Great News, America! It Appears We Can’t Possibly Get Fatter Than We Are

The Wall Street Journal reported that, for some reason, America’s rising obesity rate stopped rising in 2003. Actually, it’s not just the good ‘ol USA that this is happening in, but the entire world. Researchers don’t know why, exactly, so they trot this out – at least this is the summary from the reporter: The [...]

Fatty Foods Addictive as Cocaine in Growing Body of Science

Is the mainstream media starting to take notice? This article from Bloomberg is a must-read, I assure you. It discusses research that shows the addictive properties – real, serious, addictive responses to junk food as serious as the chemical dependency of drugs – occur. I think that while the entire article is worthy of a [...]

Food Paranoia

You know how you sometimes know things but really don’t know them? I had come across this article in the New York Daily News about veggie burgers. Veggie burgers are looked upon by many as superior replacement for the much-maligned hamburger made from ground up cows. Leaving out the fact that cows are considered a [...]

Fake Fat Makes You Fat – Stuns Researchers – Low Carbers Say ‘Meh’

The gist of this story about Olsetra, the fake fat that they sometime use in chips to lower the calorie count, shows that rats that eat the stuff not only eat more calories, but eat more calories even after they stop eating it. The writer of the story appears to be stunned, and writes the [...]

Do You Know What Your Veggie Burgers are Made From…Really?

Let me start by mentioning that I don’t know if this is for real. I hope not. The video above links to a story on a Japanese researcher who is perfecting a process of making artificial meat from human feces. (Long pause here to let that sink in…OK…ready to go on?) While there’s a lot [...]

Like Your Meat-Glued Steak Rare? Not So Fast…

(A quick update for anyone who follows my personal weight loss story – I’m maintaining my weight loss at about 220 from my high of 237 from the fall of last year. There. Now you know.) You learn something new every day. These days, however, it seems what you learn is a bummer. Next up [...]

Researcher: Losing Weight Doesn’t Improve Health Because People Can’t Lose Weight

Maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the dope. I’m not a researcher, but I simply don’t know how to grasp the following report out of Australia: Losing weight is often touted as a way to improve health, but many weight-loss programs may not help stave off disease since people tend to gain the weight back, Australian [...]

Big Breakfast May Make You Fat After All, Study Finds

Oops. We were wrong. Again. Maybe. I love nutrition studies. You can draw whatever conclusions you like, it seems. Probably because the problem is so complex that current science can only go so far into answering these type of questions. From MSNBC.com: a new study suggests that the only thing a big breakfast does is [...]

Losing Weight Fast Can Poison You

As if we fat folk don’t have enough problems already. This isn’t exactly new news – I had heard this years ago – but it did make the news cycle, so I thought it worth a post. From AOL News: If you’re working hard to achieve your New Year’s resolution of losing weight, you may [...]

Franklin’s Thirteen Virtues

The story I heard was that Ben Franklin, like most young men, was not necessarily destined for greatness, but at age 20 he resolved to better himself – and came up with 13 ‘virtues’ that he attempted to follow the rest of his life. it’s a good idea – and it worked for him well [...]

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