A viewer asks: “Calorie restriction can slow aging and extend lifespan. It induces beneficial metabolic and cellular changes. One study showed a 25% reduction in caloric intake resulted in a 10-15% reduction in mortality risk. Frustratingly though, it is often difficult to sustain it for long. Feelings of deprivation, frustration, or even anxiety together with habits of dining out or celebrations often involve addictive high-calorie foods. Despite a lot of (conflicting) information being available on healthy eating, obesity increases. To what extent is the whole idea of calorie restriction or dieting doomed to fail? Have humans been set up to waste time on this? Do we just lack willpower?” What is Creator’s perspective?

Obesity is a common problem and most usually is a multicomponent issue so there will need to be a set of solutions implemented, in many cases, to cover each component of the underlying dynamics that bring about that state of being. This is why the protocols were created, because physical solutions are wanting, as much because of human ignorance of underlying causes as well as how to rein in abnormalities underway in bodily functioning giving rise to such problems. It is true that dieting is the least effective strategy because it is attempting to block a change being driven by powerful inner forces, and when the body is out of balance and being driven in the wrong direction, to introduce another perturbation, like calorie restriction, will not be responded to normally, and that is doomed to fail because the forces at work will simply adjust accordingly and find another way to exacerbate the problem. That is why the protocols exist, to get at the deep causes of things. Looking for prosaic human solutions will be difficult at best and likely to fail.