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2. Obesity is the result of eating too much saturated fat. equally, that all have the same impact on health and disease. It Eating fat—especially the fat from animal foods—makes you fat. neglects to take into account the differences between food 3. Obesity is the result of a lack of will power anda character —_— produced in a healthy way and food produced in an unhealthy weakness. way. It fails to notice the dissimilarity between the particular 4. Obesity is a genetic trait, like brown eyes, and there's qualities associated with each food category. It fails to take into nothing you can do about it. consideration the actual needs of the human body. And most of 5. Obesity is caused by overindulgence, throwing caution to all, it ignores all of the other complicating factors that contribute the wind, gluttony and lack of moral fibre. to obesity besides too much food and lack of exercise. 6. Obesity is caused solely by lack of physical movement. The bucket theory starts with the assumption that all of the We have all suspected at one time or another that fast food and normal body processes are intact and functioning properly in candy were not good for us. The percentage of Americans who someone who turns obese, but this seems not to be the case. We frequent fast-food establishments on a regular basis is probably need to let go of the idea that obesity is the result of normal around 20%, yet the percentage of Americans who are physiological mechanisms. In order for the body to make the overweight is closer to 65%. Clearly, the fast-food connection kind of morbid accumulations associated with obesity, it has to cannot be blamed for everything. be in a different operating mode than normal. It is almost as if We have so much faith in our "meat and potatoes" diet, but we the body is in survival mode, and creates the obese body type as fail to acknowledge that even these foods are different than they a last-ditch attempt at retaining life under unusually harsh once were. The meat has been harvested from sick animals and it circumstances which are both internal and external. Certainly is laced with hormones, antibiotics and other drugs. The quality there is a variety of functional disturbances, hormonal and of the fats and proteins in the meat has been radically altered due metabolic abnormalities and pathogenic influences involved. My to the aberrant diet these animals have been raised on. The suspicion is that you could not take a normal, healthy person and otatoes have been genetically modified and treated with harsh make them into an obese individual just by overeating and not and persistent pesticides, synthetic exercising.’ fertilisers and other additives. Other possible factors involved in It used to be that the food one obesity include multiple nutrient bought at the supermarket to bring . deficiencies, dysfunctional organ home and cook was of far superior We have always been eating systems, imbalanced endocrine and quity han he at you Bout fat in our foods— Parma icon However, we can no longer make that hasn't changed. of psychological and spiritual blaming all of our health woes on | PA thing that has changed Bho ee er hac he or she needs to ea junk food for many reasons. Perhaps Is the type of fat that we less and exercise more is just too are in denial about the true stat H simple-minded to be an effecti ofourfood supply. are eating. strategy to combat this complex In any case, the agriculture condition. And that is just where we industry likes us to pin the blame on are right now. It is necessary to take fast food because it takes the eyes of a full assessment of the situation and the public away from them. The sad consider all of the aspects with fact is that the food you buy at McDonald's and the food you get which we are confronted. People become obese for a variety of from the supermarket is not as different as it once was. reasons or, rather, as a result of multiple factors. On some level we feel like we have the situation currently It is also true that we do need to take a closer look at exactly under control. The government and health authorities have done what we are eating: which foods we are eating more of and their studies and made their recommendations. Things are going which we are eating less of. Is eating fat really making us fat? for them as planned. And yet the situation desperately calls for Humans have been eating lots of fat for a long time. Some greater in-depth analysis and understanding. We need to look at cultures get 70% of their calories from fat, and that has been true obesity from a different perspective in order to change the way for generation after generation for thousands of years." Why things are progressing. Our current approach is just not going to should we be having so much of a problem with it now? We get the job done. At its roots, obesity is a symptom of a much have always been eating fat in our foods—that hasn't changed. bigger problem. Using a more holistic viewpoint like the one The thing that has changed is the type of fat that we are eating. offered us by traditional systems of medicine could provide a For example, butterfat consumption has decreased steadily over deeper understanding of our predicament. the years. Similarly, coconut oil consumption has decreased precipitously compared with just a few decades ago. Meanwhile, The Bucket Theory the consumption of all vegetable oils has skyrocketed ''"—no One popular explanation of obesity is based on the "bucket doubt due to the fact that these kinds of oils (especially theory". This hypothesis says that the human body is like a hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils) are the main bucket: the food you put in fills the bucket, and the exercise you ingredient in many of the prepackaged foods that we buy at the do empties the bucket. So, people who gain weight are just supermarket. Another dubious ingredient which is often found overfilling and under-emptying their buckets. The take-home alongside vegetable oil is high-fructose corn syrup. We are now message that has been stuffed down our throats is that we are consuming more of these two food ingredients than ever before. eating way too much and exercising way too little. But there is My experiences in treating obese people in an "alternative" so much more to it than that! clinical practice suggest that the physiognomy of obesity is a far This bucket theory assumes that all calories can be treated more complicated scenario than simply excess caloric intake and We have always been eating fat in our foods— that hasn't changed. The thing that has changed is the type of fat that we are eating. The Bucket Theory One popular explanation of obesity is based on the "bucket theory". This hypothesis says that the human body is like a bucket: the food you put in fills the bucket, and the exercise you do empties the bucket. So, people who gain weight are just overfilling and under-emptying their buckets. The take-home message that has been stuffed down our throats is that we are eating way too much and exercising way too little. But there is so much more to it than that! 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