[Pining_4_TX]

I discovered this site recently and finally found health and fitness advice that made sense and did not buy into the hysteria about health and weight gripping the nation.

Take some time to browse this site and you will find product reviews, info about fitness scams and gadgets, and posts such as this one (check out the one on the Obesit Police) that deliver facts and some sanity to discussions of health, diet, and fitness.

[Nachum]

Excess weight is just a symptom and there’s no data that shows that added weight causes any diseases.

riiiigghht...

[wally_bert]

Thanks.

[Perdogg]

Do Zumba.

[Vigilanteman]

My paternal grandmother cooked and ate large meals with lots of bacon, eggs and other things the health nazis decry. I'm sure she was overweight, but she was active, butchered her own chickens and made her own beer.

She was in her late 80's when she had a stroke. When she came to and gathered her family around, she told them to please understand that she did not want to spend years in a nursing home, so don't try to force her to eat. She passed away peacefully just days later.

[fightinJAG]

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[ravingnutter]

Well, I do have to agree with what they say on that website about the basal metabolic rate. Besides being on steroids prior to hip replacement surgery, one of my problems was that although I was exercising 1 hour a day, I was eating too few calories in a futile attempt not to gain the weight. I finally refused the steroids and lived with the pain until surgery, but had to stop working out except for water aerobics, I still didn't lose weight. After the hip surgery, I adjusted my diet to include more calories and have now lost 25 lbs. since the middle of June.

As for being healthy at any weight, the additional weight is just not good for your joint health, so I tend to disagree with them on that. You may not die sooner, but you will have "higher maintenance" costs. I do have broader shoulders and wider hips than most women, but that is not from fat, it is genetics. I get many compliments on my curvaceous figure.

However, I do joke that I lost the "big boned" argument when my doctor said my femur was smaller than normal so he had to order a special part ; )

[Darnright]

Carbs against Cardio: More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=carbs-against-cardio

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