Prolapse - Yet Another Medical Problem Complicated by Excess Weight

Are you as tired of constantly hearing the admonitions to lose weight as I am? These calls to watch our weight often come from the same medical and governmental authorities that maintain a rather total silence regarding the presence of refined sugar in just about every one of our foods and drinks. (Do we really need sugar, or "high fructose corn syrup," in our potato chips? In our meats? In our spaghetti sauce? Can we please just save the sugars for dessert? I'm just asking.)

To me, this constant call to lose weight smacks of hypocrisy. It places the onus upon us to correct problems caused elsewhere, usually at a business profit. I bring up this issue because in virtually every piece of medical literature I've read regarding prolapsed pelvic organs, the writers advise that excess weight will hasten the onset of prolapse, and add to its severity.

This is basically because prolapse occurs when the interior connective tissues that hold the pelvic organs in place begin to stretch. When this stretching occurs, the pelvic organs begin to fall. When they fall, the prolapsed pelvic organs bulge into the vagina. In severe prolapse cases, they will exit the vagina to hang outside the body. Childbirth is one cause of the stretching of these interior support tissues. Excess weight also places a lot of stress on the tissues and causes them to stretch. Childbirth in conjunction with excess weight hastens the onset of prolapsed pelvic organs.

Your tendencies to gain and lose weight are largely genetic. But very few people have the genes that can maintain a slim weight, even with substantial exercise, in a society where almost every single food and drink is packed with refined sugars and their analogs. We can go out to the store and buy designer jeans. But designer genes still remain mostly beyond our grasp. So I call on those same authorities that keep telling us to lose weight. I call on them to direct their efforts instead to telling food and drink manufacturers to stop adding so many refined sugars and calories to our daily diet!