Twinkie Diet

[lph]

So why are they trying to make a link between weight loss and health at all? There's no reason that weight loss automatically should make him more healthy, any more than starvation makes someone "healthy". They're parallell processes, not the same.

[malkin]

Because it was time for his 15 minutes of fame?

[Eden]

So why are they trying to make a link between weight loss and health at all? There's no reason that weight loss automatically should make him more healthy, any more than starvation makes someone "healthy". They're parallell processes, not the same.

actually....... being consistently calorie restricted (not enough to produce malnutrition) does lead to a longer, healthier life span.... its been scientifically studied in many species though its effects on humans aren't known yet....

Still I have a hard time believing that a tasty cake diet could ever be healthy... add in the vitamin pill or not. A person might be able to get or stay skinny, but healthy?

[lph]

yeah, you're right, i remember reading that too. It just bugs me when that assumption is made, that losing weight automatically makes people healthy. The excessive focus on looks and beauty makes us equal slender to Good and hefty to Bad, no matter what's going on inside. And "healthy" is more than just eating a balanced diet, for that matter, it's everything that makes your life longer and better. In my opinion.