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Part 2 of 2 This article addresses the trend towards obesity in the developed world, it's relationship towards Livestock and the use of Probiotics to assist in it's cure.

Obesity leads to vascular problems, high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney trouble, diabetes, and pregnancy difficulties among many other conditions. But you may not know that malnutrition is a common reason for obesity. Most overweight people eat empty-calorie junk foods instead of the nutrient-rich foods for which their bodies need and crave. Junk food does not supply the necessary protein and enzyme chains that are needed, so the body has an unsatisfied yearning for food that often leads to food bingeing. An ugly cycle gets started. Hidden hunger leads you to gorge on convenience foods like French fries, soda pop, and cookies. Not only do you pack on the pounds, your body is secretly starving. Even worse, when you're not taking in the whole nutrients your body requires, fat is not burned up during metabolism in an efficient way.
 

He has read Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation (Perennial, 2002), which describes the disease-spreading filth and dangerous, underpaid work in meat-processing plants. Last summer saw the second-largest recall of meat in American history ? 19 million pounds of ConAgra hamburger contaminated by potentially fatal E. coli O157:H7 bacteria were pulled from supermarket shelves ? after 19 people were sickened. "The problem is that the contaminated meat gets into the market and our homes," Schlosser says.  The industrial food system produces force-fed, disease-prone animals and people. An estimated 120 million Americans are overweight or obese. McDonald's announced in September 2002 that it would switch to heart-healthier polyunsaturated vegetable oil, but that won't make the fries any less fattening. It's just a gloss on a system in which, through their massive purchasing and marketing power, giant companies control how our food is produced, from seed to feed to processing. As Wilhelm says of the big meat processors who buy from megafarms, "They say that we consumers want this pork and they need it to come from one place to be efficient." It's time we consumers made it clear that industrial farms, fast foods and their costly "efficiencies" are not what we want.  Mindy Pennybacker is the editor of The Green Guide.

Beneficial bacteria in a good probiotic supplement can help you stabilize the fat burning process. A probiotic supplement guaranteed for 100% percent potency will carry large amounts of active, beneficial bacteria to help add more B-vitamins so that fat can be burned off more efficiently. Beneficial bacteria will also increase the protein content of cultured foods, so don't forget to add some high quality yogurt with active, live cultures of beneficial bacteria to your new diet. Increasing protein will also help curb your food cravings while helping to give the body extra enzymes for better fat burning processes.
 

With 55 percent of its adults overweight and 23 percent officially obese, the United States ranks number one in the world in overeating. While our obesity once affected mostly adults, the trend is filtering down into younger generations, with one in five children now classified as obese (a 50 percent increase in the last two decades). The numbers are rising steadily in Europe as well ? according to UN studies, more than half of the populations of Russia, Britain and Germany are overweight. Moreover, the World Watch Institute study, called "Underfed and Overfed: The Global Epidemic of Malnutrition," found that excess weight is an increasing problem in developing countries. As Brian Halweil, co-author of the report said, "Often, nations have simply traded hunger for obesity, and diseases of poverty for diseases of excess."  Malnutrition, in the forms of both hunger and obesity, has severe economic repercussions. According to World Bank figures, hunger cost India between 3 and 9 percent of its GDP in 1996. And in the United States, obesity cost 12 percent of the national health care budget in the late 1990s ? $118 billion ? more than twice the $47 billion attributable to smoking. Approximately 300,000 Americans die each year due to obesity.   In reaction to unhealthy weight gain people frequently turn to technofixes such as liposuction and olestra, rather than getting to the root of the problem by changing their eating habits and sedentary lifestyles. In America billions of dollars are spent on these superficial solutions every year, while nutrition education is largely overlooked.  Arthur Frank, director of the Obesity Management Program at George Washington University told Shaheena Ahmad of US. News.

The Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture: Myth Two By The Editors, Fatal Harvest August 29, 2002  Industrial agriculture contaminates our vegetables and fruits with pesticides, slips dangerous bacteria into our lettuce, and puts genetically engineered growth hormones into our milk. It is not surprising that cancer, food-borne illnesses, and obesity are at an all-time high.  A modern supermarket produce aisle presents a perfect illusion of food safety. Consistency is a hallmark. Dozens of apples are on display, waxed and polished to a uniform luster, few if any bearing a bruise or dent or other distinguishing characteristics. Nearby sit stacked pyramids of oranges dyed an exact hue to connote ripeness. Perhaps we find a shopper comparing two perfectly similar cellophane-wrapped heads of lettuce, as if trying to distinguish between a set of identical twins. Elsewhere, throughout the store, processed foods sit front and center on perfectly spaced shelves, their bright, attractive cans, jars, and boxes bearing colorful photographs of exquisitely prepared and presented foods. They all look unthreatening, perfectly safe, even good for you. And for decades, agribusiness, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have proclaimed boldly that the United States has the safest food supply in the world.  As with all the myths of industrial agriculture, things are not exactly as they appear. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report that between 1970 and 1999, food-borne illnesses increased more than tenfold. And according to the FDA, at least 53 pesticides classified as carcinogenic are presently applied in massive amounts to our major food crops. While the industrialization of the food supply progresses, we are witnessing an explosion in human health risks and a significant decrease in the nutritional value of our meals.  A central component of the industrialized food system is the large-scale introduction of toxic chemicals. This toxic contamination of our food shows no signs of decreasing. Since1989, overall pesticide use has risen by about 8 percent, or 60 million pounds. The use of pesticides that leave residues on food has increased even more. Additionally, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that more than 1 million Americans drink water laced with pesticide runoff from industrial farms. Our increasing use of these chemicals has been paralleled by an exponential growth in health risks, to both farmers and consumers.  This increase is largely attributed to the industrialization of poultry and livestock production. Most meat products now begin in "animal factories," where food animals are confined in shockingly inhumane and overly crowded conditions, leading to widespread disease among animals and the creation of food-borne illnesses. According to the CDC, reported cases of disease from salmonella and E. coli pathogens are ten times greater than they were two decades ago, and cases of campylobacter have more than doubled. The CDC saw none of these pathogens in meat until the late 1970s when "animal factories" became the dominant means of meat production. Even our fruits and vegetables get contaminated by these pathogens through exposure to tainted fertilizers and sewage sludge. Contamination can also occur during industrialized processing and long-distance shipment.  The introduction of fast, processed, and frozen foods in the 1950s has forever changed our dietary habits. At least 175,000 fast-food restaurants have sprouted among the gas stations, strip malls, and convenience stores of America's ever creeping suburban sprawl. Frozen dinners, prepackaged meals, and take-out burgers have, for many people, replaced the home-cooked meal. Consequently, people are consuming more calories, preservatives, and sugar than ever in history, while reducing their intake of fresh whole fruits and vegetables. It is no mystery that these changes have led to overwhelming increases in obesity, Type II diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease among Americans. About one in three Americans is overweight, and obesity is now at epidemic levels in the United States. According to a joint New York University/Center for Science in the Public Interest report "added sugars ? found largely in junk foods such as soft drinks, cakes, and cookies ? squeeze healthier foods out of the diet. That sugar now accounts for 16 percent of the calories consumed by the average American and 20 percent of teenagers' calories. Twenty years ago, teens consumed almost twice as much milk as soda; today they consume almost twice as much soda as milk." The Surgeon General has determined that two out of every three premature deaths is related to diet.  "The Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture" were compiled by the editors of Fatal Harvest, which is published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology and distributed by Island Press.  In America, politicians, business leaders, and the media continue to reassure us that our food is the cheapest in the world. They repeat their mantra that the more we apply chemicals and technology to agriculture, the more food will be produced and the lower the price will be to the consumer. This myth of cheap food is routinely used by agribusines as a kind of economic blackmail against any who point out the devastating impacts of modern food production. Get rid of the industrial system, we are told, and you won't be able to afford food. Using this "big lie," the industry has even succeeded in portraying supporters of organic food production as wealthy elitists who don't care about how much the poor will have to pay for food.  Conventional analyses also ignore the human health costs of consuming industrial foods, including the contribution of pesticides, hormones, and other chemical inputs to our current cancer epidemic. Also uncalculated are the expenses and lost workdays of 80 million Americans who contract food-borne illnesses each year. Moreover, industrial food's health price tag should reflect the expense, pain, and suffering of the tens of millions who are victims of such diseases as obesity and heart disease caused by industrial fast-food diets. Taken together these medical health costs are clearly in the hundreds of billions of dollars annually.

How miraculous it would be to have a single dietary supplement that could significantly and positively impact some of the most prominent health challenges of our time -- challenges like diabetes, which is reaching epidemic proportion; obesity, up a startling 57 % in the last ten years; nationally elevating cholesterol levels and heart problems they may cause; and the symptoms of menopause that torment more and more women.

