The Real Reason You Can’t Lose Weight

Americans are lied to every day. It happens so much that we’ve become complacent about it.

One of the biggest lies comes from Big Agri, many so-called health experts, and even the government. They’re telling you that the obesity problem we have here in the United States is a result of eating too much and not exercising enough.

There’s a documentary that’s exposing the truth. And God willing, it may change lives for the better. If it doesn’t, the future health of our children looks pretty bleak.

The movie is “Fed Up.” And it explains why, for most people, simply cutting back on calories and exercising doesn’t work.

I have known this for more than 30 years. It goes back to the early days when I became a medical heretic. That was when it finally hit me that not only did medical school not teach me everything I needed to know — it taught me virtually nothing but how to diagnose what drugs my patients needed. Then I learned a simple fact. If I took my patients off sugar, strictly off sugar, most of them would get better. Wow! What a revelation. But here’s the problem.

It’s not so easy to get off sugar. Sure, you can stop adding it to your coffee and cereal. But that doesn’t get the job done. In fact, doing that is just a drop in the bucket. That’s because Big Agri has learned something. They have learned that adding sugar to foods makes them sell better. This has become such a problem that 80% of the food Americans eat contains added sugar. So, for most Americans, they don’t have to add sugar to their foods. It has already been done for them. And that’s not the only problem.

The other aspect of this is food processing. Take grains and potatoes, for example. As these foods become processed into flour, breakfast cereals, crackers, potato chips, and protein bars begin to have the same effects as sugar. So it’s not just about cutting added sugar out of the diet. You also have to cut out these heavily processed convenience/fast foods. And you have to read labels carefully.

Or, better yet, as I mention in my book Bursting With Energy, cut out foods with labels. That’s because Big Agri has learned how to disguise the sugar they put in foods. So they can label sugar as: barley malt, various syrups, cane juice crystals, caramel, dextran, dextrose, diastatic malt, diastase, ethyl maltol, fructose, fruit juice concentrate, galactose, honey, lactose, maltodextrin, maltose, panocha, sorbitol — the list goes on and on. For a full list, just search the Internet for “different names for sugar.”

So if you know someone you love who has a weight problem, especially a child, please watch this movie (it's streaming). Once their eyes are open to the truth, they can stop the useless practice of exercising to lose weight and watching every darn calorie they eat. What will give them real success is getting completely off the sugar train and onto fresh, whole foods that don’t come in packages.

Yours for better health,

Frank Shallenberger, MD