Have you looked around lately and asked yourself that question? Well, first of all we tend to avoid the word ‘fat’, Some 60 percent of people now suffer that condition and it is simply not an appropriate subject for conversation.

Given the rise of the obesity epidemic in the last decade, It is difficult not to theorize what percentage the next decade will bring. So outside the world of diets and dieting, the subject is not very popular. When probed, people tend to have an automatic response like, it’s all that junk food or, it’s a lack of exercise or, it’s too many cakes and desserts.

It is time to take a closer look at these glib answers to the overwhelming question; why are so many people getting so fat? Let’s examine the most popular theories and see how they stack up.

Number one on the list is probably junk food. It’s an easy target because it seems so obvious. But it just doesn’t wash. A vast array of junk foods were available right through the nineteen forties, fifties and sixties, well before the mid to late seventies when obesity began to be noticed. Sure, middle aged people would start to get a spread, as it was called then, and old people would become a bit heavy, but mass obesity? No way. Obesity was rare, and when you did see it, it was usually explained as a medical condition like an underactive thyroid.

People back then ate junk foods like burgers, hot dogs, meat pies, French fries, and many others varieties around the world. Those foods were just as fast, cheap, popular and as readily available as today’s offerings. Sure, fast foods are no good for you, but neither are a lot of the foods in your pantry. Many would argue that yesterday’s fast foods had an even higher calorie and fat content than those we find today.

I do not think there is any doubt that junk food should be avoided, but not because it has a high fat content. It is because it’s made up of mostly carbohydrate. Either way, it is not responsible for the obesity problems today.

What about exercise? Even the most fanatic gym junkie, will admit that if you want to lose weight through exercise you need to cut down on your food. Exercise is important because it tones and contours your body and it shifts the weight to all the right places. It also tends to reduce hunger which can be very helpful. But there is no way a lack of exercise is the reason for obesity. You can accept that from a long time Gym junkie, who still uses weights to work out, while in her late sixties.

So we come to cakes, desserts and everything sweets. They are certainly bad for you, but are they the cause of the current obesity epidemic. I don’t think so, for the same reason I don’t believe it’s caused by junk food. People have eaten cakes, and chocolates and cookies and every other sweet you can think of since sugar and cocoa were first introduced to Europe just a few hundred years ago. Sugar and the products of sugar are bad for you but they are not the actual reason for today’s problems with obesity.

So is there such a thing as a specific cause for today’s epidemic of obesity? The answer is: Yes there is, and during the past five years, I have used that answer to develop a way to lose weight…. permanently. Throughout that period, I have used my knowledge on myself with great success and it has stood the test of time.

I am surprised to be able to say that I have proved the reason for one of the biggest social problems we are faced with today; Obesity. I have discovered a permanent solution to my own weight problem. In the process, I have even managed to banish my symptoms of type2 diabetes. There is no reason to imagine that a different set of biological or physiological rules apply to me, than to everyone else. In the final analysis, my discovery is proof that common sense, when joined with good data, will always prevail.

What makes this discovery so important is that obesity is no longer just another social problem; it is fast becoming a medical epidemic called Type2 diabetes.

I have waited 5 years to publish my book. Frankly I expected some doctor or scientist to issue a paper about the same information well before now. But no one ever did. So here, five years later, with five years worth of data about my discovery, I am finally able to share it with anyone who needs it. Not only will it be able to change your life, you will be able to pass what you will learn on to your family and to anyone you know, who struggles with a weight problem.

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Kirsten Plotkin, Author
Goldcoast Australia
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The book, My Own Plan, has just been published and it reveals that carbohydrate addiction is the real cause of the obesity epidemic we see today. It will explain how to cure the condition, without dieting, or going hungry.  If you follow this book, you’ll never have a weight problem again.

The book, My Own plan, explains why obesity has gone from a minor social problem to an epidemic.  It’s fast becoming a medical problem, called type2 diabetes. You will learn why the problem is getting out of control.

Never before have little kids started school…Obese. Just recently, on our TV screens, we saw with horror, a baby born obese. If we don’t stop it, such news will not even get a headline.  Sixty percent of the population is now overweight, and the problem grows daily. Some people say that’s inevitable.

Obesity is not a problem for the few, it’s a looming social and medical catastrophe for us all, that’s because it’s just one step away from type2 diabetes. The most frustrating fact is that it did not have to happen.

Like so many things, it began in the seventieth.  New fads abounded and there were some, who practiced on the in the fringe of pseudo medicine, who carved themselves a niche in health and nutrition.  They were not doctors or scientists but they set themselves up as guardians of health and nutritious.

They were excited about something new called cholesterol. This was a lucky break for them, because most people, at that time, would have shown a high cholesterol count, largely due to a diet which had basically changed very little for centuries.

So the ‘experts’ adopted cholesterol as their base of authority.  They added together the two types of cholesterol, the good and the bad and that gave them a big score on everybody. They now had a platform, but they needed a product.  They developed an ultra high carbohydrate diet which focused on cholesterol. The diet had no genuine scientific tests or human trials to support the many claims.

This highly publicized diet was launched with a poster of a pyramid depicting the various food groups. The base was 30% solid carbohydrates. Next was fruit and vegetables, also carbohydrates.  People thought; finally some modern advice about food, instead of the boring menu our grandparents recommend.

The credibility of the pyramid, lasted for around twenty years, and at least two generations grew up on it. Parents trusted the experts. But sadly, this was a diet with very little protein, the essential building blocks for our children’s growth.

So millions of kids grew up on carbohydrates and, as should have been foreseen, they became addicted.  Once parents themselves, they unknowingly passed the addiction on to their children.  So today we see little kids start school already obese, and we open our morning newspaper to find an enormously fat baby on the front page.

This epidemic must be stopped and the book, My Own Plan, will show you how.

http://www.my-own-plan.com

Kirsten Plotkin

Are you still worried about calories?  I hope not.  After reading My Own Plan, you will know what is important and what is not.  Calories are definately one of the things that are NOT important.   Calories have no bearing on your weight, or your health, or your fitness.  It’s plainly not necessary to worry about it.   It is one more of the many things that come under the umbrella of pseudo science and should never have been used as a measure to determine what you can eat,  or how much.

Once you have rid yourself of your carbohydrate addiction, there is only one measure that counts.   Exluding your tape measure, that would be carbohydrate.  If this shocks you, then you are someone who hasn’t read the book.  Anyone who HAS  read it,  will not only believe what I have said, they will know,  from their own experience and understanding that calories are irrelevant.  It is simply yet another way to keep you tied to a diet, whether conciously or otherwise.

The diet guru’s need you to need them.  When you decide they are superfluous,  where do they go from there?

Just remember, Calories never used to matter in the past and for all the centuries they didn’t matter, people were not prone to get fat.  I am so tired of these home made theories about what is good and what is bad for us.  These theories, when looked at with the perspective of human development, are just plain silly.  If they weren’t so dangerous, we’d all be laughing!

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