On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:40 PM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@yahoo.com> wrote:
Gosh, I missed that entirely. Shows how carelessly I read things sometimes...
A drug? UH.
Reminds me, my brother had a job that involved testing a drug to help obese people breathe while sleeping.... he had to watch them sleep.... he said that very obese people have trouble breathing when they sleep. I said, why don't they do something to get them loose weight, instead of giving them drugs? He laughed, agreeing with me. He was just an underling, no say in what was going on.
Partly because, most docs don't have a way to get people to lose weight. With a 95% failure rate on diets, what *can* you say to a fat person? We are pretty sure, at this point, that most diets don't work (and of course, we here are pretty sure we DO have a way that works, but it isn't accepted in general ... yet).
I don't think restriction works for anything, really. Human beings aren't good with restrictions. I think we do need to look more closely at America in the 1950's and before, and Japan now. In both cases, people were/are fairly prosperous, not being especially careful in their food choices, eating a diverse diet, but not obese. Why?
People in the US are just beginning to get out of the "give me a drug" mindset. So there is hope. Some of my more recalcitrant relatives are actually *cooking food* now (rather than eating out for each meal) and I have people asking for homegrown eggs. I kind of think Fast-5 is about 7 years ahead of the curve. Check back in 7 years and this will be the latest "new fad" which will morph into a standard cultural norm.
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