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The first episode was great. Then it went downhill.
This third and last episode of the BBC series The Men Who Made Us Fat contains some interesting insights into the food industry’s massive lobbying against any effective political regulation. But otherwise it’s just too stuck in the old simplistic fear of calories (and fat). It gets a bit boring too. Sad.
If you haven’t already I suggest you watch the first part instead. That’s truly worth seeing.
The sponsors for the 2012 London Olympics have been presented, to quite a bit of controversy.
Here are a few of them:
Here’s a great interview by a slimmed-down Alec Baldwin (now sugar-and-pasta-free). His guest is none other than dr Robert Lustig, who seems to be everywhere at the moment.
If you lack time for listening to the half hour show you can find the transcript here.
The first part of the BBC series The men who made us fat was great, revealing the disastrous mistakes behind the fear of fat.
This second part – on the supersizing of our food – is not as great. But it’s still interesting. The problem is that they interview mostly experts stuck in an old paradigm. They fear calories and “calorie-dense” foods. But there’s nothing wrong with calorie-dense food, as long as it’s high quality food: Continue Reading →
This is, unfortunately, not a joke. Morbid obesity is becoming completely normal in the US.
Who knows where this will end? If we just keep repeating the failed and simplistic “calories in calories out” dogma it won’t be pretty.
Who are the men who made us fat, and how did they do it? See this new and great BBC documentary to find out. It features many leading experts, including my favorites dr Robert Lustig and Gary Taubes.
Highly recommended.
When there’s articles like this published, there’s hope:
Here’s the seventh and last part of the great “Skinny on Obesity”-series, featuring dr Robert Lustig.
He makes the case that sugar should be regulated by the government, using taxes and limiting the availability, inspired by the way we already regulate cigarettes or alcohol. I know that government regulation is a controversial subject, especially in the US. But I think dr Lustig’s arguments are strong. The obesity epidemic is already an emergency. Not acting decisively will likely have bad consequences for us all.
Unfortunately this will be a long struggle against the sugar and fast food industry, similar to the one against Big Tobacco. It may be even harder as there’s even more money in food than in cigarettes. But the fight will have to be won. The alternative is just not acceptable.
Here’s episode 6 of the “Skinny on Obesity” series. It’s more conventional thinking than before: Stress makes you eat more.
Thats’s probably true, but it almost misses a bigger point. What kind of food do we eat in a “fast-paced, fast food life”? The food that is available everywhere, 24-7. The high sugar, high starch industrial food.
"Go ahead, eat your candy and cake"
I just saw the second episode of HBO’s “Weight of the Nation”. Oh, boy. Did they really have to burn money on producing a glitzy show with the exact same failed message that everybody has already heard X number of times before?
You know, the exact same advice that has failed us through the entire obesity epidemic. The same advice that repeatedly (at least 17 times so far) turns out to be the least effective when actually subjected to scientific tests. In a word, crap advice.
You guessed it: it’s all about desperately trying to ignore your hunger, counting your calories and eating “balanced diets”. And a balanced diet is as usual defined seemingly without a shred of science involved. A balanced diet is basically what the “experts” believe that you should eat.
This is the worst part: Any junk food can in theory be “part of a healthy balanced diet”. In fact, you shouldn’t even attempt to quit the junk food. You’re actually warned from even trying! Check it out: Continue Reading →
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