Is There a Connection?
Today, in the U.S., the American Medical Association has just voted to recognize obesity as a disease. A major reason for doing so is to force a discussion about the one in three Americans who are overweight and why insurance companies are willing to pay for triple bypass surgery but not for dietary counseling.
In other words, insurance companies and government programs cover the consequences of obesity--but not the cause!
What is the Cause of Obesity?
Yes, genetics plays a role. True, less than 30% of people won't put on weight no matter what they eat! The other two thirds, however, can choose what's wise to eat. Nevertheless, for them, once obese, it's difficult to slim down, because of how hormones regulate appetite.
History of Our Obesity Crisis
What we eat matters, but medicine and the public have long ignored the obvious. In his book Power Vs. Force (Revised Edition 2012), David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. (1929-2012) describes how neither the American Medical Association nor the National Council on Food and Nutrition have had an enlightened history in the field of nutrition. When Hawkins co-authored the book Orthomolecular Psychiatry with Nobelist Linus Pauling and the book appeared in 1973, stating that nutrition affects the chemical environment of the brain and bloodstream, influencing various behaviors, emotions, and mental disorders, the book caused a controversy!
Chemical Vs. Organic Fertilizer
We have to go back still further to days in the 19th and 20th centuries when chemical fertilizer began to supplant age-old organic fertilizers. Soil began to be viewed as an inert, dead substance rather than loved and viewed as life-giving and life supporting, and consequently a substance to nurture rather than exploit for all its worth. In other words, mankind as a whole has brought us to this point where food, too, is considered not much more than dead substance to fill our bellies when we hunger.
I've demonstrated in earlier postings how kinesiology can evaluate the health-giving differences between substances, between so-called natural foods and organically-certified foods, and the highest ranking of all--foods grown by the biodynamic method (see www.biodynamics.com).
Show Me an Obese Person Raised on Organic Food!
Show me an obese person raised on organic food, or food raised with the biodynamic method! I doubt that such a person exists.
When Will the Medical and Scientific Fields Wake Up?
When the ever-lagging medical, nutritional, and scientific fields awaken to the
the life-sustaining power inherent in organic food
obesity will vanish,
and our entire culture will
take on new life!
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