[Diana in Wisconsin]

[kiryandil]

The peasants are easier to control if they’re all on pills of some sort...

[ClearCase_guy]

I believe nothing at this point. Both my parents lived lived very healthy lives -- good diets, lots of exercise, no smoking, etc. etc. Neither one lived long enough to collect Social Security. I know a lot of old, fat, smokers who are living on the beach in Florida.

I pretty much do what I want. It all seems like a crap shoot.

[JRandomFreeper]

Standard weekday breakfast is eggs, sausage and hash browns.

Sunday morning breakfast is dark beer, stewed tomatoes and smoked herring.

I eat what I want when I want. The 'experts' can pound sand.

/johnny

[onedoug]

Kashrus works fine for me. It makes one think about the diet as a means of being One with God.

Or it can.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

There is so much conflicting information out there about what you should or shouldn’t eat that I tend to ignore nearly all of it and just eat what I want.

[BreezyDog]

Old news...

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“oatmeal”

Ugh! Give me my Grits! Butter, salt and pepper and I’m happy. But I just discovered sprinkling Parmesan cheese onto grits. Great! Oatmeal, ugh!

[southern rock]

Animal-based fats, far from being dietary demons, are actually good for us

This is so much meat and dairy industry propaganda it's comical. But people believe it because it is easy and they want to.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

In the end it will turn out to be genetics. There will be something that determines how fast each persons telemers unravel. The faster they unravel, the sooner you die. Regardless of what you ate, drank, smoked, etc.

If they find something that re-ravels telemers, then we'll all live forever.

whoopee.

[rarestia]

This is very exciting, and I hope Americans catch on quickly. I’ve been obese almost my entire life except for 2 glorious years from 2006-2008 when I dropped 165 lbs. in just over 16 months by completely removing carbohydrates from my diet and vigorously exercising.

After marrying my wife, we fell into the rut of eating out all the time, consuming inordinate calories through alcohol and large portion sizes are restaurants, and I was actually floored how fast the fat piled back on when my diet changed.

This research needs to be echoed across the land. America’s obesity problem started in the 80s with the garbage food pyramid pushed by the Reagan administration (sorry, Ronnie), and we’ve grown exponentially as a society since then. The answer is right in front of us! Fat does NOT make us fat.

[zeebee]

This article is right on the money.

[SkyDancer]

I’d rather live fewer years and enjoy what I eat than have to eat some of the swill we are told are healthy for us. As Mark Twain wrote: “My habits protect me but they’re liable to assassinate you” - people are different - what works for one may not work for another. You read about ninety year old’s drinking and smoking but yet a non-smoker sixty year old dies of lung cancer.

[RoosterRedux]

I just prepared and fed my 94 y/o mother an Oscar Mayer bologna, bacon, and tomato sandwich for dinner. I hope it doesn’t kill her.

[Tau Food]

I think we are all a bit different. If you're healthy and trim, there probably isn't any need to change what you're doing. But, if you're obese and out of shape, you need to make some changes. I know a lot of fat, physically unfit people, but I don't know any that are happy about it. Many of them are ignorant and just don't know why they are like they are and a lot of them just don't have the inner strength to change the way they do things.

Eat normal proportions of healthy food and get exercise and you'll be much more fit. Learn about nutrition and try to get to the gym everyday.

[TEXOKIE]

bttt

[BenLurkin]

Oatmeal is good stuff.

[Vince Ferrer]

One of my favorite scenes in any movie, Woody Allen wakes up 200 years in the future:

Sleeper Breakfast

[southern rock]

Thought you’d be interested. People are soooo desperate to believe that bacon is a health food and cholesterol should be a beverage. You have to laugh.

[dalereed]

i swore off oatmeal over 70 years ago, it’s nothing but horse food!