On Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:30:19 AM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Don't be silly. Be reasonable. There are millions of people worldwide who > happily and healthily eat diets largely composed of carbs with few health > problems. Please don't be totalitarian. >
Exactly. blaming carbs in the context of obesity smacks of willful ignorance. People that stay weight neutral tend to have a healthy relationship with food regardless of carbs, fiber, grains, meat, vegetables, whatever. To Peter's point above, I don't vilify people who choose to an extra meal of potato chips and ice cream - but if that's an everyday thing, it's a very good example of what it means to have a poor relationship with food. Food should be nourishing, yet daily extra meals with no nutritional value is the norm for a lot of people because it comforts them. Using food for comfort or stress relief should be a huge red flag - that's an eating/lifestyle problem, not a diet/carb problem. Just like using alcohol to cope is a huge red flag. I recall reading that keeping a food journal is one of the top ways to lose weight - it forces one to be honest and accountable with respect to what and how much he/she is eating. it makes a lot of sense to me because it also gets to the "why" am I eating this or that if it's not nourishing and I'm not hungry. the extra food adds up quick - do the math on an extra 250 calories/day over 2 years. then do it over 5 years. if that extra 250 calories/day (a couple beers or a bag of chips or a bowl of ice cream) is the norm for two thirds of Americans, then the fact that two-thirds of Americans are overweight/obese makes perfect sense. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/gfSeWMV4nkYJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
