tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32246421.post5479988572530851380..comments2023-10-10T01:03:46.375+12:00Comments on Food &Health Skeptic: jonjayrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363092874281160320noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32246421.post-76690577497493678052009-07-01T04:26:45.025+11:302009-07-01T04:26:45.025+11:30You wrote: "your weight is mostly genetically...You wrote: "your weight is mostly genetically determined".<br /><br />Obesity in the USA trended upwards exactly as the Food Pyramid was introduced into the society.<br /><br />Indeed the correlation between initial fat demonetization and a highly unhealthy looking form of obesity quite different from that seen by myself in the early 80s in Europe was "genetically determined", but no more so than it was "biologically determined".<br /><br />My own 4 month transition from a grumpy, dopamine addicted, sex maniacal, indigested and grogginess prone self to a person who has lost most body cavity fat and is now inches smaller in waistline and never groggy was a "genetically determined" change in overall physiology caused by trauma induced lack of food intake followed by equilibration with an entirely altered (for the better) environment in which a truly bad arms race of an emotionally abusive relationship of 17 years was suddenly no longer a part of my life.<br /><br />In the first case, diets changed, and in my own case only my mental life changed.<br /><br />-=NikFromNYC=-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32246421.post-60683935836341244342009-06-29T09:31:03.901+11:302009-06-29T09:31:03.901+11:30Kessler - “The real problem is we have created a w...Kessler - <i>“The real problem is we have created a world where food is always available ... food is simply impossible to resist.”</i> <br /> <br />So humans messed up. We must go back to starving! How dare we enjoy food rather than exulting in its scarcity! Indulging in pleasure is heinous, surpassed only by getting others to help us by providing stuff like food! <br /> <br />Yes, too much of almost anything is generally bad (we'd quickly die in an oxygen-only atmosphere...) but this overblown end-of-the-world junk is dangerous idiocy.John Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00801684602403824157noreply@blogger.com