| This past Christmas Season, as most of us
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| | likely been greatly exaggerated. Never
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| stuffed our faces full of turkey and
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| | mind that the analogies to alcohol and
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| pies, a well respected weight loss expert
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| | illegal drugs are inept at best -- hard
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| from WebMD made some crazy remarks about
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| | to imagine abstinence from food as a
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| ending obesity.
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| | viable alternative.
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| Needless to say, the response to his
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| | The most egregious aspects of this
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| rhetoric, despite the Christmas Season,
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| | editorial are the outright prejudice and
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| was naughty not nice. Dr. George D.
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| | moral disgust it portrays.
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| Lundberg, Editor-in-Chief for Medscape
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| General Medicine, had this to say about
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| | There is certainly no great argument
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| his "crazy" diet idea:
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| | with the contention that many Americans
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| | could increase their exercise and eat
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| | more healthfully. However, prejudice
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| "Ho! Ho! Ho! Here we are in the holiday
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| | raises its ugly head when the contention
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| season right between those 2 great
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| | is made that it is possible to discern
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| American days of gluttony. What is
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| | who is or is not eating or exercising
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| Scrooge's holiday greeting this year? It
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| | properly by merely looking at the size
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| is about overeating, of course.
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| | and shape of one's body! Most Americans
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| | (fat or thin) are not getting enough
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| How can we stop the obese from becoming
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| | exercise, and the research is clear that
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| more obese? Pretty simple. Stop feeding
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| | fatness and fitness are not mutually
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| them. Think about the other common
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| | exclusive.
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| self-destructive human behaviors. On a
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| commercial airplane, in a saloon, or at a
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| | Condemning a fat person's eating, or
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| professional sports event, if the
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| | assuming that a thin person is eating
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| customer is deemed to be drunk, the
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| | well (can you say anorexia nervosa?), is
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| keepers of the booze key will lock the
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| | no different from concluding that a
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| cabinet. If a person drives a car at a
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| | person is less intelligent by looking at
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| dangerous speed, the driver is subject to
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| | the color of his/her skin. Judging
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| substantial penalties.
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| | people's intelligence, health, or
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| | behaviors based on how they look is not
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| For young persons known to be at high
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| | science; it is prejudice -- and prejudice
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| risk for early chemical addictions,
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| | has no place in our culture or in our
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| society tries to prevent exposure to the
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| | healthcare system.
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| addicting drugs.
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| | We can do and be so much better than
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| Overeating with underexercising is now
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| | this!"
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| killing more Americans than anything else
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| except tobacco addiction. Yet, an obese
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| person enters an eating joint, or a
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| | Mary Emerson, MS, a Clinical Dietitian
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| supermarket, and buys and eats any and
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| | from Spring Harbor Hospital in
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| everything he or she wants, and nobody
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| | Westbrook, Maine, had this to say
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| seems to care. Does that make any sense
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| | (emphasis added):
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| to you?
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| Meanwhile, Big Science strives to
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| | "You compared your solution of not
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| understand why people get fat; Big
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| | feeding an obese person[1] to an
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| Genetics searches for the obesity gene so
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| | intoxicated person not being served in a
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| that stem cells could correct the flaw;
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| | bar, yet we know that that hasn't cured
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| Big Surgery lines up the morbidly obese
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| | alcoholism.
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| to shunt their stomachs; Big Pharma seeks
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| the next weight-loss pill that will help
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| | Gastric bypass surgery is one of the
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| more people than it kills; Big Nutrition
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| | most popular elective surgical
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| hawks the newest sure-thing, weight-loss
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| | procedures. The answer for the cure is
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| diet; Big Fast Food pushes "healthy food"
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| | far more complex than simply training
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| lines right next to their billion dollar
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| | more surgeons to do the procedure or not
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| unhealthy food lines; Big Soda and Big
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| | allowing overweight people to purchase
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| School Boards share the profit from
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| | baked goods.
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| drowning kids with calories from vending
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| machines; and Big Exercise pushes group
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| | Just as prohibition did not eliminate
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| rates for aerobics class. Money made by
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| | alcoholism, these measures will not
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| so many special interests.
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| | eliminate obesity. Rather, we need to
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| | change how we approach our medical care,
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| All this while the simple answer is to
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| | not to solve the problem once there is a
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| stop eating; stop feeding the obese until
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| | problem, but to achieve a healthier
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| they are no longer obese. Of course, that
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| | lifestyle with emphasis on not only our
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| may be hard to do, and who makes any
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| | physical health, but also our mental
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| money that way? Fat chance for this crazy
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| | health and emotional well-being.
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| idea to go anywhere. That's my opinion.
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| I'm Dr. George Lundberg, Editor of
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| | I believe that it is very important in
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| MedGenMed. Happy Holidays!"
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| | mental health to evaluate the risks of
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| | obesity on our patients, not in
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| | decreasing longevity, but in decreasing
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| Now, as you can imagine, health care
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| | the quality of their lives by lowered
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| providers, dieters, and web surfers were
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| | self-esteem and health complications,
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| not happy with his remarks. They
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| | such as feeling tired, weak, and unable
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| immediately and appropriately attacked,
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| | to take part in many activities that they
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| firing back with real science facts,
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| | previously enjoyed."
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| healthy weight loss tips and the
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| benefits of regular exercise.
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| | Wonderful! Finally the truth. No fad
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| It was nice to see the real experts come
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| | diets, no rapid weight loss, no "eat
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| out for a day or two and make some noise.
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| | anything you want and still lose weight"
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| One of the experts is Jon Robison, PhD,
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| | lies...just pure science coming from the
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| from Michigan State. He said:
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| | real experts who care.
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| | Maybe Dr. Lundberg isn't so crazy after
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| "It is truly hard to believe that
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| | all...or maybe he is. Either way, it was
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| MedGenMed would print an editorial[1] so
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| | a good day!
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| scientifically inaccurate and ethically
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| unconscionable ("How to Prevent the Obese
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| From Becoming 'Obeser'). As a health
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| | Healthy Living!
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| professional (doctorate in health
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| education and masters degrees in exercise
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| physiology and nutrition), I am even more
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| | Michael A. Smith, MD
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| dismayed that this hateful diatribe was
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| | The Weight Loss ProfessionalDr. Smith is
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| written by a fellow health professional
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| | the primary physician and consultant for
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| -- and a medical doctor no less!
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| | the Weight Loss Professional Website.
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| | His interests include preventative
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| Never mind that the doctor is obviously
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| | medicine, the genetic etiology of
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| not familiar with the latest information
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| | obesity, and several others too numerous
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| from the CDC [US Centers for Disease
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| | to list. Please visit his Website at
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| Control and Prevention], showing that the
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| | and let him know what you think.
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| link between weight and mortality has
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