Have carbohydrate addicts been the reason for obesity statistics?
There is no doubt carbohydrate addicts are heading for obesity.
It’s a little sad to think that here we are, in the 21st century, surrounded by unlimited food, first class hygiene, amazing personal gadgets and appliances and technology that would have been beyond belief even fifty years ago.� Yet we are almost all becoming carbohydrate addicts and turning into obesity statistics.
Were it possible for people 50 years ago, to actually look at us, they would be horrified.� You see, in those days, there were no carbohydrate addicts and being fat meant being old or very lazy.� Life was more physically active and people burnt off more energy.� But more important, they ate mostly protein foods.� Today we eat mostly carbohydrates foods.
Until around forty years ago, people had always consumed a high proportion of protein.� Then through an unwarranted scare campaign, about cholestrol, we were rushed into a diet that demanded mostly carbohydrate foods. This was a time when diets were only needed for sick people.� It doesn’t need Einstein to figure out that such a change would have been a massive blow to the body. Unfortunately, nobody thought to check.
When it comes to human beings, Mother Nature took eons to get it just right.� But some people managed to ruin our metabolism and our digestive system - in less than forty years.� The people who pushed for this change must have believed they could improve nature. They certainly didn’t possess the qualifications to do mess with our body and to trigger obesity statistics and carbohydrate addicts.
Why did we listen to them?� We are inherently arrogant and like to believe we can improve on everything, including nature. We admire the people who try - even when they don’t know how.� That’s why we have rules and qualifications and certifications, to prevent the wrong people from doing dangerous, even criminal things to the population.
For whatever reason, the daily routine functions of the body are not covered by that kind of protection. That is, as long as the damage is done by our own actions – however indirectly.
If we are prepared to listen to untrained, unqualified people. � If we are ready to change our diet from protein foods to carbohydrates foods virtually overnight.� All because of a cholesterol scare campaign,� long since ridiculed.� Then the understanding seems to be:� We deserved what we got.
Personally, I think that’s outrageous, we have scientific boards and panels to decide on drug certifications and medical procedures of even the most trivial kind.� Why does that not include what we eat?� Surely there are few things more critical to our health and longevity than eating the right type of food.
Sure, these people claim qualifications, but such diplomas and certificates are designed and issued to students by the same people who preceded them. You could call it a perpetual motion of incompetence.
You see, that whole area of diets and dieting, in relation to our health, is considered fair game for anyone who is prepared to claim special knowledge. Yet diets and dieting was never normal practice till around 40 years ago.� Unfortunately, not till obesity statistics or type2 diabetes threatens, will science or medicine intervene.
For almost forty years, we have been victims to this nonsense. Pure logic dictates that if these people are right and that they are indeed making us healthier, why are obesity statistics skyrocketing? Why is type2 diabetes called the next epidemic waiting to happen?
And why are we all turning into carbohydrate addicts?
Of course these people claim they have made a big difference. In a way they have. Take a good look around. Human beings were not built to be fat. We were not meant to consume copious numbers of intestinal and digestive preparations on a daily basis. We were not meant to watch our children contribute to obesity statistics on a diet advocated as healthy for kids.
I believe in evidence, and I see no evidence that diets have done anything to improve our health, well being or appearance. I do see a lot of evidence to the contrary.
What I do believe is that human beings are not meant to diet. We never did that in the past and we don’t have to do it now!� We were also not meant to become carbohydrate addicts. We need to wake up to ourselves. Stop listening to ‘experts’ and start listening to our own body!
Kirsten Plotkin
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