FAT - What No One Is Telling You --PBS Program

Face it: We're fat.

With 66 percent of U.S. adults either overweight or obese, our girth is
a serious public health issue. Yet many of us still view being
overweight as a character flaw, a lack of self-control, or even a moral
crime.

But does fat really equal failure? FAT: What No One Is Telling You
explores the myriad psychological, physiological and environmental
factors that can make it so tough to shed pounds and keep them off. In
this documentary, Executive producer Naomi Boak and producer/director
Tom Spain, both Emmy Award honorees, share new scientific knowledge
about hunger, eating, and human metabolic operation. This film also
explains our psychological responses to food, and shows how external
pressures (such as oversized restaurant portions and the unending
barrage of food advertisement) make fighting fat so difficult, both on
the personal and national levels.

jim buch wrote:
:: Face it: We're fat.

Yes.

::
:: With 66 percent of U.S. adults either overweight or obese, our girth
:: is a serious public health issue.

I am concerned about how data is used to arrive at this statement. It seems
to be one of those statement that seems "logically true," given that we all
have been conditioned to think that fat = bad, no matter if you're eating it
or storing it.

:: Yet many of us still view being
:: overweight as a character flaw, a lack of self-control, or even a
:: moral crime.

Yes.

::
:: But does fat really equal failure? FAT: What No One Is Telling You
:: explores the myriad psychological, physiological and environmental
:: factors that can make it so tough to shed pounds and keep them off.
:: In this documentary, Executive producer Naomi Boak and
:: producer/director Tom Spain, both Emmy Award honorees, share new
:: scientific knowledge about hunger, eating, and human metabolic
:: operation. This film also explains our psychological responses to
:: food, and shows how external pressures (such as oversized restaurant
:: portions and the unending barrage of food advertisement) make
:: fighting fat so difficult, both on the personal and national levels.

I will see if I can Tivo this show. Thanks.

Thanks for the heads-up on this. I found two re-broadcasts listed this
week, which my satellite box will record....

Cubit
190/169.9/160

"jim buch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I was packing for a long trip last night and I chanced to turn into this
loca PBS broadcase of "FAT - What No One Is Telling You" .

I missed the first half hour, and was distracted by the packing process.

The www.PBS.org web page on this program is here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/takeonestep/?campaign=pbshomefeatures_1_fatbrwhatnooneistellingyou_2007-04-12

If you have a chance to see it, it would be a good use of time.

Evidently, some basic factors of obesity are finally coming to light.

For example, bariatric surgery partly works because the digestive tract is
made smaller and the stomach made smaller. It also partly works because
gut nerves are severed, and in mouse studies, just the severing of gut
nerves leads to weight reduction.

Unfortunately, the program concluded that there was no simple solution for
how we can adapt to a advanced nation society in which food is available
cheaply and very often processed into unnatural states.

I was too distracted to be able to give a fair representation or summary
of the entire program.

jim buch said:

Unfortunately, the program concluded that there was no simple solution
for how we can adapt to a advanced nation society in which food is
available cheaply and very often processed into unnatural states.

Idiots, uh, eat less.

jim buch said:

For example, bariatric surgery partly works because the digestive tract
is made smaller and the stomach made smaller.

So does eating less.

jim buch said:

... I chanced to turn into this
loca PBS broadcase of "FAT - What No One Is Telling You" .

Well ... I watched the first 15 or 20 minutes of this show. After the
doctor came on and said that humanity lived with famine and starvation
until 75 years ago and we are now fat because we finally have plenty to
eat --- I turned it off. Except for the Irish there has not been any
widespread famine or starvation in Western Civilization for centuries.
For any scientist to try to blame the "obesity epidemic," if there is
such a thing, on the availability of food is absolutely ludicrous. (I
say, "if there is such a thing," because there are scientists who say
that the percentage of people who were overweight 30 years ago have
become the morbidly obese of today --- the percentage of people with a
real weight problem has not changed, but the physical size of the folks
with the problem has changed.)

The obesity epidemic is most likely the result of two factors. The
low-fat movement got people to eat high carb diets without the fat that
would otherwise blunt the impact of the insulin required to digest them
and the second factor was that the entry of most women into the work
force who no longer had time to cook a meal of meat and vegetables.
Fast food and processed food started becoming the order of the day and
many families don't even sit down at the table for a meal anymore. Most
processed food and fast food are based on wheat flour and potatoes --
both very high glycemic foods. The low-fat crowd told people, "If you
take the fat out of food, you can eat more!" so serving sizes got huge
--- and so did we.

Cookie

Cookie Cutter said:

Well ... I watched the first 15 or 20 minutes of this show. After the
doctor came on and said that humanity lived with famine and starvation
until 75 years ago and we are now fat because we finally have plenty to
eat --- I turned it off.

Good for you, PBS ought to be ashamed.

I never went low fat and I got to be "morbidly obese". I never binged,
didn't eat a lot of junk food, just ate a bit more than I should and was
very sedentary. I think it's a combination of lots of food, the variety of
tasty temptations and sedentary lifestyles. Low fat dieting may have made
it worse but I think it is basically more in, less out.

