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Re: Is Obesity a Sin?
Hey just jumping in here. I just joined AFF.
God has really been dealing w/me about food and nutrition for the last few months. The picture that is emerging is not so much a case of individuals being gluttonous but rather a nation trapped in an agricultural-industrial system that is inherently unhealthy and disease promoting.
Obesity has NOT been widespread throughout history. It's a recent phenomenon linked to a 'standard American diet' based on cheap, highly processed foods and heavy on meat and animal products. All of which is based on a system of massive government subsidies of corn, soy, wheat, etc. created during the Nixon Administration.
Massive amounts of these crops are grown and either fed to factory farmed animals (who are engineered to eat grass and get sick on the grain, necessitating tons of antibiotics) or run through complex chemical processes which create a variety of artificial additives like high fructose corn syrup. This stuff forms a cheap base for junk and processed food.
God never intended the human body to to thrive on ho ho's, big macs, coca cola, cheetos, wonder bread and Little Debbie's, MSG, chemicals you can't pronounce, genetically modified soybeans that can tolerate Monsanto Roundup poison (blah blah blah).
Anyway I could go on forever but Michael Pollan's book An Omnivore's Dilemma does a pretty good job of spelling it out. I've also heard that the documentary "Food, Inc" is a good intro. If God didn't make it, don't eat it.
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