The Government's Answer to Obesity: Tax Sugary Soda

    DEMING, NM, August 14, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Obesity is continuing to swell at an alarming rate in America today. Never in the history of the human race has it been so high. The percentage of people that are overweight or obese is over 67% and rising. It is the number one medical issue today, costing a staggering $147 billion a year in health related illnesses. We must do something now or the next generation will be the first in America to live a shorter life than their parents.

What is the government's answer to this crisis? Hit the consumer in the pocket book with taxes, of course. The head of the Center for Disease Control, Dr. Thomas Frieden, proposes that we tax sugary soda. This, according to him and other health experts, would generate funds to fight the obesity epidemic and would cut the consumption. It would reportedly cut obesity by 3% a year.

Cutting excessive sugar intake is a healthier choice but that alone does not target the cause of obesity. Dr. Simeons, a researcher in the 1940's and 1950's, concluded that obesity was a disease. Specifically, it is a disease caused by a damaged hypothalamus glad in the brain. The hypothalamus controls fat storage, metabolism, and hunger. When it becomes damaged the body will store abnormal fat instead of burning it. In turn this cause a person to crave more and more food which is not used but stored in fat reserves that are never accessed. The cycle continues until obesity occurs.

What causes the hypothalamus to become damaged? A more modern researcher, Dr. Blaylock, found startling evidence that the hypothalamus can be damaged by aspartame, the artificial sweetener used in most diet soft drinks. Aspartame is an excitotoxin that causes the nerves in the brain to become energized. Nerves need to be stimulated for normal functioning of the brain but the excitotoxins will not allow the nerves to shut down. If nerves cells remain excited they will die. The death of the nerve cells will cause hypothalamic lesions. So, taxing sugary sodas only worsens the problem because people will buy diet sodas that contain aspartame which damages the hypothalamus thereby increasing obesity.

The only answer to the obesity issue today is to heal the hypothalamus. The only way to heal the hypothalamus, according to Dr. Simeons, is with the hormone, hCG. This hormone works exclusively on the hypothalamus to heal the lesions. This allows the abnormal fat to be released so that normal weight loss can occur.

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