Cookie Cutter wrote:
|
| Well ... I watched the first 15 or 20 minutes of this show. After the
| doctor came on and said that humanity lived with famine and starvation
| until 75 years ago and we are now fat because we finally have plenty
| to eat --- I turned it off. Except for the Irish there has not been
| any widespread famine or starvation in Western Civilization for
| centuries. For any scientist to try to blame the "obesity epidemic,"
| if there is such a thing, on the availability of food is absolutely
| ludicrous. (I say, "if there is such a thing," because there are
| scientists who say that the percentage of people who were overweight
| 30 years ago have become the morbidly obese of today --- the
| percentage of people with a real weight problem has not changed, but
| the physical size of the folks with the problem has changed.)
|
| The obesity epidemic is most likely the result of two factors. The
| low-fat movement got people to eat high carb diets without the fat
| that would otherwise blunt the impact of the insulin required to
| digest them and the second factor was that the entry of most women
| into the work force who no longer had time to cook a meal of meat and
| vegetables. Fast food and processed food started becoming the order
| of the day and many families don't even sit down at the table for a
| meal anymore. Most processed food and fast food are based on wheat
| flour and potatoes -- both very high glycemic foods. The low-fat
| crowd told people, "If you take the fat out of food, you can eat
| more!" so serving sizes got huge --- and so did we.
|
| Cookie

You're right about the very sedentary part. I sit at my computer 10 hours
a day, at least four days a week, and another 8 hours on Friday, then many
weekends another 5-6 hours. I have to really try hard to get any exercise
at all during the workday.

FOB ameritech.net 'fob said:

I never went low fat and I got to be "morbidly obese". I never binged,
didn't eat a lot of junk food, just ate a bit more than I should and was
very sedentary. I think it's a combination of lots of food, the variety
of
tasty temptations and sedentary lifestyles. Low fat dieting may have
made
it worse but I think it is basically more in, less out.

Cookie Cutter wrote:
|
| Well ... I watched the first 15 or 20 minutes of this show. After the
| doctor came on and said that humanity lived with famine and starvation
| until 75 years ago and we are now fat because we finally have plenty
| to eat --- I turned it off. Except for the Irish there has not been
| any widespread famine or starvation in Western Civilization for
| centuries. For any scientist to try to blame the "obesity epidemic,"
| if there is such a thing, on the availability of food is absolutely
| ludicrous. (I say, "if there is such a thing," because there are
| scientists who say that the percentage of people who were overweight
| 30 years ago have become the morbidly obese of today --- the
| percentage of people with a real weight problem has not changed, but
| the physical size of the folks with the problem has changed.)
|
| The obesity epidemic is most likely the result of two factors. The
| low-fat movement got people to eat high carb diets without the fat
| that would otherwise blunt the impact of the insulin required to
| digest them and the second factor was that the entry of most women
| into the work force who no longer had time to cook a meal of meat and
| vegetables. Fast food and processed food started becoming the order
| of the day and many families don't even sit down at the table for a
| meal anymore. Most processed food and fast food are based on wheat
| flour and potatoes -- both very high glycemic foods. The low-fat
| crowd told people, "If you take the fat out of food, you can eat
| more!" so serving sizes got huge --- and so did we.
|
| Cookie

--
Bob in CT

Cookie Cutter wrote:
:: jim buch wrote:
::: ... I chanced to turn into this
::: loca PBS broadcase of "FAT - What No One Is Telling You" .
:::
::
:: Well ... I watched the first 15 or 20 minutes of this show. After
:: the doctor came on and said that humanity lived with famine and
:: starvation until 75 years ago and we are now fat because we finally
:: have plenty to eat --- I turned it off.

I don't know of anyone who didn't get fat because eating plenty of food. I
do agree with your comment that eating plenty of carby foods (not
necessarily low-fat) probably is driving the desire to eat plenty of more
carby foods. We are too inactive today to be eating so many carbs.

You should have heard it out, though.

Except for the Irish there
:: has not been any widespread famine or starvation in Western
:: Civilization for centuries. For any scientist to try to blame the
:: "obesity epidemic," if there is such a thing, on the availability of
:: food is absolutely ludicrous. (I say, "if there is such a thing,"
:: because there are scientists who say that the percentage of people
:: who were overweight 30 years ago have become the morbidly obese of
:: today --- the percentage of people with a real weight problem has
:: not changed, but the physical size of the folks with the problem has
:: changed.)
::
:: The obesity epidemic is most likely the result of two factors. The
:: low-fat movement got people to eat high carb diets without the fat
:: that would otherwise blunt the impact of the insulin required to
:: digest them and the second factor was that the entry of most women
:: into the work force who no longer had time to cook a meal of meat
:: and vegetables. Fast food and processed food started becoming the
:: order of the day and many families don't even sit down at the table
:: for a meal anymore. Most processed food and fast food are based on
:: wheat flour and potatoes -- both very high glycemic foods. The
:: low-fat crowd told people, "If you take the fat out of food, you can
:: eat more!" so serving sizes got huge --- and so did we.
::
:: Cookie