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My bet is that neither is right... Eat when you're hungry. Stop when you're full. Laugh often. Play (physically) more than occasionally. Drink and be merry. St

My bet is that neither is right... Eat when you're hungry. Stop when you're full. Laugh often. Play (physically) more than occasionally. Drink and be merry. Stop worrying. You'll live forever. And even if you only live a short while, it's better than living a boring life for a slightly longer while.

nickpp 16y ago
Sadly it is not so simple for an increasingly large number of people suffering from diabetes, obesity, arterial and heart diseases. They are looking for solutions to get healthy so they can enjoy life in the ways you are presenting. So far the 2 main camps claiming to have the solution to everything are pushing 2 completely opposed strategies, none of them seemingly more proven than the other...
- patrickgzill 16y ago
  Sufficient exercise can reverse or minimize many of those diseases you mention.
  - Nessuss 16y ago
    Except that the more you exercise, the more your body hungers for more calories. The homeostasis theory of the body makes far more sense than the current thermodynamic view of eating; that change in weight is equal to what you eat minus what you burn. If you exercise more, you burn more of course. Supposing that your body has no idea how much energy its consuming, and thus the 'what you eat' part of the equation is independent of the 'what you burn' is simply ridiculous. Those diseases, the diseases of western civilization wont go away by simply exercising more. Exercise more, you eat more, you don't lose your fat weight, you won't reverse those diseases.
  - travisp 16y ago
    Except that carefully controlled studies have failed to support your claim that sufficient (whatever that is) exercise can reverse or minimize most of those diseases.
    - kragen 16y ago
      Neither of you have provided any evidence to support your assertions. I don't understand how either of you can have positive karma scores.
bonaldi 16y ago
As the very overweight will attest, "hungry" and "full" are very subjective terms. Eating when they are hungry is what got them into their present state. Laughing won't do much about it, nor will acquiring a drinking problem. Stopping worrying about it leads to the troll-fest of pro-fat discussion boards.

nickpp 16y ago

Sadly it is not so simple for an increasingly large number of people suffering from diabetes, obesity, arterial and heart diseases. They are looking for solutions to get healthy so they can enjoy life in the ways you are presenting. So far the 2 main camps claiming to have the solution to everything are pushing 2 completely opposed strategies, none of them seemingly more proven than the other...

patrickgzill 16y ago
Sufficient exercise can reverse or minimize many of those diseases you mention.
- Nessuss 16y ago
  Except that the more you exercise, the more your body hungers for more calories. The homeostasis theory of the body makes far more sense than the current thermodynamic view of eating; that change in weight is equal to what you eat minus what you burn. If you exercise more, you burn more of course. Supposing that your body has no idea how much energy its consuming, and thus the 'what you eat' part of the equation is independent of the 'what you burn' is simply ridiculous. Those diseases, the diseases of western civilization wont go away by simply exercising more. Exercise more, you eat more, you don't lose your fat weight, you won't reverse those diseases.
- travisp 16y ago
  Except that carefully controlled studies have failed to support your claim that sufficient (whatever that is) exercise can reverse or minimize most of those diseases.
  - kragen 16y ago
    Neither of you have provided any evidence to support your assertions. I don't understand how either of you can have positive karma scores.

bonaldi 16y ago

As the very overweight will attest, "hungry" and "full" are very subjective terms. Eating when they are hungry is what got them into their present state. Laughing won't do much about it, nor will acquiring a drinking problem. Stopping worrying about it leads to the troll-fest of pro-fat discussion boards.