Diet – It’s a four-letter word

Diet – It’s a four-letter word

The three D’s of dieting are these: deprived, depressed and defeated. Why
else would it be such a growing epidemic in this country? Why else would so
many of us dieters fail? We do not want to be overweight. Just ask anyone
who is. Have they thought of diet and exercise (hey, look at me – I’m
talking like a doctor!)? Hasn’t most of us heard that Lecture before. Why
don’t we ask the doctors, is that all you’ve got to help us? If you’re
blind, get a dog. If you can’t walk, get a wheelchair. If you’re fat, get
the diet-and-exercise lecture. That’s about how successful of a cure it is.
How about if you tell me why human beings are practically the only
overweight species in this animal kingdom. Is it because animals don’t have
to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day, sitting in traffic to get to work and
then back home? Is it because animals have to chase after their food if
they want to eat instead of standing in line at the grocery store to buy it
and standing at the stove to cook it? Is it that they carry their offspring
around with them all day instead of rushing to get them off to school,
driving them to soccer practice and piano lessons, getting them fed, bathed
and in bed just in time for the mother human to collapse? “Hey, now get up
and exercise since you have some time to yourself.” Is it because we cannot
change our world but we can have a chocolate bar? We are set up for failure
and then the medical profession wonders why. Tell us what makes us keep
eating and we will gladly stop. At the foremost of all the research on
obesity should be a cause, not blame. If you look on the internet you’ll
find many studies going on, several focused on an appetite-stimulate
produced in our own stomachs called Ghrelin. This little peptide goes crazy
and starts producing faster if it senses we are not eating as much as
usual. Apparently, we have to trick it into not realizing we’re dieting
lest it turns on us, sabotaging our efforts. But do we see this on TV and
in newspapers? No, we see fat-busting diet pills and plastic surgery ads,
which will only kill us or make us go broke. But look, a McDonald’s
commercial offering two quarter-pound cheeseburgers for only $2.00! What a
deal! And don’t get me started with holidays. They should be called
Celebrations of Food. Each one involving a huge feast and abundant sweets.
Candy manufacturers only change the wrappers to move from Halloween,
Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Easter. How can we concentrate on healthy
eating when food is such a ritual of living? We are advised to lose 1 to 2
pounds per week for a healthy weight loss goal. Do you know you only need
to enter a Ben and Jerry’s in order for you to gain it back. From fast food
to fine dining, Fourth of July barbecues to wedding receptions, Americans
are embracing food at the same time realizing too much of a good thing can
do us harm. Society needs to change it’s thinking about what eating is all
about. It’s about refueling the body to perform life’s functions,
internally and externally. It’s not a celebration, a comfort or a reward.
And it can be a deadly enemy to those who are overweight. By the way,
whatever happened to that study with the fat mouse that had been injected
with lectin, the hormone causing ravenous eating? Is there not enough money
out there to fund the research to solve this multi-billion dollar health
problem? From fat-free foods to gastric by-pass surgeries, it seems like
there is a lot of money being spent fighting obesity so why is science
moving at such a snail’s pace? Maybe when a cause and a cure are finally
found, doctors can finally offer something more productive than the
Lecture? Look, we’re fat, not deaf. Please stop telling us to lose weight
and give us a more effective way to do it.

-- Steve
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