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Thursday, June 26, 2003I'm not proud to say, I have a weight problem. I've had it since I was a kid, and my whole family has a weight problem. To blame this on the fast food industry is ludicrous. I grew up in urban New Jersey, lower middle class, in somewhat disadvantaged circumstances. I could probably count on one hand the number of times in my first 18 years of life I ate at a fast food restaurant. No money, no access.I ate all my meals and all my additional calories, at home, good , nutritious, solid Italian home cooking, and the pounds piled on. As an adult physician, I don't recall the last time I ate in a fast food restaurant, unless you want to count Panera's, where I ate a bowl of soup and half a salad for lunch, yesterday. I still struggle. Sometimes, I do eat more than others without a weight problem, however, most of the time, I eat the same or less. My activity level is average. My weight either stays the same or goes up. I've lost significant amounts of weight to achieve normal weight twice in my life. In order to accomplish this, both times required severe restriction of calories, under 700 per day with moderate exercise. To maintain this caloric restriction for long periods of time is extremely difficult. And after normal weight is achieved, it becomes hard to realize that I still cannot eat a normal diet. For me to maintain my weight with reasonable exercise would be around 1200 to 1500 calories. The bottom line, is that obesity is a multifactorial problem. How simple it would be if by the simple closing of all fast food restaurants( and how are we going to define those exactly legally? Most likely, by the depth of their pockets.) resulted in the resolution of the obesity problem in this country. Anyone that believes that really does not understand the problem as it truly exists( or is too stupid to live), but I am sure the lawyers will find juries of so called average Americans that they can convince. The true threat in this country is that we are being legislated and trialed to death. posted by Sydney on 6/26/2003 08:26:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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