In this article, we are going to point out some of the changes that have occurred in the last 50 years in the manufacture of our vegetables and meat supply that we feel has made a large variation in our ability to lose or maintain our weight.

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None of the experts appear to have an answer. It may not be quite as complex as everyone seems to believe as to why we as a a people have gotten so overweight.

Could it be our problem with obesity has been hiding right in front of us all along? What has significantly changed in the last generation since we have been experiencing this epidemic with obesity? It takes thousands of years for our genetic DNA to develop, so basically, we are still the same people we were 50-100 years ago.

In the last 100 years, the major modification in our culture has been the change of our agrarian society into our industrialized culture. Farmers that had once farmed their own foods have moved to urban centers and now work in the factories. The food production shifted from the small farm to the mammoth Agribusiness.

Agricultural processes were changed to raise efficiency. In the 1930s an acre of corn yielded 50 bushels an acre. Crop rotation to maintain the quality of the soil was considered absolutely essential. Since the 1960s, corn yields of over 200 bushels per acre are now not that rare. These fantastic increases have been achieved at the expense of the minerals and other nutrients in the soil. Just because you have purchased an organic farm product, grown without the use of pesticides or chemical fertilizer, you are not guaranteed that the item has been farmed in soil whose nutrients and minerals have not been depleted.

Your body will have natural cravings for some of these individual nutrients as well as some of the minerals. It is quite imaginable that an individual might consume substantially more calories to satisfy these urges.

As you will see in the following information, the alteration in livestock production has some other very major complications.

The Change In The Livestock Production

The same types of modifications that occurred in produce production have happened in livestock production. These changes have been even more dangerous concerning obesity.

Previously, livestock was produced by permitting the animals to graze on free range. Today they are produced in the feed lot, being fed corn and other byproducts. The alteration in the beef quality is nothing short of amazing.

When the animals are deprived of their normal food and kept in rather unsanitary conditions, as you might suspect, they become quite ill. To preserve their health they are supplemented with large amounts of antibiotics. Livestock production consumes 70% of the world usage of antibiotics.

Unfortunately these antibiotics when consumed by the consumer, cause a radical change in ones digestive system.

In order to increase production, the animals are also supplemented with six different growth hormones. Great Britain and the European Union will not accept beef products from the United States because of the usage of these hormones.

These hormones have been specifically designed to cause rapid weight gain. When eaten by the consumer, you may rest assured it will do the same for you.

Both the antibiotics and the hormone usage will directly affect weight loss and gain.

These production methods have other dangerous health problems, but do not directly affect weight control, and will therefore not be explained any further.

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