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Why The Diet Industry Wants To Keep You Fat They are in every supermarket and most local shops. I'm not talking about the obvious candidates, cigarettes and alcohol, but something much more insidious. It's part of what we accept as modern life. I'm talking about processed food. I'm talking about 'convenience' foods, snacks, candy, fizzy drinks and ice-cream. Apparently harmless substances such as sugar and artificial sweeteners. We are addicted to them and the processed food manufacturers feed our addiction.
Did you know that the sweet taste of sugar and artificial sweeteners is more addictive than cocaine? I will not be surprised to learn that other tastes are just as addictive - it's part of our make-up. Our ancestors learned to seek out sweet foods for high energy, high flavor foods for nutrition and salty foods because salt was scarce. All these tastes give us pleasurable feelings, so guess what the processed food manufacturers do? They load their 'foods' with those flavours and take out the nutritional value, so we are left seeking the nutrition and eating more of their junk in an attempt to find it.
There are now global industries, established in the last few decades and based on the marketing hype of low sugar, low fat, anti-cholesterol and so on. Inadequately tested chemicals are added to our food to make nutritionally valueless junk taste palatable. A bean that used to be regarded as too poisonous to eat is now the number one 'health' food - even though it is carcinogenic and it is impossible to remove all the poison. An emulsion of cheap vegetable oils with water is stabilised, preserved, colored and sold as a healthy alternative to butter.
Major food and drugs companies work in harmony to ensure maximum profits for both. The administration of drugs is geared more to the protection of the companies' profits than to public safety. Obesity or illness resulting from adverse reaction to chemicals in our food can always be treated with the latest drug - whose side effects can be treated with another. A healthy population offers little profit to either the food or
drugs manufacturers.
Because we are seeking the nutritional value in our food and not finding it, we unconsciously feel the need to carry on eating. The result is that we take in far more calories than we actually need for our energy requirements and we now have an obesity epidemic. There is an obvious link between this and the fact that for the average family in America 90% of budget for food is taken up with processed, rather than natural food.
Have you experienced the yo-yo? You get your weight down, then suddenly put it all back on. Dieting is not just about willpower, that's a recipe for failure. The Caveman is much more than just a diet, more a new, healthier lifestyle. To do that it's essential to get off those addictive foods and start eating natural products. programs that allow you to have reward days are only setting you up for failure. Just the same as giving up smoking, it only takes one cigarette to get you started again. It's time for a fresh start.
Are there some foods you are addicted to? Do you have a problem around food? The Caveman can deal with your diet addiction. Stuart Hill authors the Caveman Diet and other challenging websites. He lives in Shetland, UK.
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