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Old September 25th, 2003, 11:14 AM
Steve Chaney, aka Papa Gunnykins ®
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Diet – It’s a four-letter word

The three D’s of dieting are these: deprived, depressed and defeated. Why
else would it be such a growing epidemic in this country? Why else would so
many of us dieters fail? We do not want to be overweight. Just ask anyone
who is. Have they thought of diet and exercise (hey, look at me – I’m
talking like a doctor!)? Hasn’t most of us heard that Lecture before. Why
don’t we ask the doctors, is that all you’ve got to help us? If you’re
blind, get a dog. If you can’t walk, get a wheelchair. If you’re fat, get
the diet-and-exercise lecture. That’s about how successful of a cure it is.
How about if you tell me why human beings are practically the only
overweight species in this animal kingdom. Is it because animals don’t have
to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day, sitting in traffic to get to work and
then back home? Is it because animals have to chase after their food if
they want to eat instead of standing in line at the grocery store to buy it
and standing at the stove to cook it? Is it that they carry their offspring
around with them all day instead of rushing to get them off to school,
driving them to soccer practice and piano lessons, getting them fed, bathed
and in bed just in time for the mother human to collapse? “Hey, now get up
and exercise since you have some time to yourself.” Is it because we cannot
change our world but we can have a chocolate bar? We are set up for failure
and then the medical profession wonders why. Tell us what makes us keep
eating and we will gladly stop. At the foremost of all the research on
obesity should be a cause, not blame. If you look on the internet you’ll
find many studies going on, several focused on an appetite-stimulate
produced in our own stomachs called Ghrelin. This little peptide goes crazy
and starts producing faster if it senses we are not eating as much as
usual. Apparently, we have to trick it into not realizing we’re dieting
lest it turns on us, sabotaging our efforts. But do we see this on TV and
in newspapers? No, we see fat-busting diet pills and plastic surgery ads,
which will only kill us or make us go broke. But look, a McDonald’s
commercial offering two quarter-pound cheeseburgers for only $2.00! What a
deal! And don’t get me started with holidays. They should be called
Celebrations of Food. Each one involving a huge feast and abundant sweets.
Candy manufacturers only change the wrappers to move from Halloween,
Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Easter. How can we concentrate on healthy
eating when food is such a ritual of living? We are advised to lose 1 to 2
pounds per week for a healthy weight loss goal. Do you know you only need
to enter a Ben and Jerry’s in order for you to gain it back. From fast food
to fine dining, Fourth of July barbecues to wedding receptions, Americans
are embracing food at the same time realizing too much of a good thing can
do us harm. Society needs to change it’s thinking about what eating is all
about. It’s about refueling the body to perform life’s functions,
internally and externally. It’s not a celebration, a comfort or a reward.
And it can be a deadly enemy to those who are overweight. By the way,
whatever happened to that study with the fat mouse that had been injected
with lectin, the hormone causing ravenous eating? Is there not enough money
out there to fund the research to solve this multi-billion dollar health
problem? From fat-free foods to gastric by-pass surgeries, it seems like
there is a lot of money being spent fighting obesity so why is science
moving at such a snail’s pace? Maybe when a cause and a cure are finally
found, doctors can finally offer something more productive than the
Lecture? Look, we’re fat, not deaf. Please stop telling us to lose weight
and give us a more effective way to do it.

-- Steve
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Steve Chaney

Remove "Vegetus." to get my real email address
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Message-ID:
"Outside of this group, I don't remember hearing anyone in RL say that fat
people are worthless." - some anonymous coward admitting the truth,
Message-ID:
"I watched The Accused last night with Jodie Foster. Tough movie. I was
wondering what people felt as to whether or not they feel she deserved what
happened to her." - Brenda Lee Ehmka, Message-ID:

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that?" - Sunny, on Jade's life in a nutshell





  #2  
Old September 25th, 2003, 02:29 PM
Sandy
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Default Diet - It's a four-letter word

