Some sugar substitutes are more dangerous than the real thing. Gut bacteria break down the slow digesting bound alcohols and yield 2C/ gm compared to sugar at 4C/gm, but there the bound alcohols are denser, so there is about 1.25 times as much in them, per same volume and they are less sweet, so we use more. So now instead of sugar, which is digested at about 12 grams/minute, you get to feed your bacteria slow digesting bound alcohols and produce carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide, methane, and other hydrogen compounds in the gut and digest at a slow rate.
If you have the bacteria to digest them, you get calories. If you have the wrong bacteria, they can produce a number of noxious substances, including some uglies,
essentially poisons. It is our choice to eat or not.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Testing
I propose a test for food addiction: Just cut all sugar, grain, omega 6 seed oils, nuts, dairy out for 30 days and you will find out if you are addicted, especially if they are in the house.
A few years, Aug, 2008, I started the search for a diet here: http://philmaffetone.com/2weektest.cfm
It worked well, but I found I could not add back anything.
A few years, Aug, 2008, I started the search for a diet here: http://philmaffetone.com/2weektest.cfm
It worked well, but I found I could not add back anything.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Dairy Insulin responce
From http://relievemypain.blogspot.ca/2012/03/avoiding-dairy-losing-fat.html
The insulin response to Dairy is greater than it should be for the same glucose rise.
Now What?
Dr Davis and the glucose meter is good, but with dairy, the glucose meter is not picking up the story with respect to insulin. This is another surrogate measurement issue. Is this why dairy product seems to also be addicting? Just like nuts, and carbohydrates?
More evidence that I have a over production of insulin problem.
The insulin response to Dairy is greater than it should be for the same glucose rise.
Now What?
Dr Davis and the glucose meter is good, but with dairy, the glucose meter is not picking up the story with respect to insulin. This is another surrogate measurement issue. Is this why dairy product seems to also be addicting? Just like nuts, and carbohydrates?
More evidence that I have a over production of insulin problem.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Lifestyle Change
Lifestyle Change Stages http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.ca/2012/03/context-and-stages-of-change.html
Precontemplation/Denial
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
Beaware of relapse, frequently at 6 months
Precontemplation/Denial
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
Beaware of relapse, frequently at 6 months
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Dr Eric C. Westman
http://www.dietdoctor.com/the-science-of-low-carb
David Medosa http://www.mendosa.com/blog/?p=1211
Dr Vera Tarman Vera Tarman, MD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVXq9nmwbEw
David Medosa http://www.mendosa.com/blog/?p=1211
Dr Vera Tarman Vera Tarman, MD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVXq9nmwbEw
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Analysis of possible causes of obesity
From: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/DS00246/DSECTION=symptoms
This sounds like how I feel. What does this all mean? Do we all have PTSD? Am I just a burn-out at low stress, long ago? Is society as a whole suffering form too much change, to fast? Is it all the computers, technology and change just too much for the human animal.
When we look around at the ultra calm people, Eckhart Tolle comes to mind. example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j42cTkiGdXY. The knowledge of pointlessness is pointless.
If this guy is right, then the human animal only needs only, food, shelter, clothing, and all else is excess. So where do I go from here?
Symptoms
By Mayo Clinic staffPost-traumatic stress disorder symptoms typically start within three months of a traumatic event. In a small number of cases, though, PTSD symptoms may not appear until years after the event.
Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms are generally grouped into three types: intrusive memories, avoidance and numbing, and increased anxiety or emotional arousal (hyperarousal).
Symptoms of intrusive memories may include:
- Flashbacks, or reliving the traumatic event for minutes or even days at a time
- Upsetting dreams about the traumatic event
Symptoms of avoidance and emotional numbing may include:
- Trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event
- Feeling emotionally numb
- Avoiding activities you once enjoyed
- Hopelessness about the future
- Memory problems
- Trouble concentrating
- Difficulty maintaining close relationships
Symptoms of anxiety and increased emotional arousal may include:
- Irritability or anger
- Overwhelming guilt or shame
- Self-destructive behavior, such as drinking too much
- Trouble sleeping
- Being easily startled or frightened
- Hearing or seeing things that aren't there
Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms can come and go. You may have more post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms when things are stressful in general, or when you run into reminders of what you went through. You may hear a car backfire and relive combat experiences, for instance. Or you may see a report on the news about a rape and feel overcome by memories of your own assault.
