Comments on: Overweight Today, Disabled Tomorrow?

By: stuartlubin

stuartlubin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:50:03 +0000

Thank you, Gigi. I am a health nut too. I have been interested in better health through lifestyle since 1949!!! I have since become interested in the fungal connection to illness. I maintain the anti-fungal diet. I eat no grains and I am very low on the sugars.

I admit that I am negative. When I look around me and see how the drug, medical, and food industry have given us very few choices, I am negative because reality tells me that I have nothing to be a Pollyanna about.

My motivation in writing was to criticize Frank for writing about overweight when he never addressed the fact that eating and exercise (calorie counting) are not the only factors involved in obesity. Stuart

By: gigi

gigi — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:28:05 +0000

To answer Stuart – I buy mostly organic food but you can also make healthy choices in a regular supermarket. Yes you have to watch what you buy but you are much too negative….shop the perimeter of the store – the produce sections and the dairy case and the meat and fish etc etc are your best bets. The fruits and veggies may not be organic but they are much better than canned or processed ones made with sugar and salt and other ingredients you want to avoid. Even frozen veggies are a good choice. Keep away from the aisles that have the processed foods….read labels – learn which brands are purer than others…..there are more and more “natural” unadulterated products now then ever before because of consumer demand. Check the organic food section for soups with low (or no) sodium and only natural ingredients. Learn to cook easy and quick recipes at home – you will be healthier and happier for it. I have been a “health food nut” for most of my adult life – and it is much easier to make healthy choices now than ever before. When you leave out the junk food and the potato chips and the cookies, you will find your food bills are not much higher even if you buy “organic”. Good luck.

By: gerardine

gerardine — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:54:55 +0000

Over the years, I exercised, I was a runner, and I ran daily between two and five miles. I ate right; healthy foods, fruits, vegetables, the occasional sweets, within moderation. I kept my weight at a healthy range, I had low body fat. In 2004 I was hurt at work, twice, due to my physical strength, people looked at me oddly. You can’t be hurt! My job fired me; they couldn’t accommodate my work injury.

Then, my husband, who practiced martial arts for over twenty years, was hit by a car, on the express way by a young girl talking on a cell phone; as she drove her car well over the speed limit. Everyone else was in her way. His life changed.

We both found out that lawyers don’t help! The courts don’t help! The doctors don’t help! Everyone is out to help themselves. Leaving the cripple person wondering what they did wrong. Oh, in McHenry, Illinois, accidents happen. Ooops, you’re screwed!

Yes, exercise did help. We didn’t end up in at wheel chair yesterday, or today. Tomorrow is still to be written.

The main problem we ran into is the health industry in our state is sadly lacking. My first Physical therapist was fifty pounds over weight. She read a women’s magazine while showing me how to perform pelvic tilts, then she had me pick up boxes- the right way. My job was a Marketing Assistant; I wasn’t even supposed to be lifting anything at work.

Try and tell a doctor you have bad reactions to pain meds.

I know this Blog is about weight gain. If I had been fat, and out of shape; maybe I wouldn’t have been threaten so easily at my job into lifting boxes, instead, I would have let them fire me.

And my husband would never have gotten off the couch and been in that car. Today, he could have been fat, happy and not having daily seizures.

By: stuartlubin

stuartlubin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:24:30 +0000

Although it is phrased as a question, there is no doubt that you believe in negative, scare warnings to get people to be slim and to live healthier lives.
The fact of the matter is that, even if you stay away from fast food places and convenience stores, it is still very difficult to find healthful food in a supermarket. Every prepared soup has an unbelievable over abundance of sodium in it. The only way is to go to a health food store and pay twice as much for sodium-free soup, or make it from scratch. Natural foods are adulterated; genetically modified foods are all over; meats, poultry, etc. have been given hormones and antibiotics. What about people who cannot lose weight, no matter what they do because of hidden
substances in the food? Address those problems. They are real!