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What does it mean to be over-weight?

If you are like most people, you think of being over your ideal weight as just an excess of body fat that is unsightly and inconvenient. That is only partly true. Just like your own name, the term over-weight should mean much more to you than unwanted pounds of flab.

Your personal name – given and sur-names say a lot about you – together they’re the key to your financial, career, medical and physical histories thus far. You are your name and your name is you. There’s a lot wrapped up in your name.

The term “over-weight” when applied to you personally should be thought of in a similar fashion. It means that your body and every cell it’s composed of, is degenerating at a premature, accelerated but still reversible pace unless you have advanced to the stage where you are terminally ill. The extra weight you see in the mirror is essentially the tip of a physiological iceberg that is desperately trying to tell you something about yourself that you need to know – starting with the obvious – your eating and drinking habits are self destructive and can lead to your premature demise. This after the medical profession uses you as an income generating lab rat for as long as they can keep you going without actually helping you heal yourself.

There is no money in actually helping an over-weight person beat their affliction. That's why doctors never discuss fasting with you - fasting helps you heal but there is no way to charge for the information and if you heal, you are lost to the medical and pharmaceutical profession as an income stream.

If you are a nutritionist and fitness instructor rolled into one, the message your mirror is relaying to your brain is probably enough to put you back on track to optimal health. If you aren’t a nutritionist/fitness instructor, chances are the extra weight is nearly meaningless until it starts interfering with your quality of life.

Lots of diet professionals realize this and a huge industry has grown based on the general public’s lack of understanding and training about how to maintain good health, fitness and weight. As you might expect, they're all in business to take our money as quickly as possible. There are lots of ways to strip weight off a person and money out of a bank account using dietary techniques that range from the Marshmellow Diet to Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig without using a weapon. For the vast majority of participants in weight loss programs, the weight loss is temporary and the damage done to your body at the cellular level is very nearly permanent.

Diets focus on what you consume, when you consume and how much you consume while ignoring the fundamental differences between mucus forming and mucus free foods. Some programs include exercise as well. But none of them deal properly with the process of elimination – bowel movements - in combination with all of the other factors.

That’s why going on a diet to lose weight doesn’t work for most people. Diets by themselves can’t help your body repair the damage you’ve done and the dependencies you’ve created by consuming what we call the “Western Diet”.

All foods and beverages including water carry a degree of risk if ingested in excessive amounts. Our bodies require variety in balance, proper quantities and good timing. When we indulge to excess, we take risks that impose health penalties or injuries that, over time, become a community of interrelated injuries. We call these injuries “diseases” as a way of avoiding accountability for poor nutritional choices. Some of these “diseases” have so afflicted past generations that within families, genetic predispositions have developed that make those people more susceptible to having their ancestral dietary injuries re-emerge in the present.

Although we tend to think of ourselves as separate and autonomous individuals; genetically, we are recombinant forms of a constantly evolving genetic code that repeats with variations over and over again. On a genetic level, we really are immortal for as long as the planet can sustain life. But so are those dietary injuries our ancestors imposed (generally unwillingly) on themselves and therefore on many of their descendants. We drag our genetic baggage forward as dormant hitchhiking assailants.