No Quick Fix For Obesity

No Quick Fix For Obesity

Winnipeg - Thursday, September 6, 2001 by: Casandra Loiselle

response
In response to your article "We are a collection of Self Repairing Applications Running on a Fixed Operating System - the whole system is called: The Spirit"

human
behavior
I think that science should stop trying to find a genetic cause of obesity and start looking more at human behavior for the causes of obesity. The so-called better quality of life that we have now is leading to our obesity problems. If you look and Canada and the United States versus a European country like Belgium. Traditionally in Canada and the US our eating and daily behaviors follow something like this:

physical
activity
Get up, eat breakfast go to work spend most of the morning sitting around the office with not a lot of physical activity - we then eat a lunch let's say soup and sandwich - we then return to our office and do the same thing. After work is over we go home and have large suppers such as lasagna, stew, stakes etc. and then we maybe do laundry or watch TV (think about it 11.3 million viewers an evening alone for the moderately popular TV shows like Boston Public). Before heading to bed some may have a midnight snack.

Belgium
While in countries like Belgium the traditionally differs only in one way - most people eat their major meal of the day (ie. Stew, Steak and potatoes etc.) at lunch time and then eat their light meal at the end of the day (ie. Soup and Sandwiches etc.)

excuses
Why does this work? The majority of our energy is spend during the day. Breakfast is to take you to lunch time and the lunch is to take you until you go to bed with supper being a light snack almost. Not to mention the rise in popularity of so called fast "food" joints. I spend this summer working in the Diabetes and Chronic Diseases Unit of Manitoba Health. There were nine people in the unit (excluding myself) of those nine people two are medical doctors, three are nutrionists. At most lunch hours you would see the nutrionists walking in with food from the food court in the mall attached to the building. I challenged the unit to a healthy lunch challenge to which only one person participated in (not the doctor or a nutrionist). The most common excuses that were given on why people could not bring a healthy lunch was a lack of time, "I have two children at home and I work full time" or "I have a two year old daughter at home" etc.

no quick
fix
Sorry for going on for so long, but why must everything be blamed on genetics? There is no quick fix for this problem rather this is a long and tiring process of changing habits and lifestyles.

Casandra Loiselle


No Quick Fix For Obesity
Winnipeg - Thursday, September 6, 2001 by: Casandra Loiselle

response	In response to your article "We are a collection of Self Repairing Applications Running on a Fixed Operating System - the whole system is called: The Spirit"

human behavior	I think that science should stop trying to find a genetic cause of obesity and start looking more at human behavior for the causes of obesity. The so-called better quality of life that we have now is leading to our obesity problems. If you look and Canada and the United States versus a European country like Belgium. Traditionally in Canada and the US our eating and daily behaviors follow something like this:

physical activity	Get up, eat breakfast go to work spend most of the morning sitting around the office with not a lot of physical activity - we then eat a lunch let's say soup and sandwich - we then return to our office and do the same thing. After work is over we go home and have large suppers such as lasagna, stew, stakes etc. and then we maybe do laundry or watch TV (think about it 11.3 million viewers an evening alone for the moderately popular TV shows like Boston Public). Before heading to bed some may have a midnight snack.

Belgium	While in countries like Belgium the traditionally differs only in one way - most people eat their major meal of the day (ie. Stew, Steak and potatoes etc.) at lunch time and then eat their light meal at the end of the day (ie. Soup and Sandwiches etc.)

excuses	Why does this work? The majority of our energy is spend during the day. Breakfast is to take you to lunch time and the lunch is to take you until you go to bed with supper being a light snack almost. Not to mention the rise in popularity of so called fast "food" joints. I spend this summer working in the Diabetes and Chronic Diseases Unit of Manitoba Health. There were nine people in the unit (excluding myself) of those nine people two are medical doctors, three are nutrionists. At most lunch hours you would see the nutrionists walking in with food from the food court in the mall attached to the building. I challenged the unit to a healthy lunch challenge to which only one person participated in (not the doctor or a nutrionist). The most common excuses that were given on why people could not bring a healthy lunch was a lack of time, "I have two children at home and I work full time" or "I have a two year old daughter at home" etc.

no quick fix	Sorry for going on for so long, but why must everything be blamed on genetics? There is no quick fix for this problem rather this is a long and tiring process of changing habits and lifestyles.

	Casandra Loiselle