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Why so many USA people are suffering from obesity

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
I was gaining weight a lot this past decade till I went on a Resistant Starch diet, it balanced my blood sugar. I am eating a good amount of healthy fat & protein at every meal now but have eliminated all grains and processed sugars. The grains here are mostly GMOs and are messing with hormones and the appetite. I got a healthy appetite back after only 48 hours on the Resistant starch diet experiment, and I figured when I started it that it would take at least a month or more to notice any kind of difference. I lost 25 pounds in the first 2 months. I eat potatoes or potato starch and other starchy foods every day now, it straightened out my digestion which I figured had something to do with my weight gain. There is an article in FIRST magazine this month about how GMO foods are a cause of obesity....and antibiotics are thought to kill out healthy gut bacteria (resistant starches help create one type of gut bacteria) that help with hormones and metabolism, etc.
WalksWith · 56-60, F
We eat without celebration, without ceremony. We eat on the run or in front of the tv. If someone mentions that maybe americans need to eat more fresh fruit and veggies, exercise, and drink more water, they are labeled as a liberal and here in the states, that's the boogie man. We no longer learn by example, we are told, and the noisiest voices are in bed with the pharmaceuticals, the meat and dairy industry, the food conglomerates, and sugar. We are cattle in this country. The corporations want us fat, stupid, and sick. And we don't think for ourselves to change that because we are too full of news, blame, mass shootings, he said, she said to get off the couch and do something!

We are hungry and mistakenly think that hunger will be satisfied with food.

Just my opinion though.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@WalksWith You know part of the problem is that we can get almost any food that we associate with special seasons or holidays year-round now. Remember when certain foods or fruits were summer only, like melons, now they are showing up from spring-early winter, and you can buy the more expensive small ones all winter long. Chocolate covered pretzels were a Christmas treat and now I've seen them year round, same with Peeps of various types, all kinds of cakes and treats. Heard a customer say that when I was working at Walmart. We used to get treats for birthdays and parties and holidays for example, and now you can buy them all the time.
MichaelT · 36-40, M
@WalksWith Also I would like to add I think its a problem world over and I think the use of technology too much has impacted us in a negative. We forgot the beauty of hard manual labor.
lorne13 · 61-69, M
the food is pretty bad, and from experience I'd say the servings in restaurants are huge
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@lorne13 this is something I notice, servings in the US are GIGANTIC.
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
Because there's sugar in fucking everything and the cheapest food is the most unhealthy.
anna3trocity · 41-45, F
too much fast food, too little excersize, and too much tv.
EnigmaticGeek · 61-69, M
Most obese people in the US eat foods containing toxins faster than their bodies can excrete the oil-based toxins, so their bodies encapsulate the excess oil-based toxins in fat cells as a defensive measure.
JarJarBoom · 41-45, F
It all comes down to ignorance, do we even know how much sugar is in out food? What are good alternatives to lunch? How can we make a good breakfast? How much should we exercise?? Blah blah
Conveniences of modern living, which have afforded us a sedentary life style, is one component. But the main culprit of obesity is the food we eat. Watch "What The Health."

https://openload.co/f/Aq8OZaXEnCw/What_the_Health_%282017%29_WEBRip.mp4#
@cherokeepatti Sounds like a good one. Thanks for the recommendation.
In my concern, I've become familiar with a plethora of ways we're being injured. And yes, much of it is deliberate.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@PhoenixPhail Not putting a protectant in the public water supply to keep lead in pipes from leaching into drinking water....that's pure evil. Saved a little bit of money for the city but ruined the water and poisoned people including thousands of children. I've felt this had to be deliberate, it couldn't have been pure ignorance could it?
@cherokeepatti It [i]could[/i] have been pure ignorance, but even if the dangers were known, the practice of spending as little money as possible has become commonplace, even at the expense of people's health and well-being. It's but one expression of the run-away crisis in consciousness which plagues our planet.
AnimatronicLick · 46-50, M
Maybe the new “body positive” movement that celebrates obesity.
Fast food restaurants on every street!
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Spokeskitties75 · 46-50, M
Well I wouldn’t call it actually “suffering”
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Spokeskitties75 When your appetite hormones are out of balance it is not really fun to eat that crap....might not be suffering till you have serious health problems. I make most of my own stuff now and it's low-carb but high-fat and protein...made carrot cake cupcakes last night in the Babycakes Mini I bought this week, they are really good and you wouldn't suspect they are healthy for you.
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