Wow, Steve,,,,,,that was spectacular......you said it all. So many of us
feel the same way.
Thanks.
"Steve Chaney, aka Papa Gunnykins ®" wrote in
message ...
Diet - It's a four-letter word

The three D's of dieting are these: deprived, depressed and defeated. Why
else would it be such a growing epidemic in this country? Why else would

so
many of us dieters fail? We do not want to be overweight. Just ask anyone
who is. Have they thought of diet and exercise (hey, look at me - I'm
talking like a doctor!)? Hasn't most of us heard that Lecture before. Why
don't we ask the doctors, is that all you've got to help us? If you're
blind, get a dog. If you can't walk, get a wheelchair. If you're fat, get
the diet-and-exercise lecture. That's about how successful of a cure it

is.
How about if you tell me why human beings are practically the only
overweight species in this animal kingdom. Is it because animals don't

have
to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day, sitting in traffic to get to work and
then back home? Is it because animals have to chase after their food if
they want to eat instead of standing in line at the grocery store to buy

it
and standing at the stove to cook it? Is it that they carry their

offspring
around with them all day instead of rushing to get them off to school,
driving them to soccer practice and piano lessons, getting them fed,

bathed
and in bed just in time for the mother human to collapse? "Hey, now get up
and exercise since you have some time to yourself." Is it because we

cannot
change our world but we can have a chocolate bar? We are set up for

failure
and then the medical profession wonders why. Tell us what makes us keep
eating and we will gladly stop. At the foremost of all the research on
obesity should be a cause, not blame. If you look on the internet you'll
find many studies going on, several focused on an appetite-stimulate
produced in our own stomachs called Ghrelin. This little peptide goes

crazy
and starts producing faster if it senses we are not eating as much as
usual. Apparently, we have to trick it into not realizing we're dieting
lest it turns on us, sabotaging our efforts. But do we see this on TV and
in newspapers? No, we see fat-busting diet pills and plastic surgery ads,
which will only kill us or make us go broke. But look, a McDonald's
commercial offering two quarter-pound cheeseburgers for only $2.00! What a
deal! And don't get me started with holidays. They should be called
Celebrations of Food. Each one involving a huge feast and abundant sweets.
Candy manufacturers only change the wrappers to move from Halloween,
Christmas, Valentine's Day and Easter. How can we concentrate on healthy
eating when food is such a ritual of living? We are advised to lose 1 to 2
pounds per week for a healthy weight loss goal. Do you know you only need
to enter a Ben and Jerry's in order for you to gain it back. From fast

food
to fine dining, Fourth of July barbecues to wedding receptions, Americans
are embracing food at the same time realizing too much of a good thing can
do us harm. Society needs to change it's thinking about what eating is all
about. It's about refueling the body to perform life's functions,
internally and externally. It's not a celebration, a comfort or a reward.
And it can be a deadly enemy to those who are overweight. By the way,
whatever happened to that study with the fat mouse that had been injected
with lectin, the hormone causing ravenous eating? Is there not enough

money
out there to fund the research to solve this multi-billion dollar health
problem? From fat-free foods to gastric by-pass surgeries, it seems like
there is a lot of money being spent fighting obesity so why is science
moving at such a snail's pace? Maybe when a cause and a cure are finally
found, doctors can finally offer something more productive than the
Lecture? Look, we're fat, not deaf. Please stop telling us to lose weight
and give us a more effective way to do it.

-- Steve
º¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤º
Steve Chaney

Remove "Vegetus." to get my real email address
See the soc.singles HALL OF STUPID:
http://member.newsguy.com/~gunhed/hallofstupid
"If only sheep could cook, we wouldn't need women at all! 8)" - Dizzy,
Message-ID:
"Outside of this group, I don't remember hearing anyone in RL say that fat
people are worthless." - some anonymous coward admitting the truth,
Message-ID:
"I watched The Accused last night with Jodie Foster. Tough movie. I was
wondering what people felt as to whether or not they feel she deserved

what
happened to her." - Brenda Lee Ehmka, Message-ID:

"Jade, your whole existence is spent trying to find people you can justify
vetting your rage toward thorugh all forms of harassment. Do you realize
that?" - Sunny, on Jade's life in a nutshell







  #3  
Old September 25th, 2003, 09:08 PM
Jerome Bigge
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Default Diet – It’s a four-letter word

On 25 Sep 2003 12:14:40 +0200, (Steve Chaney, aka
Papa Gunnykins ®) wrote:

I've read an SF story where they used a
"domesticated" (gene altered) tapeworm
to control their weight. Biggest problem
that I can think of is that people would
have to inject the vitamins and minerals
they needed. Technologically "doable",
at least in theory...

