When Did America Get So Fat
The Big Lie About Diets:
The Big Lie About Diets:
I used to often wonder when did it happen? when did America get so fat and why did the rest of the English speaking world follow? Nobody seems to remember a time when most people were slim. I am sure there are people who believe we have always been predominantly fat.
I don't know precisely when I first wondered; when did america get so fat? Like most people I was slow to notice. But unlike most people, I do remember when and how it began.
When self proclaimed experts try to create a truth out of false statements, all they have to do is repeat it often enough, to enough people to make it a fact. That is unless somebody speaks up and proves otherwise. Sometimes, by then it can be too late.
If no one intervenes these same false statements move from facts to dogma. Usually that means nobody dares to challenge it. By that time, there is often no one left who can remember how the dogma came to be or, who started the myth in the first place.
The only thing that will expose false dogma is the courage to shine a bright light on it and demand the proof. Even then, that may not be enough. You see, such a challenge is usually up against overwhelming vested interests.
To give you an example: About eight years ago the CSIRO, the most respected science research facility in Australia, decided to do the first ever, serious, scientific study of diets and dieting.
Three years later, they published a paper which, amongst other things, made the excessive use of cereals and grains the reason why diets were making people fatter instead of slimmer. If you eat the way people used to eat instinctively, few people would need to diet. There was an immediate outcry of abuse from nutritionist. It was supported by the cereal and diet food manufacturers.
The CSIRO retaliated by publishing their own diet book on how to get slim and to stay that way. The nutritionists, who already had regular spots on TV and columns in newspapers, went on a massive publicity campaign to vilify the CSIRO and their evil, misguided results. They claimed their own research proved that a healthy balanced diet, as developed by their own research proved theirs was the only way for people to lose weight and become healthy.
It seems the CSIRO had finally had enough. A spokesman appeared to make a brief statement. I do not remember the words he used but it went something like this: We are a highly respected, scientific research facility. We have done three years intensive study on diets and dieting and our findings have been published in the appropriate journals. If anyone has reason to dispute our findings and can show evidence, I suggest they publish their own findings.
This was a big reality check for nutritionists because they would have suddenly realized that the dogma on which they base their philosophy does not have a leg to stand on. For thirty years, they have not had their diets put through a single scientific test nor has any diet ever been subjected to human trials. So the Nutritionists retreated and things calmed down.
At this point you may think that the public would prefer to accept the science instead of the hype. You might even think we had seen the last of the diet industry, but that is not how it went down. Sure the entire diet industry was silenced for a while and the CSIRO sold a lot of books. But it didnt take long for the diet industry to recover and regroup.
Nutritionists announced that they had been in intense study and had discovered that the true cause of the ever growing weight problems were due to fat. If you eat fat you get fat. To lose weight, all you have to do is to remove most of the fat from your diet. Seemed they already had a diet ready for us.
The fat theory was a very seductive notion which made people throw away their old diet books for the new shiny fat free diet. Very soon, the carbohydrates were back to replace all that missing fat. The butchers trimmed their meat till it was almost tasteless and the diet food manufacturers launched a whole new range of fat free snack products.
The CSIRO did not bother to make an appearance to explain that it is not the fat we eat that sticks to the ribs, it is the carbohydrates that the body turns into fat, which it then stores on our body. it is possible nobody would have listened anyway.
The body likes to store fat on your body to protect you against famine. What famine you ask? Each time you reduce your calories to follow yey another diet, your brain will alert your metabolism to guard against yet another famine. Your brain does not know that you choose to starve yourself, it just wants to protect you. That is precisely why diet do not work...Ever!
So next time you ask yourself when did america get so fat you will know the answer. It will then be up to you to take action, at least to protect your own family against the dangers of potential obesity.
by: kirstenplotkin
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