Laying the Axe to the Root

“If you do not lay the axe to the root you will always be dealing with symptoms”.

Some of the bigger shows on TV these days deal with obesity; “The biggest Looser” “The half ton Teenager” are few that come to mind. If you’re like me it is hard to look away. I mean it is almost like looking at cartoons; surreal. How do these people get so far out of hand? And then it’s almost everywhere. People are simply way too heavy.

But the knee jerk ideas men come up with in dealing with the epidemic seem only to deal with the symptoms of the problem.

Some of the solutions are massive workouts schedules or some kind of gastro intestinal surgery, or for most of us it is to go on a diet. And then, currently we are faced with health care reform as a cure all solution. But at the root of the health care dilemma is the issue of obesity. There are so many people, whose ill- health stems from obesity, that the numbers and percentages are staggering. While there are other mitigating factors resident in the health care debate the issue of obesity lies dormant in the national discourse.

But do these purported ideas and solutions ever get to the root cause of the problem with obesity. Nevertheless, we go to war with one another over methods and never arrive at the correct message.

The truth be known the actual cause of obesity is rooted in poor nutrition, but for some strange reason we simply do not look there. This is a sad commentary on how and what men do to deal with problems in general, but they never seem to “lay the axe to the root.”

The nutritionally depleted soils, processed foods and diets we get hooked on, then reinforced by massive TV, magazine, and media campaigns which deceive our minds, ultimately end up robbing our bodies of proper nutrition, and then our very health. Our body which has its own mind tells our brain we need more food, seeking to make up for the nutritional discrepancies non-resident in our food supply. Then it becomes a vicious cycle that promulgates weight gain and then obesity. Two thirds of Americans are obese. What we are witnessing; today, in our present culture, is a massive delusional state of mind. The evidence is everywhere you see people.

With this propensity for delusion so rampant, and so easily seen and evidenced in the overweight populace, isn’t it fair to ask the question, what else may we be living that might be and tendeth unto a lie? So then, please think on this pervasive issue in our society as a metaphor; which signals us to the possibility of other inherent delusions, and then use it as a guidance system to examine all excessiveness. Let us learn together how to lay the axe to the root.

Ken