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Is food our next tobbacco ????????
How long will we allow the personal accountability model to flourish????? Each day 2,000 U S citizens are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Obesity is a societal issue ,but we are downloading onto the individual.
Factors
1 Mood altering with foods
2 Fastfood
3 Soda drinks
4 Dieting all are a form of an eating disorder
5 Unhealthy food marriages
6 Poverty
7 Level of education
8 Environmental factors
9 Safe areas for our kids to play/ be active
10 Paid for science ,shaping the issue and confusing the problem.
11 Weight bias /stigma /discrimination
12 Lets move toward SHARED ACCOUNTABILITY
13 Blaming// blocks the flow of information.
14 I am still obese
15 Fitness not fatness /
16 Scales ,BMI 's need to go. I am not a number ,are you??????
These are just a few issues and McDonalds says 45 Million to one . 45 Million People visit their restaurants every day. Have we big boxed our health ?????
I am asking for your help ,but in order to establish this new idea ,you need to see the videos or my facebook page .www.obesitythunderbay.ning.com.
Are kids accountable for their weight ,or is this a comminity issue ????
Are you ready to lend your voice ?????? I am screaming from the wilderness and I am speaking for children . WHAT SAY YOU ?????? Will you fight to find a way to support these kids????? Will you share in discussing the issue ?
Tags: are, discussion.Volunteers, needed., obesity
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Comment by Claire Gibson on February 28, 2009 at 3:08am - Delete Comment Hi Paul
I studied human eating behaviour as a module in my psychology degree. From the obesity part of this module there is a pretty good case for environment and a good case for biology also. I think that the personal accountability thing just shifts blame and guilt onto people and whats more their reaction to adversity has been to self prescribe. I had been self prescribing with sweet stuff for ages after the death of my neice but it would lift me high then drop me like a bag of hot manure. Where was I? Oh yes!
Our bodies are designed to be economical and fuel efficient and therefore its no wonder no diet works on its own without excercise! Once we cut down our bodies intake our body thinks that theres famine and stores everything and uses little. Thats why we have to trick our bodies into thinking that we are feeding it the same amount. My most successful weight watchers diet attempt was when I threw out their rules. I calculated how much I normally consumed per day (in weight watchers points) and deleted only 2 points initially. Each time my weight loss plateaued I would reduce it another 2. The fact is that if I had of done what they advised, my body would of revolted and started to store, I would of started plateauing much sooner if that had happened.
We were built to live on little food. Cave men only got a rabbit per week or something like that and their bodies lived on that. Now food is everywhere, its a multi million dollar/pound/euro industry. We are wired to get excited and head straight for potential food because of our cave man past in the evolution of the human makeup and thats what we do. The difference is we arent like the cave man and only having a feast one day and starving the rest. We have food availability at all times.
Actually paul I think Im going to copy and paste this into the forum.
Claire xx
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