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• Commented on How Many Calories in a School Lunch Box?
  That won't solve the problem of teaching kids how to eat properly. Sure, they might get "healthy junk foods" in school, but when they get into the real world, those healthier versions likely won't be there and they won't be...
• Commented on 55 Years of Dieting and Still Overweight
  Except that it makes no evolutionary sense for short-term fasting to lead to muscle loss. Evolving humans had no constant access to food thanks to a refrigerator, pantry, and supermarket, so if not eating for a couple of days meant...
• Commented on Are Smart Choices Food Labels A Waste of Space?
  Exactly. Life is a lot simpler that way. Maybe certain things are more optimal than others, but I don't think any of it is going to kill me at an accelerated rate....
• Commented on Are Smart Choices Food Labels A Waste of Space?
  Any information that does something other than state facts, i.e. a product contains certain amounts of calories, fat, sodium, carbohydrates, etc., is useless. Anything else will only be based on the prevailing dietary belief of the moment. That makes the...
• Commented on Michael Pollan's Rules to Eat By
  "Avoiding the aisles" doesn't mean you never enter them. It means that the bulk of your diet doesn't come from the aisles. I would hope the average person trying to eat healthier would be able to go pick up dried...
• Commented on U.S. Healthcare Reform: Obesity Must Go
  "But abortion is private. (Except government should pay for it.)" That makes your opinions perfectly clear on things that this post isn't even about....
• Commented on U.S. Healthcare Reform: Obesity Must Go
  Only the blood plasma comment is off the mark. Until we have reform in this country, it's the way things are. You have to make the decision right now as to whether you want cable television or insurance, unless you've...
• Commented on The Night Before My "Tabula Rasa"
  You can't control an eating disorder: it controls you and if you have one, then you should realize that. I highly doubt this is a joke, but it's still very sad....
• Commented on Low Self-Esteem in Kids May Lead to Obesity
  Even if your child has low self-esteem from seeing super skinny models (which I highly doubt anyway), if you don't teach him/her to seek comfort or reward in food, he/she is less likely to do so. Teach them that food...
• Commented on Fiber: It's Good For Your Colon
  Wow, you mean people decided they preferred their french fries and hamburgers to fruits and vegetables? Shocking. /sarcasm...
• Commented on Low Self-Esteem in Kids May Lead to Obesity
  The question is, how are they going to go about promoting "self-esteem". There's a good book (admittedly written with the US as the subject) called Generation Me which talks about the rise of the concept of self-esteem and the positive...
• Commented on British Doctors Call for Total Advertising Ban on Booze
  Where I worked, we gave up trying to sell it and our manager just dumped it down the drain....
• Commented on Chuck Norris on Health Care
  Taking responsibility for our own health care isn't the answer with a broken health care system. I cannot find a "regular" job right now and I had to buy my own health insurance; I could only afford catastrophic coverage. I...
• Commented on Losing Weight With the Grapefruit Diet
  This probably isn't the best forum to be posting on if you're looking for supportive only comments about the grapefruit diet. If you read through a lot of the articles on this site, you'll find more sustainable methods of weight...
• Commented on STOP Being a Couch Potato!
  This reminds me of something I read in Eat to Live. Even if genes do play a part in whether a person has a propensity toward obesity or, in this case, laziness, blaming genes doesn't change a thing. Maybe it...
• Commented on Should Employers Pay for Weight Loss Surgery?
  Weight loss surgery is a bit much, but if they can't do the needed operation, why not do the compromise and pay for him to go on a drastic weight loss plan, like a supervised VLCD? That would be a...
• Commented on Should Employers Pay for Weight Loss Surgery?
  Of course, weight is a far better indication of employability than possible skills, makes perfect sense....
• Commented on Skinny Thighs Linked to Heart Disease
  Probably none. Being in a study like this would involve having a researcher scrutinizing her body, which an anorexic would probably avoid if at all possible. Anorexic and severely underweight are two different things....
• Commented on Another Food Safety Bill Headed to the U.S.
  Personally, I think this is just trying to repair an irreparable situation. Everything in this bill is geared towards making corporate agriculture and animal rearing less dangerous, when so many of the problems could be solved with localized agriculture. The...
• Commented on My Weight Loss Mission
  I never really understand the concept of "not letting yourself go hungry". What happens if you're working a job or are in a class where you can't just eat that snack? What do you do if you haven't learned to...
• Commented on Farmed Fish Anyone?
  Yup. “When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you can’t eat money.”...
• Commented on My Weight Loss Mission
  Diet is 80% of the battle, but you really can't lose weight effectively without dieting; but you don't have to belong to a gym to exercise. If you can get a hold of an barbell or dumbbell with weight plates...
• Commented on Farmed Fish Anyone?
  That's kind of depressing: we'd rather keep destroying our oceans to get those obsessed over Omega-3s rather than changing corporate agricultural structure (raising of ruminants, etc.) and to please our little taste buds....
• Commented on Glamour's "Shock" Photo Wins Praise From Women
  I, too, wish that more average women showed up in magazines but that goes with just wishing that not everyone in your average magazine was white. I really doubt, though, that a lot of those with eating disorders are influenced...
• Commented on Do I Need to Starve to Lose Two Pounds a Week?
  Neither high carb nor low carb foods are "healthy" just as neither high fat nor low fat foods are healthy. Real foods are healthy, just some taken in more moderation than others. If you are insulin resistant, then fewer carbohydrates...
• Commented on I've Lost My Focus Since Starting Exercise
  The Master Cleanse is probably one of the single dumbest things to suggest to a person looking to concentrate better....
• Commented on Orthorexia: Taking Healthy Eating Too Far
  That's kind of like saying anorexia is a term made up to describe people who are just very careful about how much they eat. If you look inside an orthorexic's head, he or she is just as obsessed an anorexic...
• Commented on What Is the Best Way to Keep Fit and Healthy?
  The only way you should be too tired to exercise after work is if you have an active job, in which case that would function as a part of the move more part of the equation. But even an active...
• Commented on Orthorexia: Taking Healthy Eating Too Far
  So, when I was unable to eat anything at a relative's home or a restaurant because I hadn't prepared it and made sure all the ingredients were "healthy" and was thinking about food constantly to the point of being almost...
• Commented on Orthorexia: Taking Healthy Eating Too Far
  Anyone who has orthorexia would be diagnosed with ED-NOS, Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. That's the catchall for anything that does not fit anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, so is where you would find binge eating disorder as well. Also,...