Copyright 2005 Jeff Garcia
Over 400,000 die from food containing 'toxic' nutrients in just
12 month - more than 100 million Americans are still at risk and
it cost the nation over $100 billion dollars a year.
And 'toxic' is probably not too strong a word!
And yet on a daily basis no one seems to butt an eyelid, despite
it still being a serious major problem - an epidemic in fact.
Obesity, and of the self inflicted causes of disease it is
second only to smoking. Left to current trends it is soon to
take the number one slot. And yet, if the same magnitude and
loss of life was attributed to BSE (Mad Cows Disease) in our
food chain - there would be a public out cry. And how can we
have nearly 96 million web pages of information, diet plans,
pills and potions displayed on an Internet search and yet be in
the height of an obesity crisis?
There can be only one conclusion - diets don't work. And yet
people are still paying for it in one of 2 ways, with their
money or with their health. Diet companies are quite happy to
take a dieter's money but are dependent on a dieter's failure
for their very own survival. Some even say diets are designed to
fail. And now, there is insurmountable evidence that many
appalling diseases are related to inappropriate nutrition and
obesity, and yet 60% of Americans take little notice of it. Why?
It is because the act of eating presents no emotion of fear or
threat to life and we are in fact genetically programmed to
simple eat! We are biological 'eating machines'.
So who is responsible? The food manufacturers, the government or
us - the individual. In simple terms we all have choices as to
what we decide to put inside our own body in the form of food,
and therefore the ultimate responsibly lies with the individual
in respect to their chosen diet. Obesity is having a massive
impact on the western world at large with all the causes well
documented but little in terms of real, solid and lasting
solutions. As a research specialist, we have severe concerns
regarding the current obesity trends and have developed
methodologies the help combat the problem for individuals based
on 'our' nutritional inheritance.
We have existed on this planet for over 2 million years in
humanoid form and for 99.5% of that time as the
'hunter/gatherer', consuming a diet of predominantly meat, fish,
fruit and vegetables with plenty of water as the main source of
liquid refreshment. Our nutritional inheritance was and is still
is well defined, and perhaps has less tolerance to variation
than originally thought. You cannot so drastically change the
human diet as we have today and not expect a reaction from
Mother Nature herself. Her dictatorship rules ... it is and
always will be the survival of the fittest i.e. those who can
best adapt to their environment.
We have to also face up to the facts as to the impact of three
key revolutions - the Agricultural, the Industrial and
Technological, the latter of which has significantly contributed
to our demise. We no longer work for our food and far from being
scarce it is in abundance, so now we neither have to.
Effectively we work less and therefore need less, but as a
nation we are eating more. And here lies the nature of our
solution. We must go back to basics and steer our nutrition
towards a diet aligned to the nutritional expectation of our
body derived over millions of years of evolution. Nutrition and
a life style that our body was designed for.
This can be the only natural resolution until such time we are
able to engineer nutritional genes to control appetite, or
alternatively accept a lifetime of taking diet 'miracle drugs'
of the future to achieve the same aim. These natural concepts
have been detailed in a publication called Glycemic Superfoods
allowing everyone to review their attitude and thought process
about their own diet and nutrition to that of their inheritance.
You be the judge...
About the author:
Jeff Garcia specializes in providing tangible solutions to the
demands of his client base through a comprehensive understanding
of specific issues and meticulous research. His latest
publication Glycemic Superfoods can be found at
http://www.glycemicsuperfoods.com For more information email
Jeff Garcia at glycemicsuperfoods@yahoo.com
