Re: Horizon - Why We Are Fat
Originally Posted by
malcolm
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Everyone is different...except in one aspect and that aspect is EATING.
Fat people eat too much, whether through gluttony or through not fully understanding their own metabolism.
Argue as you will against the true facts of the situation, but you will not change it....it you are overweight then cut down on your food intake, and stop making excuses for your fatness.
There are inaccuracies in this stream of thought Malcolm and those inaccuracies explain why so many people remain fat despite trying not to be.
As humans we do not eat according to calorie calculations. We don't start out the day thinking "I have a 2500 calorie allowance today and will need to tick off everything I eat as I go"
Humans have lived successfully for thousands of years and no-one ever had any written guideline as to how much food was too little, too much or just right.
So how do we carry on?
We simply eat when we feel that we want to eat. We don't eat when we don't feel hungry. It's that simple really, and so it should be.
You say that fat people eat too much, but how much is too much? If I feel hungry shouldn't I eat? Isn't that how the body with its myriad of sensors and triggers operates?
So what's going on then with this world of fat people.
Let me say this. Fat people are NOT eating when they are NOT hungry. I'll re-iterate that. Fat people are not sitting there thinking, "you know I'm just not hungry but sod it, I'll eat a cream cake anyway".
The opposite is actually happening. These people ARE feeling hungry and so they are dutifully eating which is the natural and human thing to do. No-one is to blame if they are eating when they feel hungry.
So wherein lies the problem? It's simple.
If I inject you with a special substance that will mess with your body systems and sensors and triggers, I CAN MAKE YOU FEEL HUNGRY when in fact your body is not in the least bit hungry and has no need of additional energy.
If I do this, you will eat, and create energy, which your body has no use for, and thus it will lay that energy down as fat.
Fat people are not being injected. But they are nevertheless being drugged up with substances that make them feel hungry. The primary culprit for this is SUGAR, but there are others.
Manufacturers are mostly responsible for the nation's obesity. It is THEY that are putting the chemicals and sugars into the foods and that causes people to feel hungry when they are not. Fat people in no small part need some slack because they are not to blame.
What they need is food education, to be taught how sugar and other crap is screwing their system and thereby move them towards better food choices.