Make My Day - Yank newshound.

Baby Sampson
27 May 2008

Glassner announces we think food is good or noxious, holy or demonic. We pride ourselves on what we eat and don't eat. We outline our meals, and finally ourselves, not by what we've in them, but what we leave out. "Oh yeah? I have been doing Dean Ornish's no-fat diet for 3 years" they let us know.

"I won't even look at a pat of butter." They scowl and spit emphatically to show how much they don't like fat.

( For the record, many years back, I kind of did the Atkins diet for approximately fifteen months, and lost 45 pounds. I also attempted the Ornish diet for a week, and gained 5. They've a Puritan approach to their food. If we reject ourselves pleasure, they believe, we are holy. Or at least holier than those fat slobs chewing on an enormous Mac in the auto next to us. Those folks have no idea the joys of rice cakes and bottled water, sniff the Puritans. They'll never experience the joys of baked soy bean nibbles and skim milk. I have resigned myself to eating that cake with a pitcher of 2% milk, and never feel the same joy of food Puritans feel. And by joy, I mean doubling over from hunger pangs. Part of the difficulty is we get all sorts of data about what is good for us and bad for us, but nobody can agree. The Atkins Diet folk think we must avoid carbs, and eat more protein. The Ornish Diet folk gnash their teeth and shriek the Atkins folks should be detained. However, this parable was debunked harder than the clutzy kid falling out of bed at summer camp. But as for me and my house, we may eat steak.

Antony said:
I mihgt be barking up the incorrect tree but they believe George to reach that weight in 4 to 5 months.
29 May 2008 19:39:03

Milton said:
Bull ; Take a heart-healthy cooking class at a surgery or park district.
01 June 2008 08:29:32

fizot said:
Fundamentally, when I go in for my annual physical the doctor jokingly tells the nurse, dwn't bother to weigh him, it will be the same as last year.
10 June 2008 08:05:48

status said:
A wee bit off-topic.
10 June 2008 16:30:08

Jamel said:
What the ****! That post is totally…'****ing... crazy! I am going to have to scan it a few thousand more times?
15 June 2008 07:38:27

lukefc said:
The appeal of sliders is obvious : Theyre little hamburgers, for Gods sake.
17 June 2008 05:27:21

Peter Franco said:
Great site, Im nearly three quarters of the way through it. I intend to add a couple of queries afterwards
22 June 2008 19:59:06

Noe said:
JAM A-- Comparison of the Atkins, aea, Ornish, and LEARN Diets for Change in Weight and Related risk Factors Among Overweight Premenopausal girls : The compendium Weight Loss Study : A Randomized Trial, March 7, 2007, Gardner et al.
29 June 2008 12:23:30

Dalton Strong said:
Cool website, that was totally worth the wait.
30 June 2008 13:17:12

fidoadmin said:
Your body burns its fatduring a strategy consisting of four phases, the late Dr Robert Atkins developed.
07 August 2008 13:04:36

Harley said:
Mos tother diets, and there are uncountable of them out there, follow the principle of avoiding fat heavy foods.
06 September 2008 21:14:18

ebear said:
a stupendous bit of analysis
15 November 2008 15:12:22