Eating ourselves... to death (Part 1)

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  Posted by mike d Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:17pm PDT

  David, it's simple.

  Arrogance, and the American ego.

  We believe that we are invincible.

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  Posted by Elissa Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:36am PDT

  There's a lot of reasons while people eat crap, I don't think arrogance is one of them.

  There is no one who eats ONLY the healthiest foods and exercises and does everything perfectly right to extend their life as much as possible. Why? You're gonna die anyway and you may as well enjoy living while you're still here.

  Is that an excuse to eat crap? No, but people tend do what makes them happy NOW. Eating crap is instant gratification.

  It's really easy overeat. It takes a lot of self control to stay thin in our culture, but it's possible. Crap food is fast and cheap. Healthy food takes time to cook and fresh produce costs more. You need time to exercise. It's hard. People tend to stray away from hard. It's a lot easier to be fat.

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  Posted by omerlm Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:42am PDT

  Uh, it's definitely not just Americans, man. I can't believe I saw on ESPN that competitive eating is now an official sport. Both men and women... ugh. You know what, maybe our gluttonous asses deserve to die of heart attacks and organ failures, trying to process all the crap we shove in our mouths.

  You make your bed, lie in it. If you're a pig and disrespect your body and health, you'll pay in the end, and I have no sympathy whatsoever.

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  Posted by elninotheblog Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:56pm PDT

  "salty, fatty, sugary excesses of the Western Diet"- its not due to fat. Unless you're talking about the abundant vegetable fats that have been mass produced since 1910 when they learned to hydrolize vegetable fat to make it thicker and displace lard and butter and make huge profit. Is that the fat you were talking about? People are eating themselves to death because people like you (M.D.) keep telling them to eat foods that are not natural for them to eat and then someone comes along and makes it so cheap and ubiquitous that its practically unavoidable. EXAMPLE: HFCS, SOY, REFINED VEGETABLE OILS, SODIUM BENZOATE, SODIUM SORBATE, SODIUM SULPHITE, WHEAT/CORN. There you go, there is your salt sugar fat and the big killer you left out; grains. The amount of grains people are told to consume is the number one culprit in elevated blood sugar.

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  Posted by what Tue Nov 4, 2008 10:01am PST

  No, no, no. Whole grains that have things like protein and soluable fiber are not high glycemic. People need to start reading ingredient lables so they know if they are eating refined, stripped grains or the whole, heart-healthy kind.

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  Posted by elninotheblog Thu Nov 6, 2008 12:09am PST

  Oh pippin - you need to do some reading about the actual natural diet of human beings before agriculture and farming started. It swas only hten that we started eating these things. Its not natural.

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  Posted by Fritz S Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:39pm PST

  Ladies try this perporonie pizza it's good for you.

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