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The 100 Year Diet

Nicole @CookingSlim.org — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:34:31 +0000

At the Skeptic’s Health Journal Club, they have a nice introductory article on what they call the 100 Year Diet.

Basically, if it wasn’t food 100 years ago, don’t eat it. I think it’s a pretty good name for what we do, so go there, and show them some love.

There Is No Obesity Epidemic

Nicole @CookingSlim.org — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:56:00 +0000

Mounting evidence is proving that the “obesity epidemic” is nothing more than moral panic in an effort to cover up a diabetes/insulin resistance and environmental toxin related diseases epidemic. There have been no significant increases in the number of obese people in the general U.S. population, despite the lowering of the standard, for over a decade, according to the CDC’s own statistics. So why are they and others still claiming that there is a crisis, and that it’s “spreading”?

Scientists and doctors have already proven that there isn’t any danger to one’s health from simply being technically overweight. Having a high BMI (body mass index) increases your risk of heart attack and other heaviness related conditions whether it’s because you’re fat, muscular, or tall. Your greater mass means that it takes more cells to maintain your mass, and each time a cell has to replicate itself, the quality of the copy is less than the previous. Overweightness however, increases your liklihood of surviving a heart attack, and getting enough nutrition means your bones are less likely to crack under pressure as you get older. Overweight people live longer, healthier lives, especially if they’re active.

Inactivity is a much greater health risk than overweightness, as is malnutrition or being “off feed”. So why isn’t the CDC fighting against an inactivity epidemic? Why aren’t they fighting the food industry to stop selling people toxic pseudo foods? That would be something real.

This is why here, at CookingSlim.org we focus on teaching people what a healthy diet is, and getting down to a livable weight, rather than trying to look model thin. There is a balance that we hope to help people to achieve in order to have healthier lives, not to lose weight at all costs.

Very few people are so fat that the fat itself is the health problem. Most of us just need to eat naturally and get more activity. There is no need to join in the moral panic du jour.

For a long and dry but very interesting paper on this topic, go to:

http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/2/2/9/2/pages22928/p22928-1.php

How Much More Ethical Is Vegetarianism Really?

Nicole @CookingSlim.org — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:21:34 +0000

Eating a varied diet of local meat, dairy, and produce is more ethical than conventional vegetarianism or veganism. The rice industry’s workers are underpaid and overworked, and few can make enough during planting or harvest seasons to feed their families and keep a roof over their heads.

The series, Blood Sweat and Takeaways should be on everyone’s must-watch list. Here’s a sample of what basically happens to rice workers. According to the activist working to help women get out of the sex industry, 80% of Thai prostitutes in the hottest red light district are from Isan, a rice town.

Learn more about ethical eating, and unfair practices in food production at FairFood.org.

Mark Hyman M.D. of the Huffington Post Gets It

Nicole @CookingSlim.org — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:21:19 +0000

Support is growing for a natural diet. Now, Mark Hyman M.D. lists optimizing nutrition, not counting calories, as the first key dietary shift to cure or prevent “diabesity”.

Check it out at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/diabetes-obesity-treating_b_397775.html

Naturally Slim With Chinese Food

Nicole @CookingSlim.org — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:18:17 +0000

While working on our own new Hub Page, I came across a very good one by a Chinese woman on how their diet keeps people slim naturally. Check it out, and show her some love.