Comments on: Positive Eating

By: Nubian Fitness Goddess

Nubian Fitness Goddess — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:38:23 +0000

Great blog!

I’m going to look into this positive eating theory. Giving up food certainly doesn’t work for me. So it’s worth a try.

By: Liza

Liza — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:29:40 +0000

They couldn’t do better than Rachael Ray for this? How about, maybe…oh, I don’t know…a real chef? With a voice that doesn’t make me want to gouge my eardrums out?

By: Jackie

Jackie — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:18:12 +0000

It’s a great concept, however it does seem like they’re adding a side note at the end about food prep & cleaning up, that the reason the people are healthier is not only cause they eat well, but they’re also busy-bodying themselves.

Basically, you’re virtuous if you move around, and you’re un-virtuous if you go out to a resturant, eat exactly the same kinds of foods mentioned within the article, but don’t run around doing kitchen work.

I’m sorry if it comes across like I’m nitpicking, but it seems like there is now a subsection of fat bias, exercise bias. If you’re not running around like a hampster on a wheel, with your treadmill for an hour a day, well what do you expect except to be fat and have poor health. People should be able to live their lives the way they choose, and not be talked down to like a idiot, because they are doing things other than exercising.

I’m not saying exercising isn’t important, but someone shouldn’t be treated as if they deserve being fat, because they’re not spending their every waking hour obsessing over how much they’ve exercised. A lot like how people are penalized for admitting they don’t spend every waking moment of their day obsessing over calories, which I belive was once called Anorexia. Now it seems to be called eating healthily.

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By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:42:44 +0000

Oh my god that is GREAT!!!!!! That is exactly what I have been trying to do with my blog spot and I feel much better for it. Those were some REALLY interesting facts though. Normal weight people spend more time making food and people dieting have decreased. YAY I bet that is the first time it has decreased since god knows how long. This is most excellent knews and probably has made my day. Im so happy.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:05:23 +0000

Well it’s about time!

I was watching Gwyneth Paltrow on Oprah the other day and she said something interesting about how she got her body back into shape when Oprah asked if she dieted.
She said the moment she thinks of dieting or restricting her food or even starts obsessing with the scale she automatically starts putting on 5 pounds or more for no reason. So she stays away from diets except that she doesnt’ eat four legged animals.

So hopefully this idea with food that really starts becoming the norm because society is really getting twisted with it’s relationships with food.

By: CindyS

CindyS — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:19:20 +0000

This is pretty much what I’ve been doing for the past year, and I must say, it works well for me. I love being creative with cooking, and I’m doing more of it now that my hubby went vegetarian. It’s an interesting challenge to take favorites and find a way to make healthier versions that are still yummy.

By: Louise

Louise — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:42:44 +0000

Carrie at ED Bites blog has a post on why it’s not actually that great to have the nutrition information directly available: http://ed-bites.blogspot.com/2008/09/because-normal-is-hard.html . Personally I think the nutrition information at restaurants and cafes should be available only if you ask, for this reason. And in recipe books? No. You have the list of ingredients right there, it’s not that hard to work out the basic nutrition of the recipe. Get one of those pocket nutrition guides and read it, and you should be able to guesstimate pretty well the details of any recipe.

By: Just Me

Just Me — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:21:54 +0000

When I cook for myself, I don’t eact as much. The food is more satisfying and I enjoy the entire experience.

Unfortunately, I don’t cook for myself nearly as often. I tend to do the take out route much more than I should. BAD BAD BAD.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:58:54 +0000

It’s hard not to dwell on the bad bits of the article–I, too, as an inveterate home meal preparer and grocery/market shopper extraordinaire, having learned such skills from my excellent parents, take exception to the notion that it is a magic formula for thinness (or even only important BECAUSE of thinness), considering that my whole family is fat–but it is, as one says, a start!

(I think that even I might have to use the order of operations just to figure out that previous sentence. Sorry!)