Monday, January 03, 2005

Starving to Death In the Land Of Plenty Heavy Questions are posed in this very well-written article in the New York Times, with some well-made points about our national obsession with refined sugar, refined flour, supersized portions, and avoidance of meaningful exercise. An earlier blog, many months ago, brought me a severe scolding from one correspondent who objected to my use of humor in point out the role that the Processed Food Industry and parental ignorance coupled with juvenile demands for addictive foods plays in making these Texas children the fattest in the nation. I was called "uncaring" - yet here is another article pointing out the fact that these children will have life expectancies of less than their parents due to their obesity, and I care very much. This article, in it's opening paragraph says: "Fifty-nine percent of its children live below the poverty level, and in the strange new arithmetic of want, in which poverty means not starvation but its opposite, it is also one of the fattest." Let no one mistake this epidemic of fat for anything but what it is - a direct symptom of not just malnutrition (ie: "bad-nutrition" meaning poor food choices) but outright starvation! How can this be, when these children are obviously fat you ask? It is because these children get more than enough food to make them fat, but not enough true nutrition to keep their bodies healthy. The food that these children favor and that their parents allow them to eat is not only devoid of any nutritive value, it is highly addictive - filled with the empty calories and carbohydrates of refined sugars, flours, and other assorted starches. This same article points out the damage that illegal drugs do to these families, but fails to note the fact that many of these foods are just as addictive, and in the long term, just as destructive. There is not likely to be any solution to many of these problems until we can take some of the Big, Monolithic Prepared Food Industries and Food Growing Lobbies to task for their part in making available these highly processed, nutritionally void foods available at lower cost than more nutritional choices. Meanwhile, for anyone who is ready to take control of their own health and well-being, and wishes some help in addressing the overweight of themselves or their children, we at Dr. Myatts Wellness Club have some very successful strategies, and some suggestions for replacing those missing nutrients. Please visit us at www.DrMyattsWellnessClub.com and read more about The Myatt Diet and our 10 Rules of Good Health. For more in-depth advice and counselling, please consider an alternative medicine consultation with Dr. Myatt - it will change your life! Cheers, Nurse Mark Wellness Club website: www.DrMyattsWellnessClub.com 9:50:23 AM

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