May 9, 2026

Are You Struggling With Your Weight? Ever Think It Might Not Be Your Fault?

By: Dr. Renae Norton

For over a decade, I have studied the growing obesity crisis in the United States in comparison to all other wealthy nations around the world. Today, more than 40% of U.S. adults are living with obesity, and nearly 75% are classified as overweight or obese. Most of those people believe that it is their fault that they are fat. They think that obesity is caused by poor self-control. It can be, but that does not explain the US Obesity Epidemic taking place today in the United States.

Even more concerning, as of early 2026, approximately 20% (1 in 5) US children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 are obese with rates reaching record highs. We certainly can’t blame them for being obese, right? In fact, the United States has the most obese children in the developed world. What are the implications? It means that a significant number of US children will live shorter lives than their parents, a first in the history of wealthy nations unless there was a nuclear event.

You may be wondering how this could be? You may be skeptical…I sure was. I started my research on this topic almost 15 years ago. It took a good 5 or 6 years for me to convince myself that what I was seeing was actually happening, and another 10 years to determine the causes and solutions.

In my soon to be released book: Below The Radar: What They’re Not Telling You About Your Food I have coined the term “Food Pollution Disorder” to explain this phenomenon. What is food pollution disorder? It is a state of un-wellness , ranging from mild to fatal that is a direct result of the unintentional and intentional “polluting” of the US food supply by the Big Farming, Big Food and Big Pharmaceutical industries.

I define “Food Pollution” as:“The introduction of toxic substances into the U.S. food supply that have been shown to be obesogenic, diabetic, carcinogenic, neurotoxic, psychogenic, autogenic, and in many cases highly addictive.” 

These substances include: 

  • GMOs
  • Hyper-hybridized grains
  • MSG
  • Neurotoxic sweeteners – Aspartame, Acesulfame, Saccharin and Erythritol
  • Sugar
  • Addictants – High Fructose Corn Syrup, Fats, MSG, Caffeine etc.
  • Carcinogens (Cancer causing)
  • Obesogens (Obesity causing)
  • Autogens (Autoimmune disease causing)
  • Allergens (Allergy causing)
  • Psychogens (Anxiety causing)
  • Herbicides
  • Insecticides
  • Fungicides
  • Damaged fats

Having spent the better part of 15 years studying this issue, I can tell you that the evidence is overwhelming. Although I resisted the notion that our food supply in the U.S. was polluted, I finally came to accept that U.S. foods were knowingly, willingly, and systematically contaminated to increase profits at the expense of the consumer. The title of my  book, when I first started to understand this reality, was Poison for Profit. Unfortunately, that title had already been taken. Even after I realized that the polluting of the U.S. food supply was intentional, I was still in the dark about the extent of the problem.

What I have discovered is that Americans and their doctors are either not informed or are misinformed when it comes to good health. I am even more determined today than ever before to provide accurate information so that you can lose the unwanted pounds, regain your health and reverse the aging process just as I have been able to do armed with this information.

About that: When I started this journey, I was aging very poorly. My hair, what little I had, and which I referred to as “micro-hair”, was falling out. I had dry eye syndrome, high cholesterol, rising blood sugar levels, and the beginnings of dementia. This was not for lack of an interest in good health. But drinking vodka tonics for 25 years and eating conventional food had taken its toll, and at the age of 60, I was seeing the ill effects. 

After shifting to a clean diet and ditching the vodka tonics with all of that GMO highfructose corn syrup, I began to reap the benefits of clean eating and I still do today. At 77, I am healthier now than I was 10 years ago. My hair is back. In fact, I get stopped on a regular basis when I’m out in public by people who want to compliment me and usually they are focusing on my shiny silver hair. It is naturally silver. I do not bleach or die it and currently, I have a full head of it. In fact I have more hair now than I have had since I was in my 40s and 50’s. So instead of my hairline receding, my hairline keeps creeping down my forehead. It is an inch further down than it was several years ago, and you can still see new growth… Blows my mind.

In addition to having great skin and more hair than I have had in years, I eat a lot of food every day. Because it is all organic, grass-fed and minimally processed it does not cause me to gain weight. In fact, despite eating 2000 or more calories a day, my weight remains a constant 125 and I am 5’7 tall. I’m just saying…..

If you are struggling with your weight you have probably tried dieting. It doesn’t work. You already know that. This is not a problem of how much you eat, which is the focus of most diets, it is a problem of how safe the food is that you eat. If you find yourself in the YoYo Dieting Cycle and you want out, please reach out to me at: 513-205-6543 or office@mindweightwellnesspro.com. I have helped hundreds of people lose the weight and keep it off and I can help you too.