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Web Avatars: Erasmus and Kinkajou 
Erasmus : Why are we getting fat? Modern Medicine says obesity is due to "eating too much" or "exercising too little". What idiot could believe that this is all there is to this issue?
This set of pages is devoted to the issues of obesity or overweight. It is a common problem. Lots of people are forced to try to deal with it. Yet strangely, the medical model of understanding this condition gives little if any hope of easing the problem to most sufferers. If you are fat, you will stay fat. You can lose a bit of weight in the short term, if you really try hard.
Medicine says obesity is due to "eating too much" or "exercising too little". "This page looks at social trends in obesity, fast food purchasing growth, processed food, convenience food, celiac and, gluten free diets, gluten allergy and wheat allergy, Gluten intolerance may contribute substantially to many health problems in society such as Blood pressure changes, obesity, bowel disorders, Irritable bowel disease, psychiatric problems such as depression, dyslexia anxiety, schizophrenia, anorexia
Good nutrition can change the development of many symptoms and diseases .
Common supplements involved are vitamins, folate, B12, Essential Fatty Acids, Omega 3, Fish oil Capsules and even Krill oil.
The page discusses a new model of the cause of getting fat: symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment , doctors can change many aspects of the disease or illness.
Erasmus : Social trends, financial trends, and economic changes may contribute to the development of illness including obesity, in our society. Many factors like eating too much or exercising too little are blamed for weight gain. The Paill Spectrum model predicts that other dietary changes such as wheat grain usage, may share a disproportionate role in the genesis of problems.
Kinkajou: In Obesity: What Sort of Trends Have We Seen Erasmus : The most obvious social trend over the last 50 years is the move towards both parents in a family working, resulting also in the parents having less spare time to contribute to care for their families. Less time to spend in caring for your family means that family care and food preparation are both outsourced. There is an increased for family support services such as child care and after school care. Following this are changing family social structures, and a need for quick fast easy to prepare meals.
Kinkajou: What does this mean in terms of the development of obesity? Erasmus : Women work and are a lot less likely to make their husbands “lunch” to take to work. Lunch times at work are restricted which encourages workers to buy fast, perhaps “not so healthy” food. Alternately, many companies encourage the provision of food to staff on site: lunch trolleys or canteens. Typically, many of these types of meals are often "high fat" convenience foods. Therefore, lots of people are prompted by their circumstances to eat foods which are not healthy, or to eat foods which have poor nutritional value. Back To "Why are we Getting Fat?" Top
In the Paill Spectrum model, there is another hidden trend within these events. Wheat allergy, (non-coeliac grade), is an important risk factor, for the development of the PaillSpectrum Syndrome. So eating more wheat containing foods is likely to have significant consequences in the Paill Spectrum disease model.
Fast food often contains wheat. Pasta, pies, pasties, rolls; muffins are a big winner in the century’s eating stakes. People are eating more wheat-based snacks than ever before. This has significant implications to body nutrition and metabolism, in the Paill Spectrum model and also contributes to obesity. Fresh fruit and vegetables are the century’s losers in terms of the diet stakes. This trend is totally ignored in the standard medical model of understanding the development of obesity.
In the Paill Spectrum model, increased use of child and family care services, both parents being out in public and in contact with other people has implications to Paill Spectrum disease transmission. This trend is totally ignored in the standard medical model of understanding the development of obesity.
There are other tends in the last few decades as well. Back To "Why are we Getting Fat?" Top
After work, the food usage trends continue. Pasta, wheat deserts or pastries, biscuits, Lasagna, pizza, Burgers are another long-term diet stakes winners. Fruit and vegetables the probable losers.
Coupled with this trend is the increased use of “processed” convenience foods. Processed foods tend to have higher wheat content as well as altered vitamin and mineral levels. Lower folic acid and lower zinc are the two major nutritional problems arising, commonly from food processing. All these factors (Wheat, Folate and zinc deficiency) are critical to obesity development in the Paill Spectrum model. B12 levels are also important and will very likely fall over decades in patients who are eating a wheat containing diet, when they have even a mild wheat or gluten allergy. (not celiac).
