Pork rinds are delicious.

FTA:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 65% of adults and 40% of children are overweight.

that's just scary.

I remember a while back, when the healthcare stuff was in vogue to talk about, a local AM radio talk show host was asking the question:

should fat people pay more for health insurance, or, since there are more fat people than thin people, should we just use the power of our majority and make thin people pay more for healthcare, so that we get the benefit.

/ not from georgia... but there are some fat people in louisiana... however, I don't see very many obese people in new orleans.

jagec: The Atkins diet may be slightly better than the swill that your average fatty eats, but it ain't exactly healthy.

I was going to say that. Atkin's has been on the list for many, many years as a dangerous fad diet. Why anyone would still do it today is a little scary.

Oh and overweight.obesity is getting pretty scary. I was sitting in the mall food court (not eating, just sitting) the other day waiting for my husband to finish shopping and decided to count the number of overweight vs. healthy for adults, teens, and kids. I had to stop when the number of fat people was about double the number of healthy people in all categories because it was just too damn depressing. Especially seeing the kids like that (usually paired up with a behemoth mother). Totally your choice to be a fat ass adult, but once you subject your kids to that you are a horrible person that doesn't deserve to have kids.

hailin: jagec: The Atkins diet may be slightly better than the swill that your average fatty eats, but it ain't exactly healthy.

I was going to say that. Atkin's has been on the list for many, many years as a dangerous fad diet. Why anyone would still do it today is a little scary.

because the people that label it "a dangerous fad diet" are either "nutritionists" who know jack-shiat about how the body actually works and uses nutrients, or your average misinformed "smart-guy" who believes in a neo-puritan universe where the only way to lose weight is through suffering and denial.

/Lost well over 100lbs (in slightly more than three months) going low-carb as a last resort after spending years trying that "low-fat, high carb" idiocy the AHA used to recommend

//10 years later and me even back to eating anything I want, the pounds are still gone

///Thinking of returning to the LC diet anyway because I think it's healthier for me than taking two kinds of BP pills a day (BP on the diet is the same as when I medicate for it. On a normal diet my BP sits around 180/100 on pills and or LC diet it drops to about 125/80

Carth: It is even worst at Disney World. Whole families of fat people riding around on scooters eating turkey legs and complaining about the heat.

I loved Disney World until about five years ago. They let the same amount of people in, but lots of them are really fat, so it is hard to move around anymore. I got my foot run over TWICE by those stupid scooters and both times the fat ass just continued on without a care in the world. The FastTrack passes used to be cool, now they are only worth knocking 30 minutes off your wait time. I refuse to go back. I'd rather go to Six Flags or Busch Gardens then deal with the DIsney Nightmare again.

Fat people have to gravitate to the Southern states. If they stay north of the Mason-Dixon line, the cold weather would cause all the hydrogenated oils in their veins to congeal and kill them instantly. Staying in warm weather keeps the oils in a liquid state, lengthening their lives.

Magorn: because the people that label it "a dangerous fad diet" are either "nutritionists" who know jack-shiat about how the body actually works and uses nutrients, or your average misinformed "smart-guy" who believes in a neo-puritan universe where the only way to lose weight is through suffering and denial.

/Lost well over 100lbs (in slightly more than three months) going low-carb as a last resort after spending years trying that "low-fat, high carb" idiocy the AHA used to recommend

//10 years later and me even back to eating anything I want, the pounds are still gone

///Thinking of returning to the LC diet anyway because I think it's healthier for me than taking two kinds of BP pills a day (BP on the diet is the same as when I medicate for it. On a normal diet my BP sits around 180/100 on pills and or LC diet it drops to about 125/80

No, it is no only nutritionist or smart guys, it is scientist with decades of knowledge labeling it as dangerous. Atkins promotes low carb which is good, but also protein...but not LEAN protein. Eating red meat for lots of meals is terrible as it contains tons of fat and a high amount of cholesterol. The diet also downplays the importance of low-sodium eating. People have actually developed heart disease doing the Atkins diet which is pretty damn serious.

Low-carb is also a silly phrase. Your body needs carbs (and not AHA recommended, we need much less), but not bad carbs such as bread, pasta, rice, or processed crap. Carbs also come in the form of fruits and vegetables, which you should be eating tons of anyway. So if you cut out refined sugar, processed grains, and bread/pasta and just eat more fruits and vegetables you will be much healthier in the long run. Also coupling that with eating lean protein (chicken, fish, tofu, etc.) and a little bit of healthy fats (like olive oil and nuts) then you are getting everything you need.

Atkin's is not the only low-carb diet out there. If you want a healthy and sustainable diet that is backed by many scientific studies as being healthy and effective check out the DASH Diet.

/Congrats and losing the weight

hailin: jagec: The Atkins diet may be slightly better than the swill that your average fatty eats, but it ain't exactly healthy.

I was going to say that. Atkin's has been on the list for many, many years as a dangerous fad diet. Why anyone would still do it today is a little scary.

Because people think, "Oooo, I can eat all the hamburger and red meat I want and lose weight!" And, initially, the weight DOES come off because they're not loading up on carbs. But in the meantime, they're picking up some really horrific eating habits (like pork rinds, bacon, & beef jerky, eggs, and, I swear to God, a White Castle burger w/o the bun as snacks).

hailin: Magorn: because the people that label it "a dangerous fad diet" are either "nutritionists" who know jack-shiat about how the body actually works and uses nutrients, or your average misinformed "smart-guy" who believes in a neo-puritan universe where the only way to lose weight is through suffering and denial.

