When fat things happen to good people. On being thin, fat, and your false assumptions.
"Such crazy thoughts in that Aussie article!" Do you think that if only you do the right thing —eat a healthy diet, exercise, get enough sleep—then you will achieve your dreamed of weight, live free of disease and live happily ever after? This, dear readers, is a fairy tale. If you believe that eating nutrient packed, low calorie foods is solely responsible for whether or not you get cancer, or arthritis or MS, think again. And don’t be fooled by the preaching of Dr. Fuhrman in his book, Eat for Health , that health equals nutrition divided by calories , period. Health is not such a simple equation. And no, eating whole grain, veggie packed meals won’t protect you from an eating disorder either. If you think that eating 'right' ensures thinness, as was recently emphatically suggested in a popular newspaper article in Australia, it is yet another fantasy. And if you torture your overweight self with the belief that you must lose weight--at all costs, and that your ...