Dieting

The myth of obesity and genetics. 

Since 1900, we have gone from severe obesity being a rarity to all the countries of the world seeing an explosion in general overweight and obesity/.severe obesity. 

In the US, more than 40% of the population is severely overweight/obese and in the UK, more than 60% of the population is obese while almost 30% is obese/severely obese. 

This has created a completely new way of looking at the body and the ideal of the body, where being of normal weight is seen as abnormal, underweight and even almost disgusting and unhealthy. Thus, many women perceive thin women in particular as unhealthy. And this has been largely cultivated over the past 10-20 years.

One of the myths surrounding obesity is that it has a genetic cause. This lie is a well-placed excuse to ensure abdication of responsibility by the people who get fat, and make others stop debating the topic for fear of offending someone. To upset someone, to be exclusionary and mean. 

But the myth of genetics is a myth. Because even though we genetically react differently, data from military training from the 1900s shows that obesity was largely non-existent until after the First World War. And that obesity only took off and became something that you started measuring from 1960 onwards.

But what causes obesity then?  If you ask Google, the answer is diet, hormonal imbalances, stress and genetics. But we are past genetics and historical data can reject that. Because you and I are grandchildren and great-grandchildren of people who were not fat. We have their genetics. 

If we look at what they call hormonal imbalance and stress, both are described as leading to bad eating habits. So we are down to diet being the real and only factor. Is it how many carbohydrates or how much fat we eat. Not immediately. Because if we look at different cultures, there has been a big difference in the intake of different macros, but almost no differences in the obesity trend. But the one thing that has changed since 1900 is the proportion of processed food combined with the white poison (White sugar) Not natural sugar from for example an apple which contains fiber etc. . The world's fattest country Tonga, with more than 70% obesity, is also the country in the world where you eat the most processed food. The USA is the country in the world where the most ultra-processed food is eaten (although less processed food overall than Tonga) and thus the obesity epidemic follows the share of processed food, albeit quite proportionally.

Then you are one of those who reacts badly to processed food and puts on weight easily. Then maybe it would be a good idea to open your mind and understand that just because you get the truth, it doesn't mean that others hate you. But that the convenient lie about your genes is created by an industry that serves Mia by selling us all toxic obesity drugs and food with pesticides. And you are the first and most visible symptom of this. But there are other symptoms than obesity and overweight. Many of us know this as a 'lifestyle' disease. These are not lifestyle diseases. These are politically created diseases because the industry pays its politicians fat to allow processed foods, sugar, pesticides and to tell you a lie about genetics.