When we look around at the ultra calm people, Eckhart Tolle comes to mind. example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j42cTkiGdXY. The knowledge of pointlessness is pointless.
If this guy is right, then the human animal only needs only, food, shelter, clothing, and all else is excess. So where do I go from here?
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The Problem with Roast Beef
Just for Tess, since she will not let the roasts go.
Roast beef is wonderful tasting food, but how did Paleo man cook it? If we were to cook a roast today, using only an open fire, it would require something to retain the moisture, perhaps a foil rap. Did Paleo man throw a whole leg, skin and all, on the ground and cover it with coals for 1/2 a day? Or did he hang it over the fire, and dry/smoke it until it was cooked.
Roast beef also raises my blood sugar more that rare steak. Perhaps it is all the damaged proteins split into peptides more easily, or are not suitable for anything beside converting to carbohydrates. Something about those overheated branched chain amino acids, I just do not remember.
In the leptin diet, roast beef and slow cooked beef are banned, something about raising insulin more, and insulin interferes with leptin signal transduction.
Then there is the issue of time from arriving home to food on the plate issue, with a disorderly life.
I will leave the roasts for those few time that wifee cooks for a houseful.
Roast beef is wonderful tasting food, but how did Paleo man cook it? If we were to cook a roast today, using only an open fire, it would require something to retain the moisture, perhaps a foil rap. Did Paleo man throw a whole leg, skin and all, on the ground and cover it with coals for 1/2 a day? Or did he hang it over the fire, and dry/smoke it until it was cooked.
Roast beef also raises my blood sugar more that rare steak. Perhaps it is all the damaged proteins split into peptides more easily, or are not suitable for anything beside converting to carbohydrates. Something about those overheated branched chain amino acids, I just do not remember.
In the leptin diet, roast beef and slow cooked beef are banned, something about raising insulin more, and insulin interferes with leptin signal transduction.
Then there is the issue of time from arriving home to food on the plate issue, with a disorderly life.
I will leave the roasts for those few time that wifee cooks for a houseful.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Plan vs Goals
I just read a blog of a young lady that has a weight loss goal, but no expressed plan to get there.
Goals are great things. Everybody should have a few. But a workable plan is more important. Without a plan, the goal is just words. It is through a plan that the goal is reached.
The first goal should be to record the food (food journal) we are eating each meal, do a calorie count, carbage count, protein check, and the like. This is to find where we are at, as a starting point. The second goal should be to select a food plan and stick to it for a bit. Watch where the problems lie, study and address each problem as they become evident.
My first step was to give up sugar. Caffeine and artificial sweeteners followed.
Then wheat, followed by other cereals. Cheese is in the give up/take back stage now. Butter has been gone a few weeks. I was eating butter for a while but now seem to be gaining weight again.
At each give up stage, I overeat green vegetables and meat a bit. It seems to help the cravings, but I do not crave greens and fresh meat, other than roast beef. But then I am not going to do a roast for the two of us.
and as a reminder
“‘Cheshire Puss,’ asked Alice. ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
‘That depends a good deal on where you want to go,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where,’ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter where you go,’ said the Cat.” – Lewis Carroll
Goals are great things. Everybody should have a few. But a workable plan is more important. Without a plan, the goal is just words. It is through a plan that the goal is reached.
The first goal should be to record the food (food journal) we are eating each meal, do a calorie count, carbage count, protein check, and the like. This is to find where we are at, as a starting point. The second goal should be to select a food plan and stick to it for a bit. Watch where the problems lie, study and address each problem as they become evident.
My first step was to give up sugar. Caffeine and artificial sweeteners followed.
Then wheat, followed by other cereals. Cheese is in the give up/take back stage now. Butter has been gone a few weeks. I was eating butter for a while but now seem to be gaining weight again.
At each give up stage, I overeat green vegetables and meat a bit. It seems to help the cravings, but I do not crave greens and fresh meat, other than roast beef. But then I am not going to do a roast for the two of us.
and as a reminder
“‘Cheshire Puss,’ asked Alice. ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
‘That depends a good deal on where you want to go,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where,’ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter where you go,’ said the Cat.” – Lewis Carroll
Monday, February 27, 2012
One day without the red screen
The bug seem to have left, just as mysteriously as it arrived. But then Spam for virus protection. Coincidence? I doubt it. Just another form of intimidation, protection racket. I will walk away before I pay protection. There is nothing on this site that has value, that is not found elsewhere. I do no original work, other that testing on myself.
