Americans are fat, and getting fatter every day 60% obesity rates according to the CDC (Ogden 2010). What is causing obesity? In short carbohydrates are the fuel that is pumping fat into people’s bodies. This has been proven by NEJM (NEJM 2008). If Americans would like to see themselves fit, they better stop the grains, because that is all they have been eating according to LA Times (LaTimes210). But what can be done to help American’s?
Go to your doctor, go to your nutritionist, go to your personal trainer in your town and most likely they will tell you cut down on fat. For your doctor you’ll eventually realize you don’t lose weight, and will prescribe you statins for your cholesterol. For the nutritionist you might that you might have bad genes, and your trainer will train you more, and you will eat more to compensate for the lost calories burned to keep the body at homeostasis. But there is one thing many won’t tell you to do, and that is cut down on the consumption of carbohydrates.
To help reverse the problem there are various ways, is to start letting universities know about the issue. From there people should start to become educated about the dangers such as doctors who go to med school (MSN 2008). This is to let people know that carbohydrates are the enemy when it comes to obesity rates. From there people may have start eating foods that won’t make them fat instead of eating foods that are supposedly healthy such as grains which has no supportive research proving that they are healthy.
However many doctors still think saturated fat is bad. Despite having a New York Times Seller Gary Taubes of Good Calories, Bad Calories, and the author of Why We Get Fat and What To Do About it appear on Dr. Oz’s show the doctor still wasn’t convinced about eating saturated fats. And still despite Gary Taubes letting the doctor know that he has been on a high fat diet for 10 years, Dr. Oz still didn’t seem to agree on saturated fats. This is important because if doctors don’t agree with the high fat diet despite the research then the heart patients will never try the high fat diet, but there are other ways to get the diet across.
The last way to reverse the problem of obesity is to redo the food pyramid the United States did back in the 1990’s recommending no fats, and pure carbohydrates. This may be an indication as to why people think fats are bad. This is where people started to get the idea fat is bad when there was no proof for that. The bottom of the pyramid could be rearranged where the carbs are at the top of the pyramid, and the fats and proteins are at the bottom. At least many people now agree with unsaturated fats so it’s safe to put them at the bottom meaning the consumption of these foods should be the majority. And with this people should eventually start losing weight and living slim. This era may just be called the slim revolution.
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