Re: Need Help! Looking for ideas regarding overweight 4year old.

Hveragerthi is right...

In a simpler time with no chemicals (pollution including consumables) to disrupt the endocrine system, no chemicals to disrupt and change hormone production and utilization, no chemicals to disrupt nutritional absorption\utilization, no chemicals or sterilizations of foods to disrupt digestive\intestinal flora (type of flora supported in the gut has been implicated too), etc.

A brief search on any artificial sweetener and weight gain will show this... a brief search on hormonal causes will show this...

here are a few simple links...

http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/treatments/a/WeightGain.htm

here is a little slide show for you...

http://www.webmd.com/diet/slideshow-weight-gain-shockers

Diet soda makes you gain weight...

http://www.ourhealthcoop.com/blog/hugo/2008/05/diet-soda-also-makes-you-gain-...

At one time, on blood pressure medication and SSRIs, I gained over 60 unexplained pounds in less than 3 months. The weight gain was directly attributed to the drugs... so I quit them... "increased" my caloric intake, by eating more essential "real" fatty acids and "real" unrefined sugars and honey instead of non-caloric and low caloric foods, and lost 40 of those pounds over the next year without changing activity levels on either side of the gain\loss.

And as a bonus, I "cured" the problems I was needing the drugs for in the first place... obviously these drugs\chemicals cause many more problems than they are worth.

In fact if anything, I decreased my activity level somewhat as my son took over most of the yard maintenance about that time.

The calories in\calories out mantra may have had some merit in a simpler time without all the pollutants, poor fake, chemical food, and other chemicals. I have a dear friend who as a physician has stated calories in\calories out mantra to me for years... we have had discussions with me on one side, and him on the other...

Within the last year, he has come to agree that I have been right.

And as with most physicians, he agrees that one of the biggest single problems is "fake" processed foods with refined fats, etc. Not rocket science... just hard to change people's "set" ideas.

http://www.healthandenvironment.org/articles/doc/6145

It takes years, sometimes generations, for mainstream anything to change accepted false popular dogmatic theory that has been the foundation of a successful industry, in this case, the "diet" and "exercise" industries.

Keeping this in mind, some people will be more impacted than others dependent upon the diets and exposure of their parents to these "chemical" influences, which change genetic expression which is then passed onto their children from birth. The children then even struggle against greater odds.

Hopefully your eyes have been opened a bit...

NOTHING fits into a neat little box of a single explanation.... NOTHING.

The powers that be\big business want you to feel that it is all your fault and promotes myths as a redirection to prevent anger against their crimes against you and yours... and to retain or increase business.

If everyone went to eating organic whole food, and realized weight loss... the diet and exercise businesses would probably lose some ground...

BTW - another family of physician friends who I have gotten to increase their organic whole food consumption and move away from processed foods has realized weight loss without changing caloric intake or physical activity... one of them, the father, 20 pounds over 6 months... without doing anything else.

All that said, sure calories in\calories out can be a "contributing" factor, however this also depends greatly on the "quality" and nutritional density of those calories as quality of the calorie will make a difference in the quality of the caloric burn; this too though is dependent upon the metabolic function\health of the individual consumer.

grz-

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