The social Media is fine, but at what cost? It becomes a personal cost/benefit analysis. At some point, the cost becomes too high: the screen goes blank. It is not like I generate revenue from my disordered thinking and notes.
Living in present time, real time, now time has it's issues. Constant learning, aiming at a moving target that may not really exist... aka... retirement. What to do?
It seems Sharma has changed his comments settings. It did post directly a bit back, but now nothing. OH well. http://www.drsharma.ca/ottawa-summit-on-healthy-weights.html and Yoni's comment started this.
The government seems to blame the obesity on society, but back in the late 60's/early 70's there was much concern over world food shortages. But then the governments came out with this high cereal guidelines; chemical fertilizer, and new high yield cultivars came out, and the world food shortage issue fell into yesterdays news.
Now we know gladlin breaks down into opioid peptides in some people, and is therefore addicting. Sugar pushes serotonin from the gut to the blood and hence to the brain, and is addicting. This drives the food intake, and insulin stores the glucose as fat, we do not go through the hunger to get insulin down, but eat instead, resulting in obesity. (Positive, aka growing, feed back cycle of eating) We know this. Science knows this. But those who are in 'charge' ignore, and carry on. spending tax dollars, getting paid, looking for a solution that is not the governments fault. All we need to do is stop eating sugars, grains, and seed oils and the problem get much smaller.
Also casein break into opioid peptites. aka butter and cheese can be addicting in some people.
Eat chlorophyll, low in calories and high in satiety and satiation. Eat real food, meats, etc.
From Jay Wortman -- the increased risk of gout happens only in the early stage of a LCHF diet because rising ketones inhibit the excretion of uric acid through the kidney. The elimination of dietary fructose will lower uric acid levels in the blood and when the kidneys stop excreting ketones the elimination problem goes away, too.
The social Media is fine, but at what cost? It becomes a personal cost/benefit analysis. At some point, the cost becomes too high: the screen goes blank. It is not like I generate revenue from my disordered thinking and notes.
Living in present time, real time, now time has it's issues. Constant learning, aiming at a moving target that may not really exist... aka... retirement. What to do?
It seems Sharma has changed his comments settings. It did post directly a bit back, but now nothing. OH well. http://www.drsharma.ca/ottawa-summit-on-healthy-weights.html and Yoni's comment started this.
The government seems to blame the obesity on society, but back in the late 60's/early 70's there was much concern over world food shortages. But then the governments came out with this high cereal guidelines; chemical fertilizer, and new high yield cultivars came out, and the world food shortage issue fell into yesterdays news.
Now we know gladlin breaks down into opioid peptides in some people, and is therefore addicting. Sugar pushes serotonin from the gut to the blood and hence to the brain, and is addicting. This drives the food intake, and insulin stores the glucose as fat, we do not go through the hunger to get insulin down, but eat instead, resulting in obesity. (Positive, aka growing, feed back cycle of eating) We know this. Science knows this. But those who are in 'charge' ignore, and carry on. spending tax dollars, getting paid, looking for a solution that is not the governments fault. All we need to do is stop eating sugars, grains, and seed oils and the problem get much smaller.
Also casein break into opioid peptites. aka butter and cheese can be addicting in some people.
Eat chlorophyll, low in calories and high in satiety and satiation. Eat real food, meats, etc.
From Jay Wortman -- the increased risk of gout happens only in the early stage of a LCHF diet because rising ketones inhibit the excretion of uric acid through the kidney. The elimination of dietary fructose will lower uric acid levels in the blood and when the kidneys stop excreting ketones the elimination problem goes away, too.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
How Strange this Infestation Is
My site is infected, according to the Google generated red screen that comes up on my main computer. Yet I could get on yesterday from the basement old machine, running windows 95 dual Dos boot. As an engineer, I need to keep a few old programs around, including machines that can run them. I paid for them, and only rarely use them now, but have used them in the last 10 years, so my basement is an engineering office archive.
But from my main machine, I can access the dashboard from another site, and build away, unable to actually see the result, or access the blogs list, where I read all those blogs from. I think I will go unplugged for a few days, and see it it clears up.
Even the preview brings up the red screen.
