CalorieLab’s own Robert S. Wieder recently talked to Jimmy Moore of Livin’ La Vida Low Carb about his book, 115 Reasons Why It’s Not Your Fault If You’re Fat and just a few of the reasons you might be packing more pounds than you’d like.
As you might imagine from his blog’s title, Moore is a big fan of the low-carb lifestyle, so he disagrees a little bit with Bob about the gift to society that is the current ubiquitousness of bacon, but nonetheless it’s a good conversation that you should check out.
Bob says he wrote the book because of a collection of stories he’d accumulated: “The more research that I did, I kept running into articles, ‘so and so linked to obesity,’ ‘so and so linked to weight gain,’ and I started keeping a ‘so and so’ file,” he said, which eventually got so big he decided to collect them all.
He says he expected the book to be more frivolous than it ended up being, but “the more I got into it the more I came to believe that you’ve already got two strikes against you if you’re just an average American trying to maintain a decent weight” because of cultural factors beyond genetics/biological factors.
He also noted that what happens in your childhood – sometimes even before you’re born – has a big effect on whether you’ll end up overweight.
“Once you’ve gained weight it’s just a bear to try to lose it,” he said, but things like whether your mom ate junk food while she was pregnant, whether she was over 30 when you were born, if she had a Caesarean section or if you were bottle-fed after the age of 2 can all play a role in your future obesity.
“The die is cast before you’re really in charge of your life,” he said, noting that the first five to seven years of life are probably the most important in determining if someone will be fat when they’re older.
Bob and Jimmy talked about a lot of societal things that might impact a person’s weight, from the number of junk food commercials kids see to supersizing at restaurants, the use of microwaves to the use of credit cards.
And of course there are new “reasons” Bob has uncovered since the book was published, including the fact that pastel plates make you eat more (choose blue if you want to eat less). You can check out an archive of extra reasons right here at CalorieLab, or check out the book, available for the Kindle for the bargain price of $2.99. That’s just $0.026 an excuse!
(By Sarah E. White for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)
Bob Wieder Shares Reasons Why You’re Fat with Jimmy Moore is a post from: CalorieLab - Health News & Information Blog
Source: http://calorielab.com/news/2012/06/21/bob-wieder-shares-reasons-why-youre-fat-with-jimmy-moore/
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