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To: livius
These people are flakes but they know how to make money on it. A young female relative recently went off to a six-week, $50,000 program to cure her "food addiction." She's barely even overweight.

In all fairness, there does exist a problem with the way people eat, but like always, the left turns it into a government issue, and not a personal responsibility.

I've always played sports and never been overweight, but I got hypoglycemia because I was eating so poorly. I went to stay with my aunt for a while (she's a nutritionalist) and I actually went through a week of sugar withdrawal. Shaking, headaches, irritability, the whole shebang. Its amazing how unhealthy food is in general these days. There's so much transfat, sugar and chemical in everything.

But charging people $50,000 to help them learn to eat better? That's ridiculous! And lawsuits are even more so.

16 posted on 12/01/2006 3:14:42 PM PST by The Blitherer (Fight On!)
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To: The Blitherer
and I actually went through a week of sugar withdrawal. Shaking, headaches, irritability, the whole shebang

So you agree that food is addicting? Or, that at least sugar is?

Its amazing how unhealthy food is in general these days. There's so much transfat, sugar and chemical in everything.

What's truly amazing is the nonsense that some people will believe. They are exactly what the food Nazi's hope for. Trans fat makes up less than 3% of the diet of the average American. Is sugar unhealthy or is the overconsumption of sugar unhealthy? Can you name one food that isn't made up of chemicals?

You may think lawsuits are ridiculous but it seems that you're in favor of something being done. Can the government, by exerting greater control over what we're allowed to eat, stop food from being so unhealthy in general these days?

36 posted on 12/01/2006 4:01:44 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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