They say obesity follows the golden arches. In every city where McDonalds appears, it seems, the population begins to get fatter. It's no coincidence, of course: fast food is rich in calories, loaded with saturated fat, and high in refined carbohydrates. It all adds up to excess body fat.
This study shows that even New Zealand isn't immune from the effects of junk food. It seems that the demand for weight loss products, supplements, drugs or services will soon be nearly global.
Even Asia, a region known for
healthy, traditional diets and a healthy populace, is affected by the Western
diet. Cities in China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea now boast KFC,
McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and a long list of
restaurants serving foods and drinks that add to the growing
obesity problem.
If you take a perfectly healthy
community that has never known Western
food and introduce breads, pastries, sweets, hamburgers, and other processed food items to that community, they will be stricken with our modern diseases (cancer, diabetes, heart
disease, etc.) in a single
generation.
That's all it takes: serve a healthy population Western food, and they suddenly become diseased with all the popular diseases that seem to baffle researchers in the Western hemisphere. But it's no secret: the cause of your disease is your food, plain and simple.
It's the groceries with all the metabolic disruptors like hydrogenated oils, refined sugars, artificial colors and cancer-causing chemicals like sodium nitrite. It's the junk food like potato chips, nacho chips, ice cream and candy. And it's the
fast food restaurants serving
sugar water (Coke and Pepsi) alongside greasy burgers. Put it all together and you get every modern disease in the book.
There's a fascinating book detailing all this, called
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price, a dentist. It's a highly recommended read if you really want to know the truth about the link between foods and disease.
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher, author and award-winning journalist with a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public He has authored and published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers guides, and books on topics like health and the environment, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In 2010, Adams co-founded NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video sharing site that has now grown in popularity. He also launched an online retailer of environmentally-friendly products (BetterLifeGoods.com) and uses a portion of its profits to help fund non-profit endeavors. He's also a noted technology pioneer and founded a software company in 1993 that developed the HTML email newsletter software currently powering the NaturalNews subscriptions. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and enjoys outdoor activities, nature photography, Pilates and martial arts training. Known as the 'Health Ranger,' Adams' personal health statistics and mission statements are located at www.HealthRanger.org
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