Obesity Caused By Sugar Or Chemicals In Food And Environment?

Drink Water Instead of Sweetened Drinks Says New Zealand entrepreneur, Tony Fallkenstein.

Tony appeared on ‘Sunday’ Channel One, last night, 10 June, 2012,  hosted by Miriama Kamo.  He is campaigning for people to recognize that health will improve if water is used instead of all those sweetened drinks which children these days often drink too much of.  And he is right, of course.  Good water is good for you.  Commercial sugary drinks are not good for you.

However, the ‘Sunday’ people interviewed ALL failed to mention that chemicals in commercial drinks and food are also very harmful to the health. (And what about the effect of vaccinations?  Read Merrilyn’s later post from September 2012, entitled Link Between Obesity And Vaccinations New Study Suggests, BBC.

Commercial fizzy drinks are bad for you, because commercial sugary drinks contain not just sugar, but a host of very detrimental poisons which are equally as bad, if not worse, than the plain old sugar in those drinks.

Chemical additives can cause obesity, hyperactivity, depression, arthritis, cancer, and a lot more dreaded sicknesses.

Tony really is doing a great service to many families through his promotion of his ‘Just Water’ business.  By drinking his pure water instead of sweet drinks  which are laden with harmful preservatives and other chemicals, these families will run less of a risk of suffering obesity or degenerative disease later in life.  Their intake of chemical poisons will be dramatically reduced because of taking commercial sweet drinks out of the daily diet and switching to water instead.

And water is GOOD FOR YOU.

Tony has given out several million dollars worth of FREE water fountains to hundreds of families, so that they can begin to enjoy drinking water instead of heading for the fruit juices and fizzy drinks in the fridge.

His idea is a real hit.  Children just love to come home from school and pour themselves a nice cool water from the water fountain.

But in this latest attack on sugar, many ‘experts’ are conveniently leaving out chemical food additives as having anything at all to do with obesity.  Yet the effects of these chemical additives have been known for years.  These chemicals  WILL cause hormonal disfunction, which can lead to obesity, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, and much else.

Just look at the chemical cocktail in that flavoured drink you like to consume.  Read the fine print on those drinks.  Even drinks which contain real fruit juice often have added chemicals to colour, preserve, and enhance the taste.  And these chemicals are mostly always bad for you.

No use buying artificially flavoured drinks with no calories – because most of these sugar substitutes are known carcenogens, and will change your hormone balance even more quickly than plain old sugar.

A medical specialist said on the programme last night that obesity is caused by something disrupting the body metabolism.  He said that the main reason for obesity today is sugar, because sugar disrupts the glandular and hormonal systems of the body.  He should have pointed out that chemicals in our food are ruining our health.  Chemicals in our food, as well as vaccinations and unnecessary mediactions of many kinds, are actually programming us for extinction.  Leaving out sugar from our diets is simply not going to save us from extermination.

I think that sugar is taking too much of the blame for the obesity and diabetes epidemics which are striking all countries in the so-called developed world.  Because all the chemicals – colourings, flavourings, and preservatives, which are in these sugared drinks, are probably more to blame than sugar.

While it is not good to have too much sugar, at least it is a food.  All the chemical additives which are put into fizzy drinks and other foods, are NOT foods.  Many of them are carcenogens.  And this is why I believe that to point the finger of blame to sugar alone is not addressing the real problem at all.

Pharmaceutical companies, and chemical manufacturers, love to blame foods as being the culprit for our maladies.  Because then they can say “Take this special medication of ours which  will counteract the bad effects of this food…… or ‘take this new formula to replace this food’…… or ‘we have found this brilliant new medication will bring relief to  these symptoms of…arthritis…..diabetes…..”etc, etc.   Which is not helping to solve the problem at all.  These medications are actually adding to the overload of chemicals already in our food, and in our bodies.

Because, the fact is, that even if sugar is taken out of our diets completely, all the chemical food additives such as preservatives, colourings, and flavourings, will all still be found in most processed food.

Gluten Sensitivity, Cancer and Allergies Related To Vaccinations, Preservatives and Other Chemicals.

