Geocacher
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There is an important piece of the puzzle that seems to be being left out -- it is not those cultures that adopt a western style diet that have an increase in diabetes, it happens in the cultures that adopt a diet that contains foods imported from western countries with intensive farming practices and/or adopt those same intensive farming practices themselves.
Coincidence? Not really, not when you consider the focus of current research. High fat and high sugar foods have been with us for generations, but it's only in the last two generations that high numbers of people, and their pets, have literally started eating themselves to death. There must be a reason, probably more than one reason. There is a known virus that affects humans and chickens and causes chickens to gain weight rapidly. 80% of morbidly obese people have the antibody to that virus in their blood. Beef cattle and dairy herds are given 'supplements' so help them grow faster or produce more milk. One of the most common supplements, not so long banned, is known to cause epigentic changes in humans and is associated with an increased incidence of adult obesity. Crops are sprayed with chemicals that are known neurotoxins, and neurotoxins can cause behaviour changes. Antibiotics fed to farm animals are present in the meat we eat and antibiotics change the intestinal flora, and it's been found that obese people have lower numbers of some intestinal bacteria. That was discovered only after it was found that bariatric surgery normalises the intestinal flora and that in turn reduces insulin resistance.
It is very interesting that obesity and diabetes are happening to our animals as well. Are they eating because of stress? I don't think my fat cat is capable of having stress, I've never known a more relaxed animal. She's more active than the thin cats I've had and eats less than the recommended amount for a cat of her ideal weight and yet she stays fat. What, exactly, has started to make cats, animals once known for the ability to self regulate their food intake, become in need of diet food? She doesn't eat takeaways, has never had anything from McDonalds, isn't offered fatty foods or high sugar foods. She ignores the tele so it isn't advertising that causes her to eat. And if purring is anything to go by, she's completely devoid of any emotional weakness or psychological need. She eats good quality cat food and nothing else. I wonder how good that food is for her, when it's made out of the same intensively farmed animals and cereal crops that go into human food. Coincidence? I don't think so.
The fact that this obesity epidemic is affecting more than just humans points to it being an environmental cause, very likely in the food chain, rather than any human weakness in the vast majority of cases. It's probably too late for most of us, but wouldn't it be a sensible thing if the cause were found and eliminated so that this isn't a plague we pass on to our children and grandchildren?
Coincidence? Not really, not when you consider the focus of current research. High fat and high sugar foods have been with us for generations, but it's only in the last two generations that high numbers of people, and their pets, have literally started eating themselves to death. There must be a reason, probably more than one reason. There is a known virus that affects humans and chickens and causes chickens to gain weight rapidly. 80% of morbidly obese people have the antibody to that virus in their blood. Beef cattle and dairy herds are given 'supplements' so help them grow faster or produce more milk. One of the most common supplements, not so long banned, is known to cause epigentic changes in humans and is associated with an increased incidence of adult obesity. Crops are sprayed with chemicals that are known neurotoxins, and neurotoxins can cause behaviour changes. Antibiotics fed to farm animals are present in the meat we eat and antibiotics change the intestinal flora, and it's been found that obese people have lower numbers of some intestinal bacteria. That was discovered only after it was found that bariatric surgery normalises the intestinal flora and that in turn reduces insulin resistance.
It is very interesting that obesity and diabetes are happening to our animals as well. Are they eating because of stress? I don't think my fat cat is capable of having stress, I've never known a more relaxed animal. She's more active than the thin cats I've had and eats less than the recommended amount for a cat of her ideal weight and yet she stays fat. What, exactly, has started to make cats, animals once known for the ability to self regulate their food intake, become in need of diet food? She doesn't eat takeaways, has never had anything from McDonalds, isn't offered fatty foods or high sugar foods. She ignores the tele so it isn't advertising that causes her to eat. And if purring is anything to go by, she's completely devoid of any emotional weakness or psychological need. She eats good quality cat food and nothing else. I wonder how good that food is for her, when it's made out of the same intensively farmed animals and cereal crops that go into human food. Coincidence? I don't think so.
The fact that this obesity epidemic is affecting more than just humans points to it being an environmental cause, very likely in the food chain, rather than any human weakness in the vast majority of cases. It's probably too late for most of us, but wouldn't it be a sensible thing if the cause were found and eliminated so that this isn't a plague we pass on to our children and grandchildren?