Freedom from the Diet Trap: Slim for Life. Jason Vale

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      We banned direct cigarette advertising, yet BIG FOOD spend literally billions advertising products that have been linked to major diseases and hardly any restrictions are put on them. These are ‘foods’ that can and do cause premature death, just like cigarettes; control people’s lives, just like cigarettes; and products which, I estimate, slowly kill two-thirds of those who are hooked on them (which is more than cigarettes).

      You cannot open a magazine, switch on your TV, or go to the cinema without being bombarded with images of drug-type foods. The government of course is not about to do anything about it as they earn billions in tax revenue from people’s addictions to these heart-disease causing, stroke-inducing so-called foods. Their argument is always the same and runs along the lines of ‘people are not stupid, they know the facts, we advise them to eat five portions of fruit and veg a day. If they choose to eat junk, then it’s up to them’. Yet they make it law to wear a seat belt. Why isn’t it our choice then? Because people are not addicted to putting on or leaving off their seat belts, but they are addicted to trashy foods. To say to someone like Barry Austin, (reportedly the fattest man in Britain) who I believe, at the age of 29, was 50 stone (317 kg) in weight and had a 82 in. (208 cm) waist, that it’s his genuine choice to be like that is ludicrous. Given the genuine choice I imagine he would love to end his addiction to crap foods and he would love to be slim.

      You Black Tar Nicotine Loaded Bastard

      One of the major problems with ‘food’ addiction is that the problem is visible because the most common symptom for many (although not all) is excess fat on the body. Think about it: no matter how many cigarettes someone smokes, they’re never called a black tar, nicotine-filled git or a cigarette-smoking bastard are they? Yet along with food addiction go the names and scathing attack on our characters: we get called gits and pigs – we’re never just fat are we? This is why so many people don’t reach obesity – because of how they will look. But they still have a food problem and are still constantly battling to control what they eat.

      I used to feel very proud of myself if I managed to be good for a few days, or if I managed to control my intake of chocolate to the point where I only had it at weekends. I often used to cut down on the coffee and biscuits – put myself on the ‘food wagon’ if you will. There are people who do manage to exercise extreme control over their intake of trash food, but this is an awful way to go through life. If you have to exercise control over something, it must mean that that something is controlling you. It is the need to exercise control that means you are not in control as I alluded to previously. Confused? Let me put it this way. I do not have to exercise control over my banana intake, if I needed to discipline myself with my bananas then I would have a banana problem. For years smokers thought it was their genuine choice to smoke (in fact some people still retain this belief). However, when the ban came in and smokers were forced to stand outside their workplace in the freezing cold in order to get their fix, they started to realize they were not choosing to smoke, but had to (I know first-hand as I used to smoke 40–60 a day).

      I do not know one single person who has to exercise control over their apple intake. Why? Because it is not a drug food. No chemicals have been added deliberately in order to compel you to overeat them. There is a natural cut off point. I also don’t know anyone who would have the slightest problem getting rid of apples from their diet if a doctor told them they caused heart disease, lethargy, weight gain, and premature death. Yet there are hundreds of thousands of people who, if you told them the same thing about coffee, chocolate, alcohol, crisps, or fast-food burgers for example, would say, ‘Up yours, life’s too short’ and continue eating them. Why? Because they are drug-like foods that compel people to want more and more, even if it goes against their rational judgement. Whether you actually have more and more is neither here nor there, it’s the wanting more that causes the real problem – the need to exercise control.

      TOTALLY WIRED

      Some unfortunate people have lost the ability to exercise control over what they eat or drink. It was reported that Barry Austin was told he would die unless he slimmed, and he went through the drastic measure of having his stomach stapled. I also understand that when he was 19 he had his jaws wired together which lasted for four months and he lost 4 stone (25 kg) in that time because all he could consume was soup. I imagine his life was hell, especially at Christmas when he saw all the beautiful food laid out in front of him and knew he couldn’t take part. Can you imagine the torture he must have been going through? Apparently, his family liquidized his roast dinner and pudding for him to drink but on seeing the mush he was supposed to drink, his desperation was such that he ripped the wires out with wire cutters, leaving his mouth bleeding in agony. Do you think he goes through all this for a hamburger because he simply likes the taste? Is it possible that there is more to it? Is it possible he is simply mentally and physically addicted to drug foods in the same way a nicotine addict is addicted to cigarettes? It is not just possible but once we start to really look at it, it becomes obvious. It is not his genuine choice to do this – given the choice he would just eat healthily. Given the genuine freedom of choice we would be free to eat what he wants to eat. He doesn’t want to eat that rubbish, he is just compelled to – for reasons unknown to him

      The reason I have used Barry as an example is to illustrate the point that often it is not our genuine choice to eat certain ‘foods’. We have simply been conditioned and brainwashed by BIG FOOD and BIG DRINK on both a mental and physical level to the point where we get upset and even angry if we feel we can no longer eat certain things, even if those foods are making us ill. Unless you start to realize what is going on, you are in danger of remaining in the food and diet trap for life. The point of this book is to set you mentally free, so that you can eat whatever you want to and not what someone has conditioned you to in order to boost their bank balance. This can only happen if you fully understand how BIG FOOD, the very people who are peddling drug and junk foods, go about their business.

      AD – FABRICATED

      How do you sell a product that is of very dubious quality, is unhealthy and is contributing to (and in many cases causing) major health problems? Good old advertising of course. We have been programmed and conditioned to consume drug-like foods and drinks. That is why people think it’s normal to eat these foods. But then didn’t people think it was normal and sociable to inhale cigarette smoke a few years ago too?

      Let us not underestimate the power of all the advertising and conditioning either: it works. Our brains are very clever computers, but they can also be programmed just like any other computer. Unless we learn to run it effectively ourselves, there are many, many people who are paid tremendous amounts of money to run it for us – and they do. That is why we have such a strong belief that fruit and veg are for boring people who don’t want to ‘live’. After all with Pepsi Max you can go snowboarding, skiing, bungee jumping, and ‘Live life to the max – Pepsi Max’. Then of course we all know that ‘A Mars A Day helps you work, rest, and play’ and that ‘Breakfast at McDonald’s makes your day’. I can’t ever remember hearing ‘Live life to the max with a fresh mouth-watering Mango Max’ or ‘An apple a day helps you work, rest, play and helps prevent cancer’ or ‘Breakfast at a juice bar, stimulates the mind, feeds the cells, helps to lift the waste from your body and really does make your day that little more alive and vibrant’. Incidentally, if breakfast at McDonald’s does make your day – YOU REALLY DO NEED THIS BOOK!

      MIND CONDITIONING

      The Russian physiologist, Ivan Pavlov’s famous experiment illustrated just how easily we can be conditioned. It has been well documented, but for those of СКАЧАТЬ