Lose the Buddha: Thanks, you morons on the US Department of Health and Human Services

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Monday, June 30, 2008

Thanks, you morons on the US Department of Health and Human Services

Yes, what's TRULY a good idea is that we create a whole NEW generation of women who obsess about what they put in their mouths, why and oh! Make sure it only amounts to about 900 calories a day, fatties!

This is more, as the blogger points out, propaganda put out by the denizens who think that fat = unhealthy.

More from Junkfood Science, and you would be doing yourselves a favor to read the whole post:

"Not only is this extreme diet plan nutritionally unsupportable, it has no credible medical evidence of effectiveness for improving the health of growing children or for preventing obesity. Worse, by all evidence, the messages it teaches and food fears it reinforces, put young women at risk for physical and emotional harm.

"Yet this program is being promoted as 'healthy eating' by our government, targeting young girls and their families, and paid for by us.

"This program's 'healthy eating' messages are the same as those popularly believed by many young people today and the same ones being widely taught in schools and through childhood obesity programs. Young people would be much healthier without such 'nutrition' education at all."

Where I have been? Traveling for work, working and more working. We had a death in the family, which has made life stressful. I about fired my trainer this morning after hearing that the gym was going to charge me for the recent cancellation, the one I had to make because of the death in the family. She asked me to reconsider, we'll see.

My hip is still a bit off, but I did go running a few times (just a mile or two) and I seem to be OK. I also started back in with the cardio death march, which also seems to be fine. So this week we're going to start the gradual climb back up the mountain so maybe by the end of summer I'm back to running five-six mile stretches when I go out.

During my work trip to NYC last week, I learned I dropped another size, down to a size 8. This was confirmed in two separate stores - Armani Exchange and Espirit - and I about fell over since I haven't done much of anything to account for this.

I've been a little down that June was such a bust in terms of my fitness. Getting injured threw me off schedule completely, and that stunk. I feel a little softer, and that it's going to take twice the effort, to regain my footing.

At least I have it again, though.

Posted by Erin at 02:16 PM | filed under: Random

August 2008