…and the Word is Dough

© 2001 Alicia

America is one of the (if not the) fattest nations in the world, and that’s NOT a good thing. Food and weight are a country-wide obsession. America even seems to conspire against those who don’t wish to be sucked into the prevalent unhealthy eating habits by feeding them false information. A well-meaning person could easily become so confused that their attempts at eating better would truly only be the worse for their bodies.

Unfortunately, it all comes down to money. The AMA (American Medical Association) and the USDA (i'll get back to you on those initials..) have no other excuse. (Of course, what else can you expect from a “scientific” organization who still accepts evolution as fact –but that’s another topic!)

It’s difficult for the average person to sort through the numerous supposed research surveys, but when you get right down to it, the truth is as obvious as you’ll let it be. I don’t have any need to exaggerate this. Simply look at the sponsor to the quoted research papers or surveys and check to see if the findings are beneficial for said company. Can anyone doubt the objectivity is under severe suspicion after that? This happens more often than you might realize.

It’s sad but true, the AMA & USDA do NOT care how healthy the people are (just as the HMOs do not –do you realize their top men are pulling in $214 million dollars a year??- yet another story!), they DO care how much money they’re bringing in.

If a person were to go by medical journals and mass media alone, he would end up believing vitamins were useless, for example, and you don’t even have to look that far to find one of the biggest cases of widespread falsehood in our society today: the food pyramid. America’s children learn this (right along with evolution..are you surprised?) during their formulative years, so that by the time they are adults finding truth is almost as hard as recognizing the need to.

The food pyramid. Have you eaten your zillion servings of carbohydrates today? Not only are carbs (breads, cereals, rice, grains) the foundation of good nutrition, they will also improve your cholesterol and help out diabetics, right? NO! There are those who shudder at the very idea of basing their diet on carbohydrates. I’m not going to go into this deeply, but let me just give you a couple things to think on. Believe me, more qualified people than I have done in-depth research on these topics. #1, carbohydrates turn to sugar in the blood stream, which causes an insulin spike (diabetics beware), #2 sugar also causes that extra fat and carbs certainly won’t help you burn any of it off (your body will use the carbs instead of any stored fat). I would suggest to anyone that they not blindly nod at the Pyramid next time you spot it on your cereal box. Just who do you think sponsored THAT little survey?

If the medical profession refuses to acknowledge how important diet is because they can’t retract their previous incorrect statements on nutrition, we can only head more and more into the “drugs-are-the-answer” age. Already we see hundreds of extremely young children put on unnecessary ridlin and a society turning to prozac for everything (there are numerous duplicates out there given for everything from PMS to the newest disease-of-the-month under different names). This should strike horror in the hearts of all people!