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Sarah Varney, a senior health policy correspondent with Kaiser Health News and the author of XL Love: How the Obesity Crisis Is Complicating America's Love Life, looks beyond the impact of obesity on personal and public health to what it means for sex and intimacy.
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Hi, People often ask me why I am so thin. don't know what to tell them. I can't say that life happens. Eugenia Renskoff
Aug. 19 2014 04:28 PM
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To RUCB_ALUM\
We finally agree on something. It all adds up, and it doesn't take much for most of us to gain weight, especially after age 50. That is when I forced myself onto the so-called "Atkins Diet" (no to low eating of carbs)and lost weight and kept it off for nearly 18 years now. As you say, a few extra carbs a day and you are on your way to becoming a fat blob.
We finally agree on something. It all adds up, and it doesn't take much for most of us to gain weight, especially after age 50. That is when I forced myself onto the so-called "Atkins Diet" (no to low eating of carbs)and lost weight and kept it off for nearly 18 years now. As you say, a few extra carbs a day and you are on your way to becoming a fat blob.
Aug. 19 2014 12:13 PM
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Ten pounds per year is only
35,000 excess calories. On a daily basis, that's taking in 96 calories
in a day that you don't burn. That's two Oreo cookies or 2/3 of a candy
bar. On the bright side, cutting 100 calories per day is pretty easy.
Replace two high-cal snacks with lower cal alternatives and you will get
there. The problem is most dieter's feel like failures if they take a
year to lose 10 pounds. They shouldn't.
Aug. 19 2014 11:30 AM
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Important to remember that your
metabolism slows as you age, so it's crucial to get kids eating healthy
and exercising at an early age.
Aug. 19 2014 11:29 AM
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Wow, francyne. Your brain is probably size 0 too.
That comedian caller was great, hilarious.
I appreciate the guest's honest attempt at cultural sensitivity, but her use of the term 'normal weight' belies it.
That comedian caller was great, hilarious.
I appreciate the guest's honest attempt at cultural sensitivity, but her use of the term 'normal weight' belies it.
Aug. 19 2014 11:26 AM
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and please stop saying "booty" - you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight!!! period.
Aug. 19 2014 11:23 AM
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FAT SEX!! re: caller
Aug. 19 2014 11:22 AM
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When you're only having seconds,
I'm having twenty-thirds. When I go to get my shoes shined, I gotta take
their word because I'm fat, I'm fat, sha-mone! Really, really fat.
Aug. 19 2014 11:21 AM
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SMH - I don't know who you interviewed...please stop speaking for Black Men and Women. Thanks.
Aug. 19 2014 11:21 AM
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No carbs, no obesity.
Carbohydrates are the problem.It began when farming began 10,000 years
ago. How do we know? Because of the little statuettes of fat fertility
goddesses found from that time. Females were the ones who invented
farming playing around with roots and plants while the men were out
hunting for meat. If you eat only meat and eggs and fish you can't gain
any weight. Wheat is weight. Everything made from wheat, rice, beans and
most plants grown on farms will make you fat with few exceptions.
Elephants eat only plants and are fat. Lions eat only meat and are
rarely overweight. No fat lions, and no fat hunters. Fat hunters would
have starved to death young.
Aug. 19 2014 11:15 AM
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When I met my husband I weighted
105 pounds and he 135 pounds. 25 years later I weigh 155 pounds and he
weighs 200. Do I find him less attractive? Not really, because I love
him as a whole, not only for what he looks like. I would not want him to
tell me to lose weight, so I'm certainly not going to ask him to slim
down. Our relationship is far from being based on looks.
Aug. 19 2014 11:14 AM
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I was the only overweight kid in
my high school (girl) classes for years and was constantly told that no
one would like me unless I lost the weight. So, I never dated in high
school, no one showed me any attention, only my dkinny sister. I came to
the US for college and was surprised at the attention I received. It
made me very uncomfortable
Aug. 19 2014 11:05 AM
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I have an overweight friend.
None of my friends are overweight and we are all very physically active.
My friend has plenty of time and money so I was surprised that he
never exercised, never talked about exercise, and seemingly never
thought about it. I realized that he was at peace with it and I,
therefore, should be at peace with it as well.
Aug. 19 2014 10:35 AM
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Food advertisement should be
banned the same way cigarettes or liquor ads are prohibited. I stopped
watching TV mostly because the ads are too ridiculous. Even walking down
the street is becoming annoying with the huge pictures of food which is
usually some kind of artery clogging fried meat. It wasn't so bad when
it was only McDonalds and other big chains since you can still avoid
those but now all the little Spanish bodegas have taken to plastering
the entire front of their store with pictures of greasy food. It really
is like pollution and should be regulated. Would I still be uptight
about it if it were pictures of salads and fruits? Not sure, but I would
rather walk by a four foot tall picture of a pineapple than a wall of
fried chicken photos each the size of a large dog.
Aug. 19 2014 10:03 AM
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There is also the related issue of the dangers of surgery for obese women in labour.
My brother-in-law is an obstetrician here in the UK (where very obese people are increasingly common) and says that when an emergency caesarean has to to take place with an obese mother - when perhaps time is of the essence in order to save the baby - it's actually difficult to know where and how deep to cut as there is so much more body tissue to deal with than there is with a normal weight mother.
Aug. 19 2014 07:36 AM
My brother-in-law is an obstetrician here in the UK (where very obese people are increasingly common) and says that when an emergency caesarean has to to take place with an obese mother - when perhaps time is of the essence in order to save the baby - it's actually difficult to know where and how deep to cut as there is so much more body tissue to deal with than there is with a normal weight mother.
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