I hate it when...
...popular web sites like msn or aol post bullshit articles like "new study proves blah blah blah can help you lose weight/be happy/etc." All this does is confuse people, and people who don't know anything about research or statistics go around thinking this "evidence" is a fact, when really it's just a theory. And probably not a good one. Those studies are always poorly controlled using unrepresentative samples, not to mention they have probably not been replicated or peer-reviewed if they're new.
And while I'm ranting, can I just say how much I loathe the diet industry? Obesity is not an "epidemic" and you can't "cure" it with seven minutes of standing or eating chocolate peanut butter protein bars or a magic herb derived from chinese water dragons. I thought there was supposed to be some regulation now on what diet information is allowed to circulate; whatever happened to that?? Why are there no real articles about health or nutrion online or in newspapers? Hell, even tv news would work. Why is nutrition an elective in school and not required? Yeah, okay, we had to take "health," but 9 weeks of learning about abstinence by scaring us with The Miracle of Life video isn't really the same thing. Instead, let's poorly educate our country and then exploit people with bullshit diets when they get hit with the "obesity epidemic."
I won't rant about abstinence education today, but maybe some other time.
And while I'm ranting, can I just say how much I loathe the diet industry? Obesity is not an "epidemic" and you can't "cure" it with seven minutes of standing or eating chocolate peanut butter protein bars or a magic herb derived from chinese water dragons. I thought there was supposed to be some regulation now on what diet information is allowed to circulate; whatever happened to that?? Why are there no real articles about health or nutrion online or in newspapers? Hell, even tv news would work. Why is nutrition an elective in school and not required? Yeah, okay, we had to take "health," but 9 weeks of learning about abstinence by scaring us with The Miracle of Life video isn't really the same thing. Instead, let's poorly educate our country and then exploit people with bullshit diets when they get hit with the "obesity epidemic."
I won't rant about abstinence education today, but maybe some other time.