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OBESITY
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Who is and who isn’t fat?
When can we say that a person suffers from obesity? We can say it only if his weight is at least 20% over the standards according to his sex and height. For example, a woman that should weigh according to her height 55kg if she gets over 66kg then she is considered fat. It is estimated that in United States of America and in many European countries almost 50% of the population suffers from obesity and that is a very high percentage with a great impact on general health.
Why do we get fat?
But why do we get fat? Numerous researches have been conducted up to now. The main effort was to find the metabolic mechanism of obesity and block it. Medicines, produced to inhibit metabolic procedure, showed poor results and many side effects. Metabolism is a very complex, flexible and sensitive procedure and it is not so easy to be controlled.
Furthermore, metabolism seems to be the last level in a series of many levels of causes. Unbalanced Metabolism is the pathogenic mechanism of obesity and not the cause. Some other chemical drugs were and are used so as to prevent absorption of fatty acids from intestines by causing a kind of diarrhea. Being an unnatural procedure it causes many side effects because many other useful food substances like vitamins are not absorbed.
A second line of research examined inheritance. They found out that many fat parents have fat children. Serious doubts arise to whether this was due to inheritance or to the fact that these fat parents passed to their children their way of eating and living that lead to obesity. Furthermore, we know so little yet about genes and the procedure of inheritance that any drugs acting on such deep and complex level could be responsible for major or even inherited side effects.
Hypothyroidism can cause obesity due to low metabolism but only a few fat people do have hypothyroidism. Hormones like thyroxin were used to increase metabolism far more than normal rate so as “to burn fat tissue” but this affects the whole of the organism producing in a healthy man the artificial disease of hyperthyroidism thus causing severe side effects.
Other scientists support that obesity is an illness caused solely or mainly by our modern way of life: rich and junk food, unnatural and refined and full of chemicals food, lack of physical exercise, meaningless and anxious way of living driving us to eat etc.
“When the whole is sick you should cure the whole”
The truth is that obesity, like most illnesses, is after all a multifactor disorder. Man is not a machine consisting of isolated parts. Man is a psychosomatic whole. Apart from local slight injuries, in all other cases first suffers the whole and then parts. Disease comes from above down and from the whole to the parts. Local illnesses are parts of the general Disease (weakness) of the patient.
Any “fat man” lives usually in a certain society, in a modern society where consuming products is a way of life, so why not consume food also in quantities. Recreation often is synonymous to eating and preferably eating a lot! Consuming societies of today promote shopping therapy and eating therapy! Things get worse not only due to quantity but also due to bad quality of food: fast food, junk food, refined food, unnatural and unhealthy food, food full of chemicals and additives promising to give special colors and taste. Many fat persons usually forget thier anxiety and problems by eating. It is the cheapest, easiest, fastest and of course most delicious “therapy”.
So if we want to cure such a multifactor disease we have to treat all these social and psychological factors. No “magic pill” can save us from obesity if our life doesn’t change radically. We have to take care of our psychological balance, become more happy and joyous, change our relation with food, exercise more and get over our food passion. Greed is after all one of the “seven deathly sins”.
Homeopathic treatment and change of one’s life
We have to convince ourselves that never ever, science will produce the magic pill or the magic cream, the magic diet or the magic surgical operation for obesity. We are fat because of our actions. Homeopathic treatment treats the whole of the patient and promotes his psychological balance and his physical health and wellness. When you feel better you eat in a normal way. When your organism works better, your metabolism also works better and your hormonal system is more balanced.
Many patients were helped by homeopathic treatment so as to lose weight. The most successful cases were those who changed their way of life and their relation with food. There is a wise ancient Greek saying: “Goddess Athena will help you but you have to move your hand also!”