Diet – It’s a four-letter word

The three D’s of dieting are these: deprived, depressed and defeated. Why
else would it be such a growing epidemic in this country? Why else would so
many of us dieters fail? We do not want to be overweight. Just ask anyone
who is. Have they thought of diet and exercise (hey, look at me – I’m
talking like a doctor!)? Hasn’t most of us heard that Lecture before. Why
don’t we ask the doctors, is that all you’ve got to help us? If you’re
blind, get a dog. If you can’t walk, get a wheelchair. If you’re fat, get
the diet-and-exercise lecture. That’s about how successful of a cure it is.
How about if you tell me why human beings are practically the only
overweight species in this animal kingdom. Is it because animals don’t have
to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day, sitting in traffic to get to work and
then back home? Is it because animals have to chase after their food if
they want to eat instead of standing in line at the grocery store to buy it
and standing at the stove to cook it? Is it that they carry their offspring
around with them all day instead of rushing to get them off to school,
driving them to soccer practice and piano lessons, getting them fed, bathed
and in bed just in time for the mother human to collapse? “Hey, now get up
and exercise since you have some time to yourself.” Is it because we cannot
change our world but we can have a chocolate bar? We are set up for failure
and then the medical profession wonders why. Tell us what makes us keep
eating and we will gladly stop. At the foremost of all the research on
obesity should be a cause, not blame. If you look on the internet you’ll
find many studies going on, several focused on an appetite-stimulate
produced in our own stomachs called Ghrelin. This little peptide goes crazy
and starts producing faster if it senses we are not eating as much as
usual. Apparently, we have to trick it into not realizing we’re dieting
lest it turns on us, sabotaging our efforts. But do we see this on TV and
in newspapers? No, we see fat-busting diet pills and plastic surgery ads,
which will only kill us or make us go broke. But look, a McDonald’s
commercial offering two quarter-pound cheeseburgers for only $2.00! What a
deal! And don’t get me started with holidays. They should be called
Celebrations of Food. Each one involving a huge feast and abundant sweets.
Candy manufacturers only change the wrappers to move from Halloween,
Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Easter. How can we concentrate on healthy
eating when food is such a ritual of living? We are advised to lose 1 to 2
pounds per week for a healthy weight loss goal. Do you know you only need
to enter a Ben and Jerry’s in order for you to gain it back. From fast food
to fine dining, Fourth of July barbecues to wedding receptions, Americans
are embracing food at the same time realizing too much of a good thing can
do us harm. Society needs to change it’s thinking about what eating is all
about. It’s about refueling the body to perform life’s functions,
internally and externally. It’s not a celebration, a comfort or a reward.
And it can be a deadly enemy to those who are overweight. By the way,
whatever happened to that study with the fat mouse that had been injected
with lectin, the hormone causing ravenous eating? Is there not enough money
out there to fund the research to solve this multi-billion dollar health
problem? From fat-free foods to gastric by-pass surgeries, it seems like
there is a lot of money being spent fighting obesity so why is science
moving at such a snail’s pace? Maybe when a cause and a cure are finally
found, doctors can finally offer something more productive than the
Lecture? Look, we’re fat, not deaf. Please stop telling us to lose weight
and give us a more effective way to do it.

