Why is everyone so fat!
Why is everyone so fat. You wouldn’t be surprised if I said. “it’s because everyone is just eating far too much and are just too lazy to do any exercise”!
But is this really the reason were fat?
I don’t think so!
I’ve started to look seriously at why everyone seems to be getting fat, in the western world? And why, even though we have so much knowledge, and access to knowledge, through things like the internet and social media, this still seems to be the case?
People are not getting healthier. They are getting fat!
In fact this generation is going to be the first in decades not to live longer than their parents did, or will!
Why is this?
I’m sure it’s not the case that people have become fat and so lazy that they just can’t be bothered to do anything about it. As we know people are worried about such things.
We only have to look at the surge in gym memberships. The so-called healthy food options in the supermarket and the thousands of different diets that everyone’s on.
We know people are worried, and are trying to do something about the fact that we’re all getting grossly overweight!
But despite the above measures many are taking, it doesn’t seem to alter the fact that everyone is just getting fat.
Obviously there’s a reason? And so when asking this question to myself. I really thought long and hard about why this is happening in this supposed intelligent and richer than ever Weston world.
I can only come to one conclusion;
We are missing something!
Why would we be getting heart disease more than at any time in the past? Why is cancer killing us off in droves?
And why is there such a high percentage of our population on the brink of developing diabetes, gout and all manner of other ailments.
Although they have always existed, were, rare in the past?
Something has really gone wrong.
But What?
What are we doing?
We eat too much. (Sugar)
We drink too much. (Sugar)
Working too much.
Not getting sleep enough.
We don’t exercise enough. (Maybe)
And we don’t take the time to look after our mental state at all.
All of these statements are true of the majority of us today. But the thing that links them all together is the fact we do not educate ourselves to understand how we can overcome all the problems of modern life.
We just live it and then die.
And don’t ask enough questions why!
Well in pondering on these things and then starting to look more deeply into the questions asked. I found lots of people doing the same thing as me. Some make lots of money out of it, some just out of love for their fellow humans. But all seem to be coming to the same conclusion. And that is …over the last 50 years or so we’ve got it all wrong.
Doctors, governments and scientists have been telling the general population under their supervision, completely the wrong things.
And now the big food and pharmaceutical industries have devoted and are making so much money out of what they have said. That it’s going to be a massive uphill battle to change anything.
Let’s face it, nobody wants to admit they have been wrong. Putting that, with the billions of dollars being generated by the involved industries, it’s not going to be easy to bring about change anytime soon.
But more and more proof is coming to light that what I’ve just stated is fact and everyone has to wake up and smell the coffee! And Soon!
So is there a solution to our increasing state of unhealthiness?
Is there a solution?
There are so many diets, some good, some not so good, and some just out right bad.
- The Paleo Diet. …
- The Vegan Diet. …
- Low-Carb Diets. …
- The Dukan Diet. …
- The Ultra-Low-Fat Diet. …
- The Atkins Diet. …
- The HCG Diet. …
- The Zone Diet.
Have you heard of intermittent fasting?
Have you ever thought about why we should eat organic food?
If you have been looking into health and diet you may well have done. Because now it’s fast becoming the way to improve your health in so many ways.
I believe, and the studies back it up, that there are things we can implement in our life that can keep us from becoming as unwell as we are.
And it all starts with diet.
We are eating all wrong!
At no time in the past have we had such an abundance of food. The problem is that the vast majority of the foods we eat are completely devoid of the nutrients and minerals. These used to be so abundant a few decades ago. This is because of the way in which most food is being produced in the modern world.
Everything is so mass produced that we have lost sight of quality!
The food chain has been all messed up! Chemicals that are put into the soil to start the whole process off on the wrong foot.
They deplete the soil of bacteria, these are needed to process the nutrients in the plants that we eat.
Once the plant has started to grow, it gets more doses of pesticides to make it grow big and fat and fast and because it’s been sprayed with pesticides it kills anything that gets in the way.
Then we feed that plant to livestock who are kept in unnatural conditions and as a rule are fed unnatural food.
They’re given loads of antibiotics to help them grow big, fat and fast and to thwart the diseases that they get, usually because of being kept in unnatural conditions.
You may eat this product at this point, after it’s been nicely packed in loads of plastic (which I will talk about another time).
Or you could wait for someone else to process it some more. Plying it with many more additives, then presenting it as a meal to pop into the microwave for 2 minutes, before you eat an unknown number of introduced poisons.
This is what is happening now!
And there’s no slowing up.
Fast food …
Everything and anything that can speed up this cycle is being implemented and served up to us as the modern way of living. The reason for all this is to put money in the big industry’s pocket. They tell everyone, it’s so they can pass on and save the common people money. But we all know that is the case, if it were, we would all be a lot better off in a financial sense (even if not in a health sense).
Business and businesses are not doing anything to make life better for anyone other than their shareholders, and that’s just fine but don’t try telling everyone anything different.
Make them change!
Making the change!
See, the only way to make these industries give us what we need is to be educated.
Then we won’t buy the stuff they are trying to fob off as food. If everyone started to only buy organic food or should I say not buy the other crap they put on our supermarket shelves. Then in no time at all there would be a readily available stock of what people want. But this is where it all gets very grey…
You see people are not educated and don’t realise what they are putting down their throats. Yea we all know eating donuts all day isn’t good for us, but we just don’t know what the hell they’ve put into the meat and veg on the supermarket shelves. I know there’s a detailed chart on the back of the packets of food we buy. But to understand this properly you would need a degree in science and or bulls*** as these figures are manipulated for us to read and show us what they want us to read.
