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JUNE
24, 2004 – There are a number of
aspects to America’s booming obesity problem.
Sitting on our asses too much is an enormous factor.
But
central to the problem is this simple reality:
every day you are being subjected to a scam through which
people are intentionally tricking you into eating crap that makes
you fat, despite your best intentions.
It is such a common scam at this point – all pervasive –
that we don’t even think twice about it.
We
are not stupid. We do
not need anyone to create some fancy South Beach or Atkins diet to
tell us how to eat. We all know – have known for thousands of years.
Meals are lean meat based.
It’s not about carbs, it’s not about fat.
It is just simply that meals – at least the two bigger
meals of the day, lunch and dinner – should be protein-based.
You
may not be aware you know this but you do.
When you order lunch, you don’t order fat and sauce and
dough, you order a burger. You don’t order a mayonnaise, bread, and pressed fat and
water sandwich, you order a turkey breast sandwich.
You don’t order a breading, oil, sauce, rice and bean
burrito, you order a fish burrito.
When
we order our meals, we know what we are trying to get.
The first word is meat, protein.
Meals are centered that way.
Except for the few people who deliberately choose to be
vegetarians, every single one of us order our food this way.
Thing
is, you almost never get it.
You
see, the lean part of the meat is about the only thing that actually
costs some money. And
little by little food makers and restaurant owners have played a
shell game of giving you everything except what you are asking for.
You
don’t go to a burger joint because you are in the mood for
potatoes, fat, and soda. You
go because you want beef.
Well,
they’ll give you some – but only a little bit of actual lean
meat. You see, in this
scam they “grind up” basically a lot of fat that you don’t
want, didn’t ask for, and would never order or eat, and put just
enough actual lean meat in – and tons of seasoning – so that
they don’t have to give you the beef meat you wanted.
No, instead, you get a lot of ground fat, a big bun, fatty
and sugary sauce, then of course the oily fried potatoes and sugary
soda.
Now
we all have heard talk about fries and super-sizing and all that but
just stop for a second and look at what happened here.
It has nothing to do with super-sizing.
And, most importantly, it has nothing to do with you not
knowing how you should eat or making a bad choice.
You
made an attempt to have some cow meat for lunch, but instead – for
the economic benefit of the restaurant’s owner – ended up with
lots of dough, sugar, fat
– yes, those carbs and that fat – basically everything EXCEPT
what you wanted to begin with.
The mainly protein meat you came in for, you never got.
And
this is not just a burger thing.
Try
ordering a turkey breast sandwich.
Relatively healthy idea.
Again, the person who orders this,
or who buys turkey breast from the store to bring home to
eat, is making a very healthy decision and attempting to carry on
the healthy, age-old tradition of eating a protein-centered diet.
What
do they actually get though? Come
on, we all know this – the one thing they absolutely will not get
when they order a turkey breast sandwich is any turkey breast.
This scam has become so accepted we don’t even question it.
Turkey breast is an actual cut of turkey and would give you
high-quality, high-protein, low fat and carb meat.
But
we all know the last thing that is going to be given to us is any
sort of cut from any sort of actual turkey.
What we will be given is some ground up fat, some ground up
scraps from actual turkey breast meat, and a lot of water pressed
into something they are allowed to call “turkey breast.”
Then it is, of course, put on bread, smothered in mayo.
You get a bag of chips and a soda.
So
again, you made the right choice.
Had you been given you what ordered, what you tried to eat,
you would not be on your way to being overweight.
But instead of getting the turkey breast you asked for, you
got fat, water, dough, mayo, sugar – basically, again, lots of fat
and carbs, everything except the lean, mainly protein meat you
ordered.
For
years we were told to cut our fat intake, now some say cut our carb
intake. Constantly
there are new diets and companies that tell us how much of this or
that we can eat each day.
In
reality, we all know exactly how to eat.
Lean-meat centered diets are basic to us all.
However,
our society has been completely taken over by unscrupulous scammers
who trick us into eating cheap, low-quality stuff that we never
asked for which makes us fat and gives us diabetes, heart disease
and cancer. American’s
should be furious.
Instead,
we are busy blaming ourselves.
The
simple truth is that it is nearly impossible, now matter how hard
you try, to eat a diet that doesn’t, through this dishonest,
bait-and-switch exploitation game, trick you into eating unhealthily
and in a manner that leaves you overweight.
And
it doesn’t matter if you eat out or at home.
The products we buy in our stores use the same scam.
You go to buy cheese, it is really pressed soybean oil.
You go to buy fish, you end up with a little fish amidst a
bunch of breading, sugar and oil.
Your
body knows the difference. It
knows the difference between a cheese-flavored powder and actual
cheese. It knows the
difference between ground fat from beef and actual lean meat.
It knows the difference between a natural orange and refined
sugar with orange flavoring. When
you end up eating crap and not the healthy, body-building lean meat
you tried to get, you end up not only consuming a bunch of calories
you never wanted to begin with, but still hungry, as your body knows
it never got what it was looking for in the first place.
It is a viscous cycle that sends you back out there only to
suffer once again from the shell game that just stuffs more low
quality, fattening crap in your mouth.
There
was a time in America – back in the fifties and sixties, when
these things were new – when Americans were cautious about eating
additives or overly processed food. Willy Lowman in Death of a Salesman asks, “How can you whip
cheese?” Mothers used
to avoid buying these things – except for occasional exceptions
– for their families.
Over
time, generations that never lived in a world where additives and
processed, refined food was rare and thought of as bad have grown to
draw no distinction between actual food and imitation, have grown to
simply accept that people lie to them and trick them every time they
try to buy food, that if they order turkey breast they will get some
low quality imitation, that if they order cheese they get something
else, that if they order beef they get everything except actual
meat.
Now
that people realize what a health crisis America’s – and now the
world’s – weight problem is, people are scrounging around to try
and find which diet can solve the problem.
We at The Moderate Independent are here to tell you it is not
the Atkins diet, nor a low-fat diet, nor Weight Watchers or any
other. As far as food
goes, the only diet you need is the “Truth Diet.”
That is, we all know how we are supposed to eat,
protein-centered. What
we need now is to actually get what we ask for.
And for that to happen, we have to stand up and stop letting
ourselves get scammed.
Make
no mistake, it is a ton of work and no easy task – if it were, we
wouldn’t all be so overweight.
Getting what you actually ask for, not being scammed into
being fat, is a nearly unaccomplishable task in current America.
But
once you are aware of the situation, you can begin to fight back.
And once you start paying attention you will see clearly
that, on a daily basis, people are stealing money from you, giving
you everything except what you ask for, and serious damaging your
health, all for the sake of making more money for themselves.
And when you realize this, just maybe, you might do something
that most Americans stopped doing a few decades ago:
stand up for yourself.
After
all, it is your very life and your money on the line. | 