/Lost well over 100lbs (in slightly more than three months) going low-carb as a last resort after spending years trying that "low-fat, high carb" idiocy the AHA used to recommend

//10 years later and me even back to eating anything I want, the pounds are still gone

///Thinking of returning to the LC diet anyway because I think it's healthier for me than taking two kinds of BP pills a day (BP on the diet is the same as when I medicate for it. On a normal diet my BP sits around 180/100 on pills and or LC diet it drops to about 125/80

No, it is no only nutritionist or smart guys, it is scientist with decades of knowledge labeling it as dangerous. Atkins promotes low carb which is good, but also protein...but not LEAN protein. Eating red meat for lots of meals is terrible as it contains tons of fat and a high amount of cholesterol. The diet also downplays the importance of low-sodium eating. People have actually developed heart disease doing the Atkins diet which is pretty damn serious.

Low-carb is also a silly phrase. Your body needs carbs (and not AHA recommended, we need much less), but not bad carbs such as bread, pasta, rice, or processed crap. Carbs also come in the form of fruits and vegetables, which you should be eating tons of anyway. So if you cut out refined sugar, processed grains, and bread/pasta and just eat more fruits and vegetables you will be much healthier in the long run. Also coupling that with eating lean protein (chicken, fish, tofu, etc.) and a little bit of healthy fats (like olive oil and nuts) then you are getting everything you need.

Atkin's is not the only low-carb diet out there. If you want a healthy and sustainable diet that i ...

Actually, yopur body doesn't need a single carb. This has been proven in several studies in the 1930's in which a researcher went well over a year eating nothing but meat and water. We use carbs as our primary energy source, but when you fully commit to a low-carb diet your body uses fat in almost exactly the same way. That's why Atkins et. al don't advocate eating only lean meat. Because in Ketosis, the fat content of what you eat is utterly irrelevant. In that state, you do not make body fat out of dietary fat, it simply passes through your system unused. Same thing with cholesterol. When Glucagon is the dominant body hormone instead of Insulin, your cells stop producing cholesterol internally and instead the switch gets turned out that makes your body scavenge them from the bloodstream instead. This means your overall serum Cholestrol level goes down AND what's left is proportionally higher in the "Good" HDL and lower in the "Bad" LDL and that even if you are eating bacon and eggs for three meals a day.

It doesn't make any rational sense until you really dig down in to the science of eicosanoids (micro hormones that effect BP, Breathing, cholesterol production etc) and the ones that Insulin and Glucagon cause your body to produce

elysive: Magorn: because the people that label it "a dangerous fad diet" are either "nutritionists" who know jack-shiat about how the body actually works and uses nutrients, or your average misinformed "smart-guy" who believes in a neo-puritan universe where the only way to lose weight is through suffering and denial.

/Lost well over 100lbs (in slightly more than three months) going low-carb as a last resort after spending years trying that "low-fat, high carb" idiocy the AHA used to recommend

//10 years later and me even back to eating anything I want, the pounds are still gone

///Thinking of returning to the LC diet anyway because I think it's healthier for me than taking two kinds of BP pills a day (BP on the diet is the same as when I medicate for it. On a normal diet my BP sits around 180/100 on pills and or LC diet it drops to about 125/80

Egads! What would nutritionists know about diets! Fo sho.

I bet you could ditch the "eat anything you want diet" and try the revolutionary healthy diet+exercise method to maintain your weight/BP and feel better. Healthy diet generally means to eat mostly veggies, fruit, LOTS of lean protein and then WHOLE grains (not tons of carbs, but enough because carbs are the body's preferred fuel, especially for those of us who exercise). Everyone's body is different, but I don't see how an extra serving of saturated fat and sitting on your ass, regardless of your BMI, is going to make you feel better when you are sixty. Exercise (and food that fuels it) really is the best investment any person can make for their health.

I'd take that bet and all your money to boot

YOu think I tried Protien Power for fun? Try as a last resort. In my early twenties I gotten up over 300lbs (about 320) and decided I had to do something. And forThree YEARS I tried combining a low fat diet with about an hour a day, EVERY Day, in the gym (1/2 areobic {bike, rowing machine, treadmill) 1/2 lifting {even as went over 350 I could still do a pull-up})

My weight went from about 322 to 318 after three years. Then I got a full time job and I was able to hit the gym only about three times a week, and I ballooned to about 368 over the next year, despite trying to eat low fat, limit my protions severely etc.

A friend gave me a copy of Protein Power and said it had worked for them, so I read it. Based on everything I knew at the time it seemed farking INSANE to me- I was as likely to do this as I ws to invest based on an economics textbook written by Ron Paul.

But-I was desperate, and unlike Atkins PP takes a long time explaining the science behind thier assertions and referencing clinical studies and peer-reviewed science to back up the claims.

I decided to give it One week. At the end of that week I'd lost ten pounds, and for the next two months I basically lost two pounds A DAY (I have a Dr's office quality Beam balance scale) That was combined with the BP drop, and the fact that when I went back to the gym a week later I could DOUBLE my usual areobic work out. (another side effect is that it opens up your airways dramatically, when I got my dad to try it (an ex smoker who has had astma and emphesma most of his life- he went from needing his rescue inhaler 3-4 a day to 3 or less times a week)

Needless to say I dove in after that, and the thing that made it very easy for me was that a) I NEVER felt hungry (contrasted with being reduced to an almost ravenous state if I didn't eat by 2pm ever day before) b) I felt like i ad permission to EAT so long as i ate the right stuff (something that as a fat fark, I tried not to do much of, and almost none at all in public previously)

Came here to see more people make fun of the fatties in my state, not argue over diets. Come on Fark, get with it!

I work in an office of 12 people where 3 of them regularly ride an elevator from the first floor to the second because they don't want to use the stairs.