Overeating Explained - simply and believably

Would you believe that women in the age group 20 to 29 on average weigh 157 pounds ?

So what ? Anything strange about that ?

Well, 40 years ago, women 20 to 29 years of age weighed in at 128 pounds on average.

Weight going up almost 40 pounds in just over a generation !
If those are the numbers for women, just think about how much heavier men are now compared to 40 years back.

David Kessler was a commissioner of the US Food & Drug Administration - if you can't trust someone like him - who can you trust ? This is his book The End of Overeating.

The murder mystery that he solves is why the temptation to overeat is so strong - maybe irresistible. The reason is all to do with the combination of sugar, fat and salt layered together in a food dish. Put fat, sugar and salt together in the wrong (or right from the point of view of the food manufacturing industry) then you just can't stop eating - it becomes an addiction.

Look at the video - it takes an hour but it is serious stuff worth your time because it's not just not about knowing but how to escape from the addiction that the combination of sugar, fat and salt.

David Kessler was asked about eating and children. He said "If you look at children at the age of 2 or 3, they compensate. If you give them more calories in one meal, they'll eat less later in the day. But if they get exposed to sugar, fat and salt all day for a few years, they lose the ability to compensate. By age 4 or 5 they are eating all the time !"

So what to do ?

Food Rehab by David Kessler:

1. Determine what you are going to eat ahead of time and block out everything else
2. Put what you need (not want) on your plate and do not go back for more
3. Picks foods that satisfy - not those that stimulate you to eat even more
4. Anticipate stimulation - know how to deal with food addiction
5. Be alert to your emotional stressors that trigger you to automatic eating
6. Turn off that image of the trigger food before you start debating yourself on whether or not to eat it
7. Think negative - pair unhealthy food that you've been lead to crave with an unpleasant image - stop being programed by the food manufacturers.

Stop the addiction !