Malnutrition – The real cause of Obesity

To look thin is in fashion. Fat is beautiful, along with every other shape, size or form. What is important in a discussion of obesity is helping the large woman who also has a heart condition, diabetes, liver or kidney disease, or high blood pressure to lose enough weight to stay alive. I am taking strictly about the necessities of health, and use the term obesity only to refer to fat that is health-threatening. Women who are obese are at greater risk for the above diseases, which have increased seriousness for them in some cases, as well as for cancers of the uterus and breast.

Malnutrition is the major cause of obesity. The body is not getting what it needs, so is continually hungry looking for what's missing. Most women who are obsess were started on the Typical American Diet early, may have had food allergies or were unable to digest the cow's milk and starch they were weaned on.

The problem grows with the child; an adult lacks the physical activity of childhood and the Typical American Diet has also become habit. An abnormal biochemistry develops, with food sensitivities and hypoglycemia. Too few nutrients are supplied in many women's diets to make fat burning possible. "Fat is only lost when energy is produced, therefore weight cannot be taken off until fat is efficiently burned, a process requiring almost every nutrient." A further cause is endocrine/glandular imbalance, much of which can also be remedied by full nutrition, and there are many other theories. For the woman who needs to lose weight as a health necessity, reducing diets are not the answer, but good food is-changing the Diet to give her body what it needs.