Extra care for fat mothers is 'a burden on the NHS' claims Centre for Food, Physical Activity and Obesity Research at the University of Teesside.

Extra care for fat mothers 'a burden on NHS' - article in theDaily Telegraph

Extracts:

"Sixteen maternity units in the North East were studied and the authors, from the Centre for Food, Physical Activity and Obesity Research at the University of Teesside, published their results in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology."

"The research examines the impact on service delivery in the NHS rather than the effects of obesity on pregnant women."

The solution to this problem is for the NHS and its healthcare staff and for government agencies to correct the dangerous and harmful advice given to obese people that it is necessary to reduce calorie intake in order to lose excess weight. - This advice is unsupported by evidence and has never even been tested! - The constantly reiterated assertion that obesity is caused by overeating and/or inactivity is a false assumption.

Adult obesity, in adults who were previously slim, is usually caused by salt sensitivity and fluid retention, exacerbated by the flawed 'expert' advice that calorie restriction is necessary in order to lose weight. (Child obesity is almost always caused by eating salt and salty food. Fat children will grow up to be fat adults unless they stop eating salty food.) You do NOT need to restrict calories to lose excess weight! - You need to eat less salt/sodium.

Salt sensitivity is often caused either by taking prescribed medications that cause sodium retention, and not being warned to avoid eating salt while taking these drugs, or by pregnancy, and not being warned to avoid eating salt while pregnant. Obesity is caused by the wrong information being given to people.

All obesity, whether in children or adults, is accompanied by increased appetite/hunger - the reason for which should be glaringly obvious! - A bigger, heavier body requires more calories/energy to move it around and to service it. And a bigger body has a greater surface area from which to lose heat, so for this second reason also it requires extra calories. And since all obesity uses up so many calories and also makes the body so ungainly and uncomfortable, obese people do not usually feel like taking much exercise. - Their inactivity is the consequence of the excess weight and not the cause of it.

The overeating/underactivity explanation for the cause of obesity, and all the associated explanations dependant upon it, are not supported by EVIDENCE. - The calorie myth is just that: a myth.

OBESITY IS CAUSED BY FLUID RETENTION, NOT BY OVEREATING AND/OR BY INACTIVITY. THE BEST, THE SAFEST, THE FASTEST WAY TO REDUCE OBESITY IS TO CUT DOWN DRASTICALLY ON SALT INTAKE, AND TO EAT PLENTY OF FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES - AND COMPLETELY ABANDON CALORIE RESTRICTION BECAUSE THIS IS A RED HERRING.

Here is an extract from my webpage http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/story.html:

"Calorie counting and advice about increasing exercise and reducing fat and carbohydrate intake to reduce obesity are ineffective, counter-productive and often damaging. - See the article in the British Medical Journal of November 2003 BMJ article for actual research on what happens when this advice is followed! - Over 800 obese adults were put on energy deficit diets, given diet sheets and plenty of instruction and help from trained staff, and apparently, visited fortnightly for a year, at the end of which they had GAINED weight! This mirrors the real experience of obese people, viz. - dieting makes you fat.

It is commonly accepted now, except by the 'experts', that less than 5% of dieters actually lose weight, and most gain weight as a result of dieting. - Even the ones who manage to lose weight do not usually improve their health. - See Guardian article for a report in The Guardian of Monday, June 27th 2005. It is about a huge research study of nearly 3000 people over a period of 18 years. The study found that overweight people who diet to reach a healthier weight are more likely to die young than those who remain fat. It also found that dieting causes physiological damage that in the long term can outweigh the benefits of the weight loss.

Contributing to the increase in obesity we have the widespread prescribing of steroids and HRT and other drugs which cause weight gain, and the failure of doctors to adhere to the protocols connected with the prescribing and monitoring of steroids. But pre-eminent, in my opinion, is the catastrophically damaging calorie-reduction advice that continues to be given despite such a wealth of evidence that it is bad advice.

Another possible factor is the increase in the amount of oestrogen in the water table."

All that is normally necessary to lose excess weight is to eat less salt, i.e. to reduce one's sodium intake, and to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables.

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it!
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