Week 2, Day 2...How does conspiracy sound to you?

I'm getting to the point where I'm beginning to believe those people that are sometimes labeled as conspiracy theory nuts.

Once again the NIH has lost its collective mind. The National Institute of Health (NIH) has now stated that losing and regaining weight in yo-yo fashion is healthier than staying at a stable overweight. Are you kidding me? If I had never gone on that first crash diet, I might still be at that stable weight, which is 40 lbs less than I am right now! Instead, I attempted repeatedly to lose weight and drove myself to morbid obesity in the quest. I have 40 years of experience that tells me every time I diet, I gain it back and a few pounds more. The next diet is more difficult. The metabolism seems to slow down more with each successive diet. Hundreds of thousands of obese people have yo-yo dieted their way UP the scale.

Think about this. In Europe, the vast majority of the population is NOT obese. They eat late in the evening with meals loaded with high fat cheeses, whole milk, real butter and many other foods we would consider to be fattening, yet they don't seem to have the same health and weight issues we have here. In China and Japan, obesity started affecting those populations when American foods were introduced.

What makes our food different than theirs? Chemicals, preservatives, additives and growth hormones are simply overused here in the processing of food. But it is the disinformation that makes me believe what Kevin Trudeau is saying about the food and drug industries conspiring to make us fat and keep us fat, just like the tobacco industry conspired to increase addiction to nicotine. After all, if the public actually got to normal weight, the diet industry, the fast food industry and the drug companies would have no customers left, except the ones that needed help for an illness not caused by obesity, food additives and growth hormones in the food supply.

Think about it! M.E.