tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556909554582956523.post1563285333973724093..comments2023-10-02T06:32:49.907-07:00Comments on The Thrifty Dieter's Blog: You can get healthy cheaply!: No, THIS is why you're fatMrsEvilGeniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02222509804838734889noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556909554582956523.post-87508236803442820492009-04-05T10:51:00.000-07:002009-04-05T10:51:00.000-07:00I think I love your blog. I will have to link to ...I think I love your blog. I will have to link to it. And get my own started.<BR/><BR/>I hate This Is Why You're Fat, precisely because they enjoy taking the piss outta fat people, but then they prescribe "remedies" that... here's a shocker... <I>keep fat people fat.</I> I also don't like their attitude about fat people generally. It's a health condition, not a moral failure--and when we're lied to left, right, and sideways about what "healthy eating" means, what else is going to happen? Eating the way the Health Nazis tell you to eat leaves you starving and cranky. Then you get disgusted and give up and say, "As long as I have to suffer, I might as well not starve in the meantime" and go right back to bad foods.<BR/><BR/>No no no no NO.<BR/><BR/>Campos? That one is a piece of work. I wholeheartedly embrace his crusade in behalf of children unfairly pegged as "abused" and "overfed" when they have other things going on, like the little girl in New Mexico who was tall for her age and had a full set of teeth at age one, yet her parents were supposedly "overfeeding" her. That's where my admiration ends. I read his book <I>The Obesity Myth</I> and he, like so many Fat Acceptance activists, seems to stick his head in the sand and ignore the fact that obesity is a symptom of metabolic illness in many people, whether self-imposed or not. Also, he seems to have a bug up his butt about women's rights groups, which had absolutely nothing to do with the central thesis of his book, and plays dumb about their efforts in body acceptance activism. Whatever your feelings about WR groups, it's not very nice to lie about them and pretend they aren't doing things they in fact are doing, when that information is easily available on the Internet.<BR/><BR/>anyway... yeah. I just got done reading yet another personal finance blog article about how it's more "frugal" to be vegetarian. Yeah sure, if you live in a country where you don't have health insurance co-pays...Dana Seilhanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11749354913843954242noreply@blogger.com