I recently watched a documentary from Woodstock, filmed 40 years ago around Jimi Hendrix. Though there were zillions of people there, I coulnd’t spot a single overweight person there. What the heck has happened?
(In came sugar that suddenly was healthy in foods, and to get it even cheaper, was changed into high-fructose-corn-syrup)
(Finland had extra tax on sweet goods, except Xylitol, that was marketed as saving kids’ teeth)
(The EU asked Finland to either tax Xylitol or give up the whole candy tax, which is what happened)
(Now the Finnish government plans to put back tax on candy and soda, whatever the sweeteners, Kudoz!)
Why are doctors now whining about the obesity epidemy? At that time, in 1969, I was a young teenager with no such problems, and my dad was a rather short, ideal weight and sportive middle aged man. He saw to it, that I got enough motion by asking me out for longish walks and cross-country skiing. – Suddenly he started preaching for monounsaturated fats and against butter. As I can recall from earlier comments, margarine was for the poorer, who couldn’t afford to use butter. Butter and meat were good and healthy foods in my original home, as were all sorts of vegetables. I used potatoes and bread very sparingly, because I didn’t like them.
His turnover was probably the result of a lot of reading news about Ancel Keys´ investigations and trying to follow the state of the art knowledge, My dad was very highly interested in both motors, technology and health, He swam in the ice cold sea in winter times, walked and skied often. In spite of that, he got myeloma rather early, before retirement, and was given max. 3 years to live. He lived for more than 6 years and took part in new medication trials. I’ve recently heard that Myeloma has been found to correlate with much inhalation of benzene at younger age. (A Finnish popular song states “You ain’t gonna survive life”)
Now we are being bombarded with heavy information on Diabetes type 2 invading the world in even young people, and when all officially approved dietary guidelines haven´t been able to help at all, the doctors are now turning to obesity surgery, even on young children.
Well, what can you say? I feel very sorry for those people, who first have received nutrition recommendations that have made them obese or overweight, then they’ve had to listen to unfair accusations of not following the advice, and finally are at risk of getting operated on. This operation may trigger other addictions than food addiction, if that was the additional problem. It also restricts and changes the patients’ eating habits into ways they’ve never seen before. These operations require massive investments in equipment and medical personnel, and as many countries don’t have these resources, only a tiny part of the problem can be solved this way. And what about the quality of life for the operated people?
Then, oh why, is is forbidden to take up to discussion one more lifestyle, the low carbohydrate lifestyle adjusted for every person’s own metabolism, that may be cheap enough for society, rather simply addressed and might spare most projected obesity surgery? It the only losers on this branch of the problems are the medical companies, the operating room equipment manufacturers and the raffinated food and pharmacologic industry, why should that be a problem for us??
Do I sense a coupling here between the medicine and food industry, doctors’ associations and our public health professionals?
I hope you finally open the chains and locks of your mind to really, wholeheartedly, totally free from any business interest and funding , set up a big enough state financed study on what health benefits and weight development the test persons can achieve with a few, chosen methods. When choosing the methods, or levels of certain nutritional compounds in the diets, please consult with experts of the different fields. For example, 200 mgs of carbohydrates a day is not a low carb regimen, but it has been posing as one in a recent study. Another example is for people with hypothyreosis; if and when T4 (thyroxine) stops being altered by the bodey into the actual active hormone T3, the body may need to take in 100 – 150 mg of carbohydrates daily, along with a hefty load of dietary supplements like selenium, zinc, magnesium etc. Cabbage and its relatives may not be so healhy food for people with hypothyreosis, at least not cooked. All this has to be taken into account (Things I never heard about from my doctors, just rubbish showing very little knowledge about my special ailment, only just this week from Internet sources).
What about Codex Alimentarius, a global law that will define how our food production is legislated from start of next year. No alternative nutrition, no additional dietary supplements, gen modified and zapped food……What are you doing to us??
