Find Out Why You Are Obese
Dr. Susan Maria Smith McKinney Steward, Physician, 1870, Courtesy of The New York Public Library
Dr. Alvenia Moody Fulton (1893-1999) was a world-renowned nutritionist and naturopath from Pulaski in Giles County, Tennessee. She taught that overweight people eat too much and usually the wrong kinds of food: too many foods sweetened with white sugar, white pasta, rice, potatoes, and deep fried foods. Therefore, what the body does not burns as energy it is stores in the tissues as fat. An exceptions to over eating as a cause of obesity is where the endocrine system malfunctions, especially, the adrenal glands. Where this condition exist, some people are able to absorb nourishment in quite small amounts of food. For this reason, obese people should consult a physician about the cause of their obesity; do they have a malfunctioning endocrine system or do they habitually make poor food choices and over-eat.
Based on Food Historian Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie’s Work in Progress
