Fat is no longer the enemy (I do not mean it is GOOD for you). Fructose is the new fat. It actually does convert to fat directly in your liver, hence the worldwide epidemic of childhood obesity. Sugar (including fructose) is addictive. I stopped it and lost (so far) fifty pounds without sweat. Watch the video by the pediatric diabetologist at UCLA (he is no quack).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

hello again. that bit about Nietzsche and the super race of ruling elites was hilarious. i gotta run out for a double wupper. listen to your body. it will tell you if you need more salt, or a binge on sugar. eat what appeals to you. this garbage about chemicals in the food is putrefying, but enough exercise usually perspires poisons. anybody else hungry?

Junk food is NOT like crack for the simple reason that the nanny state doesn’t treat them the same. Nanny is all over trying to ban Mickey D, but could not care less about crack.

Tobysgirl:
Of course doctors understand hypothyroidism. There is no secret pharma conspiracy. Did you know about your condition before a doctor told you?

Junk food is delicious. That’s why it sells so well.

The other reason you’re fat is because you eat too much and exercise too little. What are you doing to mitigate your thyroid problem?

Don’t blame pharma and doctors for your plight.

PHYSICAL STRENGTH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWLEDGE

http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/genealogytofc.htm

the philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche said that the most important things for a nation are the body, the diet and the physiology. And every thing else comes as consequence. And that’s why the greeks knew what they had to do and they did it. In this modern, industrial society of the spetacle, the body, the diet and the physiology is taken for granted. But as we can read in the book The Geneology of Morals only those superior men with superior physical strength will be able to be the caste of lords to rule the world:

“The knightly-aristocratic judgments of value have as their basic trait a powerful muscular body, a blooming, rich, even overflowing health, together with those things required to maintain these qualities: war, adventure, hunting, dancing, war games, and, in general, everything which involves strong, free, happy action.” -On The Genealogy of Morals. F. Nietzsche

Lift weights for the revolution. Arnold Shwarzenegger was correct when he claimed that this modern society of lap tops, playstations, nintendos, xbox, computers, ipods, cell phones is turning american males into girly, soft afeminate, muscularly weak men low in testosterone levels,  unable to have the necessary musclular will aggressiveness and manhood that are necessary for any revolution, popular uprising, rebellion and changes that the world demands.

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hello. i eat junk food until i am full. i can never be full of good crack. if i smoke just crack and force myself to eat junk food to survive, i will lose lots of weight. i mean if the crack is good, i will really have to force myself to eat. my brain on crack, fast food is crack:! this is a writer on drugs. think weed, dude, MUNCHIES man, like if you smoke weed, you over eat junk food and sit around all day playing expensive games, and in your mind you associate hunger to an addiction to food, man. what a concept man, like you would have a trigger mechanism in your brain to like eat something every time you get hungry. something like in your head man, tells you to call for a pizza, because you are like hungry. and tell the delivery man the front door is unlocked. i don’t like wanna get up, man.

What can one say to the unending stupidity we bring to the subject of food and fat? Did anyone notice the high level of cheap carbs in the “unrestricted” diet offered the test rats? Human beings have been eating fat for millennia, though not the rancid, low-quality fats in processed foods. What we have not been eating is mountains of white sugar and flour. Should we consider the fact rats will eat and eat and eat when offered essentially empty calories, their bodies searching for the nutrition they crave?

I am FAT and I find this kind of nonsense offensive. I don’t eat junk food because it doesn’t taste good; I am an excellent cook and we eat wholesome, well-prepared food. One reason I am FAT is because my hypothyroidism was not diagnosed for decades by the dimwits known as doctors. I didn’t begin thyroid medication until I could no longer read more than one sentence at a time. My thyroid had been swollen for years and I just accepted that I had an enormous lump in my throat. I had nearly died from a massive infection; infections are classic symptoms of hypothyroidism.

About 60 percent of hypothyroid people are obese, yet nurses and doctors are taught that hypothyroidism has nothing to do with obesity (as though one’s metabolism has nothing to do with weight!). I understand why this issue is suppressed in the U.S.A.; the pharma companies make huge profits from selling cholesterol-lowering drugs (thyroid medication lowers cholesterol), antidepressants (depression is another classic symptom of hypothyroidism), and other meds, and doctors are making fortunes carving people up for weight-loss surgery.

What I don’t understand is the stunning ignorance of hypothyroidism displayed in countries that have national health care programs. You might think they would be interested in exploring this issue, treating people, and saving billions of pounds and euros, but apparently not. The longer one lives the more one becomes aware of the unending depth and breadth of human ignorance.