What makes you fat?

Take a good long look at this picture:

 

The experts would have us believe that the child in this picture is fat because he isn't outside playing and instead is watching TV.

Surfing the web however, I found scores of pix of thin kids watching the evil, fat producing TV.

Here's a few:

     

So it just can't be the TV watching as scores of thin kids watch lots of TV.

Also, we have all seen obese kids playing sports. I don't have to post pix of these as we have all seen them on soccer fields, baseball fields and football fields across the nation.

Well here's one:

 

Parents, caregivers, teachers, coaches, trainers and physicians, kids are not fat because they are too inactive. We must abandon this false and nonsensical notion.

Take another look at the first picture. What else other than the TV is in that room that might, just might be the real reason that the kid in that picture is so fat?

But again, the experts would say "Well of course the snacks contribute - especially since the chips and soda are chock full of fat and calories." Just the fat and calories? That's like looking at the Mona Lisa and saying "Wow that picture is amazing because of her eyes." The eyes? What about the smile?

What about the sugar and carbohydrates? If you look at the label  you'll find that Lays potato chips have, per single serving bag, 10 grams of fat and 15 grams of carbs.

Dorito Nacho chips are worse. 8 grams of fat and 18 grams of carbohydrate.

Soda of courseis all carbs/sugar.

So why are the experts not screaming about the carbohydrate content of these foods?

Think of of it this way. If the picture of the fat kid had him eating a huge fruit salad with a few banana skins on the floor in front of him, would the experts blame the food? No. They would think the kid was on the road to leanness and just needed to stop watching the telly.

Of course, the bananas and the fruit salad would be even higher in carbohydrate and total calories. But since there is no fat in these foods, hey kid munch away! 

As soon as the ADA, NIH, AMA and others of their ilk get off the fat wagon and onto the sugar wagon and declare carbohydrates the real cause of obesity in this world, we'll see the growing epidemic of obesity and diabetes vanish and vanish fast.

How do you fix the health care system? Easy - stop making people need it.

Comments

[Anne Mark]

Thank you. I just ordered it from our library. Can't wait until it comes.

[Fred Hahn]

The almond flour pancake recipe is in the book The Low Carb Gourmet by Karen Barnaby. Good book for other recipes too.

[Anne Mark]

Is there any possibility you could share the almond flour pancake recipe? My husband sometimes gets tired of eggs for breakfast.

[Fred Hahn]

Well we do our best. Water is the main drink. We almost never give the kids juice. Organic chocolate milk on rare occasions too.

We feed them meats and veggies. Berries in the morning with Almond four pancakes made with heavy cream and whole eggs.

They have energy to spare and are almost never sick. We teach them why we feed them what we do and why we avoid the other foods. Education is key.

[lctcathy]

Fred, that's awesome. I would imagine that your pretty careful about what you feed your kids and the result is a more energetic kid.

I've got a good friend who buys will routinely buy his son a bag of Doritos (full size), a Mountain Dew (HFCS) and a bag of candy (not single serving).

The kid is not only seriously overweight, he's got all the markers for Diabetes and moves like a 90-year old man. It's really sad and no matter how much I've tried to talk to him about it, he just won't listen.

Your kids are acting like kids should and I would bet that it has very much to do with how you feed them and the positive example you set.

[Fred Hahn]

My observation is that most kids get plenty of exercise. My kids were playing Wi games all day yesterday and when I went in to see what they were doing they were jumping and twirling all over the place. My daughter does cartwheels and hand-stands while watching Spongebob.

And thanks for the compliment on my blog.

[lctcathy]

Really good post! While it is true that the average child doesn't get as much exercise as they should, there seems to be a complete lack of understanding as to the effect of these foods on their systems.

Kids eating chips, cookies, sodas and fruit juices (with HFCS), boxed mac and cheese... the list goes on. While it may be easier to feed this stuff to kids, it's creating a horrifying situation with their health.

Didn't type II diabetes used to be called "adult onset"? Sadly, that's not the case anymore.

Nice blog :)

[Fred Hahn]

Thanks Ethyl. And I know what you mean. Illness makes a lot of people really rich.

[ethyl d]

"How do you fix the health care system? Easy - stop making people need it"

Brilliantly and succinctly said! Doesn't it drive you nuts that it really is this simple, but hardly anyone gets it? I'm getting so cynical as to suspect that too many people really don't want the health care system fixed.