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Erasmus : Other Trends:Women, when working, also are less likely to make their children’s lunches. In fact, many child care facilities often have a staff “chef” prepare food for the children, as so many parents are so often caught by time and unable to provide their children with lunch for child care. Similarly, many children at school may purchase their lunch from a school tuckshop. Again, the wheat-based snacks are often used due to the convenience and ease of preparation of this food group.
Women’s higher earnings also encourage increased discretionary spending, i.e. more easier food is purchased, rather than prepared. Higher discretionary spending means that kids demand to get more food treats and in fact get more food treats.
Children once upon a time would receive a treat if they went shopping with their mum, perhaps once a week. Finances were tighter once upon a time. In today's world, of both parents often working; money rich and time poor parents, different food consumption habits appear. Now we see that kids demand almost a daily treat. In fact, much of what gets into the average lunch box daily, would once have been regarded as a treat or snack or dessert. Children also now often take snack-packed drinks to school, were once the accepted standard was that everyone would drink only tap water , (not snack packed drinks), when they were thirsty. Back To "Why are we Getting Fat?" Top
Kinkajou: So there are lots of reasons why as a population, weight gain and obesity are becoming more common. Erasmus : I have already mentioned that the Paill Spectrum model predicts that wheat intake in low grade allergic patients (non-Celiac) has important consequences on how the body works, stores fat and burns energy. See the Obesity section in this web site.
The Paill Spectrum model of disease as pioneered by Dr. Xxxxx makes other predictions as well.
Children being exposed to childcare from an early age, makes the average age of infection with the Paill Spectrum organism much lower. Problems usually found only largely in older people, such as obesity are going to become much more common in younger kids on average than ever before. Similarly problems such as and severe developmental and learning problems are going to become much more common in younger kids on average than ever before. Finally even childhood psychiatric problems will show a trend towards increased prevalence. Back To "Why are we Getting Fat ?" Top
Coffee and tea are good for you. Again in the Obesity web site section, there is a discussion of the favorable metabolic affects of this class of medications/ foods on our metabolism and to the underlying mechanism of fat storage in obesity.
Food additives may have a number of unpredicted, unexpected and potentially harmful consequences. The Paill Spectrum model would predict that the effect of food additives on Cell Mediated Immunity is the critical factor. For example, one sweetener sucrallose has potential CMI suppressing effects. Whether this is important at typical doses and typical intakes needs to be determined. Certainly, many parents have discovered the unfavourable effects of mould inhibitor (additive code 282) on their children’s behaviour, (where ADD or similar symptoms are suspected). Back To Top Again, this "unusual" observation fits well with the PaillSpectrum disease model due to the metabolic effects of 282.
Paill Spectrum causes behaviour changes and tiredness. People just have to stop doing things; have to stop being busy and will often stop exercising. They just feel that they do not have the energy to do what they used to do.
Wheat based snacks and processed foods are frequent winners in the convenience stakes. Nutrition especially B12, Folate and zinc intakes are possible losers in the nutritional stakes.
Coupled with these trends is the effect on lifestyle. Parents are time poor. Ritual meal times become a little more difficult, so people graze more often. Again the convenience and ease of preparation of wheat based foods and snacks make them a winner in the diet stakes. Whether it is just an extra slice of toast, a few "bikkies" (biscuits in Australian parlance), pastries or proper meal foods such as pasta or lasagna, wheat tends to be consumed more and more often. For wheat allergic people, grazing has substantial consequences in the Paill Spectrum model. Grazing as a habit, versus formalized meals tends to encourage overeating, so people lose with time poor lifestyles in a number of ways that badly affect their nutrition. Back To "Why are we Getting Fat?" Top
It all comes down to choices.
You can get into just as much trouble with food choices,
as you can with the more expensive choices.
