Preliminary Health Care Podcast

More at www.preliminaryhealthcare.com This will be an incredibly brief post, but I couldn't contain my irritation. Let me post a link to what I'm talking about: Woman packs on 50 pounds to prove 'no excuses for being overweight. If you don't want to watch it, I don't blame you. I'll give a brief synopsis of the story. Essentially, this woman has voluntarily gained a lot of weight, and is now losing it, in order to prove a point. I can only assume that her point is those who struggle with their weight are some combination of lazy and gluttonous. This isn't the first time somebody has done this in order to gain some small degree of celebrity--and in the process, dehumanized those struggling with weight. It irks harder every time. Let me give a little context: I'm writing this post at the tail-end of completing a book on fat-loss. In it, I explain why eating less and exercising more is essentially worthless and doomed to failure. I won't explain the science of body-composition regulation here, though it will