Why Are Obesity Statistics Skyrocketing?

How can I make a promise like that - and keep it? Because I know the reason obesity statistics are soaring. I can prove to you how it happened. I can teach you how to get your body to help you lose the weight. I can show you how to fix your damaged metabolism and put it back to work so it can control and balance your weight the way nature always intended. Only then will it do the job it was designed to do.

How can I know all that that? I am seventy years old. I didn't just witness the events that brought us to this disaster, I experienced the consequences. I was there when publicity hungry people set up a quasi-medical niche. They wanted to promote a diet that would give them authority respect and a healthy income. The diet they created to make that happen, went on to ruin the body and health of millions of people.

This was a time when nobody dieted except sick people. To present a new different way of eating, they reversed engineer our traditional diet. They did it without ever testing this diet. There was no research or trials or any other form of testing. Nobody verified if our digestive and intestinal system could handle this radical change. No one could say if it was safe for the human body. There is ample proof that it was not!

I was witness to how a "cholesterol stuff up" caused even medical professionals to promote that fateful diet. We are paying the price for that Stuff Up to this day. What was that diet? You will have heard of it. It was called The Pyramid Diet.

Why is such an obviously damaging diet still around? The people who continue to profit from it are still around. They have the ear of governments and institutions. Apart from self-nominated diet experts, These include the cereal, diet and snack food industries. These are powerful groups influence governments and institutions.

They have been able to enforce their diet in our schools. They have affected the health of each generation of kids for forty years. They cause them to become addicted to carbohydrates.

Do you find that hard to believe? Take a look at the kids in any schoolyard. They do not just suffer budding weight problems. They are not just plump in a cute way. They are heading for obesity. Many already suffer type2 diabetes. Even a dozen years ago this would have horrified any parent. Today they are told to blame fast food and hope their kids will grow out of it.

I hate when things don't make sense and diets don't make sense. Few people, other than sick people, ever dieted till the seventies. We were well fed in those days, but our diet was not what we eat today. So how did I become an expert on obesity statistics and bad diets?

I was a victim. I was put on the Pyramid Diet to cure my high cholesterol. Did it help? Of course not. It wasn't long before had a weight problem. Life became a constant battle with my weight and a nagging feeling that something didn't make sense. I could see the puzzle but none of the pieces would fit.

How could medicine and science ignore something so obvious: Surely our body's response to what we eat is as important as our response to drugs or anything else we put into our mouths. How could amateurs get away with a complete reversal of a traditional diet we had used for generations.

Unfortunately it was all too easy. No diet needs approval - even today, no matter how ridicules, dangerous or extreme it may be. No diet has ever been scientifically tested or trialled to verify that it works, or that our body can handle it. It is simply let loose on the public for them to test it.

We the public are the only lab rats who test these diets. In the past forty years not one single diet has proved to work permanently. They say our body will adapt to any diet. The fact is the body never adapts. - It evolves, and evolution takes centuries.

Many of the things I want to tell you, you should have learned in school. Schools should teach our children the basic facts about how the body works. They used to, before the seventies, at least in Europe. The trouble is, too many vested interests want to keep everybody in the dark. That's the only way their 'theories' can carry any weight.

If everyone knew the facts, none of these self-nominated experts could have gotten away with turning sixty % of the population into victims of weight problems and obesity. I trust your basic instincts to know and recognize the truth when you hear it. You may not like it, but I hope you agree it's a long time overdue.