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Ask The Experts: Why Are Americans Getting Fat? Dr. Barry Sears Weighs In

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Biochemist expert Dr. Barry Sears explains the answer to the widely-asked question: Why are Americans are getting fat? He describes the dangerous trend of obesity from a very scientific standpoint, which may help those struggling with weight issues to find the answer to fight the battle of the bulge and finally win.Dr. Sears:   Well, we actually have two reasons to explain this:

Either people who gain weight are either people who are morally inferior because they eat too many calories and don’t exercise enough. Or something more insidious is happening. I for one believe it is the second: The reason people are getting fatter is because of our genes in those who are genetically-pre-disposed are being turned on…turned on by very recent changes in the American diet, and that’s fueling our obesity epidemic, and that’s a very scary statistic.

The reason why? Because you don’t know whether or not you’re genetically-susceptible. And what are the two primary changes in our diet that fuel this?

1. The increase of vegetable oils. The things which are now the cheapest form of calories in the world’s diet.  Things like soybean oil, sunflower oil, corn oil, safflower oil. All these are rich in Omega 6 fatty acids. These are the fatty acids, that, if we consume too much, increase inflammation in our bodies.

2. And this inflammation can be accelerated by the increase of refined carbohydrates. What are those? Yes, they’re junk food, but basically it’s anything that’s white: white bread, white potatoes, white pasta, white rice. And you begin to see that now, if you are genetically pre-disposed, as 70% of Americans are, that if your diet is composed of more refined carbohydrates and more vegetable oils, that basically you’re setting up an inflammatory fire, that’s going to turn on these ancient genes, that will make you fat and keep you fat. It’s a very complex situation – it’s more complex than “eat less, exercise more”. That has never worked. Don’t you think every overweight person has tried that and failed? Had they failed because they were ‘morally inferior’? No. It’s because they were given the wrong advice.

And that’s what the Zone Diet does, it tries to give you a blueprint, to take the food ingredients you like to use, and put them into a dietary format that allows you to take control of your genes, and by doing so, retake control of your future.

www.ZoneDiet.com

Read more about Dr. Sears here…

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