Why are we so fat?

…or maybe we just dont know what to do, to actually truly provide people with their needs, or try to show them how to meet their own needs….

…maybe theres a problem with the way we produce our foods, and market them….

We know what to do, we have the information.

Society is choosing to ignore the risks, even though the avoidable health complications increase everyday and adds extra stress on the health system that threats people who have looked after their health.

Ultimately obese people will fall down the priority list as their obesity is a risk factor for surgery.

There are differences in how different people react to the same. I was talking with my wife and said how I always feel hungry an hour after pasta. I feel physically full, but still hungry. She doesn't experience that at all. So I tried cutting out carbs and doing a kind of keto diet (high fibre, fat and protein with lots of green veg). It was great for me.

It made me think about the amount of Advertising we see and how much of it is for highly processed carbs and how low fibre most of the foods advertised to us actually are.

Not telling anyone else what to do, but I found it made a huge difference to me. If we tried choosing the food we eat rather than selecting from what's advertised most heavily, I think we'd be better off.

making people feel worse about themselves is not going to help

While driving the e-scooter with the other hand.

Processed food is the big one I reckon. I gave up sugar for lent earlier this year and I was shocked at how quickly the weight fell off me. I wasnt doing it for weight loss as Im pretty lean as it is, so I had to eat a lot of wholefoods to stop the weight loss. And also just to note, I didnt give up fruit, only foods that man makes that have sugar added to them. I still ate a lot of fruit every day but that made no difference to my weight. By the end of the 40 days I saw clearly that foods with sugar added to them, even if they claim to be "Low calorie" are the reason why so many people are overweight. And for whatever reasons, chocolate seems to be the baddest of the bad guys, chocolate will make you fat in no time at all. I think if your diet is composed of mostly wholefoods and very little in the way of anything processed, you would be in great nick. I dont think you'd need to go to the gym and work out at all, a bit of walking every day would do the job, its all about what you eat. I cant emphasize how calorie dense processed foods are, especially those with sugar added(or even sugar in disguise such as Dextrose, syrup). The only way to see the true effects of these foods is to fast from them, give it 40 days, that'd be enough to see what these foods are doing to your body. Fasting is something that is not promoted in this country at all whereas every second street sign is promoting chocolate or fast foods or sugary drinks. One day fasting a week does wonders for your body and mind.

Sugar and processed food is part of the story alright. But I’d say a lot of women in particular eat well but just too much. It’s really ridiculously easy to eat more than 1700 calories in a day especially if you drink alcohol at all. It just adds up over time. A regular desk based office worker with sedentary lifestyle would not need much more than 1700 calories.

Interestingly, it's wall to wall fat women on ads for beauty products and women's hygiene products but fit women only for chocolate. Eating chocolate is portrayed as a sexy sensual thing, no obese woman stuffing their face to be seen.

Yeah that's advertising. As far as I know they either they to represent an ideal image that you'd like to be, or they try to represent people as they are to get them to buy the product.

In any case, it's beside the point that I was responding to suggested we need to bring back miss universe to encourage women to be thinner. Which is silly given the quantity of thin women on tv shows.

I think there's a big ceremony around food in the waynits advertised too. There's an idea that every meal should be special which encourages people to add sauces or toppings which add to the calories.

In truth, some meals are just about taking you from hungry to not hungry for the next few hours. Breakfast doesn't need to be a delicious experience with a cereal that's 30% sugar. Sometimes it's just about shoveling in some porridge or chia seed smoothie to get you to lunch.

The cooking shows and advertisements create an idea that every meal should be an extra special treat.

And to add to that when you see sugar as an ingredient you’ll find they will add in more sugar like molasses, fructose, fruit juice which all adds to the amount of sugar as a whole.