Scientists and medical professionals agree that many risk factors are skyrocketing, including antibiotic usage, antacids, pollution, pesticides, parasites, stress, food and environmental allergies, obesity and lifestyle factors -- all of which inhibit the steady, easy assimilation of protein through  the intestinal walls into the bloodstream:

*  Without adequate protein, the body  stops feeding all the essential cellular tissue, organ and bodily structures and functions.
*  Without the proper digestion of protein, the body automatically lowers immune response to germs, viruses and bacteria.
*  Without protein, the body has NO power and quickly enters a stage of chronic fatigue, mental depression, weakness, poor resistance to infection and slow healing from wounds and disease.

Alternative health professionals attribute a host of chronic conditions to the malabsorption of protein, including irritable bowel syndrome, Chron's disease, colitis, chronic fatigue, heartburn, fibromyalgia, ulcers, immune deficiency, chronic wounds and malnutrition associated with cancer chemotherapy.

Probiotics contain beneficial bacteria that can help remove excess fat. They work by making sure you get enough crucial nutrients. Probiotics also help you absorb the necessary substances to burn fat.

You have more bacteria in your system than human cells! The method of replenishing your "good" bacterial load to counteract diseases including those caused by "bad" bacteria, is called Probiotics.
 

America: The Fattest Country By Dan Rubinstein, Vue Weekly February 6, 2003  The giant is a new consciousness about what we're putting into our bodies, and its presence is desperately needed at the family dinner table, Critser argues. Parents have to escape the "hysterical" producer-consumer cycle they're trapped in, he says, and pay much more attention to what they and their kids are eating and doing with the their spare time. At a moment in history when we're being told to help our capitalist economies by consuming more ? as San Francisco mayor Willie Brown urged at a rally not long after September 11, 2001 ? Critser's message could be interpreted as anti-American. It's not, he insists. It's just discomforting. But he believes we have to start treating obesity as both a medical and political issue before it's too late. "I think we could take some measures now that will register in the next generation," says Critser. "But there's a lot of denial out there still. And denial is a big industry."  Dan Rubinstein is the news editor of Vue Weekly in Edmonton, Alberta.

Summary

Obesity is a disease caused from many sources. Possibly nature will give us more and more harsh lessons until we get the point. We can sit in a cafe and talk as loud as we want about cancer even HIV, but you may notice your voice quieting down alot when you bring up the subject of obesity. It was easy to translate cancer into a disease that you just may be unfortunate enough to catch. Not quite so with obesity, though the virus theory might help to take the responsibility away from ourselves somewhat; guilt still shines thru. Our society is in denial bigtime.
My common sense tells me that we have lost touch to a great extent of how to live with nature in a natural way. There is a difference between observing nature and copying her examples, versus altering her technologically that we have absolutely little to no knowledge of how it will affect us in the near and distant future. Science is not infallible, not our science, there is different sciences depending on which view, which scientist, which school. Let us not be so naive to think there is only the way of the loudest voice, the ones who have more control of research, the media etc. We need to look around and see some alternatives, take some responsibility for our future, our reason for being here, our children.
So why are we getting fat? I believe the evidence is showing us that we have become too comfortable and lazy physically and mentally. Contributing factors are the polluted air, the weak and sick water, the altered processed foods, the unnatural accumulation of disharmonizing frequencies in the air....eg's...chemical insecticides, pesticides, GMO's, irradiation of foods, over use of antibiotics, hormone therapies, unnatural segregation of chemicals from cells to plants to animals. In short we have lost touch with nature and its ways and in it's place we have found money, comfort, security, segregation, control, dementia, killer viruses, obesity, tv, junk food, internet, saviors.
Obesity is a BIG topic. You can say what you want, find flaws in this logic, label me, but the fact is still that we have many problems and obesity is more than just staring us in the eyes.
My research has again confirmed the relationship of the intestinal track to sound health. It seems common sense to me that if you don't process your food properly within your own body then future illness will certainly take shape. Besides a proper diet for us humans and for the animals, one needs to continuously replenish the natural floral in ones intestinal tract. This is at least a beginning towards good health. It is the foundation to an understanding of ones body and your livestock. Sound soil science has a lot to do with food that has high nutritional value.  Our livestock needs food of high nutritional value to keep them from becoming obese. These healthier livestock help in nourishing us with harmonized mineralization. Sound mineralization and Probiotics are not the total cure for anything, but it is as necessary as the air we breathe and many of our conditions are interrelated to a lack of healthy, friendly bacteria and proper mineralization in our digestive system.

Yours Sincerely,
Patrick Wey - Strategic Editing
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