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To: cyborg

The basic facts of a healthy diet (note... diet meaning food intake, NOT food reduction) seem far beyond the basic person's grasp. We pride ourselves on gym memberships and exercise, and yet I know of few people who do the work figuring out exactly what it is they are putting in their bodies.

Habitually, I stay beneath the caloric intake guidelines, that's just the way I am.

And STILL I have a hard time explaining to people that there IS a difference between margarine and butter, that bacon isn't necessarily a good choice, and that fruit eaten daily curbs the appetite.

Maybe we are all making incrimental changes, and I am not able to see the forest for the trees. But I STILL believe weight is going to be one of our nation's health concerns for generations to come. Where has personal responsibility gone?


57 posted on 08/30/2006 1:02:33 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife ("Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. "--Aeschylus)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

Agree 100%


60 posted on 08/30/2006 1:04:46 PM PDT by cyborg (No I don't miss the single life at all.)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

>>>and that fruit eaten daily curbs the appetite. >>>

Not for some hypoglocemic sensitive people. That's what gets me, people assume because something works for THEM, it surely must work for everyone.


73 posted on 08/30/2006 1:21:59 PM PDT by sandbar
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