Food addiction is tough, because we all have to eat. Imagine falling off the wagon on a daily basis.
I don't think morbidly obese people like Rene could control what she ate - even if she wanted to. It's like telling a crack addict to "just say no" or a clinically depressed person to "just snap out of it." These people need medical intervention.
The sad truth is that even with a gastric bypass, her chance of getting slim and staying slim is very, very small. Almost all morbidly obese people who managed to lose (a lot of) weight with whatever means, surgical or not, regain all those weight and then some.
Though Hollywood's take on the family's responsibility on this is a bit extreme, I agree with that sentiment: there is an "enabler" to this woman's addiction.
@booyah: "All this speculation does no one any good. And those who make laughable statements that we are headed for a crash obviously have absolutely no knowledge of economics or history."
This feels different to me. Talking to a number of small business owners, they're ALL telling me that sales have been dismal and that a significant recession is coming.
I've always thought that most of the world's food/hunger problem is not the production of food (like government having to pay farmers not to grow crop to prop up prices), but the distribution of it. Or more accurately, the lack of distribution of it.
I'm with Christophe on this one. Not all pot smokers end up being an addict of harder drugs - but pot is almost always the very first psychedelic drug addicts use. It's the "gateway" drug of choice. Where do you draw the line, if pot is permissible?
@VonSkippy "How naive. Supply is always determined by demand." Not with drugs. Because they're addictive, supply will create demand.
Having said that, there have been many missteps and missed opportunities in America's War on Drugs.
Trader Joe's cajun salmon is to die for! I find Trader Joe's food are much better tasting than the expensive stuff at Whole Foods. The only thing that Whole Foods excel at is displaying everything nicely.
I've heard one bad thing about Trader Joe's from their suppliers: the company tends to knock off successful items and then stop buying from these small businesses.
Neatorama's authors have a wide latitude in determining what they'd like to post on the website. I may not agree with all of their picks, but I'll stand behind their choices.
There had been many posts on the blog that are distinctly "not neat" (The first one was the Elephant Hanging that also set off a storm of controversy in the comment).
I'll reiterate my support for having this post stay on Neatorama.
Yes, it's a small data set (only 8 data points), but to paraphrase Rumsfeld, we work with the data we have, not with the data we wished we had.
Originally, I tossed out the years where a candidate ran unopposed, but the result is almost the same (New Hampshire was the better predictor), so I kept all of the data points in.
The usual caveats about this little quick and dirty exercise in statistics apply: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. (Mark Twain/Benjamin Disraeli)
Well, perhaps they should call it a "barter" then - male monkey provide a service (grooming), for which the female monkeys reward with sex.
The interesting bit is when there's a lot of females: the "price" for sex (i.e. how long the grooming lasts) gets lowered. This suggests that market forces is at work, even at this crude level (and with monkeys!).
I don't think morbidly obese people like Rene could control what she ate - even if she wanted to. It's like telling a crack addict to "just say no" or a clinically depressed person to "just snap out of it." These people need medical intervention.
The sad truth is that even with a gastric bypass, her chance of getting slim and staying slim is very, very small. Almost all morbidly obese people who managed to lose (a lot of) weight with whatever means, surgical or not, regain all those weight and then some.
Though Hollywood's take on the family's responsibility on this is a bit extreme, I agree with that sentiment: there is an "enabler" to this woman's addiction.
This feels different to me. Talking to a number of small business owners, they're ALL telling me that sales have been dismal and that a significant recession is coming.
But Matt Stuart's neat photographs more than make up for it.
Though it does look like a cage, at least the children are outside playing, like kids are supposed to do.
@VonSkippy "How naive. Supply is always determined by demand." Not with drugs. Because they're addictive, supply will create demand.
Having said that, there have been many missteps and missed opportunities in America's War on Drugs.
I've heard one bad thing about Trader Joe's from their suppliers: the company tends to knock off successful items and then stop buying from these small businesses.
There had been many posts on the blog that are distinctly "not neat" (The first one was the Elephant Hanging that also set off a storm of controversy in the comment).
I'll reiterate my support for having this post stay on Neatorama.
Originally, I tossed out the years where a candidate ran unopposed, but the result is almost the same (New Hampshire was the better predictor), so I kept all of the data points in.
The usual caveats about this little quick and dirty exercise in statistics apply: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. (Mark Twain/Benjamin Disraeli)
The interesting bit is when there's a lot of females: the "price" for sex (i.e. how long the grooming lasts) gets lowered. This suggests that market forces is at work, even at this crude level (and with monkeys!).