Weight Loss Treatment - Oxford and Oxfordshire UK.
Food technologists today must ensure that modern food is very cheap, has a long shelf life, is easy to prepare, is irresistible (tastes absolutely delicious and make us feel good) or we’ll just buy it from someone else or grow it ourselves.
To compete, food needs to be grown and processed on an industrial scale, but
there’s a heavy price to be paid:
Insecticides. Because we want cheap food, price-conscious farmers tend to grow crops focusing on quantity rather than quality. Pests and insects can substantially diminish crops which push food prices up. To counter this, farmers use insecticides. Numerous studies have stated that chemicals such as pesticides can cause weight gain, possibly by interfering with weight regulating hormones.
Preservatives. Consumers don’t want to have to throw food away. Food technologists have realised that food sales improve for the foods that last longest and so they add preservatives to these foods for our convenience. The problem with some preservatives is that they can interfere with our hormones, disrupting the process that tells us when we're full which can lead to weight gain.
Food addiction. Today, many foods are engineered to be addictive. Food technologists load foods with the perfect amounts of fat, sugar and salt to stimulate the reward centres in the brain to what they call “the bliss point” in much the same way cannabis, alcohol, cocaine and cigarettes do, making these highly processed food-like substances very difficult to resist.
Food disinformation. Studies in the UK have shown that children see up to 12 adverts for junk food an hour while watching family TV. Further research by the Obesity Health Alliance found that junk food companies in the UK spend £143 million a year on advertising compared to the £5 million spent annually by the Government on healthy eating campaigns. We are overwhelmed by ineffective information on food from an early age.
When all the above points are considered its hardly surprising that we have an overweight and unhealthy society.
Oxford Hypnotherapy Clinic has developed effective modern strategies to not only counter the above conditions, but to reverse them.
To compete, food needs to be grown and processed on an industrial scale, but
there’s a heavy price to be paid:
- Fertilisers. Because we farm food on an industrial scale, soils tend to become stripped of their minerals very quickly and become barren. The solution is to fertilise the soil and because consumers demand low prices, farmers use the absolute minimum amount of fertilise necessary to produce their crops. These crops often have a lower nutritional density and so more food needs to be consumed to get adequate nutrition which leads to weight gain.
Insecticides. Because we want cheap food, price-conscious farmers tend to grow crops focusing on quantity rather than quality. Pests and insects can substantially diminish crops which push food prices up. To counter this, farmers use insecticides. Numerous studies have stated that chemicals such as pesticides can cause weight gain, possibly by interfering with weight regulating hormones.
Preservatives. Consumers don’t want to have to throw food away. Food technologists have realised that food sales improve for the foods that last longest and so they add preservatives to these foods for our convenience. The problem with some preservatives is that they can interfere with our hormones, disrupting the process that tells us when we're full which can lead to weight gain.
Food addiction. Today, many foods are engineered to be addictive. Food technologists load foods with the perfect amounts of fat, sugar and salt to stimulate the reward centres in the brain to what they call “the bliss point” in much the same way cannabis, alcohol, cocaine and cigarettes do, making these highly processed food-like substances very difficult to resist.
Food disinformation. Studies in the UK have shown that children see up to 12 adverts for junk food an hour while watching family TV. Further research by the Obesity Health Alliance found that junk food companies in the UK spend £143 million a year on advertising compared to the £5 million spent annually by the Government on healthy eating campaigns. We are overwhelmed by ineffective information on food from an early age.
When all the above points are considered its hardly surprising that we have an overweight and unhealthy society.
Oxford Hypnotherapy Clinic has developed effective modern strategies to not only counter the above conditions, but to reverse them.
