Diet Foods Will Cause Obesity, Not Cure It

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jondoe — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:10:43 GMT

can anyone explain to me some examples of foods that contain Aspartame? I also would like to know what types of things I can do to clense my body of toxins....I have recently started to work towards a better lifestyle.......can I be a vegetartian and still get all the nutrients i need to help my body recover from all the weight training, triathlons, half marathons i do? also what about building muscle with just a vegetarian diet? dont I need meat to help my muscles recover? what about calcium from regular milk? what can i do to replace the pasturized milk im drinking to make sure i get enough calcium to help my bones and other bodily functions? thank you

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Haras — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:50:48 GMT

People get freaked out when they come to my house for dinner as nothing is "diet", "low fat", "fat free" or "low calorie". They get served full fat icecream or raw cream for desert, I never trim the fat from my free range meat, I use eggs, cream, fat and oil liberally. They think I'm trying to poison their efforts to lose weight (EVERY ONE always seems to be dieting, well my female friends at any rate). They all want to know my secret for maintaining my weight (i'm 165cm and weigh 56kg) and when they come around for dinner and I explain that this is how I eat ALL THE TIME they just don't get it - they think I must have some amazing metabolism (I try and tell them it's just a normal metabolism thanks to a diet that keeps my insulin levels low). I get sooooo frustrated, especially when they're offended that I won't eat their diet foods or drink their diet coke when I go to their house for dinner.

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Shesamazingnyc — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:37:34 GMT

One of my SILs is overweight and currently taking Alli (!!!). She is a 26 year old woman, maybe 20-25 pounds overweight. She runs EIGHTY miles per week and works out DAILY. I marvel at how she can be so active and still chunky. But she drinks diet soda almost exclusively, drinks a lot of alcohol and eats a lot of "diet" food. Everything is low-cal, sugar-free, fat-free, etc. I'm pretty sure she eats more chemicals than actual food. I know she is frustrated with her weight (especially since she is trying so hard to be thin), and when my husband tried to point out what's wrong with her diet, she shut him down. She really believes her diet is "healthy" and we are crazy hippies. I just keep my mouth shut and try to be a good example of how eating full-fat whole foods can give you a healthy, slim body.

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Michael Vincent OSullivan — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:55:36 GMT

Interesting stuff - might say food for thought. I have a son who is dieting, must forward this to him

many thanks. Mike O

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bagarino — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:24:58 GMT

Glad this has been pointed out again. My poor father (dead nearly a year now, type II diabetes) was a sucker for all these low fat (so therefore high carb) foods. I tried to explain to him that fats help deaden the appetite but nothing doing. One energy dense food that I find extremely effective in appetite suppression are almonds... 50g (2oz for the metrically- challenged) and I don't get a single hunger pang for 3 hours.

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LloydFromUtah — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:31:36 GMT

My 15-year-old daughter died in 1999 of complications of a heart attack. This Arrythmatic heart attack was likely caused by excitotoxins in the peperoni pizza and diet soda she had the day of the heart attack. Nowhere on any of the foods or drinks she had that day warned of the possibility of death. Find out about the foods you're children are consuming, it could save his/her life.

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pmjj — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:36:27 GMT

Here's a good one...I've had many a parent tell me THEIR reason for feeding their children diet soda as opposed to regular soda. Ready? Because, they tell me, DIET soda doesn't leave a residue on the CARPET. Regular soda leaves stains. So they don't have to worry about whether their kids spill because it's an easy clean-up. Are you nauseated yet? :>/

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colefamily — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:47:11 GMT

This was a very good article. I am an elementary school teacher and have been working diligently on educating parents of the dangers of processed foods and the importance of balanced nutrition. I am greatly concerned over the rising number of obese children in my classroom which which I see is largely due to prepackaged meals and fast food. However, it never crossed my mind that it would also be important for parents to know how many calories their child should be consuming in a day. Does anyone happen to know how many calories a child of 6-7 years of age should consume in a day? And if not, does anyone know of any good websites that could help me with this? It would also be helpful to have a suggested healthful sack lunch menu with the appropriate calorie content so I can give parents the tools they need to help their children.

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curious7 — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:40:27 GMT

No mystery here, what better way to milk the public, than to tell them this wil help you loose weight, but in reality, quite the opposite. The more diet foods I sell, the more money I make. It is all about the money.

At the same time, we dumb down the next generation, so they cannot figure things out. Smart, no.

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samurai — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:30:27 GMT

Without deviation, obese people love their diet sodas.

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Marylyn Roh — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:53:27 GMT

Such a travesty that such deception is prevalent in the food industry. The media hype et al that promotes products that buyers unknowingly purchase that harm us all by subtle addiction to ingredients, is for us to become aware of. We don't need to fight this problem - but replace it with increasing health education for all citizens in every age group with the emphasis on well-being - rather than scaring us all with the negatives of the hundreds of diseases we've manage to think our way into." What one resists, doth persist" (Carl Jung) - so let's keep the emphasis on positive results rather than the statistics of the dire results of our diet ignorance.

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neroli moonstone — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:39:33 GMT

I agree , I have seen this time and time again when the wrong perception is created about a food and esp with children who can become very confused. Often people do very well whilst on the diet and then they put all the weight back on if not more within a fairly short time frame. The yo yo syndrome which is exaserbated even more with foods such as those in this article.

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DizzyIzzy1 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:58:02 GMT

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that aspartame is also more likely to make you put on weight by the way it latches onto and 'bloats' your fat cells?

Funny how aspartame is always left out of these things too.

Oh well, I'll just go and pour myself a nutritious Diet Coke and wait and see. (har har, yeah right.)

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mmc88121 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:02:20 GMT

A well balanced diet of unprocessed foods and exercise are the best for anyone.

Mary

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Reesacat — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:40:11 GMT

What this article left out was most diet foods (to make up for the loss of taste) add taste enhancers like MSG or forms of MSG (glutamic acid, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, natural flavors) that are in fact appetite stimulants.

Diet food=less nutrition, appetite stimulants.