Racism Has Nothing To Do With Being Fat

So, a black professor of gender studies at Rutgers University has claimed, according to Fox News, that black women are disproportionately fat because of racism.

Wait...What?

Now, I'm a sixty something white male who has had to battle the bulge all my life, and I can tell this professor of "gender studies" which isn't actually a thing, that the reason she and a disproportionate number of others of all races are fat is because of what they stuff in their mouths.  The "epidemic" of obesity that is plaguing the United States has everything to do with the diet most of us eat, and nothing to do with racism.

For many years I was on the Atkins diet and its variations such as the Protein Power diet. There's also the paleo diet. What these diets have in common is that they are supposedly "ketogenic." Ketones are the results of the breakdown of fats into smaller units that your body can use for energy. Your brain especially likes to use ketones above all other sources of energy. These diets work in theory, up to a point.  But they usually stop working before you get down to your goal weight.  Why this happens is the "rest of the story" below.

The problem with these so called ketogenic diets is that they all share the fear of fats with which we have all been indoctrinated.  The Protein Power diet should have been called the "Eat Fat and Lose" diet.  That's the first thing.  But not all fats are good for you.  Vegetable oils sch as corn oil and peanut oil are a no no.  On the other hand, you should eat plenty of olive oil, coconut oil, medium chain triglycerides (MCT) oil and ghee.  In fact, Dr. Steven Gundry (see below) says that the main purpose of eating anything is to get as much olive oil in your mouth as you can.

Your body can either run on glucose, or it can run on fats.  Your body can store about 24 hours worth of glucose, at which time if it doesn't get more food, it must switch over to burning fats.  The fats that it burns, of course are stored on your body, and you have easily a weeks worth or more.  Indeed, eating quality fats is key to getting into ketosis and staying there.  But once in ketosis, your hunger subsides, and you find you don't need as much food as you thought you did. 

The other thing is that you can, and should eat a lot of vegetables and even some carbohydrates.  The plants you should be eating include a variety of vegetables such as lettuce, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, as well as more esoteric vegetables such as fennel.  On the other hand, you shouldn't eat grain and grain products such as bread, corn bread, cereals, including oatmeal.  Nor should you eat fruits except in season, and then only in very limited amounts.  Oh, and none of the nightshade family, which includes regular potatoes, and tomatoes.

The breakthrough for me came when I read a book by Dr.Steven Gundry entitled The Plant Paradox. Gundry claims to have found the answers. I suspect he has found maybe 90% of the answer to obesity. But that 90% means after all these years, I have lost 62 pounds and counting. More important, I have especially lost fat in the intestinal area.

The secret that Gundry discovered was the effect of lectins.  Lectins are the plant kingdoms form of chemical warfare.  Lectins are the way plants protect themselves and more especially their seeds from being eaten.  Lectins cause havoc in the human gut, causing "leaky gut," and limiting absorption of nutrients.  Taken with eating grains, which have a high lectin load of their own, and the meats we typically eat being fed grains as well, it's no wonder we are all getting fatter and fatter.  Then there is the fact that insulin has the function of storing fat when the cells in your body when the cells in the body are already full of glucose.

So, there you have it.  Eat more quality fats, eat more of the types of vegetables that contain less lectins, eat less meats, and get rid of processed foods.  Racism has nothing to do with it.