Obesity, Inflammation, Swelling: Are They Related?

[Hemidakota]

This is the latest version (3rd article) posted in our former thread concerning obesity and factors they may have cause it beside over eating and lack of exercises.

EXCERPT: This is the third in a series of articles about obesity. In this and upcoming articles, Dr. Gardner discusses how obesity happens; why losing weight is seemingly easy for some and nearly impossible for others; common misunderstandings about weight loss and gain; and some exclusive information from Dr. Gardner that proposes a unique theory and answers many of your questions.

When I was growing up, my siblings and I were secretly (and sometimes openly) amused when my grandmother, a “health nut,” would recite to us, “The whiter the bread, the sooner you’re dead!” Small but feisty, she readily made known her nutritional dogma to anyone and everyone who would listen (and a few who wouldn’t).

We laughed, because this was the era of the soft white bread that “helped build strong bodies 12 ways.” This was when canned soups were touted as “mmm, mmm, good,” replacing the pot of homemade vegetable soup full of fresh garden goodies that simmered on the stove. Cake mixes took the place of measuring cups, spoons, and basic ingredients like whole wheat flour and honey. Fresh garden vegetables were replaced with more convenient cans on the shelf. Eggs were gathered from concentration camps, where chickens were confined in tight quarters and their permeable-shelled eggs were washed in a chlorine bath and covered with waxes and other elements to preserve their shelf life. And macaroni and cheese became the product of a box’s contents, a mysterious orange powder, store-bought margarine and milk, and tap water (which also was filled with mysterious chemicals to make it “safe” to drink).

But now, nearly 50 years later, Grandma’s prophecies about the deterioration of health are evidenced all around us. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see where the dots connect, although astonishingly, most of those who seem to be authorities in the field of food, nutrition, and safety have not as yet acknowledged what is happening, and why.

LINK: Meridian Magazine : : Healthy Outlook: Obesity, Inflammation, Swelling: Are They Related?

[applepansy]

I agree with the writer's grandmother!!!

[lizzy12]

And I agree with Apple!

[Over43]

I like tuna salad on soft white bread.

My grandmother would tell us, "You shouldn't eat so much sugar, you'lll become a diabetic..." And we would laugh, and people would tell her it would be OK. Then along came HFCS, and I just recently read "Good Calories, Bad Calories", and I think sometime in the future when we meet again I'll owe her an apology.:)