Erasmus : More Trends:
Fast food is fat food. Certainly we are getting very lazy about getting our food. The success of ideas like the MacDonald’s drive through means that people don’t have to even get out of their car, to get their meal. I think most of us are familiar with the “Super-Size Me” syndrome. Obesity is of course a logical consequence or fast food and our laziness in obtaining it. Eat too much and you will gain weight. Most of us are aware of the “Super Size Me” trap, so eating too much is often not a real consideration or concern for many of us. There are also lots of people who eat 1500 calories a day and still can’t lose the weight. So obesity is not just due to eating too much.
People who work all day like to relax a bit more at times. In the old days for women at home, busy all day with children, there is no rest time and no time off. Before the advent of labour saving initiatives: kitchen appliances, take-aways, washing machines, cars, life for women was often a never ending miasma of work, never ending in the quest to just keep their large families going. Once upon a time many people did not drive. I can remember in my childhood, one of the mothers in the school drove down to school to pick up her child (in fact she was the only mother who drove down to pick up her kid). We all thought there was something wrong with the child. Everyone else and their mothers, walked to and from school. Nowadays, everyone drives and picks up their kids after school. Children are rarely even allowed to walk home from school. Parents rarely even get out of their cars when picking up the kids. This creates an environment of "Less Energy Usage", leading to more obesity as a result. Back To "Why are we Getting Fat?" Top
The advent of TV and especially computers makes it very easy for both parents and children to spend long periods of time being fairly physically inactive. Again if you burn less calories, more weight gain is likely and obesity is likely to result.
So there are lots of reasons why as a population, weight gain and obesity are becoming more common.
Kinkajou: Is there another Paill Spectrum perspective to this problem?
Erasmus : Paill Spectrum causes hypoglycemia and hunger. Low sugar reserves coupled with the inherent difficulties faced by our bodies in mobilizing energy reserves from fat, means that we tend to seek relief of our hunger or cravings, with carbohydrate foods. Paill Spectrum in short, makes people eat more, especially eating more carbohydrate containing foods. Paill Spectrum through its action on the sympathetic nervous system in creating insulin resistance, may well drive the trend to store fat, inevitably encouraging obesity.
This could explain the popularity of some diets. It may well be that high protein / low carb diets, avoid some of these cravings for carbohydrates. This may help to lead to weight loss, in people on this (high protein, low carb) diet. Back To Why are we Getting Fat?" Top
Erasmus : Other Paill Spectrum trends and Predictions:Our use of air conditioners to create cooler microclimates to live in, may not be to our long-term benefits. Paill Spectrum is generally thermophobic. It does cope reasonably well with heat, but its spread is restricted by the presence of heat and warmth. There may be consequences to using an air conditioner to create cold microclimate over years.
In Summary, if the Paill Spectrum syndrome becomes worse in people exposed to cold environments, it is likely that PaillSpectrum related problems will become worse as well.
Delicious Food! But Fresh or Canned?
Kinkajou: Current thinking about obesity states that either
You are too fat because you eat too much or
You are too fat because you exercise too little.
The truth of these statements is of course self–evident.
Many people have expressed unhappiness with the ability of modern medicine
to control the problem of obesity.
So why doesn't the medical model of obesity that doctors use today,
succeed in helping people?
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Erasmus : Dr. Xxxxx holds a different opinion to this "simple" model.
Obesity is a disease of fat storage. A person who is fat, is too fat because they store too much fat.
The truth of this “model” is also self evident, but thinking in terms of this model allows some very different conclusions to be reached in thinking about the root causes of obesity.
It is this last explanation that opens up whole new concepts in the genesis of the condition of obesity. Dr. Xxxxx relates that many patients state that they do not understand how they can become fat, when they really felt that they were not eating any more food, than they used to. “Nothing has changed for me in my life. So, why am I fat?"
DR Xxxxx : The Paill Spectrum Model on Obesity Genesis
Obesity is a disease of fat storage. A person who is fat, is too fat because they store too much fat. The truth of this “model” is also self evident, but thinking in terms of this model allows some very different conclusions to be reached in thinking about the root causes of obesity.
