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What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything.
Mr_Blank writes "We all know — because we are being constantly reminded — that we are getting fat. Americans are at the forefront of the trend, but it is a transnational one. Apparently, it is also trans-species: Over the past 20 years, as the American people were getting fatter, so were America's laboratory macaques, chimpanzees, vervet monkeys and mice, as well as domestic dogs, domestic cats, and domestic and feral rats from both rural and urban areas. Researchers examined records on those eight species and found that average weight for every one had increased. The marmosets gained an average of 9% per decade. Lab mice gained about 11% per decade. Chimps are doing especially badly: their average body weight had risen 35% per decade. What is causing the obesity era? Everything."
Clearly it's terrusts, comnusts and peeders.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
. . .blame fasting.
If Michael Hastings hadn't been fasting so much down that street, he wouldn't have gone up in an obese fireball, now would he?
Prosecution rests.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Maybe it was all the nuke testing done on the planet, seriously, 500+ nukes in the air and orbit and underground, cant be healthy can it.
Never in the history of the 4 billion years , has so much radioactive material been spread so far and wide.
Thanks a lot oldies who believed their govts and still do.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
The issue is actually fairly complex but the discussion of too much sugar, fat and salt is generally right. There is one really big issue that isn't discussed here. It has to do with the GMO crowd issues. Specifically the GMO bunch engineered our foods to make them sell more. Potatoes were engineered for this as were most major crops. This was specifically tested my the McDonalds and KFC buch to make you eat more. This same change was done to corn and many other crops. They pushed the consumption up by a technical change in the plants and animals. (Yes even chickens are GMO - I know the bunch who did it and all the broilers on the market are their GMO stuff) Without getting too technical essentially they took these plants and animals and changed them from foods into drugs designed to addict the consumer. It worked and about 20 years ago the penetration of these products into the market began. So did our obesity plague. Even if these foods were not transmitted directly to people, their effects through animals were. The critical factor for this addiction was the pushing of insulin resistance. It fattens animals by 1.3 times per unit of food fed and thus pushes profit margins. The failure of this to affect 100% of the population is that there are genetic variations in people.
In addition the conversion of plants from foods into drugs also was pushed in the methodology for developing vegitable oils. With the opening of the process by which Hexane(gasoline) is mixed into the meal stocks and cooked to bond with the fatty esters, all of the vitamins and minerals associated with cold pressed oils were lost and then resold to us as supliments. Essentially cooking oils became a drug. Hydrogenation of these esters was synthetically pushed using Powdered Nickel Catalyst. This material second to Plutonium is probably the most dangerous item to have in food supplies. It is extremely toxic and causes damage including increasing cancer risks and reduction of immune system function. (this is your heart attack risk) As a result the vegetable oils used as shortening became dangerous. This caused a dramatic rise in the consumption of Antibiotics in both animals and humans. Antibiotics are fed to animals to stimulate insulin resistance and to cause weight gain. Since the margins in that industry are typically about 4% any farmer who doesn't feed this way is out of business. US standards for this were tightened and the feed lot industry simply moved off shore leaving us with less controls. (NAFTA GATT)
Your vegetable oils and foods are now becoming dangerous to you containing dangerous chemicals and becoming essentially drugs by design. Also soil depletion of trace minerals is also a most serious issue. Another serious issue is the resedue of Roundup and other chemicals in crops due to the GMO designs. These crops are generally not considered serious issues but Roundup is an irritant and it also deprives soil of microflora that substantially supply micro-nutrients to crops. As an irritant it contributes to inflammation loads on animals and people and in depriving micro-nutrient the crop is now likely to cause more human consumption due to deficiency conditions.