Grr! New peeves
Oct. 14th, 2004 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helviragoOne of today's lovely bits of information on Netscape: "It's most likely what you drink--and not what you eat--that packs on the pounds." Apparently we're consuming 83 more calories a day from caloric sweeteners than in 1977, and 80 percent of it comes from drinks. Yadda. But here's what trips my trigger: "If you were to consume an additional 10 calories a day, in one year you would have gained a pound."
Right, cause it's strict caloric intake that governs weight loss, right? That's why the introduction of tons of diet and low-calorie foods over the last twenty years or so has so dramatically lowered the rate of obesity in this country -- I'm sorry, what? It hasn't? Well, gosh, could we possibly drop the happy fantasy, then? Not that what you eat doesn't affect your weight, it does. But speaking as someone whose weight never changed according to eating or exercise habits but only due to some mysterious internal mechanism (which is to say, for the second time in my life I've just gained 20 pounds in under three months with no real change in diet or behavior), it just ain't that simple. Christ. Ways to help manage your weight: good. Pretending that your weight is entirely due to whether or not you can resist the dessert tray: insulting, unhelpful, and stupid (but free!).
Here endeth the rant.
As a secondary note, the Leonard Cohen version of "Hallelujah" is a whole lot different from the Jeff Buckley, huh? Pretty fantastic. "You say I took the name in vain/ I don't even know the name/ But if I did, well really, what's it to you?"
Right, cause it's strict caloric intake that governs weight loss, right? That's why the introduction of tons of diet and low-calorie foods over the last twenty years or so has so dramatically lowered the rate of obesity in this country -- I'm sorry, what? It hasn't? Well, gosh, could we possibly drop the happy fantasy, then? Not that what you eat doesn't affect your weight, it does. But speaking as someone whose weight never changed according to eating or exercise habits but only due to some mysterious internal mechanism (which is to say, for the second time in my life I've just gained 20 pounds in under three months with no real change in diet or behavior), it just ain't that simple. Christ. Ways to help manage your weight: good. Pretending that your weight is entirely due to whether or not you can resist the dessert tray: insulting, unhelpful, and stupid (but free!).
Here endeth the rant.
As a secondary note, the Leonard Cohen version of "Hallelujah" is a whole lot different from the Jeff Buckley, huh? Pretty fantastic. "You say I took the name in vain/ I don't even know the name/ But if I did, well really, what's it to you?"
