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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There seems to be several posters (or one?) who ridicules every idea. Let’s just speak for ourselves and stop morphing the conversation to the nameless others who live far from a grocery store, who work 3 jobs, who don’t have access to healthcare etc. etc. In truth there are lots of people in the DMV area with good incomes and access and they are still gaining weight. What would help these people? I’m not talking about the ones trying to lose weight but the ones trying to maintain a healthy weight. We see post after post on this forum about people struggling with weight gain in middle age. What are the strategies for them? We are not going to get large numbers of Americans to lose weight and keep it off. So what can we do to prevent it?[/quote]

Acknowledge that some weight gain in middle age is normal, and it is hormone driven, and may even be necessary for optimum health in old age.

The body is a machine run by chemistry that has to be extremely fine tuned to work properly; throw off one thing and others compensate or deteriorate. Food is chemical fuel for the body machine. It should be viewed almost like medicine, designed to manipulate the machine and help it function optimally. We already know that not every body can handle the same kinds of chemical inputs from food -- people have intolerances, allergies, physiological inabilities to use/absorb/process certain foods. Some bodies use certain inputs more efficiently than other bodies, some fail completely. We also know that when nutrients in our food supply are depleted, and they are, it affects the health of the local population. Nutrition is a science that needs to be elevated to an annual visit as part of a physical. Physicians have to look for root chemical sources of health problems and recognize that one size does not fit all when it comes to diet and nutrition. Nothing is more important than how the body processes or does not process the nutrition it gets. And yet, how many people have ever seen a nutritionist?

Unfortunately, Big Agra knows nutrients in its supply chain are a problem, and they will fight against any acknowledgement of this problem. Our bodies have changed so much as a result of this over the past several decades, and instead of addressing the food problem, Big Pharma steps in and treats the body with drugs and Big Diet and Exercise continue the body shaming campaign to sell more useless products that do nothing to address the underlying breakdown the the metabolic machine. Our food supply is killing us, and some human machines are more sensitive to it than others and are dying more quickly.[/quote]

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