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• Commented on What's Growing This Spring in the White House Garden?
  I welcome any good role models who have the kind of influence the Obama's do. How fabulous to have them doing something that could have a major filtering down effect on the many people who look up to and want...
• Favorited Fried Food for Thought, Garbage Forever! on Share
• Commented on Fried Food for Thought, Garbage Forever!
  It's interesting because I phoned the local KFC and no-one there knew that their containers could be recycled either. So, at least I wasn't the only dummy who didn't know this. It sure doesn't say anything about it being recyclable...
• Commented on The Health Risks of "Manning Up"
  My husband never visits doctors....but neither do I really and we both have health insurance. He had a major brain haemmorhage (sorry can never spell that word) a few years back and was off all medication within 2 weeks and...
• Posted Fried Food for Thought, Garbage Forever! to Share
  The other day we had friends staying who arrived with two packets of food from Kentucky Fried Chicken. What struck me (other than the fact that that stuff is greasy) though was just how much garbage it produced. Let's see...there...
• Commented on What is your sweetener of choice and why?
  I don't touch any of them. There's only one thing I add sweetening to and that's my one cup of coffee I have a day - and I use honey. I find American foods are already too sweet - at...
• Commented on Getting Your Five-A-Day: What Counts?
  Ok, so fruits and vegetables are one thing.... although come to think of it I swear American bananas are about 30% bigger than the average banana you'd buy in a South African supermarket. I just wanted to add that you...
• Commented on Teens, Vitamin D and Risk Factors
  Well I know that as a teen I was certainly must have been well over my vitamin D limit. Sadly, not because I was eating so sensibly - no that was when I was battling anorexia. But being the totally...
• Posted What Stresses You More: Weight or the Economy? to Share
  So I'm curious....in these days of 401K's becoming 201K's (401 K's is the name for a retirement fund for those non US residents and 201K's are how they are now being referred to seen as they have so decimated), home...
• Commented on How Many People Read Nutritional Info at Restaurants?
  Well I don't eat at fast food restaurants, and frankly don't think I've ever seen a restaurant that does show calories. But I have on the airlines which I usually check. Usually i would have chosen the lower of the...
• Commented on 2009 Fitness Trends
  Actually, the machines fascinate me less than the names they come up with for them! John, I agree with your acessment of vibration and what it doesn't do. One thing I do think it's good for is stimulating your lymphatic...
• Commented on Anorexia Risk Begins In Womb
  Aha.... so another pill will hit our shelves and make some pharmaceutical company happy and the fact that their are societies where anorexia doesn't even exist (because they don't have all the societal pressure to be thin) will be ignored....
• Commented on Cream Eggs: Chemical Colored Cocktails
  I've got lots of vices, but Cadbury's don't make a cent from me. I still have a bottle of chocolates someone game me at Christmas sitting in my lounge. But it really is high time we started looking at all...
• Commented on Surviving Easter Without Gaining Weight: Six Tips
  Hide carrots instead of easter eggs for your easter egg hunt and then play a game of barter with the kids - so many carrots for an easter egg. That way you can get away with a lot fewer eggs...
• Commented on Guide to Health and Fitness Slang
  Had to laugh reading this. Over at my ditch diets live light site, I received an e.mail the other day from a young girl wanting some weight loss advice. It was written texting.....well being on the wrong side of 40,...
• Commented on Injury Warnings About... Gardening?
  John, you're absolutely right.... it's not gardening that is the problem but the fact that we live in unconditioned bodies. I know my grandfather who lived til he was 101, forever seemed to have a roto-tiller attached to him and...
• Commented on Family Too Fat to Work Wants More Money
  And the kids parents inherited their lifestyle habits from their parents before them and so the vicious cycle continues and gets worse. I feel for this family who are obviously so convinced that this is all hereditary that they are...
• Commented on Thinking of emigrating? Better watch your weight!
  I'm afraid I don't know their definition of obese or have I been able to verify this for myself - I just thought it was an interesting/scary conversation to share with others and the two posters who had this conversation...
• Commented on Moderate Drinking May Improve Bone Density
  I've also read that plenty of dairy in childhood is preventative of bone density problems when you're older....
• Commented on How Fast Should You Walk?
  Thanks Steve, I like this idea, makes it real easy to hum a few bars and see how I'm doing. Of course it also depends on whether you're doing hill walking and whether you're carrying a backpack of any kind....
• Commented on Bus Stop Scales: The Weight of Shame
  Kami - well said -and thank heavens we get more sensible as we get older. Like you, I want to feel vibrant, healthy and alive and that's why I make sure I get enough exercise and eat well. But in...
• Posted Thinking of emigrating? Better watch your weight! to Share
  We recently had an interesting discussion in the Mind over Fatter yahoo group. One person posted: 

My friend told me the past weekend that her cousin and her family of a husband and two children of younger than seven, are...
• Commented on Please Read: New Community Features
  Hi Jim.... I see the start topic button and that works fine, but even when I hit save, it still doesn't seem to be allowing me to change pictures...
• Commented on Trainer Gets Fat to Inspire Fat Clients
  Melinda, you hit the nail on the head. He might manage to achieve the body of a fat person, but if he's never really struggled with weight, all he's going to manage to come up with at the end is...
• Commented on Healthy Eating: Obamas Lead By Example
  Hey Ben, usually I couldn't agree with you more - who gives a fig what celebrities eat? But I have to admit that if Michelle can get ka-zillion google searches for things like: 'Michelle Obama sleevless' then fact of the...
• Commented on Please Read: New Community Features
  HI Jim.... I wanted to change my picture, but no matter how many times I hit browse, and select another pic, it doesn't change it. Also I cam back to add a new topic but couldn't find a button to...
• Commented on The Death of Dieting: Why Diets Are Out of Fashion
  You're speaking the converted, Jim... it's what my whole website is devoted to, helping people learn to live instead of diet, learn to love food instead of fear it, learn to treat their bodies as something to love instead of...
• Commented on The 8 Most Underrated Health Trends
  Like the idea of Wall Angels (where on earth did they come up with that name???)...
• Commented on Vegetarians Get Fewer Cancers, UK Study Shows
  Barry, I agree with you, it's high time they started doing studies that separate feedlot fed animals to those that are free range. In my latest book (due out in September) I discuss this issue because I really don't think...