Posts Tagged ‘weight control’

Childhood obesity is taking away the future of both the parents and child. Should obese children’s parents have their children removed from the home, or should the food companies CEO go to jail. I’ll leave this challenge to the public. Our government is reckless with our health and funds. They have spend millions to research shrimp on a treadmill, a salamander crossing in Vermont and 3.4 million to build a tunnel near Tallahassee so turtles could crawl under a Highway and 1.5 million for a robot to fold clothes. It took the robot 25 minutes to fold one towel.

Why do I bring that up?  I don’t trust a government for solutions to a problem. The obesity of our children is a systemic problem that is a cultural challenge. The destiny of the next generation should not be in the government’s hands. We don’t belong in a police state. If they want to safe the children’s life, than come up with a plan that doesn’t mask a symptom of today’s lifestyles.

The Obesity Problem

The obesity problem in the young isn’t just putting a child in a high-risk environment, it’s about creating the environment. The parents are themselves many times the victim of the environment.  What’s going around is an incomprehensible corporate profit plan, that is making us sick. By identifying the culprits which are the food sweeteners, artificial flavors and colors, along with a denatured food supply we may know who is at fault.

Removing Children From the Family

Should we take children out of home that are said to have ADHD or are hyperactive. Why not the parents are feeding them. Medical experts say that parents can prevent extreme obesity. The answer is yes if they don’t mind moving to another country.

How To Handle the Problem

Most parents haven’t even had a beginner’s guide to how to handle the food supply. They can’t make informed decisions for many reasons. They are not involved in the engineering of the food. They are preoccupied with trying to make ends meet. They are an undeserved group that now may have personalized intervention, children taken away from them. Blending in to society may become easier as the CEO’s of major food manufacturing plants expand their product line. In that case there will be too many obese children to deal with.

What they did in the military is cut out the sit ups for the overweight soldiers and offer them yoga exercises instead. We should do something productive for the obese children of today. Compassion and caring can mean taking the food commercials off the airway that cater to children, We can offer the parents courses on food preparation, and send in nutritionally trained cooks, with the fruits, vegetables and good quality protein for healthy meals.

Where would we get the money? It would come from selling off the shrimp treadmills, retiring the towel folding robots, and sell the tunnel to a group that wants to see the turtles cross the road. Better yet, fine the CEO’s of the companies enough to cover the costs.

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 obesity treatment facts point to the fact that obesity needs no treatment. In fact the long frustrating quest for a pharmaceutical solution is not only a waste of time, but an unwelcome one. A pill can do squat by itself, but increase the dependency on a pharmaceutical solution to a lifestyle problem. Transforming your life is the primary way to loss weight and keep it off.

Research

Despite millions of dollars in research there are only a few government approved weight loss drugs that remain on the market. Weight loss is a pressing issue for many people, while eating is on autopilot. The question then becomes how you counter the basic factors that cause one to become obese. Doing that through surgery and pills may shrink your size, but the transition from fat to thin sacrifices most other objectives.

The Scale

The package doesn’t always look perfect, concentrating on the scale, misses the few basic reasons for the weight loss. One is sustainability which doesn’t come from pills or surgery. Pharmaceuticals for weight loss aren’t meant to be taken indefinitely. Pharmaceuticals can’t trump healthy eating.       

Technology            

Stomach stapling and lap bands are technology oriented and take aim at weight control with a one size fits all approach. What is debatable is the wide open future risks. Since these procedures are gaining popularity for a very young population.

Solution

Weight control needs a dynamic change in the way it is perceived. The heart of the matter isn’t just the shape people are in, but the way they got there. This is though the unlimited choices in frozen food lines, multiple pack sizes, menu components, and the enormous profits that drive the engine.

Volume and profit grow as does the consumer’s waistline. When truckloads of food are delivered daily and there is something to please everyone, all the obesity treatments in the world will not address the cause. Obesity treatment focuses on the symptom. Obesity reflects our relationship with the planet, profit, and our increasing reliance on manufactured substances that we classify as food.