It is this last explanation that opens up completely new concepts in the genesis of the condition of obesity. Dr. Xxxxx relates that many patients state that they do not understand how they can become fat, when they really felt that they were not eating any more food, than they used to. “Nothing has changed for me in my life. So, why am I fat?" Back To "Why are we Getting Fat" Top
Erasmus : "Medicine says obesity is due to “eating too much” or “exercising too little”. A simple equation but only sadistic dieters and sadistic exercisers ever seem to be able to lose weight in the long term. The medical model of understanding obesity gives little if any hope of easing the problem to most sufferers. If you are fat, you will stay fat. You can lose a bit of weight in the short term, if you really try hard.
Erasmus : The Paill Spectrum model proposes that one of the main underlying mechanisms of obesity is the development of abnormal fat storage. Paill affects insulin resistance resulting in increased fat storage. This increases hunger. Paill damages brain tissue and it is a short leap of understanding to make to realise that Paill may damage the body’s homeostatic mechanism controlling weight via a brain injury.
Paill causes tiredness. Paill directly or indirectly is one of the factors changing metabolic hormonal systems affecting basal metabolic rate. These can result in weight gain.
Paill causes tiredness. This leads to a change in behaviour that reduces basal metabolic rate and results increases in body weight.
Erasmus : Other mechanisms also play a role in the development of obesity.
Paill Spectrum model proposes new alternative treatments for the key agent in the damage that starts off the obesity cascade.
Kinkajou: Too much of what we see commonly day to day is accepted as normal or a consequence of the age.For More Clinical Information: See :>>
Erasmus : In summary, there are many trends that affect the development of obesity. Many of us eat fewer calories, but we are also much less physically active. So we still eat more calories than we burn, helping us to gain weight. Many of us eat more convenience foods that are fatty, and are limited by circumstances as to how we look after our nutrition. The definition of what is "good food", and what is "bad food" may need to consider what types of food may affect the progression of the Paill Spectrum syndrome. If Paill Spectrum worsens, bodies begin to store fat due to the metabolic changes initiated by PaillSpectrum.
Moreover, amidst it all, the standard medical model that explains how obesity arises, simply does not work. Paill Spectrum may well be the missing element in our understanding of this condition (obesity). Some of the causative or contributory factors to obesity development predicted by this model are very different indeed to our usual way of looking at things.
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Erasmus : Being very fat or even obese is a very difficult condition to treat.
Many people will lose weight if they diet or exercise and an entire industry has grown up around helping people to lose weight. Doctors will often quote figures that underline the difficulty of treating overweight people. The long-term outlook for weight loss is very grim. At 5 years after starting a weight loss programme, only 5% of people who have set themselves a goal of losing weight, have successfully lost and kept that weight off. i.e. People can and do lose weight, but in the long term it is very very difficult to stop that weight from coming back. I
A patient who has a sinus infection has an 80-90% chance of being successfully treated by a doctor with all the symptoms and signs of illness going away. A patient with an asthma attack has a 90 - 95% chance of being treated for this condition and of having all the symptoms and signs of their illness going away. Even a patient with serious problems such as a patient with a heart attack or angina, has a very good chance of being treated for this condition and of being medically helped in terms of symptoms or signs of their illness. Back To "Why are we Getting Fat"? Top
Looking at these examples, it becomes obvious that doctors probably understand these illnesses very well. Doctors have a model of how these illnesses work inside their head. Using this model, they can predict what medicines need to be used, for how long, to what extent these medications will work and so can improve the symptoms and signs of illness in most of these patients.
Most cancers have a 50% or better chance of surviving 5 years, while even really malignant and aggressive cancerous tumours have a 20% chance of surviving 5 years.
So even in these conditions, where often there is no curative treatment, doctors and medicines don’t do too badly at all. The models that doctors use to understand these conditions, work reasonably well.
