Recently my family escaped the Northwest, and spent a few days in Disneyland for a vacation. What stood out to me was how the number of motorized scooters used in the park has increased since our last visit.
The access this provides to the lame and injured is truly wonderful. Being given the ability to enjoy the activities the rest of us take for granted is a blessing indeed.
What greatly does concern me, is seeing entire families, dependent on these motorized conveyances due to extreme obesity.
After our first night in the park, before turning in, I turned on the TV in our motel, and the Pixar movie Wall-E was on. The movie is centered around an obese generation that haven’t walked, and are all dependent on mechanical assistance to function. Their life is filled with laying around, watching TV and sucking down large amounts of calories without burning any of them.
The very next day, after dropping the family off at the park I saw a husband and wife, both on scooters, their bulging bodies spilling over the sides of the seats, as they motored their way down the sidewalk to the park. How coincidental after watching a cartoon that depicted this very condition.
The vision was heartbreaking. With both adults exhibiting the same degree of obesity, and inability to function apart of their motorized conveyances, It’s not too hard to connect the dots. The foundation of their poor health has to be their lifestyle.
Watching people push grocery carts, void of nutrition, and filled with non-foods, makes me cringe. Health care in our country can’t keep up with the damage these fake, non-nutritious food impersonators are creating.
One of the greatest sources of damage is the massive use of antibiotics employed in the raising of most of the protein sources we eat. These antibiotics are used to increase the body weight of animals. It’s not so much about preventing disease.
These antibiotics, both in our food supply, and routinely administered to our families, when there are better alternatives, upsets the function of our fragile microbiome. This microbiome is that living entity which maintains our health and vitality.
When this happens, digestion and metabolism become seriously altered, resulting in much of the obesity we see in our population. There’s more and more research on small intestine bacterial overgrowth, and the many problems this is causing. When the normal healthy environment is altered, we get to see changes that can set various imbalances in motion. If the damage antibiotics does to animals, causing weight gain, what about us?
When energy can’t be obtained from good foods due to digestive malfunction, cravings for refined, easily absorbed starches results. When this happens, the normal, healthy balance can’t be reclaimed without proper intervention. Appropriate nutrition to kill the wrong bacteria needs to be employed while seeding the gut with the right bacteria allowing for better nutritional absorption and improved metabolism.
Lifestyle changes must be followed to not continue feeding the wrong bacteria. (If you feed a stray dog, you’ll have a tough time getting rid of it). Properly fermented foods can assist in restoring gut flora, while consuming unrefined foods, free from the damaging chemicals found in GMO and chemically raised foods.
Increasing activity to the degree the body can handle it, is a must. relying on comfort foods and inactivity leads to greater and greater deterioration of health.
My heart’s desire, for these people, trapped in their disability, was to clean up their gut, restore their natural micro-flora, and educate them on proper nutrition. The question remains, would they listen, and would they desire good health enough to follow through.
The access this provides to the lame and injured is truly wonderful. Being given the ability to enjoy the activities the rest of us take for granted is a blessing indeed.
What greatly does concern me, is seeing entire families, dependent on these motorized conveyances due to extreme obesity.
After our first night in the park, before turning in, I turned on the TV in our motel, and the Pixar movie Wall-E was on. The movie is centered around an obese generation that haven’t walked, and are all dependent on mechanical assistance to function. Their life is filled with laying around, watching TV and sucking down large amounts of calories without burning any of them.
The very next day, after dropping the family off at the park I saw a husband and wife, both on scooters, their bulging bodies spilling over the sides of the seats, as they motored their way down the sidewalk to the park. How coincidental after watching a cartoon that depicted this very condition.
The vision was heartbreaking. With both adults exhibiting the same degree of obesity, and inability to function apart of their motorized conveyances, It’s not too hard to connect the dots. The foundation of their poor health has to be their lifestyle.
Watching people push grocery carts, void of nutrition, and filled with non-foods, makes me cringe. Health care in our country can’t keep up with the damage these fake, non-nutritious food impersonators are creating.
One of the greatest sources of damage is the massive use of antibiotics employed in the raising of most of the protein sources we eat. These antibiotics are used to increase the body weight of animals. It’s not so much about preventing disease.
These antibiotics, both in our food supply, and routinely administered to our families, when there are better alternatives, upsets the function of our fragile microbiome. This microbiome is that living entity which maintains our health and vitality.
When this happens, digestion and metabolism become seriously altered, resulting in much of the obesity we see in our population. There’s more and more research on small intestine bacterial overgrowth, and the many problems this is causing. When the normal healthy environment is altered, we get to see changes that can set various imbalances in motion. If the damage antibiotics does to animals, causing weight gain, what about us?
When energy can’t be obtained from good foods due to digestive malfunction, cravings for refined, easily absorbed starches results. When this happens, the normal, healthy balance can’t be reclaimed without proper intervention. Appropriate nutrition to kill the wrong bacteria needs to be employed while seeding the gut with the right bacteria allowing for better nutritional absorption and improved metabolism.
Lifestyle changes must be followed to not continue feeding the wrong bacteria. (If you feed a stray dog, you’ll have a tough time getting rid of it). Properly fermented foods can assist in restoring gut flora, while consuming unrefined foods, free from the damaging chemicals found in GMO and chemically raised foods.
Increasing activity to the degree the body can handle it, is a must. relying on comfort foods and inactivity leads to greater and greater deterioration of health.
My heart’s desire, for these people, trapped in their disability, was to clean up their gut, restore their natural micro-flora, and educate them on proper nutrition. The question remains, would they listen, and would they desire good health enough to follow through.
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