Are we addicted to certain foods by design? There are many that think so. Is our nutritional world governed by profit? Now there?s a question?
Our nutritional world is full of contradiction. On the one hand our supermarkets sell slimming products alongside the very products that contribute to us being obese and overweight in the first instance. The Grocery industry employs highly paid and powerful lobbyists to work with Government to ensure that there is no adverse legislation passed that could in any way affect the industry?s sales, and indeed that Government representatives never communicate to the public at large in a manner that may have an adverse effect on the sales of grocery product.
There would be a public outcry at the mere thought of BSE (Mad Cow Disease) being detected in livestock and yet many food manufacturers, particularly fast food chains consistently produce food containing ingredients which are not only addictive but could justifiably be described at nothing less than ?toxic?. In reality why would any of the offending manufacturers want to change when they are making billions of dollars profit each and every year.
In a similar vein, do the health and diet companies really want you to succeed in losing weight? Perhaps not, as their mere existence is dependant on you not being successful in losing weight. They are dependant on ?successful failures?. An Internet search on the word ?Diet? reveals in excess of 250 million web pages of diet plans, pills, potions, miracle cures and yet we are in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Bob Schwartz ? an American health expert and nutritionist has stated ?Diets are in fact designed not to work.? The evidence of 60% of the American population is proof enough.
So if you take a moments thought, a step back, is it not obvious that whatever we are doing now is simply not working? We have to understand the ?why?, not the ?what?. We all know what we should and shouldn?t eat, as it is so well documented and widely broadcast. So ?why? do so many people find weight control so very very difficult. We need to find and understand the missing link? And we need to act now - as an individual. Who can seriously afford to wait for medical science to produce some amazing ?diet drug? and would you really want to be dependant on such drugs for the rest of your life to control your appetite? I would think and hope not.
Both the grocery and diet industries are to too big, too powerful and above all worth billions. There is no intention nor reason for them to change. Are they not part of the problem? You and only you have the power to change and therefore you need, must and can ?re-gain control? as an individual.
There is only one successful method to enduring weight loss and that is to embark on a nutritional scheme that is in line with the expectation of your body. The range of ?acceptable foods? is believed to be far less narrow that originally thought. This is based on the fact that we have existed as ?humanoid beings? on this planet for well over 2 million years as a ?hunter/gatherer?. And for 99.5% of that time we primarily existed on a diet of meat, fish, shellfish, plant vegetation, fruit, seeds and nuts until the agricultural revolution.
This is eons of time during which our body has formed natural biological and chemical processes to best extract the nutrients it needs from these food types during the digestion process. The foods was ?natural? and ?raw? and in effect the body had to ?work hard? to extract the carbohydrates, proteins and fats it required, in addition to the essential vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals it needs to live healthily. This is all just part of the process of evolution where only the fittest survive.
But how divorced is today?s diet ? that of manufactured processed food to the foods consumed by our distant cousins. Our diet has so dramatically changed in only the last 40-60 years - and not for the better. Our food has become more processed which has in effect, has made it ?too easy? to digest and it does not contain the same balance of carbohydrates, protein and fats that our body has been biologically designed to accept.
It also contains far less vitamins and minerals, and more importantly, little or no phytochemicals that our body has relied on for disease prevention and protection over hundreds and thousand of generations. So why should we be surprised that Mother Nature has reacted in the knowledge that 40-60 years is not even the width of an atom on the evolutionary scale. In terms of digestion our body is doing exactly the same at it has been for eons of time. It is therefore us that has to make the change as an individual to achieve a nutritional balance that has formed part of our genetic inheritance over millions of years of evolution. Nature will not change in our lifetime, so as an individual, we must. There is no time for an alternative.
NO CHANGE = NO PERMANENT WEIGHT LOSS NOR GOOD HEALTH
And what is the biggest barrier to your success?take a good long look in the mirror!
Food for thought indeed? Thank you for listening,
My best regards,
Jeff Garcia author of Glycemic Superfood, qualified as a biologist in an attempt to understand how these fascinating beings of the human variety work and function! Does this mean Jeff understands ?women? better than others? ?oh no, no, no ? he?s simply not that clever! Jeff was later amazed at how excruciatingly difficult it was to lose weight having had his own personal experience of being on the heavy side. And so the research, the achievement, the sharing of success began? For more information and a FREE weight loss ebook please visit: www.glycemicsuperfoods.com/gsprequel.pdf | |
