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From the response I've got on one of my comments on Queen Simply Be I realise that my rantings and posts might not always make it clear what my opinion is on overeating and obesity or how The Food Philosophy works (and it does work). This might be partly my fault because I'm not expressing myself well, but I think at least 50 per cent of the fault lies in the fact that the general opinion about this stuff is derived from media-led hearsay which is taken to be medical and scientific fact.
People have a very strong opinion on obesity. Even those who have no connection with it have an evangelical passion about its causes, who is to blame and how it should be dealt with.
Isn't that really weird?
What's even weirder is that the passionate zeal for an opinion on obesity is usually whipped up within the individual from the same source as the information about who is to blame and what causes obesity AS WELL AS the advice on how to 'cure' it!
Putting the obvious diet industry influence over the media to one side, if this were any other subject, wouldn't a person be required to at least refer to a few independent sources or collect some official medical and scientific evidence to back up their strong theories and opinions? Not so with obesity. You can buy a magazine or a tabloid newspaper and that's all the information you need to hold a strong opinion about what causes obesity and whose fault it is. Oh, yes. And you won't be swayed or argued with because you're RIGHT! The evidence is there in black and white.
All of these evangelists obviously believe everything else they read in the papers too. No? Oh.
Anyway, that's besides the point, what I was originally saying was that my own opinions and how The Food Philosophy works might be hard to grasp or easily misunderstood BECAUSE of this media-led 'education' of the population on the subject of obesity. But if you forget everything you think you know, look at where you've got your 'facts' from, question the source and question the facts, and then read on with that thing that is as rare in our current society as a chestful of pirates' treasure: An Open Mind, you might be able to see the little spark of truth twinkling there within the confusion and you might decide to look into it by going to sources other than the media to help yourself to form an opinion on this subject that you feel so strongly about.
So what is my opinion?
That obesity is not the cause of anything. Obesity is a symptom of compulsive overeating. Compulsive overeating is not a life choice, it is an unconscious survival response to the conscious restriction of food.
Dieting is the direct cause of the 'obesity epidemic'.
How does The Food Philosophy work?
By showing women that the more they try to 'cut down' using outside advice about what and how much to eat, the more their survival drive to overeat will kick in and the more they will be driven to overeat. I tell them exactly how and why this happens (including how the human brain works). I tell them what psychological factors set them up to fail at taking control over food. They then use the tools and exercises, along with this new information, and they change their thinking. I teach them how to take responsibility for their own choices. The end result is that they have a control over food that they didn't have before.
The Food Philosophy IS contraversial and its very different to anything else out there, but isn't that a good thing?
Sue