Back to the high greens weight loss cycle. It seems to be working, down possibly a couple of kilograms in a week. When we look at something like Keven Hall's work, it becomes apparent that glycogen is attached to much water, producing a CD (caloric density) of perhaps 1 for somewhere between 1 and 4 kgs. Ometal fat, with a CD about 4 or 5, and inter muscular with a CD of 7 or so. So weight is a number, but where is the loss from?
Greens take considerable work to digest, and slow as well to digest. Greens cause long "time to hunger", which is the key. Protein and fat are good for satiation and satiety, but so are greens. Greens have the advantage of being low in calories, and after digestion, I am not convinced that there is a net gain in body energy. Once we eat stems, flowers or root, there is a gain, but what about the leaves. The chlorophyll bearing parts had low CD, often 0.1 C/gm.
But from my main machine, I can access the dashboard from another site, and build away, unable to actually see the result, or access the blogs list, where I read all those blogs from. I think I will go unplugged for a few days, and see it it clears up.
Even the preview brings up the red screen.
Back to the high greens weight loss cycle. It seems to be working, down possibly a couple of kilograms in a week. When we look at something like Keven Hall's work, it becomes apparent that glycogen is attached to much water, producing a CD (caloric density) of perhaps 1 for somewhere between 1 and 4 kgs. Ometal fat, with a CD about 4 or 5, and inter muscular with a CD of 7 or so. So weight is a number, but where is the loss from?
Greens take considerable work to digest, and slow as well to digest. Greens cause long "time to hunger", which is the key. Protein and fat are good for satiation and satiety, but so are greens. Greens have the advantage of being low in calories, and after digestion, I am not convinced that there is a net gain in body energy. Once we eat stems, flowers or root, there is a gain, but what about the leaves. The chlorophyll bearing parts had low CD, often 0.1 C/gm.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Site Corrupted
It seems this site may have a virus. I cannot get onto it. Damn social media. VD everywhere.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Lustig Reminder
From http://www.jillescher.com/blog/my-notes-from-a-lecture-by-robert-lustig-md-november-16-2011
Robert Lustig is the UCSF pediatric endocrinologist famed among other things for his widely viewed Youtube video, "Sugar, the Bitter Truth." He delivered a brief lecture as part of a Stanford's "Cafe Scientifique" series the other day and I attended, keen to hear his latest take on the role of sugar and hormones in the obesity and diabetes epidemics. Here's a quick overview of the points that most struck me.
• 20 million American kids are overweight. There are 366 million diabetics worldwide in 2011, which amounts to 5% of the world's population. Type 2 diabetes is "chewing through the world's healthcare dollars; we have to solve this," he says. We already pay a 50% premium for health care costs for obesity-related health problems.
• In the past 30 years there has been a six-fold increase in the prevalence of obesity. The root cause is a mismatch between our current food environment and our innate biochemistry (personal note: I was glad to hear this, since that was the main message of my book Farewell, Club Perma-Chub).
• For the most part, the obesity we see today is caused by the phenomenon of leptin resistance. Leptin, a hormone which normally signals the brain that the body has sufficient energy stores, stops working in the obese person.
• If you have low leptin, the brain thinks you are starving, no matter how much fat is on your body. "If we can fix leptin resistance there wouldn't be obesity," says Lustig. Low leptin feels like starvation--obesity is a manifestation of brain starvation. The starvation response causes "recidivism" in dieting, or the tendency to regain all the weight lost.
• It's the action of another hormone, insulin, that blocks what leptin is supposed to do. Elevated insulin blocks leptin signaling. Again, the brain thinks the body is starving and doesn't know it's actually fat.
• If we lower insulin, the body is no longer being told to store fat -- we have more energy to burn. When insulin is high, the blood glucose goes to fat. When insulin is low, blood glucose is at your service to burn as fuel (resulting in the urge to exert and exercise).
• To improve leptin sensitivity, drop your insulin. To drop insulin, reduce carb consumption.
• High sugar is a pain reliever and activates the opioid system.
• The more sugar in your system, the faster your tissues brown (just as with cooking), and the faster you die.
• Metabolic problems are found when consumption exceeds 200 calories of day of sugar. (American average is 22 teaspoons/day of added sugar, which is 350 cal)
• Sucrose is half glucose, half fructose. Fructose induces insulin resistance, which induces leptin resistance.
