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That may be one of the side effects of antibiotics. But, I understand it, after watching the documentary Food, Inc., antibiotics are given to cows because they harbor a lot of the e-coli bacteria due to being fed corn instead of grass. Cows are physiologically made-up to eat grass. On a grass diet, cows don't have this e-coli problem. Why do they feed cows corn? Economics, I guess.

Ironically, meat of 1906 would have probably been superior to meat nowadays. For one, it was all organic. You have to pay a premium to get organic meat nowadays. The Meat Inspections Act has been seriously diluted over the years and is now totally toothless, unfunded, and ineffectual.

I think you are right in asking if the public has been numbed. I don't think a book would have much impact nowadays. The movie Food, Inc. exposes the ugly practices of the meat industry. Whatever ugliness you can imagine, it is probably ten times worse than that. What effects has the film had on the public? Basically, squat, from what I can see.

Oprah Winfrey once devoted a show to exposing ugly sides of the meat industry: http://www.mad-cow.org/~tom/oprah.html. The meat industry sued her and there were a lot of court battles. Oprah eventually won against the lawsuit. What effect has it had on the unhealthy practices of the meat industry? Squat, apparently.

Table manners has nothing to do with it

That's right, though - if your metabolism is cranked up to high, calories burn. It's just that there are a lot of things that knock that metabolism out of the water. I was seriously surprised when I did the research for my report about some of the stuff that can keep you from burning calories.

I decided to do a vegetarian diet for fun and that was probably the most effective diet I tried. As soon as I started eating meat again I started packing the pounds back on.

LMAO - they probably eat popcorn like I do - soaked in butter with mega loads of Parmesan cheese on it.

I have one ebook on the subject - but it doesn't prescribe a diet. It just talks about all the other factors that keep people from losing weight - keeps them from burning fat. There's a lot reasons that we store fat instead of burning it. I do discuss foods to an extent, but not in the realms of dieting.

To be honest - I don't believe in diets. I believe in cranking your metabolism into high gear. It would drive me crazy to diet. I eat healthy most of the time but if there's a cheesecake sitting in front of me, I'm gonna scarf it.

I love food and I eat extremely heavy for someone 5'6" and 110 lbs. I can stuff it down spoon for spoon with a pretty hefty man and not blink. But I observe all the factors outside of food calories that make your food to burn instead of turning into storage fat. My food burns so well that I always eat extra if I want to stay up later than usual. As long as I keep stuffing it down, I don't get tired until near dawn.

Such a diet probably already exists...with experimental lab rats.

Thanks Dennis - I'll have my tech do it. He gets a % of my sales for that kinda stuff. Does a hell of a great job, too. I just have to get him a pic an he does the rest.


Push button diet? There's this guy you might be able to look up that can give you one. His name is Pavlov.

Take that little doggie of yours for a couple extra walks every day, Dennis - I'm betting you sit too long at one time. It's not just about a long walk every day - it's about moving often enough, too. Set a timer if you have to - 50 minutes - then take 10 to walk around, stretch (stay away from the fridge unless you are going to eat a food that burns calories instead of accumulating them - celery, bananas, etc.) Might not do ya a pound a day, but you sure will notice a difference after a short time.

Computers are making people way too sedentary. And sedentary and thin or trim don't go together very well at all.

While I understand that everybody is different, here is my own personal
experience with weight gain and loss.

As a teen, I could eat anything and did. I ate like a pig and was still 120
pounds soaking wet. I was also very active.

Move ahead to my mid to late 20s after I got married.

I had an office job, hardly exercised and ate as much as when I was a teen.

I blew up to 150 pounds.

Today, after developing intolerance to a lot of food, I now live on whole grain
cereal in the morning, a turkey sandwich and green salad for lunch, chicken
and vegetables for dinner and 4 homemade oatmeal cookies and lots of tap
water during the day. I don't exercise one little bit but am back down to
120 pounds.

In order to maintain the same weight that I was at as a teen, I had to cut
my food intake by 75% at least.

I'm not a doctor or a diet expert so I don't know what this means, but if I
had to guess I'd say it's a combination of burning calories and how much
food we eat. The faster your metabolism, the more you can eat and stay
thin as long as you still get enough exercise and burn enough calories.

I don't eat organic stuff and I don't stay away from the so called antibiotic
injected poultry and yet I don't weigh a ton either. And I seriously doubt at
age 53 that my metabolism is that fast anymore.

Not sure what all this means, but I'm pretty sure that if I started eating
Ring Dings and Yodels again and scarfed down a gallon of soda a day
in addition to the Milky Ways and 3 Musketeers I ate on a regular basis,
not to mention the Italian subs that I practically lived on, I think it would
be safe to say that I'd weigh more than 120 pounds today.

So eat less and you'll weigh less. How much less will depend on your
metabolism and how active you are.

At least that's what seems to work for me.

I'm not a doctor so take this 2 cents for what it's worth to you.