-- Steve
º¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤º
Steve Chaney

Remove "Vegetus." to get my real email address
See the soc.singles HALL OF STUPID:
http://member.newsguy.com/~gunhed/hallofstupid
"If only sheep could cook, we wouldn't need women at all! 8)" - Dizzy,
Message-ID:
"Outside of this group, I don't remember hearing anyone in RL say that fat
people are worthless." - some anonymous coward admitting the truth,
Message-ID:
"I watched The Accused last night with Jodie Foster. Tough movie. I was
wondering what people felt as to whether or not they feel she deserved what
happened to her." - Brenda Lee Ehmka, Message-ID:

"Jade, your whole existence is spent trying to find people you can justify
vetting your rage toward thorugh all forms of harassment. Do you realize
that?" - Sunny, on Jade's life in a nutshell





Jerome Bigge
Member, Muskegon Astronomical Society
Author of the "Warlady" & "Wartime" series.
Download at "http://members.tripod.com/~jbigge"
  #4  
Old September 28th, 2003, 06:22 AM
Supergoof
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Default Diet - It's a four-letter word

Steve Chaney, aka Papa Gunnykins ® wrote ...
Diet - It's a four-letter word
moving at such a snail's pace? Maybe when a cause and a cure are finally
found, doctors can finally offer something more productive than the
Lecture? Look, we're fat, not deaf. Please stop telling us to lose weight
and give us a more effective way to do it.


Excellent!



Rachel
(New Zealand)


  #5  
Old September 28th, 2003, 06:28 AM
Supergoof
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Default Diet - It's a four-letter word

Jerome Bigge wrote ...

I've read an SF story where they used a
"domesticated" (gene altered) tapeworm
to control their weight. Biggest problem
that I can think of is that people would
have to inject the vitamins and minerals
they needed. Technologically "doable",
at least in theory...


It may be urban legend, but I thought people actually did deliberately
ingest tapeworms to lose weight at one time.

Anyone know more?


Rachel
(New Zealand)


  #6  
Old September 28th, 2003, 01:34 PM
JC Der Koenig
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Default Diet - It's a four-letter word

Instead of eating tapeworms, just eat less of everything.

--
JC

Lyle's New Ultimate Diet

"1. eat less you fat ****
2. exercise more you fat ****"

"Supergoof" wrote in message
...
Jerome Bigge wrote ...

I've read an SF story where they used a
"domesticated" (gene altered) tapeworm
to control their weight. Biggest problem
that I can think of is that people would
have to inject the vitamins and minerals
they needed. Technologically "doable",
at least in theory...


It may be urban legend, but I thought people actually did deliberately
ingest tapeworms to lose weight at one time.

Anyone know more?


Rachel
(New Zealand)




  #7  
Old September 28th, 2003, 01:35 PM
JC Der Koenig
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Default Diet - It's a four-letter word

The most effective way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more. Are
you sure you're not deaf?

--
JC

Lyle's New Ultimate Diet

"1. eat less you fat ****
2. exercise more you fat ****"

"Supergoof" wrote in message
...
Steve Chaney, aka Papa Gunnykins ® wrote ...
Diet - It's a four-letter word
moving at such a snail's pace? Maybe when a cause and a cure are finally
found, doctors can finally offer something more productive than the
Lecture? Look, we're fat, not deaf. Please stop telling us to lose

weight
and give us a more effective way to do it.


Excellent!



Rachel
(New Zealand)




  #8  
Old September 28th, 2003, 07:54 PM
Chris Taylor Jr
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Default Diet - It's a four-letter word

prove it.

according to an atkins diet eating less may NOT be the way to lose weight.

I on average before this diet ate LESS than the average this person. LESS
per day.

I am 6'3" 365 pounds.

Explain that to me.

you did not say Excercise more. you said EAT LESS AND EXCERCISE MORE.

I agree more excercise will probably help me. but eatling less did nothing.
I stayed the SAME weight for nearly 5 years.

SO are you deaf and blind is the question?

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/


"JC Der Koenig" wrote in message
...
The most effective way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more.

Are
you sure you're not deaf?

