[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

I refuse to watch these ridiculous programmes on benefit scroungers because they very deliberately pick people with learning difficulties to be the stars of their shows.

Britain has been spread a lie and its been going on for the last couple of generations. If we are going to educate obese people about the wrongs in their diets then we need to explain why they have such glutinous addictions. Instead these doctors will suggest low fat products and exercise regimes.

Low fat foods have had all the roughage taken out of them and because food without roughage is tasteless, its injected with crystallized fructose. The entire burden of metabolising fructose falls on your liver, where is turned into free fatty acids which then get stored as fat. Fructose interferes with your brain's communication with leptin, resulting in making you feel hungry and overeating. Fructose is addictive; the more you eat, the more you need. It causes type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, cancer, arthritis and elevated bad cholesterol.

The problem is, us Brits have fructose in just about everything we buy off our supermarket shelves... unless its a totally natural product. Its even in baby formula and theres huge doses of it in diet products and soda. What's more, the manufacturers are under no obligation to label its ingredients as "fructose" but can merely add, "sweetener".

The French are a skinny lot, in fact I believe they are the thinnest nation in Europe and yet they consume more butter, bread, whole milk and cheese than the rest of us put together. What the French tend not to do is drink a lot of soda, eat a lot of take-aways/ready meals or graze between meals. Whilst they love their fatty foods, their diet is much more natural than ours.

America and Britain are the two biggest consumers of fructose and I call this obesity epidemic, the "fructose epidemic".

Which tend to cost a bloody fortune and lets be honest, totally natural stuff is few and far between. Oddly enough the most effective way to lose weight is on a high fat, low carb diet.

Obesity IS a huge problem, but not just among the unemployed. I do feel the problem (along with not enough education about HOW to cook healthy..I mean at school we were constantly making cakes and stuff in food tech ) is how expensive it is to eat right compared to eat crap :S