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Z_California

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3. Nutrition should be right there with reading and math
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 03:25 PM
Aug 2012

Good nutrition is the foundation to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Most of us are poisoning ourselves out of simple ignorance. These diets would get zero momentum if we made a more serious effort at education, of course the Big Food Industry would be in big trouble (which explains a lot of things). Nutrition is covered for a few weeks in health class and a lot of that is misinformation.

I went from 220 to 180 over 8 months at age 43 by learning how sugar and refined carbs affect my body. By cutting out the obvious stuff (soda, donuts, etc.) and cutting back on and making substitutions for potatoes, white rice, bread, etc. it was and remains amazingly easy to maintain my body without ever even thinking about how much I'm eating. I eat all day as much as I want. I just make the right choices.

On another note, I find women with curves and a bit of belly to be quite attractive (I'm a guy if that wasn't obvious). Never got the fascination with "skinny". Seems like more of a girl thing.

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