People are very easily led, one flashy advert and we think it’s the gospel truth. We follow the crowd and the crowd follows those in authority. So if someone in a white uniform tells us something is so, most will follow. When the information we are told is wrong, then if we don’t question what we’ve been told we go on our merry way implementing a wrong teaching.
I.e getting fat!
At this point we could go off on a tangent so I’ll try not to say much more on this subject just now.
So what can we do?
Start to do something!
Well the number one thing to do is educate yourself in food and diet!
You may think, why do I have to do that. In the past we didn’t have to, and there weren’t the problems we have today. The thing is, in the past we didn’t have the choices we do today.
You just ate what you could get your hands on, everything was organic to start with and there wasn’t such an abundance of food to eat all year round.
So the people in the past would not eat so much, not eat so often and so wouldn’t have the ability to over feed themselves in the same way we do now.
No set diet.
No set diet.
There are many different diet types all over the world. Some eat loads of carbs, some eat loads of protein and fat. The common denominator of these different diets in the world, is that in the past people weren’t offered everything together. They were also unable to get excessive amounts of processed sugars.
And it’s these sugars that seem to be getting us into the most trouble (Certainly here in the West).
Your body has been designed to keep itself alive. The way it does this is when there’s a lot of food to eat, it wants to make us eat it, and whatever we don’t use to keep up the energy levels we need to stay alive it stores it as fat. So when there’s no food to eat we can tap into this stored energy and use it for fuel to keep us alive until we find some more food to eat.
Simple!
Whats the problem?
The thing is these days we’ve got loads of food to eat all the time. So it stands to reason that if we’re eating all the time our body will save all that extra energy it’s getting as fat.
In the past we didn’t have an abundance of sugar to eat. Fruit would come and go in very short time scales throughout the year. Nuts and berries are the same.
Humans started to cultivate crops so as to have a steady food supply. But these would take a lot of energy to produce. Doing this they could stay in one place to raise families. Without the need to follow the meat supply to wherever it would go to find grasslands to feed on. In starting to live this way we guaranteed ourselves food all year round. The thing is the land can only support a certain capacity of output in any given area. So when populations become so big as to not be able to support the number of people living there a new community would spring up on the outskirts and the process would start again. People would work the land and produce enough food. Then another community would appear when distances became too far to travel to make it viable to live in the same area.
There were a few setbacks on the way, sometimes a famine would bring a catastrophic end to a community. But by and large the human race kept growing steadily. It wasn’t easy, it took a lot of physical work to grow enough food to stay alive. People as a whole weren’t sitting around just waiting for the food to produce itself. They needed to be in the fields working all the hours to make sure they had enough food to last out when the growing season came to an end. People would only be able to survive on what had been produced in the few months when there was abundance. They didn’t have a supermarket full of food packed with sugar and preservatives waiting to be bought and consumed every five minutes.
So things went on…
So things went on for millennia, communities would come and go they would fight over the best areas etc etc. But as a whole everyone was doing physical work using lots of energy and just about surviving, some doing better than others. (I’m not saying at this point that the reason there wasn’t an obesity problem was because people were physically so much more active than today. As studies have shown that this seems to be practically irrelevant to weight gain or weight loss).
Only the select few would have the good fortune not to have to do manual work, and although they didn’t die of hard work, as humans seem to do they found other ways of killing themselves.
Today.
Fast forward to modern times and we find all sorts of other ways to kill ourselves.
We can’t even comprehend the amount of work that would have to be done to produce the amount of food the world consumes. But with all the modern and technology advances we have made it possible. But there is a price.
In advancing so quickly we’ve bypassed and, or overlooked a few things. We hadn’t realised the need for keeping everything in check. These being:- keeping the stuff we eat a constant in nutrients and minerals. And realising that certain foods makes us much fatter than others. As an effect of modern life we are all sitting in the same boat as the wealthy back in the day. We have the luxury of being able to eat any type of food we choose.
We sit on our back sides all day shovelling nutrient deficient, sugar loaded food down our necks. Doing no exercise, not taking the time to ponder on anything other than where the next dollars are coming from.
And to top all this off those who do have to do physical work have had their diets so devoid of nutrients and minerals that after not too long their bodies break down and just stop working.
Can this be right?
Of course it can’t, so wake up and make yourself well! We all you have to do is stop eating the rubbish that’s being presented to you by those who are using you. Effectively as slaves.
It would be great if the government stepped in and did something about all of the above. This would be the most effective way of encouraging the general population to make themselves healthy. But I’m afraid that this just won’t happen.
It has been so corrupted by big business. Scared of upsetting the egg cart, that they seem unwilling to take any serious view. Coupled with strength to do anything about the ridiculous situation we are finding ourselves in.
And of course the fact is that some entity’s are just more interested in financial gain than addressing the problems. Growing ever more apparent. They are happy to see the demise of millions of ignorant people so long as the shareholders etc are happy.
Some of these big corporations are literally sending us to an early grave for profit. And take into account that you who are not quite at the bottom run of society, may well have shares in these giant corporations.. Think!
They lie, cheat and completely distort the truth to their own ends. The only way they can be stopped is with earnestness from the “general population” to curb the continued abuse.
Get educated.