"Moderation in all things."

A SmugTwit has just had its email read out on Radio 5 Live. It was boasting that its waist has remained the same size (30 inches, iirc) for many years and includes the SmugTwit ritual claim that this is because of "Moderation in all things."

SmugTwits often attribute their slimness to various virtues - not being greedy/lazy/etc. Most of them, if they were honest, would admit that actually they can, and do, eat whatever they like and as much of it as they like, without gaining any weight, but they enjoy feeling superior to overweight/obese people and attributing excess weight to greed and/or laziness.

Slim people are slim because they have strong, healthy blood vessels and are not sensitive to salt. Their slimness has nothing to do with their moral fibre, nor, indeed, "moderation in all things"...(o:

How to lose weight

I rather like Radio 5 Live; but I don't like the arrogant, insufferable Nicky Campbell. - No, I'm not one of his many fans.

This morning on Breakfast he surpassed his usual level of ignorant rudeness towards fat people, insulting them as lazy, and wishing they would take more exercise. - His patronising arrogance is breathtakingly uninformed on this subject, as he busily underlines the stereotype of fat people, which is so wrong and so harmful to them.

He should have a read of the facts about obesity. They are on my website. - Here's a starter fact for you, Nicky: exercise does not reduce obesity.

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

See Sodium in foods and

Associated health conditions and

See FAT RETENTION

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/story.html - my 'political' page

Wider implications of the flawed theory that excess calorie intake causes obesity

I can be contacted via my website if you need my further help. My help is free.

Fat boy may be put into care - Phone in on Radio Five Live. I managed - just! - to mention my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk

I managed to get onto the phone-in about an hour ago and to say that child obesity is caused not by overeating but by salt intake leading to fluid retention and increased blood volume. I had gone to bed and was in bed when I started to listen to the phone-in and rang in, and so I did not, I think, get my points over as well as I should have, and I am disappointed about that. I found it rather difficult because the presenter to whom I was speaking was unreceptive to what I was saying. Sadly people have been so conditioned to believe the false claim that overeating is the cause of obesity that many of them cannot open their minds to an alternative concept. I was only able to speak very briefly and was barely able to mention my website because the presenter cut me off as soon as I mentioned that I had a website. I then got up in order to post this entry while it was fresh in my mind. - Hopefully some of the listeners will have benefited from what I said and will be cutting down on salt in order to lose weight.

Another contributor to the phone-in was very angry about what I had said, and reiterated the calories in calories out message we have all heard many thousands of times but which results in ever more people becoming obese. - There is no evidence to support the calorie theory about obesity. - And reducing calories does not reduce obesity. - Reducing salt intake DOES reduce obesity. - A big problem with the obese young boy in question is that he does not eat much in the way of fruit and vegetables. This makes it extra difficult for his body to get rid of excess sodium. - Fruit and fresh vegetables contain high levels of potassium, and potassium displaces sodium from the body.

Calorie counting and advice about increasing exercise and reducing fat and carbohydrate intake to reduce obesity are ineffective, counter-productive and often damaging. - See the article in the British Medical Journal of November 2003 British Medical Journal article for actual research on what happens when this advice is followed! - Over 800 obese adults were put on energy deficit diets, given diet sheets and plenty of instruction and help from trained staff, and apparently, visited fortnightly for a year, at the end of which they had GAINED weight! This mirrors the real experience of obese people, viz. - dieting makes you fat.

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it!
See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/ and for special advice about children, see http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/children.html
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Fat boy may be put in care