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nikophony:

I’m not a food expert either, but I do NOT believe the FDA has our best interest in mind. For instance, we do not NEED milk, as they love to tell us, and we certainly do not NEED meat. I almost always skip breakfast, but that doesn’t stop me from running 3 miles a day, attending classes, waitressing for 8 hours a pop, maintaining my 5’7 130 lb. frame, and still having energy to do my homework. Different methods work for different people…and fasts, as awful as our culture has made them sound, are widely practiced throughout the world as an effective means of cleansing the body.
Me? I’m more worried about people putting sugars, mono, poly, saturated fats in their bodies than I am about them abstaining from them.

In college, I subsisted almost entirely off of energy drinks, Dr. Pepper and fast food, and I managed to survive pulling 20 hour days for over five years. Just because you can live that way doesn’t make it healthy, though.
And what I’m talking about here is not people who make educated decisions about their diets. You don’t need milk or meat, but if you cut them out of your diet, you do need to replace the nutrients you are losing with some other food. And people around the world do fast, but how many do you know who fast while using laxatives (natural or otherwise) and do so for days at a time? I’m sorry, but that’s not healthy.
What I am talking about here is choosing a healthy lifestyle over trendy diet plans and choosing overall long-term health over short-term weight loss. I’m glad you saw the word FDA and decided to reduce my entire argument to a single branch of the government which, right or not, still knows more about diet and nutrition than Mary “you should eat a lot right before you sleep” Rambin. My argument, though, was mainly about why a person with a large audience of young women should not advocate fad diets, which have very little health value and are primarily geared toward making a lot of money off of the poor choices and gullability of ignorant and insecure women.

I’m not a food expert either, but I do NOT believe the FDA has our best interest in mind. For instance, we do not NEED milk, as they love to tell us, and we certainly do not NEED meat. I almost always skip breakfast, but that doesn’t stop me from running 3 miles a day, attending classes, waitressing for 8 hours a pop, maintaining my 5’7 130 lb. frame, and still having energy to do my homework. Different methods work for different people…and fasts, as awful as our culture has made them sound, are widely practiced throughout the world as an effective means of cleansing the body.

Me? I’m more worried about people putting sugars, mono, poly, saturated fats in their bodies than I am about them abstaining from them.

In college, I subsisted almost entirely off of energy drinks, Dr. Pepper and fast food, and I managed to survive pulling 20 hour days for over five years. Just because you can live that way doesn’t make it healthy, though.

And what I’m talking about here is not people who make educated decisions about their diets. You don’t need milk or meat, but if you cut them out of your diet, you do need to replace the nutrients you are losing with some other food. And people around the world do fast, but how many do you know who fast while using laxatives (natural or otherwise) and do so for days at a time? I’m sorry, but that’s not healthy.

What I am talking about here is choosing a healthy lifestyle over trendy diet plans and choosing overall long-term health over short-term weight loss. I’m glad you saw the word FDA and decided to reduce my entire argument to a single branch of the government which, right or not, still knows more about diet and nutrition than Mary “you should eat a lot right before you sleep” Rambin. My argument, though, was mainly about why a person with a large audience of young women should not advocate fad diets, which have very little health value and are primarily geared toward making a lot of money off of the poor choices and gullability of ignorant and insecure women.

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