Most Americans are fat or obese. Most fat or obese people have tried multiple diet and exercise programs over years, sometimes expending huge effort and suffering greatly, showing immense will power. They often lose weight, but a few years later they're fatter than before, and after each round of dieting, they are fatter and can eat less than before and still gain weight. No wonder so many have given up.
When I was growing up in the 1970s, Wonder Bread and Twinkies were a staple in almost every home and only athletes joined the gym. We had soda, fast food, labor-saving devices, cars, TVs, and plenty of desk jobs - and we were almost all slim to normal weight without a struggle. We didn't have to starve, suffer, or even work out to stay slim. There were some dieters back then, but most were trying to lose 5-10 pounds, not 50-100.
In the mid- to late-1980s, millions of formerly slim Americans started ballooning up and struggling madly to lose weight, going on diets, reading diet books, joining gyms, attending Weight Watchers, until a multi-billion dollar industry rose up to help them - and failed miserably. Restrictive diets (of almost all varieties) not only fail, but backfire, for 95% of dieters over time, yet we still keep pushing them.
Clearly, something systemic occurred in the late 1980s and we need a more scientific look into obesity, especially with recent studies showing that things like gut bacteria (that can be affected by GMOs and hormones in our food supply) and blue light exposure play a big role in whether mice on the same exact diet and exercise program will be fat or slim.
The same scientific authorities who have been overseeing COVID have been pushing "eat less, exercise more" for the past 35 years, only to see obesity levels rise steadily. They know the problem is systemic, not a failure of individual will power, and they probably know the solution.
The solution is to eat low carb, stay off sugar and refined carbs, stop drinking calories. Exercise burns very few calories. Start with diet. Quit waiting for "them" to figure out what happened in the 1980s. Fat shaming is better than listening to fatties blaming.
Fast food joints and ready to eat meals like ricearoni.. I thought about putting a comma between 'food' and 'joints'... 1999 found me at my heaviest approaching 200 pounds, and that is when my blood work went to shit. I am now at 168 with a BF of 20.3%. in the last month or so, I started drinking tonic water and the first week ended with a colonic purge that emptied my bowel... I weighed myself and found I was 4 pounds lighter and ashamed to say that I was full of crap... ?
Most Americans are fat or obese. Most fat or obese people have tried multiple diet and exercise programs over years, sometimes expending huge effort and suffering greatly, showing immense will power. They often lose weight, but a few years later they're fatter than before, and after each round of dieting, they are fatter and can eat less than before and still gain weight. No wonder so many have given up.
When I was growing up in the 1970s, Wonder Bread and Twinkies were a staple in almost every home and only athletes joined the gym. We had soda, fast food, labor-saving devices, cars, TVs, and plenty of desk jobs - and we were almost all slim to normal weight without a struggle. We didn't have to starve, suffer, or even work out to stay slim. There were some dieters back then, but most were trying to lose 5-10 pounds, not 50-100.
In the mid- to late-1980s, millions of formerly slim Americans started ballooning up and struggling madly to lose weight, going on diets, reading diet books, joining gyms, attending Weight Watchers, until a multi-billion dollar industry rose up to help them - and failed miserably. Restrictive diets (of almost all varieties) not only fail, but backfire, for 95% of dieters over time, yet we still keep pushing them.
Clearly, something systemic occurred in the late 1980s and we need a more scientific look into obesity, especially with recent studies showing that things like gut bacteria (that can be affected by GMOs and hormones in our food supply) and blue light exposure play a big role in whether mice on the same exact diet and exercise program will be fat or slim.
The same scientific authorities who have been overseeing COVID have been pushing "eat less, exercise more" for the past 35 years, only to see obesity levels rise steadily. They know the problem is systemic, not a failure of individual will power, and they probably know the solution.
The solution is to eat low carb, stay off sugar and refined carbs, stop drinking calories. Exercise burns very few calories. Start with diet. Quit waiting for "them" to figure out what happened in the 1980s. Fat shaming is better than listening to fatties blaming.
Fast food joints and ready to eat meals like ricearoni.. I thought about putting a comma between 'food' and 'joints'... 1999 found me at my heaviest approaching 200 pounds, and that is when my blood work went to shit. I am now at 168 with a BF of 20.3%. in the last month or so, I started drinking tonic water and the first week ended with a colonic purge that emptied my bowel... I weighed myself and found I was 4 pounds lighter and ashamed to say that I was full of crap... ?