--
JC

Lyle's New Ultimate Diet

"1. eat less you fat ****
2. exercise more you fat ****"

"Supergoof" wrote in message
...
Steve Chaney, aka Papa Gunnykins ® wrote ...
Diet - It's a four-letter word
moving at such a snail's pace? Maybe when a cause and a cure are

finally
found, doctors can finally offer something more productive than the
Lecture? Look, we're fat, not deaf. Please stop telling us to lose

weight
and give us a more effective way to do it.


Excellent!



Rachel
(New Zealand)






  #9  
Old September 28th, 2003, 09:12 PM
JC Der Koenig
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Default Diet - It's a four-letter word

I'm sure you got fat eating a cabbage leaf per day. You certainly must be
the exception to the rule, because you are special. You would have been the
one prisoner of war in a Japanese concentration camp that came out a big
sloppy mess. If only you had been there to prove your point.

--
JC

Lyle's New Ultimate Diet

"1. eat less you fat ****
2. exercise more you fat ****"

"Chris Taylor Jr" wrote in message
...
prove it.

according to an atkins diet eating less may NOT be the way to lose weight.

I on average before this diet ate LESS than the average this person. LESS
per day.

I am 6'3" 365 pounds.

Explain that to me.

you did not say Excercise more. you said EAT LESS AND EXCERCISE MORE.

I agree more excercise will probably help me. but eatling less did

nothing.
I stayed the SAME weight for nearly 5 years.

SO are you deaf and blind is the question?

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/


"JC Der Koenig" wrote in message
...
The most effective way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more.

Are
you sure you're not deaf?

--
JC

Lyle's New Ultimate Diet

"1. eat less you fat ****
2. exercise more you fat ****"

"Supergoof" wrote in message
...
Steve Chaney, aka Papa Gunnykins ® wrote ...
Diet - It's a four-letter word
moving at such a snail's pace? Maybe when a cause and a cure are

finally
found, doctors can finally offer something more productive than the
Lecture? Look, we're fat, not deaf. Please stop telling us to lose

weight
and give us a more effective way to do it.

Excellent!



Rachel
(New Zealand)








  #10  
Old September 29th, 2003, 12:17 AM
Chris Taylor Jr
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Default Diet - It's a four-letter word

No "I" GOT fat because my appitite ramained the same going into college but
my extreme activity level went to ZERO

I blew up in something like 9 months.

Since then I have not gained (or lost) a single pound no matter how little I
eat or how I watch what I eat till atkins.

I could eat nothing but well cooked dinners and salad every day or mcdonals
every day made no difference never fluctuated more than 3 or 4 pounds either
way. till atkins.

and I have not even started REALLY excercising yet. I hope to accelerate my
weight loss when i start that.

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

"JC Der Koenig" wrote in message
...
I'm sure you got fat eating a cabbage leaf per day. You certainly must be
the exception to the rule, because you are special. You would have been

the
one prisoner of war in a Japanese concentration camp that came out a big
sloppy mess. If only you had been there to prove your point.

--
JC

Lyle's New Ultimate Diet

"1. eat less you fat ****
2. exercise more you fat ****"

"Chris Taylor Jr" wrote in message
...
prove it.

according to an atkins diet eating less may NOT be the way to lose

weight.

I on average before this diet ate LESS than the average this person.

LESS
per day.

I am 6'3" 365 pounds.

Explain that to me.

you did not say Excercise more. you said EAT LESS AND EXCERCISE MORE.

I agree more excercise will probably help me. but eatling less did

nothing.
I stayed the SAME weight for nearly 5 years.

SO are you deaf and blind is the question?

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/


"JC Der Koenig" wrote in message
...
The most effective way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise

more.
Are
you sure you're not deaf?

--
JC

Lyle's New Ultimate Diet

"1. eat less you fat ****
2. exercise more you fat ****"

"Supergoof" wrote in message
...
Steve Chaney, aka Papa Gunnykins ® wrote ...
Diet - It's a four-letter word
moving at such a snail's pace? Maybe when a cause and a cure are

finally
found, doctors can finally offer something more productive than

the
Lecture? Look, we're fat, not deaf. Please stop telling us to lose
weight
and give us a more effective way to do it.

Excellent!



Rachel
(New Zealand)










 




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