19th June 2003, 12:11 PM
In all of this, I'll only take a stand on one thing.
Skim milk is actually CHEAPER than whole milk. I know, I compaired prices at a few stores, and, same brand, but the less fat, the cheaper it is. Essentially, they are charging me for the extra fat that makes it taste good (and in my case, is good for me), as opposed to charging more for what would likely be bought more by people on a dieting craze, skim milk.
Here's the deal, dieting almost never works. The human body is simply not designed to loose weight in that fassion. When one diets, at least in any effective way, the body "thinks" it is starving to death, and acts accordingly, holding on to fat. Fat itself actually weighs very little. People in the first week or so of a diet loose a lot of weight, but not size oddly enough :D, because during that time, they are actually loosing water, well suger water, through the usual process :D. Water weighs a lot more than fat (that's why it floats), so when you actually start loosing the fat, you notice little actual weight loss (though at this point, if one bothered to check size as opposed to just the scale, they would likely not give up then because they actually are getting smaller in a very painful way). The body CAN loose weight this way, but it will be a slow and torturous process that isn't very good for the body in the long run. Now then, exercise, THAT'S the way the human body was intended to loose weight, as our history as a species shows. We were meant to chase around our meals or toil in the dirt or struggle picking it from tall trees before we could eat it. We could eat very fattening stuff all the time, because we NEEDED it for the exercise the next day that would burn it all away. Unlike dieting, which will actually make one's body weaker in the long run, exercise will actually increase strength and ability in the long run. Also unlike dieting, which while, somewhat, easy at first, is murder at a certain point onwards, exercise is murder at first, but after building muscle mass and more mitochondria, it becomes easy to burn just as much energy if you keep the same pace as before, OR you could burn even more with what feels like the same amount of effort and pain (but what will actually be far more than what you were doing at first) by pumping it up a notch. Excercise, from a scientific point of view, is the healthier way to loose weight, at least according to everything I've read in various sciency books on the human body and seen on various shows on Discovery. Of course, the key is to not just quit because then the muscles go back as they were. Also, just getting some thing off TV to exercise is useless. The key is motivation, and that comes from within. No one needs to even BUY anything to exercise. They could just jog around their living room every day. That's FREE, so no matter HOW poor someone is they have no excuse.
Of course, Weltall did it the sucker's, er, hard way :D. From what I understand, it took like a year for him to go from Silent Bob to a bisho. While not as healthy, he did the one thing needed either way, he got motivated.
Skim milk is actually CHEAPER than whole milk. I know, I compaired prices at a few stores, and, same brand, but the less fat, the cheaper it is. Essentially, they are charging me for the extra fat that makes it taste good (and in my case, is good for me), as opposed to charging more for what would likely be bought more by people on a dieting craze, skim milk.
Here's the deal, dieting almost never works. The human body is simply not designed to loose weight in that fassion. When one diets, at least in any effective way, the body "thinks" it is starving to death, and acts accordingly, holding on to fat. Fat itself actually weighs very little. People in the first week or so of a diet loose a lot of weight, but not size oddly enough :D, because during that time, they are actually loosing water, well suger water, through the usual process :D. Water weighs a lot more than fat (that's why it floats), so when you actually start loosing the fat, you notice little actual weight loss (though at this point, if one bothered to check size as opposed to just the scale, they would likely not give up then because they actually are getting smaller in a very painful way). The body CAN loose weight this way, but it will be a slow and torturous process that isn't very good for the body in the long run. Now then, exercise, THAT'S the way the human body was intended to loose weight, as our history as a species shows. We were meant to chase around our meals or toil in the dirt or struggle picking it from tall trees before we could eat it. We could eat very fattening stuff all the time, because we NEEDED it for the exercise the next day that would burn it all away. Unlike dieting, which will actually make one's body weaker in the long run, exercise will actually increase strength and ability in the long run. Also unlike dieting, which while, somewhat, easy at first, is murder at a certain point onwards, exercise is murder at first, but after building muscle mass and more mitochondria, it becomes easy to burn just as much energy if you keep the same pace as before, OR you could burn even more with what feels like the same amount of effort and pain (but what will actually be far more than what you were doing at first) by pumping it up a notch. Excercise, from a scientific point of view, is the healthier way to loose weight, at least according to everything I've read in various sciency books on the human body and seen on various shows on Discovery. Of course, the key is to not just quit because then the muscles go back as they were. Also, just getting some thing off TV to exercise is useless. The key is motivation, and that comes from within. No one needs to even BUY anything to exercise. They could just jog around their living room every day. That's FREE, so no matter HOW poor someone is they have no excuse.
Of course, Weltall did it the sucker's, er, hard way :D. From what I understand, it took like a year for him to go from Silent Bob to a bisho. While not as healthy, he did the one thing needed either way, he got motivated.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)