• All aspects of metabolic syndrome derive from fatty liver, which results from excessive alcohol or fructose consumption.
• Sugar is, by a humongous margin, the most potent variable explaining diabetes rates worldwide. (I'm omitting the actual number because Dr. Lustig says the data are still unpublished.)
• You can have a normal biomass but have a fatty liver driving metabolic syndrome. Body size is not the whole story.
• Leptin resistance is not a mere aberration, it had an evolutionary role, conferring selective advantage on the humans who could store the fat from gorging on summer/fall fruit to enable survival through a long food-free winter.
Robert Lustig is the UCSF pediatric endocrinologist famed among other things for his widely viewed Youtube video, "Sugar, the Bitter Truth." He delivered a brief lecture as part of a Stanford's "Cafe Scientifique" series the other day and I attended, keen to hear his latest take on the role of sugar and hormones in the obesity and diabetes epidemics. Here's a quick overview of the points that most struck me.
• 20 million American kids are overweight. There are 366 million diabetics worldwide in 2011, which amounts to 5% of the world's population. Type 2 diabetes is "chewing through the world's healthcare dollars; we have to solve this," he says. We already pay a 50% premium for health care costs for obesity-related health problems.
• In the past 30 years there has been a six-fold increase in the prevalence of obesity. The root cause is a mismatch between our current food environment and our innate biochemistry (personal note: I was glad to hear this, since that was the main message of my book Farewell, Club Perma-Chub).
• For the most part, the obesity we see today is caused by the phenomenon of leptin resistance. Leptin, a hormone which normally signals the brain that the body has sufficient energy stores, stops working in the obese person.
• If you have low leptin, the brain thinks you are starving, no matter how much fat is on your body. "If we can fix leptin resistance there wouldn't be obesity," says Lustig. Low leptin feels like starvation--obesity is a manifestation of brain starvation. The starvation response causes "recidivism" in dieting, or the tendency to regain all the weight lost.
• It's the action of another hormone, insulin, that blocks what leptin is supposed to do. Elevated insulin blocks leptin signaling. Again, the brain thinks the body is starving and doesn't know it's actually fat.
• If we lower insulin, the body is no longer being told to store fat -- we have more energy to burn. When insulin is high, the blood glucose goes to fat. When insulin is low, blood glucose is at your service to burn as fuel (resulting in the urge to exert and exercise).
• To improve leptin sensitivity, drop your insulin. To drop insulin, reduce carb consumption.
• High sugar is a pain reliever and activates the opioid system.
• The more sugar in your system, the faster your tissues brown (just as with cooking), and the faster you die.
• Metabolic problems are found when consumption exceeds 200 calories of day of sugar. (American average is 22 teaspoons/day of added sugar, which is 350 cal)
• Sucrose is half glucose, half fructose. Fructose induces insulin resistance, which induces leptin resistance.
• All aspects of metabolic syndrome derive from fatty liver, which results from excessive alcohol or fructose consumption.
• Sugar is, by a humongous margin, the most potent variable explaining diabetes rates worldwide. (I'm omitting the actual number because Dr. Lustig says the data are still unpublished.)
• You can have a normal biomass but have a fatty liver driving metabolic syndrome. Body size is not the whole story.
• Leptin resistance is not a mere aberration, it had an evolutionary role, conferring selective advantage on the humans who could store the fat from gorging on summer/fall fruit to enable survival through a long food-free winter.
Reciprocal of Nutrition Displacement
The Weston A. Price made nutrition displacement concept into a Foundation. Nutrition displacement is the concept of sugar, starches, and seed oils displacing nutritious food, resulting in mineral and vitamin deficiencies, often at the sub-clinical level. The result is poor development of bones, and specifically the mouth and teeth.
What is the reciprocal, where we eat the required protein, a bit of fat and green vegetables? We should be short on carbohydrates, aka calories, but should not suffer from hunger and greens are fairly slow to digest. Any green, other than peas, should be fair game. Three - four cups at every meal, raw.
The only way is to test. Lent starts this week. Giving something up for Lent should be a good excuse for an atheist. Giving something up for lent should kill any necessity to explain. Actually, I have been eating this way for a few days now anyway. Fresh spinach, beets with tops, kale, rapini, mini bok choy, and the like just hit the stores at reasonable prices. We still have snow, and noting gets into the ground until the first of May anyway.
