Maybe it's just the "Fat Virus".
At least 10 viruses and bacteria have now been shown to increase obesity rates, and the new study, presented Monday at a Boston meeting of the American Chemical Society, provides the first insight into how the viruses operate.
Adenovirus-36, or Ad-36, is known to cause respiratory and eye infections. Various animal species have been shown to gain excess weight after infection.
Thirty percent of obese Americans, compared with 11% of their thinner counterparts, have antibodies indicating infection, studies suggest.
If the results can be confirmed, Dhurandhar said, a vaccine against the virus could help reduce obesity rates in future generations.
Vaccine eh ...$$$$$$$ for guess who.
Isn't it amazing how these 'viruses' have caused this rapid rise in obesity, only recently, and only in countries where people are eating more and exercising less.
I have been involved with 'exercise/sport' all my life and many of my friends are personal trainers, atheletes. I also have many friends who are overweight or obese, and who periodically ask for my help. The 'lifecycle' of their attempt to lose weight are always the same pattern, and is as follows:
- they are very enthusiastic about 'losing some fat, getting fit'
- they ask alot of questions, and are given all the necessary information on exercises and nutrition
- they ask more questions, as a delaying tactic now, and I usually end up writing it all down for them, with a specifics for their body type, aims etc.
- they stop talking about it, when asked, they've done nothing because ( and pick your favourite)
.... they need to join a gym, but it 'too expensive', 'not one near enough', 'don't like the muscle heads at the local gym' ad infinitum,
- have a gym membership...but 're-insert above list of excuses'...and thus have never used it, except usually for the first few free introductory sessions gyms insist they attend ( during the enthusiam phase).
- they're job means they are 'too tired/busy' right now...but get to it later.
- they're not feeling well at the moment ( hint. they are not healthy, which tends to lead to not feeling well)
- they've got 'too much going on' in their lives right now - never really specified how this prevents them eating properly or exercising...
- At this point, there's kind of a standard speech of support, "er, well, I see...you know all that stress and feeling tired..well exercise will help, and eating better will help, and you don't need a gym, just start walking ...just do anything..."...of course, you know its pointless, because you've seen the cycle so many times.
- The person continous to gain weight, feel bad, I won't even going into the psychological and medical conditions of most people, cupboards fulls of pills...and ailments.....
People want to lose weight, they know how to do, but they can't do it. They are not equipped with the discpline required, either due to genetics/educations/family background/ life stress or combination thereof. You can 'lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink'.
Obesity is NOT the problem to me, it is a symptom of the real problem, which is people in general lack the psychological tools to cope with their environment, we are essentially 'rats in a maze' where we are stressed, and large lumps of cheese lie around that make us feel better - eating feels good, there's no getting around it, so most people eat to deal with life stress.
I guess we have a couple of choices -
1. Hide all the food
2. Give people the psychological tools of self-discipline, deferred gratification, stress management etc
3. Change our environment/lifestyles to be less stressful
Obviously none of those will happen, so 10 years from now the problem will have grown,er, literally.
Mark.
Edited by entropy, 30 August 2007 - 06:02 PM.
Question everything, especially what you believe you know. The foundation of science is questioning the data, not trusting the data.
I only trust fully falsified, non vested interest 'data', which is extremely rare in our world of paid framing narratives 'psy ops'.
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