How to address obesity Videos

People tend to personalize this issue. But in the end it is a social issue because obesity impacts health and those people will drive healcare costs up. All of us are going to end up paying for this obesity epidemic in rising diabetes, heart attacks, cholesterol, etc...

No government equals no research. No research equals no medical advances (or any advances for that matter). No Institute of Medicine, National Institute of Health, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American College of Sports Medicine, or any major research body that is funded by the government. I had a major issue listening to that weasel lawyer Paul Campos as he says we are all just supposed to get sick and start dying when we hit our 40's and 50's, as if it is just "natural" for us to start getting sick when we hit 40 years old. Jack LaLanne lived to be 96 years old. He remained physically active and ate nutritious foods his entire life. In his 70's he did things that the strongest men on earth couldn't even dream of doing today. Tony Horton is another great example of a fitness guy who doesn't let age keep him down (he is 56 about to be 57 and is still doing crazy workouts along with eating whole, nutritious foods). To say exercise and nutrition doesn't make a difference is what is moronic. BTW, Paul, haven't you noticed the research that shows that cardiovascular disease can actually begin to develop in KIDS WHO ARE 5 YEARS OF AGE? What about Type II Diabetes? Why are kids who aren't even teenagers yet developing diabetes? In the 80's, it was totally unheard of, and now, it is becoming widespread. To say that there is no research showing how eating nutritious food and exercising on a regular basis improves overall health is irresponsible. Tell my clients who lose between 30 and 50 lbs this. Tell my clients who are reducing their insulin and who are COMPLETELY coming off of their blood pressure medicine that exercising and nutrition isn't the answer. Paul kept shouting "weight loss weight loss weight loss!!!" and I'm saying "lack of disease you freaking idiot!" Paul Campos came off as a typical lawyer in this debate - totally uneducated about anything, and basically swerves people into thinking like he does, which is incorrect. Government needs to be involved, but as I have mentioned on other posts - instead of having people like Paul Campos who know NOTHING about the health field trying to develop these programs, let's the the guys who went to school have a say in these programs. Let's hire the dietitians, exercise physiologists, pediatricians, medical doctors to tell the government what's working and what's not working. Again, as Dr. Satcher said - working TOGETHER is what we need to solve this crisis in America. 

The government said stay out of the sun. Resulting vitamin D deficiency epidemic. The government said eat margarine not butter. Hydrogenated oil and transfats are very bad. Fat is worse than carbs. Obesity and diabetes sky rockets. The government said fish has mercury. It also has omega-3. Pizza is a vegetable? Subsidizing corn and therefore corn syrup. Very long history of misinformation. Science eventually catches up, but if policy is mandated on bad science should we trust our health to it? Bad neighborhoods is basically resulted in our nation's health crisis is what I got from this debate. It sounds like select neighborhood restructuring investments is in order. I doubt the government really wants to invest in poor people. Why do that when you can just make the government billions of dollars larger? It sounds like they've purposely misstated the mission for their own advantage. Seemingly good but always very questionable intentions. 

Watching this, I can't help but wonder is low GI carbs are bad, and if eating one serving of high GI carb (sugar, honey) might be a good idea to fight insulin resistance. Since your theory has it ha eating more often means that insulin stays high, but that is what low GI foods do. So maybe a once a day perhaps after dinner (desert, or a honey concoction) taken before bed might actually be better especially if you reduce all but the lowest carb veggies.

Dr. Wallach, with all due respect, the TRUE blue Naturopaths would disagree with your assessment on conditions caused by "nutrient deficiencies". Rather, all diseases come from the inability to absorb nutrients due to a build up of acid wastes due to an acid producing diet the body is not designed to digest including cooked foods; meat; dairy; poultry; fish; legumes; grains, eggs. The HEALING alkaline diet should consist of primarily raw fruit and some leafy greens and a few nuts and seeds -- even for diabetics who CAN get rid of their diabetes including Type 1 diabetes. You said on "Coast to Coast AM" it was "impossible" to get rid of Type 1 and it is NOT impossible. People do it every day. There are MANY in the raw food movement doing it. Look into Dr Gabriel Cousins or Dr. Robert Morse. Also TRUE naturopaths prefer whole herbs as grown in Nature which the body can easily recognize and use - NOT isolate supplements.

is btt for vegetarians as well?

Dr. Wallach is pure EVIL. YOUR PYRAMID SCHEME VITAMIN EMPIRE IS OVERPRICED AND PEOPLE ARE DYING RIGHT NOW. KIDS HAVE AUTISM AND YOU CLAIM TO HAVE A CURE, YET IT'S UNAFFORDABLE. My dad is currently dying in the most horrific way from diabetes. THIS JACK A$$ CLAIMS HE KNOWS THE RIGHT CURE BUT HE WON'T JUST TELL PEOPLE AND PUBLICIZE WHAT THAT IS. MILLIONS HAVE DIED OR ARE LIVING IN HELL INCLUDING MY DAD WHICH HAS DESTROYED MY MOM'S LIFE AND THIS GUY JUST PEDDLES HIS HUGELY EXPENSIVE, UNAFFORDABLE "PYRAMID SCHEME" VITAMIN EMPIRE INSTEAD OF JUST HELPING PEOPLE.