sugar and the poisonous properties it contains. Until next time, please share this and help inform others.