There are many products on the market that promote weight and fat loss. From diet books, diet pills, diet food, diet products and gizmos… We are buying them up and have turned this into a multi-billion dollar market. This industry never existed 70-80 years ago. And there was no obesity health crisis like there is today.
We look back at what has changed:
* We are more stressed
* We sleep less
* There are more fast food restaurants
* More packaged and processed foods
* Cars
* Computers and Televisions
* More chemicals and pollution
* We drink less water and more sugary drinks
* We see less sun (and vitamin D)
* Pasteurization of milk and egg products
* Pushing of a low fat, high carb diets
* Factory Farming (and animals being sick and fed an unnatural diet)
* We eat much more sugar
* Our grains are refined and then refortified with vitamins!
* Toxic drugs that wreak havoc on our bodies.
In the news this week President Obama made it illegal to put downer cows into the food system. How horrible that such a thing even exists.
So is it any wonder why we are so much sicker and fatter?
Did you know that corn fed beef can make you fatter but grass fed beef contains CLA which has been shown in studies to make you thinner? You can buy CLA in a pill form but that really does not solve the problem that corn is not the healthy food for a cow (or for you). Not only that but grass fed beef contains omega 3 EFA’s and that is the same kind of omega 3 EFA’s found in fish and considered a brain food. We don’t need to be raping our oceans to get the health benefits of these essential fatty acids. We need to raise our animals they way were meant to be raised.
We are living longer but definitely not healthier. Our quality of life has certainly plunged.
If we reverse the above list our health would get better and our weight will drop. The focus should not be fat loss but health gains! Environmental health, animal health and our health are all related.
The first step is gaining knowledge. With the right knowledge good decisions can be made.
