The Anti Prevention Nation© Volume VI- Binging and the Delusion of Fear – How our Brains Work Part 1

In this 6th Edition of The Anti Prevention Nation© we are going to start a two-part series on identifying the underlying causes of obesity and binging. Whether you are severely overweight or have simply struggled to lose weight, we believe these next two newsletters can help you.In previous newsletters we have touched on the concept of food being a drug. If you have not read the last ezines, or need a refresher, go to the bottom of this page for links to back issues of The Anti Prevention Nation©.

As was the case with me, food had become an obsession very similar to one somebody could have with alcohol or gambling.

When a person suffers from any type of drug addiction, recovery is achieved by total abstinence. Obviously, you can’t do that with food. So an individual with a binge or overeating disorder may be facing an even bigger challenge.

Why does this happen? Why do some people become trapped by obesity and binging? These are very deep existential questions, but let us look at a few possibilities.

Survival Instinct

To some extent, it has to do with the way our brains are wired, and how humanity has progressed in the past several thousand years.

In cave man times, man did not have a ready supply of food at all times. When food was obtained, they ate as much as they could because nobody knew how long it would be before food was available again.

IN addition, a lot of calories (energy) were expended in acquiring food; climbing trees for fruit, digging the ground for roots, chasing wild animals to kill and then dragging them back. It took a lot of energy and exertion to acquire food. That is no longer the case.

Today, the majority of humans in the civilized world have a ready supply of food. There are refrigerators in every home, and groceries available in supermarkets, drugstores and even gas stations.

We don’t have to walk more than a few steps to get food. Food is everywhere and in large quantities. No exertion or hunting is necessary.

Therefore, it stands to reason that people in the civilized world no longer have to eat as much as they possibly can on every meal in order to assure survival. But many still do. Obesity has become a true epidemic and many are killing themselves one bite at a time. I know because I was one of them.

The Food Safety Net

Scientists believe that, amazingly, one reason for this tendency for compulsive overeating comes from the fact that some persons - for reasons yet identified - still are reacting to a caveman “genetic” programming that leads them to eat based on fear for their lives. The threat to survival does not necessarily have to be physical, but can be emotional, abstract and unreal.

In the majority of cases, persons with binging or overeating disorders are actually doing so because, in the seat of their emotions, they feel their very lives are in danger.

The fear-producing centers of the brain, it is believed, actually create the very obsession to overeat! These persons are caught in a “mirage” that beckons them to binge as a means to achieving safety and protection from the world and circumstances.

Whenever bored, depressed, afraid, lonely (or a myriad of other emotions), most persons afflicted with obesity and/or overeating reach for food to “medicate” and lessen the pain - manifested mostly in fear. For many, food provides a very real security blanket that shields them from the “dangers” of living in an uncertain world.

The problem is that these “dangers” often only exist in the person’s mind. While the immediate life circumstance can indeed be dire (financial problems, divorce, depression, loss of a loved one), it is actually the emotional dysfunction and exaggerated feeling of dread which feeds the food obsession and continues to produce negative outcomes in that person’s life.

What we are saying is that, barring feelings stemming from normal daily life, many obese persons live in a constant delusion of fear – covered by binging and overeating. But the overeating comfort only lasts a short while, and then the fear resurfaces which, in turn, leads to more binging and overeating – ad infinitum.

It is a horrible trap that almost led me to insanity and suicide. I had to realize “first of all” that my emotional state was, to a great extent, based on overstated fears and distortions.

Destructive Delusions

The problem was really not food, but ME. I was emotionally sick. I lived my life reacting negatively to ghosts, specters and lies.

Most of the emotional states I was attempting to cover up with food were based on either; fear of things that had not happened or, situations that had been blown out of proportion by me.

This “awakening” was the escape hatch that led me to freedom from the deadly trap of binging, overeating and chronic obesity.

Take some time and write an inventory of the circumstances in your life that are currently causing you discomfort.

Write a list of the emotions that you experience on a daily basis, especially those that you find often lead you to the refrigerator. Has overeating made these feelings or circumstances go away?

Have you been able to binge “once” and then found everything was resolved and you no longer felt uncomfortable?

Or have you found that, no matter how much you ate, the feelings returned - stronger and more vicious than before?

I submit to you that, rather than trying to “not eat” to lose weight, you turn the tables and start to identify the roots and causes that lead you to harming yourself with food.

You will need a commitment to write down these feelings when they emerge. Look at them on paper for what they really are.

The solution I found was that, once I had identified these emotions and uncovered their falsity or exaggeration, I no longer had to follow through with the futile experiment of binging to find safety and consolation.

Knowing they were lies gave me the strength and resolve to resist.

Getting To "The Source"

I realized that I was working from an erroneous equation. That 2+2 would never be 5, and that I would never be able to overcome food in direct combat with it.

I had to look beyond food, and find the true inner source of my problems. The source, I found, was my soul sickness – food was a mere symptom.

If I am in a theater watching a film that frightens me, it would do not good to try to fight the film itself. The film is abstract and, even though I can see it and feel it, it is ultimately an illusion. The tangible "source" is the projector, and in order to "end" the fear I have to go to where the equipment is located and turn it off.

The movie in itself was just an image generated by another source. Such, I have found, is the path to freedom from obesity, binging and compulsive overeating.

Over the next couple of weeks, take time with yourself and put together an inventory of thoughts and feelings that have kept you from achieving your weight loss goals.

Two specific resources that will go deeper into this topic and I highly recommend are: Weight Loss Gods Way * Renew Your Mind And See Your Body Transformed Forever! and End Binge Eating Once And For All * Put an end to the painful and destructive cycle of binge eating and reclaim your life and health!

To reduce overall stress and tension, I also invite you to visit the Himalayan Crystal Salt Website Linked underneath and read more about the amazing benefits of salt as both a bathing agent and a healing drinking solution.There are many articles and testimonies there that I am certain you will enjoy.

Later on we will talk in more detail about water, its healing power, and how supplements such as these types of salts, coupled with fasting, have helped many - including myself - find relief and healing from a variety of diseases.



Next Up

In the next e-zine – How Our Brains Work Part II - we will talk about methods that can help you re-frame these mental ghosts so that you can achieve the weight and health you seek.

From there we will move on to talk in detail about fasting, detoxification and intestinal pollution, another remarkable foe that keeps many persons overweight and sick.

Hang in there and remember – the best is yet to come in your life! Above all, do not forsake the spiritual side of your life.

Whatever your concept of God may be, I encourage you to bring your weaknesses up in prayer and ask for the supernatural wisdom, strength, discernment and power to overcome them – one day, one moment at a time! As one of this planet’s spiritual masters said: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”

See You soon!

Rob D Johnston
FTF Editor
Lauren E Porter
Medical and Nutrition Consultant



Back Issues of The Anti Prevention Nation

Volume I
Eyes Wide Shut – Mouth Wide Open. The Obesity Epidemic.

Volume II
Fix me Quick Doctor! Dinner's 'a Waitin'! Weight Loss & Personal Responsibility. True Life Stories..

Volume III
Food Addictions & The Phenomena of Craving.

Volume IV
You Are What You Eat.

Volume V
The Inactivity & Starch Trap – Food Combinations.


The information provided in this newsletter is for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for advice from your physician or other health care professional or any information contained on or in any product label or packaging. You should not use the information in this newsletter for diagnosis or treatment of any health problem or for prescription of any medication or other treatment. You should consult with a healthcare professional before starting any diet, exercise or supplementation program, before taking any medication, or if you have or suspect you might have a health problem. You should not stop taking any medication without first consulting your physician.


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