Obesity and the Salt Connection and Other Stuff: too fat to work

Tuesday, 17 March 2009

Fat folk who live on benefits because of their weight

Family of fatties lives on benefits.
Read article in the Telegraph

Extract:

In the Telegraph we read that "The Chawners, haven't worked in 11 years, claim their weight is a hereditary condition and the money they receive is insufficient to live on.

Mr Chawner said: "What we get barely covers the bills and puts food on the table. It's not our fault we can't work. We deserve more.""

Well you may be surprised to learn that I agree with Mr Chawner that it is not their fault that they are so fat that they can't work. The fact is that fat people are given the wrong information about what causes obesity and given the wrong advice about how to reduce their obesity.

Reducing calories does not reduce obesity and there has never been any evidence to support the calorie theory of obesity. Whereas if you put suitable words into your searchhbox you will immediately find on the internet a mass of information and evidence about how eating less salt/sodium results in loss of water/fluid from the body, i.e. loss of weight.

Overweight people are suffering from fluid retention, not from eating too much. - If the cause of obesity were eating too many calories then Heinz Asthoff would be obese. - See German eats 12000 calories a day but does not put on weight

Obesity will continue inexorably to increase unless and until people are told the truth, namely that it is a problem of fluid retention, not a problem of overeating, and that fluid retention is maintained by salt intake that can be reduced easily by giving up dieting and instead concentrating on avoiding salt and salty food.

The Chawner family eats meals that contain a lot of salt/sodium: "cereal for breakfast, bacon butties for lunch and microwave pies with mashed potato or chips for dinner." They need to be advised to cut down on salty, convenience meals and to cook meals using fresh food with no added salt. They also need to eat plenty of fruit and (unsalted) vegetables. They would then lose weight easily and swiftly and have much more energy. They would feel so much better and their health would improve in so many ways that I am sure that one or more of them would then feel well enough to go to work!

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Sunday, 8 March 2009

Thousands of people in Britain are on Incapacity Benefit because they are officially too fat to work.

Thousands in Britain on incapacity benefit because they are too fat to work
article in the Daily Mail

Extract:

"Last week it emerged that the number of patients admitted to hospital for weight-related health issues has leapt seven-fold in a decade.

There are around 2.6million adults on sickness handouts, meaning about one in 1,200 are receiving up to £84.50 a week because they are grossly overweight."

I wonder when fat people are going to be given the information they desperately need? - That dieting and calorie counting do not reduce overweight? - Obesity is not caused by overeating; this is just an unjust stereotype. - It is what you eat, not how much you eat, that matters. A major cause of obesity is fluid retention/salt sensitivity and so the easy, safe, fast, reliable way to lose excess weight is to give up dieting and simply avoid salt and salty food. This method means you will lose some of the excess water you are carrying around with you. Your blood pressure will go down and you will feel better in a host of different ways, including having more energy.