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Obesity has a new nemesis in first lady Michelle Obama who enters the ring swinging and unleashes a three point combination blow to the health crisis threatening the future of the nation.

In a video on Yahoo News the Obama administration's new U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, has stated that her “vision for a healthy and fit nation is an attempt to change the national conversation from a negative one about obesity and illness, to a positive conversation about being healthy and being fit.”

The “obesity epidemic”, a term now reverberating across the nation, is a major health concern according to the surgeon general, and a staggering number of Americans are overweight or obese. Roughly two thirds of adults and nearly one in three children are falling prey to obesity due to misinformation and marketing schemes which create inordinate levels of dietary obfuscation.

First Lady, Michelle Obama, yesterday announced a new federal plan to reverse the trend of obesity gripping this nation, and has teamed up with health officials in focusing on the obesity epidemic.

She also pointed out that “obesity in this country is nothing short of a public health crisis, and it’s threatening our children, it’s threatening our families, and more importantly it’s threatening the future of this nation.”

Michelle Obama’s wise words prove her to be a beacon to the many people searching for answers amid the turbid and pervasive health crisis now gripping this nation. This mother of three is certainly to be commended for her courageously honest disclosure that even she herself can find it difficult at times to properly manage the diets of her family members.

The average American diet is inundated with health-robbing, over processed and pre-packaged foods that deliver a paltry amount of nutrition, and as well are of major concern when it comes to the subject of toxicity levels, acidosis and debilitating scar tissue in bodily organs.

What is imperative to curtailing this crisis and releasing the population from the lethargy that is ensuing, is educating people on the true nature of what “bodily sustenance” means and what required elements must be sustained.

This includes the very real understanding that the pleasure or palatability of one’s food is not reserved merely to what is experienced by the mouth when consuming a meal, but is also extended the effects that this food has on the body, mind and soul.

In reaching a consensus that is beneficial to all people, the data must incorporate the knowledge that if the foods being consumed are determined to be either healthy or unhealthy in direct concordance with the amount that is being ingested, then they are not viable choices for human consumption. In other words, if it is necessary to monitor and control a substance of ones daily diet in an effort to decrease its negative effects on the body, then this “food” should be removed completely from the diet in the interest of health and longevity.

The foods necessary for proper nutrition and healing can be consumed constantly, and in large amounts, without any adverse effects to the body, so long as these foods are maintained in their proper balance of 70/30 (as explained later in this article).

While the efforts of Dr. Benjamin are certainly to be applauded, of great concern is the fact that she herself appears to be significantly overweight. Her condition is common, and in no way is this analogy meant to indict her or do her harm. However, one must consider that the blind cannot lead the blind.

Health education must begin to incorporate the fundamental concept that ‘if what is being consumed is not healing the body then it is, essentially, not edible.’

Although the human digestive system can process an astounding array of organic and inorganic matter, as herbivores humans cannot prevent the debilitating effects of animal products, various saturated fats, excessive sugars, and most “junk foods” that are merely tolerated by the body, and which slowly degrade the ability of the intestines to extract vital nutrients from raw vegetables.

It is a fact that exercise is an important facet of maintaining a healthy body. However, the first lady appears to be the face of sober reform on the subject of national health, in that she placed the majority of emphasis on eating a proper diet high in fresh fruits and vegetables in order to prevent obesity, rather than parroting the languishing concept of expecting to mitigate the effects of poor nutrition by excessively exercising or “working-out” to lose the weight.

One fact, however, is that fruits are to be consumed in moderation due to the high levels of sugar they contain. Whether complex or simple, sugars in concentrations of over 6% of the fruit are merely fermented and turned to alcohol in the human body. Whatever sugars, above the minimal 6%, not readily ferment are then consumed by microforms in the body which produce acid as a byproduct.

These microforms are essential to maintaining a healthy body, but only if they exist in moderate levels. Excessive sugar intake increases the prevalence of these microforms, which then exposes the body to various adverse effects due to metabolic malfunctions.

An unhealthy diet is debilitating in many ways, and the various maladies of the human body, such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, asthma, chronic fatigue, ulcers, acid reflux disease, and many others will continue to have an effect even on those people who are able to maintain a healthy weight through increased exercise.

It is unfortunate that television programs such as “The Biggest Loser” exacerbate this national health crisis by demoralizing and castigating people merely for falling prey to the massive marketing machine which misinforms and manipulates the society into self-destructive habits.

To be broadcasting the abuse of these people, and their condition, on national television and claiming that they are too lazy to lose the weight, is a severely ignorant display of rehabilitation.

The obese people on the television show “The Biggest Loser” have merely been sold a dietary regimen, over many decades, by those who claimed it was part of a healthy lifestyle. Until this morbid marketing malfunction is brought into check it will continue to create unhealthy citizens, regardless of what weight they are able to maintain.

The entire population of this country, every man, woman, boy and girl, must be disabused of the fast-food, pre-packaged, over-processed era of edible dysfunction that inundated the market with fried foods, and cheese-smothered, charred, dead animal flesh as a daily dietary routine, while lauding millions of remedial, single-dimension cure-alls as ways to mitigate their destructive effects.

The healthy human diet requires a moderate proportion of beans, grains, essential fatty acids, and complex carbohydrates in concordance with approximately 70 percent fresh, raw, green vegetable protein. And not until people from all walks of life begin to propagate this knowledge through any means at their disposal -- be they schools, universities, television, movies, billboards, signs, newspapers, magazines, books, community congregations or word of mouth -- will this nation truly begin to heal the bodies, minds and souls of its citizenry.