September 2006
PAPERS ON DIET
GENERAL METABOLIC DYSFUNCTION
Obesity is just another symptom of being unhealthy, of general metabolic dysfunction. It's just one of the many tips of a very large body system dysfunction iceberg.
The others? - headaches, tiredness, poor sleep, sleep apnoea, cardiac insufficiency, depression, colds and flu, diabetes, cancer, low libido, elevated blood pressure, inflammatory conditions, rashes, infertility ... the list goes on and on.
There aren't any. You've been duped!
Don't waste your time looking for them, let alone reading them.
If you look at the reference lists you'll see that most of them are based on plagiarism, name dropping and brown-nosing.
Paper writing; just another branch of the industry designed to keep people in the sheltered workshops for the academically gifted in employment.
The evidence is usually selective. One paper contradicts another; everyone running round in circles producing evidence to justify already entrenched positions. Mud being flung left right and centre. You don't know who to believe.
If you do come to an opinion no-one will believe you. All that will happen is that you'll attract more criticism. They'll hurl abuse at you and name call; they'll accuse you of Atkinsonism or something. Ignore them. Don't waste your time.
Here it is again: -
If you have a burning desire to become healthier and get back closer to your ideal weight,
- eat less of the food your body doesn't need. Don't buy, don't eat!
- buy and eat more of the food your body does need,
- Go to as good counsellor and dredge back through your past and get to the cause of your over-eating behaviour. Find out when this need to over-eat first started. Get the counsellor to help you work through it and overcome it and reprogram yourself to eat healthily.
- exercise regularly and vigorously,
- stay focused and disciplined. Go to support meetings.
It will take some effort. After 21 days on your healthy eating program there is a good chance you'll have developed a habit. Stick with it for 21 days.
The effect? You'll become healthier. The weight will look after itself.
You'll end up as fit as a trout, lean a a greyhound and toey as a Roman sandal. Until you're at that point you've got work to do. When you get there, report back.
This is not rocket science. We don't need more research, more papers more swanning around the world to conferences, more government expenditure.
If you don't have a burning desire to become healthier no-one can help you.