Why do you think more than 40 percent of American adults are obese, rates have tippled in the past 30 years, why? Would love to hear your thoughts and experience.
Dr, Varon explores this in his latest article in the Brownstone Institute: How America Learned to Pretend Obesity Is Normal The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned to Pretend Obesity Is Normal
My wife and I have had this discussion many times. The thing I point to at the very top is sugar, but we can also summarize it as processed foods. Do I blame people for being obese? Not in the least. This is something that is being done *to *people. When you grow up with a norm that is hurting you and no one is the wiser as to why, how can anyone blame you?
Do I find fault in people defending themselves for being unhealthy? Yes, I do. You can interchange the words obese and unhealthy, but most people prefer not to.
It’s a difficult situation. The narrative in our society is completely wrong.
There might be a metabolic change caused by an environmental (not genetic) factor. Main suspects:
a) agri-chemicals
b) vaccines
Start reading here:
Why is food poisoning legal?
How Rumsfeld forced the approval of lethal Aspartame.
Artificial sweeteners, MSG, PFAS, Glyphosate … go organic!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/why-is-food-poisoning-legal
Agree, and the issue with processed foods is the hidden ingredients, the seed oils, sugars and flavorings that all cause inflammation and are designed to be addictive - as Dr. Varon says in his article, obesity happened by design, to profit industry.
“The way forward requires disentangling people from pathology. Individuals must be respected and never humiliated. But the epidemic must be denormalized, not celebrated. That means telling the truth plainly: obesity is not neutral. It is a disease state.”
Thanks @Prof.Fred.Nazar …I agree that there are environmental factors, but it’s also done by design and it can be fixed with dedication and knowledge.
Loved this passage from Dr. Varon “The obesity epidemic is not an accident. It is the product of incentives. Food companies profit when people eat more often and in larger quantities. “Value” is measured in calories per dollar, not nutrients per life. Pharmaceutical companies profit when chronic diseases linger; lifelong pharmacotherapy for obesity and its complications is now a growth market. Retailers profit when larger sizes are normalized and more units are sold. Politicians profit when difficult policy reforms—such as agricultural subsidies, zoning changes, and school meal standards—are replaced with slogans about inclusivity.”
“Obesity happened by design”. Absolutely.
I remember watching a movie that discussed the effects of World War II. The role women played before and after the war. The advent of quick rise yeast (it throws proper fermentation out the window) and TV dinners. How advertisement was promoting no longer spending time in the kitchen.
The story with medicine and with food is the same - chemical processes. With medicine we discovered that we could extract things from plants via solvents. Poppies and opium were one of the first. Tinctures and elixirs were one thing, but we then took it to a whole new level, and this is how we ended up with modern medicines. With food we started learning how to extract things such as sugar. In all cases, both medicine and food, we learned how to unbalance what was originally packaged by nature and create new designs… ones where we imparted our opinions of what was good or bad and threw the “baby out with the bathwater” on so many things.
This was the start of the insanity that has formed what we now know as “food” and “medicine” today.
b) vaccines
Absolutely.
New Peer-Reviewed Study Asks: Were COVID Injections Engineered to Harm?
Obesity-related conditions: +262%
A great summary @vegandan and I think it starts at junior school where we don’t teach children about growing and eating healthy food.
