Obesogens

[thejuice]

What To Know About Obesogens

Is it unavoidable for certain people to become fat with all of the obesogens in the environment and in the products we consume, even if calorie intake and exercise are worked upon?

Bisphenol A is an obesogen and you can ingest that simply by eating or drinking something from a can....

What do you know of obesogens?

Discuss.

Seems interesting, sounds like it's still in the research stage.

I think one factor that we underestimate is insulin resistance.

Processed food is quick to be digested into sugar causing spikes in blood sugar, therefore insulin.

We eat 3 meals a day, often with snacks in between, so our insulin levels are consistently raised throughout the day.

Insulin converts blood sugar into fat, so high levels of insulin makes losing weight very hard. This is why diabetics on insulin medication gain weight easily.

Insulin receptors in fat cells become resistant to elevated insulin levels in the blood, so the pancreas releases more insulin to overcome this resistance in an upward spiral resulting in weight gain.

Increasing time between eating, increasing the length of your overnight fast and eating more whole foods, fibrous fruits and veggies is the solution to this particular problem.

Be careful with altering eating habits if you have an eating disorder though.

 

[cooljethro]

Has anyone viewed pictures from decades ago? Or even view family photos from years ago? Such as from the 40's or 50's and maybe even more recently from the 80's or 90's. Very few people are overweight. But today, being overweight or obese has been normalized. As someone who is lean, I feel like an outsider.

So what has changed? Lots of things. More people rely on quick, processed foods, rather than taking the time to cook and eat real foods. People are generally not active and don't exercise. There are more jobs that are sedentary than in the past. Schools barely have gym class and have fewer recesses. Genetically modified food. More chemicals such as pesticides contaminating our food. Busier lives. Technology. Culture. Sugar. Sugar. Sugar. Sugar. Sugar. Artificial sweeteners. Government not doing anything to protect people from these risks. In fact, the government has made the problem worse by subsidizing sugar.

The consequences. Overweight people and obesity. Depression. Anxiety. Chronic conditions. Less people in relationships and having children. Poor quality of life. Lower life expectancy.

It all is just very sad. Unfortunately, I never hear politicians discussing how big of an issue this is. The ironic thing is we have more devices than ever to monitor health, and have more health knowledge than ever before, yet health has been declining for decades.

Your point about processed foods is very valid. Ultra processed foods are definitely are contributing to rising population obesity levels, as well as overeating and obesogens.

 

[JayLapointe]

A human being can not gain weight through any means other than what they consume.

Over consumption is the underlying cause of all weight gain. we don't gain weight from the sun, don't gain it from breathing, not through smelling the cake. You only gain through what you've put in your mouth.

Yes metabolisms vary, and you can muck your system so it wants to burn fat last, but ultimately, you can not gain mass without consuming more than your body requires from an energy standpoint. And the only way to actually loose any weight, you have to consume less than your body requires for energy.

There is no other way to gain or loose weight outside of surgical removal and addition.

Blame obsegens, if you want, ultimately the problem is the person choosing to consume too much of the wrong thing compared to what their body requires to maintain a specific weight.

Is it horrendous that the markets are saturated with high calorie, nutrient deficient frankenfoods that are essentially just junk pretending to be food, of course. And the shame is it is often more available and cheaper than healthy foods are. Compounding the issue because a fast food portion size even when looking small is still a massively dense bit of food energy wise.

Calories to measure is a bit of a crap tool as it's not very accurate. But the premise over consume and you gain, under consume and you lose is the only way our system works in the end.

And yes if you've mucked up your metabolism it can take you years to get back to proper function, but even a poorly functioning metabolism, still operates on that basic underlying principle, eat more than your body requires and you will gain weight, the only way to loose weight, eat less than your body requires or shell out for liposuction.

 

[thejuice]

Calories in vs calories out is a 50 year old, failed theory pushed by the diet industry and public health services. It requires turning a blind eye to how the obesity epidemic continues to spiral out of control.

Public health patronises and plays it's favourite game, blame the patient, whilst sluggishly lagging behind the cutting edge of research into obesity. The diet industry is not interested in truth or weight loss success, they want repeat customers to hawk their obsolete, low fat, high sugar, processed junk to.

There has been a futile misapplication of the First Law of Thermodynamics, that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, therefore energy consumed must be stored (as fat) or expended (as calories burned).

There is a flaw when this law is applied to the human body, because the body is an open system that adapts to restrictions by changing its metabolic rate. Remember how cold you feel on a diet, that's the body reducing heat loss, therefore calories burned.

The body is not a simple, static, closed system. It is complex, dynamic and adapted for food scarcity, not abundance. Long term food restriction is life threatening to the brain and body on a primal level. Therefore the system chronically fights losing weight with all the hormonal counter measures it can muster.

We experientially know that a simple calorie deficit will not result in long term weight loss, hence the 95% failure rate of diets and exercise programmes. The profound failure of expensive, government backed 'eat less, move more' campaigns has been comprehensively proven beyond all doubt by the data for the last 50 years.

Coincidentally half a century ago, the West's food industry began it's transformation into the new Big Tobacco. Prioritising maximising profit over public health, hooking customers on highly addictive poison, denying the health consequences of consuming it's products, burying research that reflects badly on its practices and aggressively going after any critics and those that filed a lawsuit over it's lies and cover ups.

All evidence points to the unscrupulous food industry being the cause of western society's weight gain with all the hormonal dysregulation and illness that followed. There is no obesity epidemic in Japan, are they somehow biologically different and less feckless or is it that they have protected their food from being contaminated by 'food scientists'?

Big Food wants us to believe that a concurrent rise in obesity rates over that period is simply a personal moral failing of the stupid, modern, Western consumer. They want us to look away from the fact that this contemporary, unprecedented, deadly disease of obesity has it's origins in their ghastly, corrupt industry.