You know eating less doesn’t just magically work, right? I know some people who eat barely anything and still gain weight, and I know people who eat junk food constantly and never exercise and are thin as a board. You’re really displaying a level of ignorance with this episode that I don’t think you’re aware of. Losing weight is all about finding the right balance of food and activity (sometimes referred to as diet and exercise, though I don’t like the meaning those words have taken on) for your individual body. Everyone is different. Some people lose weight by eating less, some by being more active, or some combination of the two. Some people lose weight not by eating less, but eating different foods.
Also, weight is not an accurate indicator of health at all. To use a common statistical colloquialism: Correlation does not imply causation. The things that cause people to be overweight often causes a lot of other health problems. Yes, being extremely overweight can cause some long term health problems, but most of the problems attributed to obesity, like high blood pressure and high cholesterol, are actually sibling symptoms of the same behavior; the same thing causes both, one does not cause the other.
Floating above all of this is the fact that we shouldn’t be policing each other’s bodies anyway, that it’s nobody else’s business if someone is fat, and that fat people are allowed to be beautiful. People of all shapes and sizes can be healthy, and certainly are valid, and no one should be made to feel inferior or ugly because of the way they look, no matter if they can “help it” or not.
To put it simply, losing weight absolutely cannot be broken down to “eat less,” unless you actually expect people to starve themselves; that’s the only way it would work for everybody. It will work for some people (and not even the majority, or a small majority if it is), but not all.
Nicky may be heading to Wall Street, but sadly, Olf is there in spirit.
More Madison Avenue I think.
Irony: When viewing today comic there is a Kellogg’s FiberPlus ad immediately below!
Obvious suckers are obvious.
“It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.” — Canada Bill Jones (often mis-attributed to W.C. Fields)
You know eating less doesn’t just magically work, right? I know some people who eat barely anything and still gain weight, and I know people who eat junk food constantly and never exercise and are thin as a board. You’re really displaying a level of ignorance with this episode that I don’t think you’re aware of. Losing weight is all about finding the right balance of food and activity (sometimes referred to as diet and exercise, though I don’t like the meaning those words have taken on) for your individual body. Everyone is different. Some people lose weight by eating less, some by being more active, or some combination of the two. Some people lose weight not by eating less, but eating different foods.
Also, weight is not an accurate indicator of health at all. To use a common statistical colloquialism: Correlation does not imply causation. The things that cause people to be overweight often causes a lot of other health problems. Yes, being extremely overweight can cause some long term health problems, but most of the problems attributed to obesity, like high blood pressure and high cholesterol, are actually sibling symptoms of the same behavior; the same thing causes both, one does not cause the other.
Floating above all of this is the fact that we shouldn’t be policing each other’s bodies anyway, that it’s nobody else’s business if someone is fat, and that fat people are allowed to be beautiful. People of all shapes and sizes can be healthy, and certainly are valid, and no one should be made to feel inferior or ugly because of the way they look, no matter if they can “help it” or not.
To put it simply, losing weight absolutely cannot be broken down to “eat less,” unless you actually expect people to starve themselves; that’s the only way it would work for everybody. It will work for some people (and not even the majority, or a small majority if it is), but not all.
I think Crow is well aware of all that, my friend.
I do believe you’re right.
Coincidentally, two out of the three banner ads on the side of the page are about weight loss plans.
I don’t think it’s coincidence – the ads seem to get better and better and aligning themselves with the content.
I’ve read people saying that the ads really accurate for the comic The Book of Biff