What is the reciprocal, where we eat the required protein, a bit of fat and green vegetables? We should be short on carbohydrates, aka calories, but should not suffer from hunger and greens are fairly slow to digest. Any green, other than peas, should be fair game. Three - four cups at every meal, raw.
The only way is to test. Lent starts this week. Giving something up for Lent should be a good excuse for an atheist. Giving something up for lent should kill any necessity to explain. Actually, I have been eating this way for a few days now anyway. Fresh spinach, beets with tops, kale, rapini, mini bok choy, and the like just hit the stores at reasonable prices. We still have snow, and noting gets into the ground until the first of May anyway.
Chlorophyll and Weight
Is there a relationship between chlorophyll and weight? Here's a test. About three cups of greens at each meal, three time a day, and a bit of meat, and a bit of salad dressing. If we are still hungry, more greens. Would this prove a relationship between chlorophyll and weight? Could we say the obesity is caused by a chlorophyll shortage.
The spark for the idea was Jimmy Moore at http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/when-does-being-fat-become-your-fault/13385 . I do not know how it came up from that.
from http://newme-freshstart.blogspot.com/2012/02/just-too-funny.html
You can starve a Saint Bernard, but you ain’t gonna turn it into a Greyhound.
Even a loose cannon occasionally hit the target.
As ego is a construct of the mind, we can be as happy as we make up our minds to be. Ego can be both negative and positive, so we can adjust it by watching our ideas and our emotions. Watching our mind slows down response, and hence, we respond, not react. This bypasses imprinted reactions. Oh well.
The spark for the idea was Jimmy Moore at http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/when-does-being-fat-become-your-fault/13385 . I do not know how it came up from that.
from http://newme-freshstart.blogspot.com/2012/02/just-too-funny.html
You can starve a Saint Bernard, but you ain’t gonna turn it into a Greyhound.
Even a loose cannon occasionally hit the target.
As ego is a construct of the mind, we can be as happy as we make up our minds to be. Ego can be both negative and positive, so we can adjust it by watching our ideas and our emotions. Watching our mind slows down response, and hence, we respond, not react. This bypasses imprinted reactions. Oh well.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Life Has Conditioned Us
Life has conditioned us, from birth and perhaps before, to how we react to food. Imprint reactions, implicit memory, and conditioned responses, control much of our activities.
Expression of emotions is all great, but we need to take time to identify them and be able to identify them. Frustration. Lack of clarity of why we feel a particular feeling can make expression difficult. Emotional paucity. Repressed emotions. Isolation preference. Lack of attachment. All conditioned in according to Mate.
Expression of emotions is all great, but we need to take time to identify them and be able to identify them. Frustration. Lack of clarity of why we feel a particular feeling can make expression difficult. Emotional paucity. Repressed emotions. Isolation preference. Lack of attachment. All conditioned in according to Mate.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Obesity Personality
http://www.weightymatters.ca/2012/02/is-obesity-disease.html talks about the issue, but does not identify that many of us obese/exobese have extremes of personality.
But why? It is the extremes that cause the problem, combined with a upbringing that allows chemical dependence to develop. Our personalities are often flat, over accommodating, unable to easily say no, not willing to disappoint, will do anything for a stranger, but hard on those close to us, expect perfection from others, but provide nothing in return. There are those too that feel there life has been unsatisfactory.
Others of us are aggressive, takers, but these do not have issues in turning there life's around, once they recognize the problem, and overcome the misinformation fed to us by the "food authorities".
The obese/exobese are a self selecting subset of the population, and occurs largely is specific personality subsets of the population. The retiring, lay back people. But is this a necessary characteristic, or the result of chemical dependence, pushed by Big Ag, Big Pham.
But why? It is the extremes that cause the problem, combined with a upbringing that allows chemical dependence to develop. Our personalities are often flat, over accommodating, unable to easily say no, not willing to disappoint, will do anything for a stranger, but hard on those close to us, expect perfection from others, but provide nothing in return. There are those too that feel there life has been unsatisfactory.
Others of us are aggressive, takers, but these do not have issues in turning there life's around, once they recognize the problem, and overcome the misinformation fed to us by the "food authorities".
The obese/exobese are a self selecting subset of the population, and occurs largely is specific personality subsets of the population. The retiring, lay back people. But is this a necessary characteristic, or the result of chemical dependence, pushed by Big Ag, Big Pham.
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