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insufficient exercise. Examination of actual people has shown bloodstream, the body will insert whatever fat molecules are me that there is not just an excess of tissues but there are also available. great deficiencies present. In Western science we would equate In obese people, the cellular membranes contain a distorted these kinds of deficiencies with missing vitamins, minerals and mixture of fat molecules.'? An immediate result is that the cells enzymes and exhaustion of the endocrine glands. In clinical are no longer able to function properly. The membrane can no practice, it is all too common to see patients present with an longer operate as a selective barrier and the cell lets in whatever excessive accumulation of bodily debris and a concomitant is floating around in the bloodstream. As the fat cells grow deficiency of the proper materials on which good health is larger, they allow even more of the improper lipids to predicated. The process by which this transformation takes place accumulate. Healthy components such as the enzyme lipase, has certain features that coincide with the American way of life which breaks down fat molecules, are notably absent. Fat in and our Western ideologies. It is inherent in our food choices, in itself can be used as a storage area for fat-soluble substances, and the way we take care of our bodies, in the way we deal with our many of the environmental toxins to which we are exposed are emotions, work, childbearing and so on. We haven't had a truly fat-soluble: they are "oily" as opposed to "watery". As a result, health-conscious approach to life in many generations. the fat tissue accumulates this toxic debris and stores it PP yg The problem is not simply accumulated fat. We must consider indefinitely. The fat is capable of synthesising its own the fact that the processed and prepared foods we buy at the potentially toxic substances: oestrogen, for example, is supermarket are not as easily digested as produced by fat tissues in both men and their natural counterparts. As a result, there women. While a healthy balance of is much that is absorbed from the intestines oestrogen is essential for good health, when and into the bloodstream that cannot be there is too much in the body it can cause assimilated through normal body all kinds of difficulties. Oestrogen functioning. Obesity is a combination of the promotes the growth and build-up of accumulation of these indigestible materials, tissues, so it helps to keep fat in the body. coupled with depleted body energies, Also, it is a potential tumour growth factor. depleted endocrine reserves and depleted If the proper fat C ‘i + the Food Supp! igestive capacity. e end result is a loss Orruption of the Food supply of complexity in the system; the body turns molecules are not We cannot blame fast food for all our into a garbage bag tee pings it present in the wees. foods made entirely of factory- neither needs nor is capable of breaking abricated concoctions are the norm in down or eliminating. Externally, we can see bloodstream, the today's marketplace. Laboratory-generated that things are clearly different. We don't li ingredients such as partially hydrogenated 8 y body will insert 8 partia’'y hydrog even call it fat anymore because we now it is something else. Cellulite, "junk in the trunk", "mud flaps", "spare tyre", "beer belly": even in the common vernacular we know that it is something different than just regular fat deposits. The fat itself in an obese erson actually has a different chemistry than fat found in a healthy erson. Every cell in the body of every erson (whether obese or not) has some fat in it. The cellular membrane which composes the barrier that defines each Apparently the agriculture industry cell is called the phospholipid bilayer, feels no remorse for its endless and it is made of fat—roughly 50% saturated and 50% manipulations of our food supply, since it is planning more of the unsaturated fat in a typical blood cell, for instance. That means same in the future. As long as we remain unaware and there is a sheet of fat molecules that make up the surface of every unconcerned with these acts, we will be sold the kinds of cell. Like a balloon holds air, the cellular membrane contains the products that result in the biggest profits for the industry. It and hydrogenated oils, which many studies have linked to a variety of chronic degenerative diseases such as diabetes, cancer and obesity, are in nearly all packaged foods.'* Preservatives, fillers and sweeteners are added to our foods. It is difficult to find items in a supermarket that do not contain sugar or high-fructose corn syrup. Genetically modified organisms are commonplace, with an estimated 70% of all processed foods containing them. whatever fat molecules are available. contents of a cell. Every cell in the body is made this way. seems that the well-being of the consumer is given little Much activity happens at the cellular membrane. Hormones and consideration beyond the marketing strategies that attempt to other molecules bind to the membrane and cause the cell to pass off this junk as healthy. engage in all essential life functions. Everything that the cell Many individuals who buy and consume food from the needs in order to operate and survive must pass through it. The agriculture industry seem unaware of how the food is actually cell membrane must act as a "selective barrier", meaning that it produced. It is no coincidence that much of this information is selectively allows certain molecules to go through while kept hidden from public scrutiny. preventing the passage of unwanted materials. These membranes Mass-produced animals of the agriculture industry are housed need a constant supply of new fat molecules to replace the ones inside cruelly cramped environments. They eat whatever is that are lost through various processes. There must be a proper cheapest to feed them, including "recycled" animal carcasses. mix available of saturated and unsaturated fats of good quality in They are given drugs, hormones and antibiotics just so they won't order to ensure the correct functioning of these intricate die before they grow large enough to eat. All of these unnatural structures. If the proper fat molecules are not present in the processes and stresses change the fabric of the meat in many If the proper fat molecules are not present in the bloodstream, the body will insert whatever fat molecules are available. NEXUS +29 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2006 www.nexusmagazine.com