Huge weight loss is not an automatic indication of a healthy diet. I'm not saying that Paleo is unhealthy or healthy, but the correlation is definitely not causation.
No, it isn't. But I'm not generalizing, I'm talking about this girl, who I know quite well. When I met her, 8 years ago, she weighed over 300 pounds with a host of health problems including high blood pressure that needed medication, at age 22. She is now a size 10, very fit and strong, taking no medications, has two healthy kids, and is without doubt healthier than she was before. Weight Watchers and conventional diets didn't help her health. Paleo and CrossFit did. I can't say how that would work for anyone else (I tried CrossFit; it's not for me) but at least in A.'s case, her health improved with her weight loss, and her weight loss happened in the last two years with Paleo and CrossFit. I saw how she was on Weight Watchers; there's no comparison. She was miserable and tired and sick. It wasn't just "eating less and losing some weight", it was eating in this particular way that helped her.
(I kind of think people should eat whatever they want and people who don't want to eat that way should mind their own damn business. If the Paleo diet makes you happy, go for it. If living off of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches makes you happy, eat that instead. Nobody with enough privilege to choose a diet that has a name is going to die of malnutrition.)
IO9 has an article on Google easter eggs, so I tested if the 'askew' one still works, and now I feel nauseous...
She was miserable and tired and sick. It wasn't just "eating less and losing some weight", it was eating in this particular way that helped her.
Fair enough, that makes sense. The earlier shorthand did not. Thanks for the clarification! (and why did I think it was 'Suela who posted the original thing I was quoting? Dunno.)
Nobody with enough privilege to choose a diet that has a name is going to die of malnutrition.
I dunno, it's only privileged people who starve themselves to death in the midst of plenty out of obsessive fear of being fat.
Nobody with enough privilege to choose a diet that has a name is going to die of malnutrition
Well, they might not die of malnutrition specifically, but they could certainly fuck up their lives in nutrition-related ways.
All I figure is--you choose to eat it? Own the choice. If that means you die in a month of malnutrition? Own the choice.
(I am proceeding with the assumption that anorexia nervosa, et al, are not choices)
(I kind of think people should eat whatever they want and people who don't want to eat that way should mind their own damn business. If the Paleo diet makes you happy, go for it. If living off of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches makes you happy, eat that instead. Nobody with enough privilege to choose a diet that has a name is going to die of malnutrition.)
Agreed theoretically except for the huge health costs related to unhealthy eating of all stripes that we all pay for.
Agreed theoretically except for the huge health costs related to unhealthy eating of all stripes that we all pay for
I think due diligence extends as far as education and availability, and after that, it's like any other health risk consenting adults take upon themselves--our lot as a nation.
Tumblr just managed to bum me the fuck out (flippantly speaking). They definitely aren't the sort of stuff that's appropriate for goodstuff, although the news in each of them is eventually good--it's just the need is bad:
In totally other topics, I wonder if Order and Chaos Muppets would map to Scully and Mulder.
