Fat May Not Be Making You Fat
by Maggie Z. Mathews
Again and again we are told that "Obesity in
America is Epidemic" and that this health threatening condition
is being spread worldwide. Look around you and no doubt you will
conclude that obesity is rapidly spreading. We blame it all on a
sedentary life style and the Mc Donald's / TV / Computer / Video
games generation.
Statistics seem to confirm these points. For the first time in
world history more people are overfed rather than underfed.
Overweight children at historic highs. An estimated 15 % of boys
and girls 6 to 11 years of age are overweight. Children are
gaining more weight over the summer than during the school year.
Computer and video game "screen time" shows an astonishing 8
hours a day in the United States. Throw in fast foods and this
will all explain the current plague of obesity and along with the
plague of diabetes which is increasing in rate at an astonishing
rate.
Blame it all on fat we are told. If we reduce our fat levels all
of this will go away. However it may be that our problems of
obesity are a direct result of our cutting out and reducing fat
intake not the other way around.
Isn’t it amazing you would think? As a society we have cut
our fat intake and cholesterol levels to the bone and yet we get
fatter and fatter and have ever increasing amounts of diabetes in
our society?
It may well be that it is not the fat that is bad for us - rather
it is the refined carbohydrates specifically that are the evil
ones. This includes – refined sugars as found in bread and
other baked goods, potatoes , yams and obvious refined sugar
containing foods such as ice cream , candy , soft drinks , beer
and fruit juices.
Mankind was not created to eat a diet high in starches or grains,
let alone refined sugars. It was only when man invented
agriculture, in the recent past that grain products and
concentrated sugars were introduced into our diets.
It is not fat that will make you fat. It is not by eating fat
that you will have a much greater chance of diabetes and other
health problems. It is not even high serum cholesterol, from
eating fatty foods such as steaks or butter that will do you in
but rather the amount of these refined starches and sugars in
your diet.
On top of that we are told that obesity is simply a result of
sedentary behaviors – sitting in front of the TV or video
games rather than exercising. In fact it is the other way around.
People, who exercise, get hungry, eat and gain weight.
We get fat because of tons of insulin in our bloodstream.
Insulin is needed by our body to break down fat. Obese people
need more and more insulin to burn off the fat in their bodies.
The fatter you are, the more insulin your pancreas will pump out
after a meal. It's a like a drug addict needing more and more
drug to get a high. The body's need to have more and more insulin
to burn the same amount of fat in an obese person is referred to
as "insulin resistance".
It's the refined carbohydrates and starches that cause the body
to secrete insulin in the first place. Fat does not matter. In
the end it's all about refined sugars and wheat products such as
pasta that cause our problems and not fat.
In the end obesity and our plague of ever increasing diabetes is
not about fat, fatty foods and fat intake and not exercising but
rather about our intake of refined sugars, bread and pasta
products. It is not about fat and cholesterol. They really do not
matter much when it comes to making you fat and obese .
Genesis 1:29 "And God said,
'Behold I have given every herb-bearing seed which is
upon the face of all the earth and every tree, in
which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed: to you it
shall be for meat'."
