I have dreaded writing this article because knowing the facts is not nearly as difficult as writing them down and seeing them in print.  The unimaginable of a couple of decades ago have now become today’s statistics.

Our children are becoming fat, it is not a small minority as you might think, it is ever growing numbers.  It is not just a simple weight problem.  Child obesity has reached numbers that nobody would have foreseen even a decade ago.  Sadly, it is our own fault, the adults the parents the teachers anyone who has an influence over what children eat.

Already in 1995, the combined figures for overweight and obese children aged 12- 15 years, was 26.1% of boys and 18.9% of girls.   That is close to fifteen years ago and most people speculate that the number of overweight children today is very close to the adult figures which have now reached more than 60%.  There is a lot of talk about children needing more activity and more exercise but there is a far bigger problem to overcome and it is not outdoors, it is in the home.

Children are getting fat because their parents are getting fat.  Parents are feeding their children what they believe is a healthy diet.  They give them foods that are advertised as healthy and they follow the advice they see on TV.  Until the parents learn the facts about what is happening to their diet they will continue to pass on their misinformation to their children, who will in turn pass it on to their children.  It would serve you well to realize that the advice you get about dieting, usually comes from vested interests.

A major change to our diet happened in the late nineteen seventieths.  That diet has become the foundation of all the diets that have followed.  They are not scientific in any way, the have never been tested  and if you continue to follow them you and your children will go on to obesity and potential type2 diabetes.  You are probably already a victim of what your own parents passed on to you.  If you periodically reduce your calories to lose weight, and you encourage your family to do the same, you are courting trouble both for yourself and your family.

You need to take a really good look around and ask yourself this question: If the foods we are told to eat are the right foods for us why is each generation getting fatter than the last one?  If these diets can reduce our weight for good, why are we still dieting?  News travels fast in this century.  If someone devises a diet that actually works and by that I mean it gets your weight off permanently, it would be news around the world within hours and nobody would ever need to diet again.

The problem is not lack of exercise or too much fast food or any other glib answer. The problem is that we have experienced a fundamental change to our diet, one which is affecting adults, and consequently their children.  It is a diet our metabolism cannot handle, it goes into famine mode which means that your body converts most if not all of the carbohydrate you eat into fat that it stores on your body.

Every diet becomes your own sabotage to any chance of losing weight for good.  No diet that requires you to count calories will ever be able to make you slim permanently.  Permanent in this instance means you will never need to diet again.

If we want to we can make ours the last generation to face massive weight problems, obesity and type2 diabetes.  We need to be aware that any diet which involves a reduction of calories will follow a set pattern.  You will lose some, but almost immediately after, you’ll begin to put all the weight back on again. Each time you do that you will have a bit more weight than when you began.  That is why diets cannot ever give you a permanent weight loss.

The obesity in children rates must be overcome.  If this is something you want to learn more about, you can find a way to get real permanent weight loss for yourself and your family. Do it before your children pass it on to your grandchildren.  If you agree that this type of information is important to your family’s future you need to learn more.

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Kirsten Plotkin Author

I look around today, on the street and in the mall and I fear for the future. Roughly four out of every six people I pass are overweight. It is said by obesity america 2008, that in 1980, the national average of obese adults was 15 percent. Prior to that time it would not have been a large enough problem to need statistics.

In 1991, no US state had an obesity rate above 20 percent.  Today more than sixty percent of people are overweight, not necessarily obese, but the figure for obesity for 2008 was 25%.  It will be well above that today because the obesity numbers grow exponentially. The fact is that today, almost 2 thirds of the population is overweight, and they are all heading towards obesity and type2 diabetes. You have ice in your veins if that doesn’t scare you.

What we are experiencing is another form of human intervention. While skeptics debate how we can stop the climate change we have caused, we are already destroying ourselves from within.  No, it is not our fault. We have all become victims of the adage: If you make any statement long enough, loud enough and often enough, people start to believe it and after a while it grows to become a fact.

People who are involved in the area of diet and exercise, have always talked very loud and very often about their ideas and hunches for health and nutrition.  In the very late seventies, they spoke long and loud about their new healthy diet. It was based on three serves of carbohydrate to one serve of protein.  It was designed for everybody to combat a new threat called cholesterol and it came with a poster of a pyramid. No one dared question it. Those who should have spoken remained silent.

It wasn’t long before all that reckless theory became fact. Today it is still an unchallenged dogma. Not because it is true but because no one, not even the people promoting it remembers where the dogma came from. Yet, it is the foundation of hundreds of diets devised by many dozens of ‘expert’ and the numbers of victims run into millions.

So how did it all begin? Since the Pyramid diet was devised in the late seventies, right up till today, that diet has never been tested in a lab. Neither has any of the hundreds of diet that followed. They did not go through human trials and the people who came up with those diets were not scientists.  These were diets that some clever people devised with great enthusiasm because the stuff they were suggesting to one another sounded healthy, wholesome and irresistible.

There is no doubt they believed their own voodoo, but it was not science. The words Green and Natural became an ear piercing catch cry by every wannabe food expert in the world.  It sounds so good and it is natural right?  Well arsenic is natural, so are opium poppies, poisoned mushrooms and hundreds of other substances that are natural.

No one, including me, spoke up at the time and asked for some clarification. Some proof that it was safe to change a diet we had all been accustomed to for generations and which had kept most of us slim and healthy without giving it a thought. Why did no one speak up? Frankly, nobody wanted to.  We all loved the idea of a modern diet, something we, unlike our stodgy parents, could finally understand and call our own.

We didn’t check anything because we wanted it to be true.  Most of us didn’t realize that no science had been involved, but I doubt we would have cared. We rushed in and adopted a diet that was basically the ideas of a few self proclaimed expert’s on what foods were healthy and how we should eat them.

To this day, despite ever growing weight problems, obesity and type2 diabetes, no one dares question the dogma of what is a healthy diet.  Not even the medical or scientific professions. The medical profession will deal with the problem when diabetes threatens and science is too busy with far more glamorous, revenue raising projects.

So before there is no one left to remember how all this began, I thought I had better write it all down and put it on record. I would like to see obesity america 2008 have no reason at all to produce new figures for 2018. What I have learned can make that possible. For the past five years, it has solved my weight problem. Perhaps it can do the same for you. We have to begin somewhere right?

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Kirsten Plotkin Author