Mike

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• Commented on Booze Might Make You Kill Yourself!
  I hate this post. Everyone wants to demonize everything. I see some of the most happy well adjusted people in the pub. Yes, they have had a few pints. They are hurting no one. Just socializing. Crap, If I was...
• Commented on Movie Review: Bigger, Stronger, Faster
  What a well written post. We don't get to read balanced stuff like this much in the diet-fat-sphere. I have never taken steroids or have had them offered or seen them. Mind you I am not American but suspect most...
• Commented on 13 Big Fat Dieting Myths
  I think this was a great post. I agree with most of it. Though I suspect smoking a couple of cigs a day would not hurt anyone (ssuming you don't have an addictive tendency to tabacco. The only problem I...
• Commented on Salad vs. Big Mac: Which Has More Calories?
  I have never bought a salad from a supermarket. 800 plus calories is shocking. Would 60% of the calories come from the dressing and/or croutons/baccon bits/HG eggs?...
• Commented on Green Tea Fights Prostate Cancer
  It is all madness, isn't it. Good Luck to you....
• Commented on Green Tea Fights Prostate Cancer
  Interesting. I wonder where the punters are that claimed green tea is just a fad diet? Some people spend more energy bashing diets than being constructive. Unitl I went online I did not realize how tribal the diet community can...
• Commented on Today's Diets: A Remake of Yesteryear?
  I was curious if had any references. I was told by a researcher that obesity causes more health complications than smoking in the general public. who knows....
• Commented on Today's Diets: A Remake of Yesteryear?
  PS: I am not advocating my diet. It just seems to work for me. Good luck to you...
• Commented on Today's Diets: A Remake of Yesteryear?
  Thanks for the article. I now realize I have re-invented the wheel. I add apple vinegar to one glass of water a day. I have one cigarette a day after dinner. I count my calories. I started to chew my...
• Commented on HALT! Your Emotional Eating Habits
  I sometimes remember the poor, skinny, under-nourished starving people I've seen in developing countries. Then I imagine them mocking my fat ass and my fat ass problems. Wow, it works everytime. cheers,...
• Commented on How Effective is the Glycemic-Load Diet?
  Hi friend, I am pushing it hard but sincerely it does not feel like it. I am averaging 1400 calories a day and 2 hours excercise. A doctor recently told me I am doing fine but to be sure to...
• Commented on Vitamin D Improves Dieting and Weight Loss
  Interesting Ryan, that is what I am having for lunch tomorrow....
• Commented on How Effective is the Glycemic-Load Diet?
  You just can't give up. Okinawans are some of the longest living people in the world and they eat a low GI diet. I really think we are all wired differently. Each person will respond at a different rate. Can't...
• Commented on Food Allergies In Kids Linked To Obesity
  My son is just about 1 years old. All the food he eats my wife makes fresh. I was telling my mom and she could not believe it. I further told her in the grocery store aisle there is maybe...
• Commented on Vitamin D Improves Dieting and Weight Loss
  Sorry, I was confused the orginal article stated, "..calorie-restricted diet, which provided 750 calories a day fewer than their estimated total needs, for 11 weeks." The key word is fewer. cheers,...
• Commented on Vitamin D Improves Dieting and Weight Loss
  Wow, 750 calories a day for 11 weeks is pretty hard-core. Up to now I though 800-1000 calories a day, was considered a calorie restictive diet....
• Commented on Gout Now Afflicting More Americans
  Excess mentality goes well beyond just food and well beyond America's borders. It is all through the West....
• Commented on How Do Those TV People Get So Freaking Skinny?
  I don't think he adjective "freaky" to describe skinny is very usefull. Those kids on TV and in the Ads look like the majority of Japanese kids I see everyday. I went to a movie close to the US base...
• Commented on New Study Suggests Why Obese People Overeat
  Maybe it is not related but I have noticed something interesting in my diet. I try to maintain 1500 calories a day average. The days I eat 2000 I have more cravings to cheat. The days I eat around 1000...
• Commented on New Study Suggests Why Obese People Overeat
  Very interesting indeed. I hope these doctors and researchers get appropriate research grants. I imagine there is a tonne of politics involved but maybe some of the fat lobby groups could work on it and move from being reactive to...
• Commented on Stumbling Towards a Sensible Middle
  I have always taken issue with people who bash the steady state cardio. I am a fat guy with a reconstucted knee and it is all I can really do. That, and bicycling. Sure, walking 2 hours with a litre...
• Commented on Inside Look at Lamar Odom's Candy Addiction
  I suspect he is not cutting his hair rather he is shaving his "milk dud". I also suspect buddy won't be happy with your pun. I know a lady in her 90's who eats around a 1000 calories a day....
• Commented on Are Crash Diets Healthy Afterall?
  PS: check out the anti-jared blog. He lost 80 pounds in 2 months. It does not seem to have hurt him. Yet some have bashed him. I believe many on the bash-the-guy-who-is-losing-weight-fast bandwagon are suffering from tall-poppy syndrome and bigotry...
• Commented on Are Crash Diets Healthy Afterall?
  I've been losing 1 pound a day for 65 days on 1500 calories a day. I don't consider it a crash diet. My body is responding to a healthy diet and excercise routine the way it wants to. Yet the...
• Commented on Parents' Healthy Eating Has Little Influence on Children
  I would love to see a similar study done in Japan. Like the West things are changing for the worse it seems. Yet, I find there are way more healthy choices and society is not as tolerant of over weight...
• Commented on Poll: Who Shrunk My Chocolate Bar?
  Generally in Japan the chocolate bars are much smaller and there is not as large of selection. Further, I have never seen a chocolate bar vending machine while there is a soda machine on every corner. Last time my wife...
• Commented on Get Your Vitamin D And Keep Your Mind Agile
  For once I am doing something healthy almost everyday. Hanging out - outside in the sun....
• Commented on Is Gary Taubes Onto Something?
  Steve, of course I mean no disrespect to all the experts. I just feel people have to trust their own body sometimes. cheers...
• Commented on Is Gary Taubes Onto Something?
  Imagine if you had trusted your insticts, trusted your "reading" of your body in the first place and ignored the "experts" you would have saved yourself 3 miserable years before stumbling upon Atkins that reinforced what you were doing before....
• Commented on SAME Café: Pay Only What You Can Afford
  This just made my night. I love it. My faith in humanity ebbs and flows. Reading about this couple, their business and hearing it is working...it is rewarding. Sometimes I find the Diet blogsphere surreal in light of what I...