Food Additives, Agricultural Chemicals, and Vaccinations  all weaken the immune system, and are the likely reason for the fact that asthma, gluten intolerance and other allergies are on the rise.  More and more people are finding that they have allergic reactions after eating bread and other foods which have gluten in them.  In New Zealand, where agricultural science prides itself on being ‘ahead’ of the rest of the world in terms of machinery and chemicals to control weeds and insects, more and more people are suffering from asthma, hay fever, eczema, cancer, and other conditions each year.

More People are Becoming Sick in Civilized Countries:    New Zealand has the highest incidence of asthma of anywhere in the world. New Zealand also has one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the western world.   These diseases are becoming prolific in so-called  CIVILIZED countries – countries which use modern chemical ways to manage weeds, countries where vaccination of children is the norm,  and countries where ready-made commercial items such as bread, cake and meats are part of the average diet.  These commercial items all have preservatives and other food additives in them, unless you have bought an organic product with no chemical additives.

This should tell us something immediately, without having to wait for relevant research to be done to prove a point. What is the difference between the life-styles and  foods people eat in a poorer country, where little or no cases of asthma, cancer and allergies are found, and the foods and life-styles of people from a richer country, where disease of all kinds is on the rise?  –  The answer is No chemicals of any kind, unless the marketing of these products has already begun by those big international corporate drug and chemical companies who seem eager to pollute every last bit of the planet.

It is  everything to do with ‘life-style’, which is not just living a healthy life in the outdoors, but a life-style where there is an absence of agricultural chemicals, no food additives, and no modern vaccinations and other drugs. Healthy people are found in the pockets on earth where people do for themselves much more,  spending time outside growing food without chemicals, and without  using medical drugs and vaccinations.

Healthy people living a healthy life-style without chemicals are generally strong and have a natural immunity to most disease, in which case there should be little need for modern drugs.   Of course antibiotics do have their place in emergency situations, but I am an advocate for the homeopathic alternatives to vaccinations, drugs and medications, and, of course, Vitamin C, and Vitamin A, should there be a need  for assistance in combatting infections.  Homeopathy, Vitamin C, Vitamin A and herbal options for treating infections and preventing disease should be used for illness whenever possible, as these things do not harm the immune system as do vaccinations and other antibiotics.  Many children who were healthy before vaccinations suddenly have developed allergies and sensitivity to gluten after being given vaccinations.

The  agricultural poisons we pour onto our soils, including artificial fertilizers,  which get into our food, and poison the air and the waterways, are having an adverse effect on our health.

Vaccinations and food additives  are further undermining the health of our children, and ourselves.

Actually, there is enough research around already, which shows that vaccinations, agricultural chemicals including artificial fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, all affect the health and the immune system, making us more vulnerable to infections of various kinds, and predisposing us towards  cancer and allergies.

I have noticed that bought baking products from our ‘New World’ supermarket, such as bread, doughnuts, cake, biscuits, pastries and chocolate, have a worse effect now than these foods, bought from the same supermarket, did a couple of years ago. I get a strong headache fairly soon after eating any of this shop’s baking now, similar to the effect of foods with monosodium glutamate in them.  I suspect that they are now  using some ready-made flour product which has unknown rising agents and preservatives in it –   Whereas previously, they made their own baking mixture up, which had less of the harmful additives in it.

These products have heightened my gluten intolerance.  All preservatives, colourings and other artificial food additives have an immediate effect on the bacteria in the bowel – they act like antibiotics, killing off the good bacteria in the bowel along with the bad ones.  This affects digestion adversely.  You may find that you seemingly are intolerant to gluten, when all along, it may be that the preservatives and other food additives in bought bread and baking are the real cause behing your sensitivity to wheat.

The other factor, of course, is that agricultural chemicals are used in the growing of wheat, unless the farmer is using organic no-chemical methods to grow his food.  These chemicals get into the very fibre of the wheat, and these chemicals have a synergistic effect with other chemicals which are used in food processing, such as the bleach which is used in processing wheat flour.

Home made bread,  made from organically-grown and organically processed wheat may in fact be OK for many people who are otherwise allergic to wheat which has been grown and processed by normal chemical means.  However, once someone has become sensitive to gluten and other allergens, it can be very hard to reverse the condition.