This blog is about obesity and the inanity/insanity it spawns, the encroaching lawsuits and growing diet industry. Obesity is a matter of genes and personal responsibility. You can have an endocrine problem, or you can have a balance problem (too many calories and too little exercise). It’s not where you eat, but how much you eat; it’s not McDonald’s fault, or Mama’s fault, or Washington’s fault if your body is too fat or too thin. Rosabelle.
posted by Rosabelle 5:12 PM
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I've heard that keeping a log or notebook is a good way to lose weight. I say this site, Pounds2Go, at someone else's blog. It appears to be sort of a group blog where members can log in and write about their progress or lack of it, and others can comment and encourage. I'm not a member.
posted by Rosabelle 4:59 AM
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According to a 1996 survey of more than 100,000 American adults, 34.9% of the men and 40.0% of the women were trying to lose weight by consuming less fat.[1] More recently it has been estimated that 40% of American consumers are watching their carbohydrate consumption.[2] Despite the low-fat-vs-low-carb controversy (which dates back at least 180 years when Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a French attorney, warned consumers of high-carbohydrate diets that they would "die in your own melted grease"), there is still no compelling evidence that dieting by itself produces permanent weight loss. Rather, the ongoing debates serve only to distract the ever-increasing population of overweight Americans from making the changes that could result in permanent weight loss, or at least a reduction in the rate of weight gain.
Continues here. The site may require you to register--I've been using it for over 10 years, so I don't know what cookies it may have inserted here.
The article appears in Medscape General Medicine, "On the Futility of Dieting"
Posted 11/01/2005, by Edward Abramson, PhD.
posted by Rosabelle 5:33 AM
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