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Why You Are Fat
By Arthur Webster of My Local Gazette
I have always believed that the obsession with hygiene and sterility has been a contributory factor in many problems people face today. The lack of resistance to even mild contamination has brought about a massive increase in the food intollerance of many people. Sometimes this intollerance will show as a bout of diarrhoea after a meal and at other times will even present as food poisoning. With a long history of intestinal problems it has always been another belief of mine that the over-prescription of antibiotics has created a world of people who are more predisposed to succombing to minor ailments. It was with little surprise that I read a report that Michael Blaser (New York University Medical School) sees the connection between galloping obesity and prescription antibiotics. He has seen the link between antibiotics and the destruction of the bacteria that live in the human gut. It is necessary to understand that not all bacteria are bad - indeed, without our resident fauna, we would live very short lives indeed. Not enough studies have been made into the side effects of antibiotics as they destroy our life-enhacing bacteria. It is now seen that they can prevent some diseases (cancer and asthma among them), assist the immune system and maintain a healthy metabolism. A complete re-evaluation of the way doctors treat some diseases is now under way and it is likely that, within 10 years, doctors will treat asthma and intestinal ailments by controlling the bacterial populations of the gut. It is no coincidence that farmers fatten cattle and other food animals by regularly dosing them with antibiotics. They are already aware that these doses increase the yield from these animals but they haven't necessarily understood the mechanism by which it works. There have been suggestions in the past about the link between antibiotically fed meat and the ever fatter population. The link is now fairly well established. The antibiotics in the animals kill the bacteria so the animal gets fat, the antibiotics are not destroyed in cooking so they destroy the bacteria in the humans - and the humans get fat. There you have it. You are not fat because of big bones or hormonal problems - you are fat because you are drugged. This also helps to explain why obesity is not a significant problem among vegetarians - antibiotics don't create bigger fruit and vegetables. You are being put in harms way by the very things doctors, in their greed to sell as much as possible, tell you will do you good. It was ever thus! |
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Thanks Arthur. You make some good points -- especially about how they fatten cattle. Eeeeewwwwww.......
Thanks for sharing this very informative intel, Arthur.
Doctors don't make as much if you exercise and eat healthy.
We have to do that on our own.
Best to you.
Frederick
"the connection between galloping obesity and prescription antibiotics." Could well be. It makes me feel a bit better anyway. I always put my being overweight down to too little exercise and too much of the wrong types of foods.
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I became aware of this during a very long convalescence.
Whenever I was on an antibiotic my weight would rocket and then fall once the course was complete.
I remember that there was an enquiry in America on this topic about 17 years ago. The beef farmers and pharmaceutical companies managed to get it suppressed.
Try going vegetarian for a week or two, you will be surprised how much weight you will lose if you are a regular meat eater.
I grew up on a dairy farm and we got lots of unpasteurized, un-homogenized milk straight from the milk house. As we had Holsteins and Jerseys with a Jersey Bull we had lots of butterfat and creme. I think a lot of the germs in the unpasteurized milk helped my body build up a good immunity to a lot of illness over the years. Of course a lot of hard work didn't hurt either. The premise about the link between antibiotically fed meat and the ever fatter population makes a lot of sense to me.
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