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Calorie counting is going off the deep end in American culture. Calorie counting is not benefiting the American public. Calorie content of food is not an indicator of the amount of weight you will gain. The amount of weight you gain will depend on your choice of food, and the amount. To many this may seem like calorie counting.

Calorie Counting Fails

Calorie counting is not functional when you consider the deeper meaning of food. That is because our concept of calorie counting in not rooted in nature. Calorie counting has become popular with consumers because of how food is sourced.

The aesthetics of the packaged food is more of a problem than calories. What is in the packaged food is responsible for mitochondrial decay and aging, cellular degeneration, cardiovascular disease, and the obesity epidemic. The calories provided are a mute issue.

Plenty of people who counted calories wind up with a gastric bypass. It isn’t because they couldn’t count it is precisely because they could count. They most likely were told to count the calories.  Most people are looking at the wrong numbers. When they consume food they are looking at calories and not necessarily nutrients. When your body has adequate nutrients it stops feeling starved and the craving subside.

Nutrients Count

According to Bruce Ames who developed the Triage Theory of Aging, obese people are hungry all the time because the body is craving missing nutrients such as magnesium. Dr..Ames is emeritus professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley. In the Life Extension Magazine dated August 2011 he states that Americans are filling up with junk and are wildly deficient in vitamins and minerals. No where in the article does he blame obesity on too many calories.

People who opt for gastric bypass have bypassed the laws of nature. They weren’t getting enough nutrients to support their body. These surgical interventions for obesity are not reserved for only morbid obesity, they are now being approved for people who are overweight and tried everything else.

Macronutrients

To run your metabolism you need the basic macronutrients and these come from fats and carbohydrates. Every metabolic pathway requires micronutrients to supply the calories. Low fat, no fat and no calorie sodas are not the solution but the problem. We are a society obsessed with the calorie count of every morsel of food we put into our mouths.

Metabolic function depends on how we prioritize what we consume. If calorie counting is on top of the list we will suffer an alarming rate of both obesity and chronic health problems. So far that looks like the course of action America has taken to fight the rising rate of obesity. Calorie counting is more that a phrase or faze we are going through, it is what is blatantly touted as a cure for the obesity epidemic.

What is Weight Talk?

Weight talk is anything that has to do with BMI, the scale, the waist size, and fat content. This really means anything that shows up as pounds is part of the overview of weight management. From detoxifying diets that eliminate everything from bloating to chronic health conditions to carb or fat restrictive ones, we keep rolling the dice looking for an innovative way to lose the pounds. The major incentive to diet is being overweight.

The one thing that is usually wanted but missing from the dialog is a diet that is powerful, reliable and relatively inexpensive. With conventional diets there is usually an element that is territorial. What I mean by that is that the diet recommended comes from a corporate culture. Each corporate entity has its own set of rules, beliefs, products, and marketing.

This would be find and dandy if it worked long term across the board. There are some very good reasons that this is usually not the case. The top ranking diets are still in business with the help of repeat clients. Sustainability has to be the operative word when it comes to dieting. The word dieting is in fact the wrong word if you are looking for long term results.

Dieting and Pounds

Most dieters get swept up in the notion that a diet is about pounds. What is true is everyone that eats is following a certain type diet. It may be a junk food one, which is the make-up of one’s daily eating choices. There is a direct connection between food choices and body functions.

This is what weight talk should be about: reduction of blood glucose, good skin, reviving aging cells, and combating inflammation. Cellular energy is what the focus should be on. Excess calories have a impact on glucose, insulin, triglycerides and this is the reason that calories count.

Lifestyle

Lifestyle is the operative word for people that want change. Starchy processed foods that seem to have mass appeal are found manly in convenience foods. These are the foods found in paper and plastic wrap. Healthful eating habits make for more nutritious food options. Fat free foods are usually starch in disguise many times. When you talk about a reduced calorie diet the focus shouldn’t be on calories, but where the calories come from.

There are some breakthrough discoveries that we will present along with the science. We want people to be in control of what they eat, not the other way around. If we devoted this blog to weight management we would be addressing the deeper connection that food has to health.

The new weapon for peace on earth took some American ingenuity. Leave it to us, we can come up with some unique solutions to some very complex problem

The Standard American Diet Is The Solution

The standard American diet is the solution as long as we export it to all belligerent nations. That means no more embargo, instead the opposite approach is the solution to the world’s turmoil.  

We can’t send our processed food over fast enough. The proportion of young Americans that are too fat to fight or serve in the military is so high, that it is posing a treat to our security. This is according to a group of retired military leaders. 

Retired US army generals John M.Shalikashvili and Hugh Shelton, referred to different sources, including the US Army”s own analysis to national data that shows as of 2005, 27 percent of Americans aged 17 to 24 were too overweight to serve in the military. That was in 2005, when some 9 million young adults, were deemed too overweight to serve.

The leading medical reason recruits are rejected for military service in the US today is for being overweight or obese, wrote Shalikashvili and Shelton, both members of the executive advisory council of Mission Readiness, a non profit organization to retired senior military leaders. Also, a recent report from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research showed over the past 15 years the proportion of potential recruits who have not passed their physical exam because of weight has gone up nearly 70 percent.

Retired Navy Rear Adm. James Barnett Jr, a member of the officers group, said at a recent press conference held by Mission: Readiness, that national security in the year 2030 is “absolutely dependent” on reversing child obesity rates.

“When over a quarter of young adults are too fat to fight, we need to take notice,” said Barnett, according to a report by Associated Press.

The obesity problem doesn’t just affect recruitment, Mission: Readiness reports that the government spends tens of millions of dollars every year replacing military personnel that have to be discharged because of weight issues.

Sending Processed Food Overseas

Sending processed food overseas has to be less expensive than developing weapons of mass destruction. Also, the best part is once the people are addicted to the food, they will need us to keep supplying it. It would make sense for them not to destroy their source.

The other option is to implement don’t ask don’t tell where one’s weight is not taken. People can imply your overweight, but if you don’t mention this to anyone you can serve your country.