Overweight people in the short term anyway, do not die of their condition. However, just in terms of pure statistics, even an unlucky cancer patient, on average has a better chance of living through their cancer, than the average obese person has of losing and maintaining their weight loss at the end of 5 years. So, the question needs to be asked. Is there something wrong about the way we are looking at the problem of weight gain and obesity? Back To "Why are we Getting Fat?" Top
Kinkajou : Strangely, for obesity, doctors have less chance of helping a weight or obesity problem than they do of helping even a patient with a malignant aggressive cancer. What this says is that the model that doctors have of how a disease like obesity works, does not work
Current thinking about obesity states that either
The truth of these statements is of course self–evident.
Most of what we understand about obesity is based on years of experience of how our world works. There are obviously trends in how people live, that are changing the patterns of weight gain and obesity throughout the world. Researchers have shown that in the modern day, we are all eating fewer calories now than we ever have. However, we are exercising apparently even less and less, than ever before. So we are tending to "eat" more calories than we are "burning" up. These excess calories are stored as fat.
These factors are still relevant, but there are obviously some missing factors that make the standard medical model of obesity wrong. There are many people who are obsessive enough to count their calories, measure their fat intake and quantify their level of exercise. They all complain bitterly that they are still gaining weight. Yes, they are eating less. Yes, they are doing more exercise than ever before. But, they are still gaining weight.
There is obviously something missing in the standard model, to explain these people's observations. This missing factor changes our ability to predict the effect of dietary and exercise treatments. So we notice that people who eat less and exercise more, still don't lose weight. We cannot use the standard medical model of weight loss / weight gain to predict what will happen if we make people eat less or exercise more. Back To "Why are we Getting Fat?" Top 
Obesity is obviously a problem with many factors contributing to its development over decades. So perhaps obesity is related to something that has changed in terms of eating too much or exercising too little in the last few decades.
The key missing factor in our understanding of obesity is that our bodies "store" fat. If the body is geared up to store fat, exercising more or eating less, just does not make any difference to the independent body function of "storing" calories, whether they are excess calories or not.
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Erasmus : Modern Medicine says obesity is due to "eating too much" or "exercising too little". What idiot could believe that this is all there is to this issue?
This set of pages is devoted to the issues of obesity or overweight. It is a common problem. Lots of people are forced to try to deal with it. Yet strangely, the medical model of understanding this condition gives little if any hope of easing the problem to most sufferers. If you are fat, you will stay fat. You can lose a bit of weight in the short term, if you really try hard.
Medicine says obesity is due to "eating too much" or "exercising too little". "This page looks at social trends in obesity, fast food purchasing growth, processed food, convenience food, celiac and, gluten free diets, gluten allergy and wheat allergy, Gluten intolerance may contribute substantially to many health problems in society such as Blood pressure changes, obesity, bowel disorders, Irritable bowel disease, psychiatric problems such as depression, dyslexia anxiety, schizophrenia, anorexia
Good nutrition can change the development of many symptoms and diseases . Common supplements involved are vitamins, folate, B12, Essential Fatty Acids, Omega 3, Fish oil Capsules and even Krill oil.
The page discusses a new model of the cause of getting fat: symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment , doctors can change many aspects of the disease or illness.
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Erasmus : Why are we getting fat seems like a rhetorical question. A question that needs no answer. However, there is an increasingly obvious point of view that states : "The body is a biomechanical machine. Changes in behaviour or function are due to chages in structure and function of teh indicvidual cellular machines that make up that body.
Biomachines like human beings are incredibly complex. Currently , though we understand that DNA codes for proteins and enzymes and other intracellular structure, we have very little idea of the programming and control sequences that enable our internal mechanisms to function.
Kinkajou: If I follow what you are saying, in the case of getting fat, there must be a breakdown in the structure and function of the body to enable "fatness" to happen.
Erasmus : Exactly! Everything happens for a reason. There is no magic. There is no Act of God in engendering the decay and degeneration of our bodies. The Paill Spcetrum model suggests that many things that happen such as "fatness", can be altered through medical treatment.