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MDPrevent’s Dr. Steven Charlap on why you get fat (emphasis mine): So when somebody, or for that matter anybody, tells everybody exactly why they get fat, consider it rubbish. As a doctor that treats...
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Paul Jaminet on why “eat less, move more” can backfire: On a malnourishing diet, “eat less” means even greater malnourishment. Less of a bad diet is a worse diet. Excessive exercise may over-stress the...
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In Slate, weight-loss “success story” Shannon Chamberlain (who once weighed 350+ and is now a size 12 “chubby side of normal”) says she doesn’t know anything about weight loss: The fact of the matter...
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Keep Kids off The Biggest Loser
Dances With Fat blogger and activist Ragen Chastain has created a petition to keep kids off The Biggest Loser. I’ve signed and would like to encourage folks to consider signing and sharing. This show...
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Quote of the day
Lots of folks are liking Michael Moore’s Facebook post on walking, weight, and happiness. A snippet: Quit trying to be something you’re not, be happy with the life you’ve been given, and just go for a...
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Via a Marsha Hudnall tweet comes this LA Times op-ed Why we diet. A section that resonated with me (emphasis mine): In one of the more interesting polls I’ve seen, more than three-fourths of the 231...
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Today’s annoying study: sugar and body weight
Here’s the difference between a blog and a medical journal. After publishing a free full-text meta analysis — Dietary sugars and body weight: systematic review and meta-analyses of randomised...
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Exercise: it does a body good!
What Amber at Go Kaleo said re carbs, metabolic health, and exercise (emphasis mine): I loved this short, and to the point post from Melkor on facebook today: “If you’re inactive, you probably don’t...
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Slim is simple?
Last Friday I received an email from Jonathan Bailor promoting a new initiative called Slim is Simple. According to Bailor, SIS is: an angel funded non-profit ancestral nutrition education organization...
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Slate’s Dan Engbar after watching a full episode of The Biggest Loser (~16:00): I found it shocking. Shocking! And compelling. … I was shocked at how fraudulent it is just from top to bottom. And I...
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Are you a foodist?
I’ve been a fan of Darya Rose’s (formerly Darya Pino) Summer Tomato blog for quite some time. I’ve often linked to her Intact Grains vs. Whole Grains post as a (IMO) valuable and moderate view in the...
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Set points and lean body mass
Bill Lagakos recently tweeted a 1958 paper/lit review by Max Wishnofsky titled the Caloric Equivalents of Gained or Lost Weight. Max was pretty much a CICO proponent back in the day, but he made a big...
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Quote of the day
Martin Berkhan: Just name your book The Stickup Diet next time. It would be more honest than robbing folks with expectations.
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Guest post: Thoughts on regain & reloss (part 1)
[I am thrilled to present my first-ever guest post on Weight Maven! Debra is on the National Weight Control Registry, and until she stopped blogging in October 2011 to pursue other opportunities, she...
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Isabel Foxen Duke thinks emotional eating is saving your ass … or at least, it might: Emotional eating is an attempt to deal with a tough problem, feeling, or situation we don’t otherwise know how to...
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Guest post: Thoughts on regain & reloss (part 2)
[As mentioned yesterday in part 1, Debra has been working through some regain and reloss and offered to share some of her thoughts in a two-part series. -- Beth] By Debra Sapp-Yarwood I am a person of...
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An end to the diet debates?
Sherry Pagoto, a clinical psychologist and professor at UMass Med School, has an editorial in the most recent JAMA calling for an End to the Diet Debates, specifically wrt diet composition. Here’s part...
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The Men Who Made Us Thin
I’m only a half-hour in to the first episode of The Men Who Made Us Thin, a four-part series from the BBC on the diet industry. Pretty amazing stuff. In the first episode, reporter Jacques Peretti...
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Social isolation and weight
Jessica Olien’s recent essay in Slate, Loneliness Is Deadly, discusses the social isolation she felt after moving from New York to Portland: Most of us know what it is like to be lonely in a room full...
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I get grumpy
You know what makes me grumpy? What looks to me like getting sloppy about causation and correlation. For example, Stephan Guyenet (who I think is fab) tweeted this yesterday: Is this really evidence...
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