The news is making a huge issue out the current obesity crisis. But they are lying to the public. And the lies are deliberate, funded by people who have a major conflict of interest. People who are overweight do not have a lack of willpower. They have been on dozens of diets. Add all the diets up, they have lost hundreds of pounds. Overweight people follow all the medical advice to a T and still gain all the weight they lose back. Out of 20 people who lose weight on a diet, 19 of them will gain it all back and then gain 10 lbs more on top of it. As this turns in to a 20 year process, they gain more and more weight while eating less and less. It’s frustrating, it’s discouraging, and overweight people face serious discrimination issues. What the heck is going on?
Sugar is in everything. Why is there sugar in canned tuna? Why is there sugar in pepperoni? Why is there sugar in sausage? Sugar is in diet food. Sugar is in vitamins. And sugar is injected into chicken breasts served in restaurants. And there is sugar added to the salad dressing. Most people on a diet have a chicken salad when they go out to eat. They might as well eat a candy bar.
Savory food should not have sugar. Sugar used to be expensive, and a very rare treat. Most people 50 years ago only ate sugar on a special occasion, or had a tiny bit in their coffee. Now it is almost impossible to find a food you purchase in the store that does not have sugar in it. Why? Because there on only 10 companies that own almost all the food brands in the entire world, and food tastes better when it has sugar in it. Sugar enhanced food sells better. And sugar makes you hungry so you buy more food. It’s corporate greed. It’s global. And it effects your health.
It is not that the rise in obesity has caused an increase in diabetes and heart disease. That is a false causation. It is that the rise in hidden sugar consumption has caused obesity and diabetes and heart disease. The answer is not more willpower. The answer is on government regulations limiting the inclusion of sugar and all the various names it hides behind. Sugar needs to be limited to sweet foods like ice cream and pies where you know what you are getting. And there needs to be huge warning labels that eating these foods may cause diabetes and heart disease. Most countries have some regulating agencies like the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the FDA in the United States. But when the 10 corporations run those agencies globally there is no protection. Food production is a trillion dollar industry.
So are you tired of the media lying to you? Are you tired of being blamed for being overweight while everything you eat is loaded with sugar and high fructose corn syrup? Are you tired of your doctor telling you to eat less and exercise more as you gain weight while starving yourself? We need to take a serious look at what is in our food and stop buying brands that lie about being healthy. Obesity is a social justice issue, but we should be criticizing the brands, not the victims.
