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Diet – It’s a four-letter word
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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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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