tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704099378996868867.post9111769515905452514..comments2024-03-15T06:35:30.606-04:00Comments on Losing Weight after 45 is a Bitch: To Jack Sh*t, Why I BakeLosing Weight After 45 is a Bitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18073076065309387782noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704099378996868867.post-40489885707366035372009-12-03T21:52:34.294-05:002009-12-03T21:52:34.294-05:00"Our National Eating Disorder" is an art..."Our National Eating Disorder" is an article by Pollan published in the New York Times. it's also on his website:<br />http://michaelpollan.com/write.php<br /><br />Scroll down -- it was published Oct 17, 2004. I think a lot of the content is in In Defense of Food.wosneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18118178432203615500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704099378996868867.post-73951560834937215692009-12-03T09:39:47.977-05:002009-12-03T09:39:47.977-05:00I'll have to read that Pollan book. And, I ag...I'll have to read that Pollan book. And, I agree. Eat healthy, but eat to enjoy yourself as well. <br /><br />We're obsessed with weight here, and fatter than the Europeans.Losing Weight After 45 is a Bitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073076065309387782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704099378996868867.post-39858854253712913502009-12-03T09:38:09.867-05:002009-12-03T09:38:09.867-05:00Weight loss and maintenance, or just "healthy...Weight loss and maintenance, or just "healthy eating", has to be balanced with indulgence. Otherwise it's just a lesson in deprivation and we can't be deprived of favorite things forever. <br /><br />I started reading about how other cultures eat about 15 years ago. Our whole approach to weight loss/maintenance and healthy eating is so different. It's much more restrictive and far less enjoyable.<br /><br />It's like Michael Pollan says in "Our National Eating Disorder:"<br /><br />"...They found that of the four populations surveyed (the U.S., France, Flemish Belgium and Japan), Americans associated food with health the most and pleasure the least. Asked what comes to mind upon hearing the phrase ''chocolate cake,'' Americans were more apt to say ''guilt,'' while the French said ''celebration''; ''heavy cream'' elicited ''unhealthy'' from Americans, ''whipped'' from the French. The researchers found that Americans worry more about food and derive less pleasure from eating than people in any other nation they surveyed.<br /><br />"Compared with the French, we're much more likely to choose foods for reasons of health, and yet the French, more apt to choose on the basis of pleasure, are the healthier (and thinner) people. How can this possibly be? Rozin suggests that our problem begins with thinking of the situation as paradoxical. The French experience with food is only a paradox if you assume, as Americans do, that certain kinds of foods are poisons. ''Look at fat,'' Rozin points out. ''Americans treat the stuff as if it was mercury.'' That doesn't, of course, stop us from guiltily gorging on the stuff. A food-marketing consultant once told me that it's not at all uncommon for Americans to pay a visit to the health club after work for the express purpose of sanctioning the enjoyment of an entire pint of ice cream before bed."wosneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18118178432203615500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704099378996868867.post-18682783164211887062009-12-02T22:13:29.195-05:002009-12-02T22:13:29.195-05:00Well, I suppose that answers that.
Excellent post...Well, I suppose that answers that.<br /><br />Excellent post.Cole Walter Mellonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14792991151019418800noreply@blogger.com