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> IMHO wild animals aren't fat because they eat til they're not

> hungry and then stop. When they aren't hungry they don't hunt (or

> eat). Overimbibing just isn't done. Also their food is not

> loaded with salt, sugar, corn sweetners etc. and all the garbage

> that processed food has.

From what I know of wild animals, e.g., lions, when they are able to

bring down a kill, they will - if there is sufficient food on the

carcass - gorge themsevles on it. This is similar to what

paleolithic hominids did: usually it was feast or famine.

As well, life " in the wild " required significant amounts of energy

just to stay warm, dry, and fed. Achieving those ends burned mucho

calories. Even a mere 150 years ago, life in America, especially on

the plains, required a great expenditure of energy just to survive

(see the PBS special " Frontier House " for an up-close and personal

look at just how demanding life was in the mid-eighteen hundreds on

the US plains - even when living in a log cabin!).

Sure, some people are obese due to biochemcial imbalances. But I

suspect they are the exception, rather than the rule.

Most of the obesity and overfat problems in America today are due to

a constellation of causes; primary among them are a lifestyle which

encourages sloth and a dietary consumption which encourages over-

eating (primarily because of the TYPES of foods that are consumed).

Both of these " causes " are strongly encouraged by " Madison Aveue "

which " sells " both " escapist " activities (which do not require much

energy output) and dietary inclinations (foods which are highly

sugared or salted or loaded with fat, encouraging one to overeat).

How does one " wean " oneself off such a diet to a more healthful

one? There are many methods and some work with some of the people

some of the time. But none work with all the people all of the

time. It seems to be something of a crap shoot! It all boils down

to the primary question: How Does Change Happen? And we don't know

(if we did, we could " can " it, sell it, and be zillionaires!

Hahaha!!).

I know, personally, that my eating habits changed from a very

unhealthy diet to an optimal one in a period of exactly three days.

I literally trashed all my junk foods in a single evening: out went

all the cookies, candy, chips, ice cream, cakes -- virtually all

refined foods except for hard, dense, chewy bread, whole wheat

pasta, brown rice, etc......And I had been consuming the crappy food

for nearly 25 years (I have a notorious sweet tooth).

So " change " did happen here. But how? A decision was reached (in

the brain) and it contained a strong enough impulse to be carried

through into action. And that action (dispensing with the junk food

entirely) persists, up to today. Tomorrow? I have no idea! I may

revert back. I say that because there is no understanding of the

mechanism by which the decision (to change my diet) occurred.

I KNEW, for 25 years, that " supplementing " my healthy diet with all

that junk was not good for me. I *knew* it. However, regardless of

that knowing, I still continued to eat unhealthful foods. Why? Why

does one do something that one *knows* - intellectually - is not in

one's best interest? (Since I was an exercise junky also, I didn't

gain any weight, always burning off the " bad " calories, but of

course, they were doing damage internally even before being burned

up). My behavior pattern of 25 years of unhealthful eating was also

an apparent decision (made each time I popped something " naughty " in

my mouth). How did *that* happen? And how did it change? How does

any change happen?

~ andy

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