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Solving Obesity

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I think it is possible to bring our population back to a reasonable average weight.  However, the multinational food companies are really not going to help you get there.  You have to take responsibility for what goes onto your table for you and your family.

As you know, I discovered vitamin D for health by making a correlation between obesity and central air conditioning in homes.  Vitamin D deficiency certainly helps if you have metabolic syndrome, or have reached a plateau in weight loss.  However, I do not believe that this is the prime cause.  There are a number of things that have been touted.  I will try to list them in the order of the worst offenders.

  • High fructose corn syrup and general over consumption of processed sugar in all forms.  In the 1600’s we consumed sugar at a rate of less than 10 lbs per person to recent estimates of 150+ lbs per person per year.
  • Diet that is composed primary of carbohydrates with the fiber removed.  Fiber is significant in that it helps you feel full and allows lepton to signal your brain that you are full.  Wheat products that were 40% protein 2000 years ago are now at about 15% protein.
  • Iodine deficiency which prevents the thyroid form acting properly in its function of controlling the metabolism.
  • Vitamin D deficiency.  Vitamin D is the prime driver for your endocrine system.
  • Magnesium deficiency.  Magnesium is the cation of choice for over 300 enzymes in the body.  Enzymes are those things that act like catalyst in biological reactions.  Magnesium is also the cation of choice for your energy compounds, ADP and ATP.
  • Commercial advertising of food when you are trying to maintain a healthy balance.  This particularly bad for emotional eaters – looking for the insulin rush.

Over the next several weeks we will explore each of these factors that are responsible for your weight control.  When I started supplementing with vitamin D, my weight was fairly stable at about 215 lbs.  I really had to keep it in control because if I gained weight it would cause significant pain in my back.  Now that the back pain is gone I have consumed recklessly because I could without having the pain.   I now come in at a nice plump 240 lbs.  At six foot two inches, and a large muscular frame, I carry the weight well.  However, I know that I most get it under 195 lbs or about where my body mass index crosses into the overweight zone.

Today I am starting a diet that is to be free of wheat and high fructose corn syrup.  I also plan to eat as many whole foods that are not processed as possible.  Processing destroys the natural enzymes in the food.  I will basically follow Dr. Eades formula for weight loss in the amount of protein that I consume.  I will not worry about fats and may even eat higher amounts of things like coconut oil.  I will not worry about the number of carbohydrates, but the foods that have carbohydrates.  That is I will try to eat vegetables with a lot of fiber like beans and salads.   My exercise plan is not an issue as I typically go to the gym every day in the early morning.

Join me if you like and we will see what happens over the next months.  – Pandemic Survivor

Back Pain and the Beginning of Hope

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There it was late one spring afternoon and the pain was unbearable.  It was as if I had been locked in an iron maiden torture device with the common intent of that device.  Pain banged like ping bong balls from one end of my spine to the other with sharp daggers of new response as one pain followed another.  With so many pain meds in my system that I was having difficulty remaining conscious I was still on the verge of shock from the pain.

Mixed with that was the emotional pain as my friends and family had deserted me as no one could stand to be around a person with that much constant pain. It reminded me of Psalm 38 NIV from Biblegateway.com where David was crying out to God about a similar situation.

6 I am bowed down and brought very low;
all day long I go about mourning.

7 My back is filled with searing pain;
there is no health in my body.

8 I am feeble and utterly crushed;
I groan in anguish of heart.

9 All my longings lie open before you, O Lord;
my sighing is not hidden from you.

10 My heart pounds, my strength fails me;
even the light has gone from my eyes.

11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;
my neighbors stay far away.

It was 2004 and as I know now the spring is the worst time of year because my vitamin D level was the lowest.  It had been a year since my last failed back surgery.  In this moment I asked that something be given to me so that I could overcome the pain of that afternoon.  I remembered the similarity of the numbers that I had researched for a friend where central air conditioning in homes in the US seemed to follow the obesity rates.  I focused my mind on trying to determine a correlation.  Going to the department of energy website and to the CDC I found these numbers.

Data:

  • Year 1980 1984 1987 1990 1993 1997 2001
  • % Obesity 15.1 18.2 20.6 23.3 25.2 28.4 31.5
  • % Central Air 27 30 34 39 44 47 55

When comparing the two sets of data with least squares it looks like this:

There it was better than a 99% correlation.  That calmed my mind with distraction and was fascinating at the same time.  It must be that fat people got hot and put in more air conditioning accordingly.  Of course at that time I could find nothing on the web about vitamin D deficiency and obesity and that ‘ah hah’ moment came later when reading a story on rickets and inner city kids.  It took me until November of 2004 to come to the understanding that the lack of exposure to sun was the issue.   See My Story.

I know that pain is harmful and destructive in ways that are not describable.  When I suggest that my pain was far above the pain of a ruptured appendix, no one seems to understand because even child birth pains cannot describe the constant intrusion of the neural system being in exceptional upset.  The ruptured appendix when I was nineteen now comes in at a modest 4 on my pain scale of 0 – 10.  My spine being 70% compressed by a central rupture at L4-L5 with sleep disturbance from sleep apnea and my friends deserting me is a 10.  Just writing this story for you brings up memories that are almost unbearable, but I know that this is important for your understanding and I will suffer this grief for you.

For you who may be reading this story because of pain and you have stumbled here in the hope of finding some relief, know that it is possible for your body to heal and for you to feel great again.  Please read here on what I did to overcome this pain without more surgery.  Back Pain

I know the destructiveness of pain and without God showing me where to find relief I would most likely be dead at this point.  My mission now is to get the understanding of vitamin D into the mainstream understanding of health.  Or at least to help encourage the ones that have given up hope.

Your mission if you choose to accept it is to spend enough time in the sun for health and to get your serum vitamin D level to one of health.  – Pandemic Survivor