How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick

chickaree-
clearly you are right. My question is why?

Is the 1960's food pyramid still ingrained in the consciousness of Americans?

What up?

Habits I think. We are raised with a deeply ingrained idea of how our dinner table should look. You have to acknowledge a bad habit to break it.

chickaree- I agree, food is sometimes about memory/reward pathways in our brain, not at all about what makes this incredible bio-electrical machine function optimally. Great point about awareness. Rarely is ignorance bliss.

Sci Chi-

It's too bad that so many people will try almost any product promising weight loss, including Olestra. Yeah, that's what we need more of.... anal leakage( a side effect published by the makers of Olestra).

What is so weird is that the typically gullible american that is overweight, keeps looking for the miracle cure, a kind of magic ingredient that "melts the pounds off." And our capitalistic society makes sure there is always someone looking to "capitalize" on this naivete, separating them from their dollars, and in no way addressing the root cause of weight gain.

Dude, there is no such thing!

Even more, there are proven ways to trim your figure. It's just that it involves a change in how you eat, how you think, or how you move. This is potentially difficult and where the rubber meets the road. Comittment is key.

As regards to the article, it is within the realm of possibility that your body goes through kind of an operant conditioning similar to pavlov's dogs. Only this time, your body doesn't gear up to digest because it has been fooled enough times by the fake stuff.

Speaking of fake stuff, which additive has the the most FDA complaints of all. Even more that all the other additives put together?

Nutrasweet/Aspartame.

This is truly evil science. I have read books on this outlining it damage to the brain, links to cancer and get this: increasing weight.

Yikes.

If anyone wants more info on this let me know and I will do a post on this poison.

I have a flow chart for weight loss that includes the above plus the hormonal aspects as well. I'd be happy to e-mail to anyone.

Dr T

Self loathers believe that anything that is enjoyable is bad for you. We must all repent, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, heaping dirt upon our heads. We must fill our mouths with bland, distasteful fodder.

"How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick". I believe that this is the title of this thread. Most of the people of the world eat rice, bugs, and such. They would be very fortunate, indeed, to have access to our Western diet. The lack of fat in those people is called starvation.
The only thing about our Western diet is that women have such a fixation on the avoidance of being fat.

The Mediterranian diet is delicious and healthful as is Thai and Indian food. I love summertime because fresh fruits and vegetables are plentiful and affordable. Idon't see anything wrong with educacating yourself about what is healthful and what is not and making informed decisions. Yes, you may still decide to chow down on those chips while knowing that they will raise your cholesterol, your blood sugar, your weight and your blood pressure.

Right up my alley. I love this thread. I have studied this for many years. And so has my family. We eat extremely healthy and most of my family has all lived into their 90's. If you want to read an interesting article and you can find plenty more, read this on aspartame. It is in all diet soda's and sugar free gum. I chewed it for 20 years day and night and never realized what it was doing to me. When I stopped my entire health changed 100%. It is pure poison for all of you who drink diet soda. I have not had a soda in many years but never even thought about the effect that Trident gum was having directly on so many of my organs until I did a biomeridan test and every organ was being effected and infected by it. Within 3 months of stopping everything changed. This world is full of poisons that we take in every day that we don't even realize.

http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html