It's discouraging that the same argument happens over and over and OVER in the comments sections of certain blogs. One cluster of newbies gets moderately enlightened and stops leaving half-witted notes (and receiving patient and intelligent explanations that they don't generally appreciate), and here comes a whole new "generation" of them. [sigh]
"I can't see why you don't accept the Food Reward Hypothesis."
READ THE ARCHIVES of Hyperlipid and Gnolls. If you STILL don't understand ... read 'em again. FRH is too limited to be "important." This kind of theorizing is only possible from someone who has absolutely no connection with the problem. The good Dr obviously doesn't give a tinker's damn about the people he ostensibly got into the business to help, because he WILL NOT come to grips with the shortcomings of his shiny little idea; he's only concerned with convincing as many people as he can that his idea is SPECIAL -- the fact that it will not help the vast majority of the obese makes no-nevermind to him.
Really, what does he do it for? What motivated him to get into this field in the first place?
Has he ever had an obese loved-one that needed help? What would he think if someone told her that all she needed to do was eat small quantities of unpalatable carbohydrate foods and get off her lazy butt -- because after all, calories are all that's important -- and she'd be fine?
Or is he like most doctors -- who subscribe to a whole different course of treatment when the patient is someone they actually give a shit about?
i believe that modern culture has encouraged the young to have way too good an opinion of themselves, and to show too little respect for people they don't know well enough to take such liberties with. ;-) i know -- doing the living-history stuff, i can be old-fashioned....
ReplyDeletePeter so obviously has a superior grasp of this stuff and communicates it very well, i think i've learned more from him than anyone else. i rarely even have a question to ask, let alone think that i can "straighten him out" on anything!
yes, i just started, and i THINK it has improved my energy.
ReplyDeletei bought the largest dosage the shop had, 300mg. :-) i figured i'd take a hefty dose and see if i noticed anything. i think i remarked in the blog that i sometimes suspect i may be deficient in a substance if my body has to convert it from something else, or if it might be difficult to absorb. do you have thyroid issues?
ReplyDeletewtf, indeed! no, it wasn't terribly high, but i don't remember the price. it could be an entirely different formulation, too. it got mine at HEB, a remarkably good place to shop here -- LeonRover may remember it. :-)
ReplyDeleteSo has the good doctor explained why so many people suddenly start finding food more rewarding around age 35 or 40? I don't read his blog anymore.
ReplyDeletelol -- you've got a point there!
ReplyDeletei stopped reading WHS when i discovered that he had SNEAKED a few articles out of his archives.... on the few occasions when other bloggers have changed their minds about a previously-held position, but made an announcement to that effect, i might have disagreed with them, but still respected them. it seems to me that SG is just plain intellectually dishonest.