Weigh In: America and Weight

[AKA_Monet]

MAKE SURE YOU TALK TO A TRAINED MEDICAL DOCTOR FOR ALL CHANGES IN YOUR HEALTH!!!

I cannot stress that enough...

The Everything in Moderation works for those who are "relatively" healthy. In so many words, they are regular--in more ways than one...

However, for the morbidly obese--the stomach staple people--and those suffering from genetic diseases, or eating disorders, I MUST EMPHASIZE that although the research is abundant and confusing--and might be inconclusive, that ONLY YOU CAN CHANGE YOU HABITS WITH THE APPROPRIATE MEDICAL SUPERVISION...

Yes, I read Science and Nature. No I do not subscibe to the JAMA and all the other medical journals. But I am around enough medical doctors to that they are required to know at least where you can get help if they cannot help you... They do work very hard--even the med school students...

I would say, that in the future, there will be this "subculture" of folks that do all this self-research, by reading all that is out there and trying to make sense from it--much like those folks that suffer from cancer do when they try to find experimental drug trials. I think the same thing is going to happen to obesity and all the other diseases that come along with it...

All of us have Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in our genes that make us fat, thin, whatever in between. The regulation of that process is just personal...