What comes to mind when
someone mentions
carbohydrate addicts?
A low carb diet may come to mind. Maybe a low fat diet, or a complex carbohydrate diet. There are many choices and these days there are few people who haven’t experimented with at least one diet.
There are even fewer people who realize they are already carbohydrate addicts.
Why do we diet? Obviously we want to lose weight, but by now, surely we see enough proof all around us, that diets don’t work. They can’t, Mother Nature didn’t prepare us for dieting. That’s why today 60% of the population has a weight problem and obesity Statistics tell us by 2020 this number will reach 80%. What does that mean?
It means most of us are already carbohydrate addicts and most of us don’t even know.
So why do we still diet? People we trust and respect tell us that a diet is necessary to lose weight and to maintain a healthy lifestyle. This is nonsense. If carried further, we will soon be told that a diet is necessary for our survival. The one thing we won’t be told is that we are carbohydrate addicts and shouldn’t diet at all!
Another thing these people don’t tell you and probably don’t know themselves is that diets are dangerous to our body. Our digestive system was not built for diets. In the fifties and sixties people did not diet. Diets were for sick people. Till that time – carbohydrate addicts didn’t exist. The only response your body can offer when you diet is to signal Famine!
That’s because a diet is a shortage of food and to your body that can only mean a famine. When a famine is over it’s your body’s job to recover all the weight you have lost. For added protection against a future famine, it will store a little extra fat.
Ask yourself where does this plethora of expert diet information originate? Where is the scientific information – the research to prove that these diets are safe for human consumption? Where are the research papers to confirm that human trials prove a particular diet is safe to use?
We are on a slippery path to self destruction. We are eating ourselves to death. Our future is to become obesity statistics and eventually develop type2 diabetes. Both events are likely to be fatal. We are becoming carbohydrate addicts and we get fatter by the week. This is happening with the fervent support and advice of self proclaimed experts. They have a professional and or financial stake in our continued obsession with diets. They don’t want that to stop!
So here is where we are today: 60% of us are overweight and most of us are carbohydrate addicts. That means we have no control over our desire for carbohydrates foods. Everyone of us have dieted to lose weight, maybe several times. Yet each and every one of us is fatter today than before we began our first diet. Doesn’t that tell us something?
You are thinking: why should you believe all this – Right? You don’t have to believe it. Just take a good look around and use your common sense. Everybody diets and everybody’s getting fat. Human beings managed to survive for thousands of years, without a diet and without weight problems. You think they mostly went hungry? We wouldn’t have survived as a species if they had.
Except for the last forty to fifty years, people have thrived and procreated without the advice or assistance of dietitians, nutritionists, diet experts, diet gurus, cereal and diet food manufacturers. In fact, all those thousands of people who do not have a science or medical degree, but claim to know and understand your body.
Before you say: But all these people can’t be wrong! Please remember, their income depends entirely on carbohydrate addicts and their inevitable weight problems. They are the ‘pushers’ of carbohydrates foods. They are both individuals and corporations and their business is to profit from your addiction. Without you – the addict - there are no profits.
The reason there are so many profiteers, is that as long as carbohydrate addicts can remain unrecognized, there is no burden of law or regulations to stop them. There are so many of them – because it is so very profitable!
Kirsten Plotkin
Why are carbohydrate addicts someone else’s meal ticket?
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