Learning to Live Hungry, like a Zucker Rat : April 2014

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

My Obesity is My Fault

http://www.drsharma.ca/the-fraser-institute-obesity-report-being-right-does-not-make-it-wrong.html

“Our vision is a free and prosperous world where individuals benefit from greater choice, competitive markets, and personal responsibility.” - See more at: http://www.drsharma.ca/the-fraser-institute-obesity-report-being-right-does-not-make-it-wrong.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DrSharmasObesityNotes+%28Dr.+Sharma%27s+Obesity+Notes%29#sthash.UYiMGBfO.dpuf

Personal responsibility means my fault. When I removed sugar (fructose), grains and starch group (opioid peptides, acellular carbohydrates), dairy product (opioid peptide) from modern "foods" my problem reduced greatly. When I step out of the obeseogenic culture (environment), problem get even smaller. Fraser Institute has there head out of the sunlight, possible in the outflow port.

How is it my fault that the foods the government tells us to eat is obesogenic and addicting?

Once I recognize the problem, and choose to ignore the Canada Good Food guidelines, and all the medical people, I got better. So how is that my fault?

Now that I know that sugar, grains, starches, dairy products, and all processed foods are poison and addicting, it is up to me to not consume any of that shit, for this I am responsible.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Some is up to me, the rest ain't

Those of you that recognize Epictetus 1, may have tried the exercise / method of analysis. Line down the centre of page, one side is the "up to me", the other side the "nots", as defined by Epi.

The simplest form of a decision is assent to a proposition, or rejection, or occasionally withholding judgement, after reducing the issue to an "adequate" proposition.

There is a lot I was, in the past, concerned with. No more. It is all somebody else's problems now.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

obesity recovery crudely 4 issues

Sharma pointed the way to this video
http://www.drsharma.ca/shame-and-blame-has-no-role-in-addressing-obesity.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXq-BGePK8w

1 & 2, Eat less, move more, OK, but how do we do that?

3 Motivation, how does one motivate oneself 24/7 against our prevailing society, culture and environment. We like and need food (genetic, inbred, ingrained, instinctive survival) and society pushes food. We need to always make the proper choices, not what industry tells us is healthy. So what is the proper choices for me?

4 Coping with life, or a replacements for the relief eating provides. Overeating is a maladaptive behavior, or one conducted as a soother for life. Insulin and high blood glucose is a sedative. So when we take away the food, how do we learn coping methods for skills we obese do not have, and the thin do not understand their methods?

So this is a psychological problem. Back in 2004 or so, I tried getting more help (information, understanding, whatever) for this near life long obesity issue from Weight Wise, Dr. Sharma's organization. I was 158 kg at the weigh in. Soon then provided a list of suggested psychologists, of which there was only one dealing with weight issues and available. When I went to the first appointment, she was bigger than I, and was a fruitcake. I paid my $150, and left to never return.

Then when I got on a role and eliminated wheat, (sugar was already gone) and was busy losing weight, they through me out of their program for non-compliance, hence my opinion of the good doctor.

Solving step 3 and 4 are the solution to the psychological side of the issue, but the physical side includes learning to live with ongoing hunger, cravings, angst, what ever this physical feeling is, and the doctors do not have the answer. So much for the medical community. It is beyond there knowledge, but there is good money in studying the problem.

Sunday, April 13, 2014

important

http://www.dietdoctor.com/movie-junk-food-industry-fears

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Oz and others

http://www.weightymatters.ca/2014/04/guest-post-on-cbc-homeopaths-are-now.html

got me going. Homeopaths are professionals. Is anyone an expert?

Having looked at the research on diet, foods, obesity, diabetics and statins, I will say say that the medical community need to do a bit of housecleaning before is can separate experts from professionals. The doctors do not have 100% correct proven information and then there are the medical treatment guidelines to screw the issue further. http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2014/04/10/something-really-hude/

By professionals, I mean people who make their living from there skills, and by experts, I mean people who know everything about their thin wedge of area. The problem is that most human subjects are beyond any one's area of expertise.

Oz is a professional entertainer, and was a professional doctor. He presents people and information, some of which is wrong, but it is up to the audience to sort out fact from fiction. If not Oz, replace with anyone, all is opinion anyway.

The medical community understands that the money is in the treatment, not curing all the problems and identifying all the causes in a way that is useful in avoiding the problems. Just cure the ones that we have real cures for, and treat the remainder for cash or research and hope a cures is found.

But what do I know.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Science Quality

When I was taking a course in marketing many years ago the instructor said something like this, " Make the plan look nice for the bank. It does not matter if it is totally right, but if it looks good, nobody will question the study."

Two things first, my mind is failing me, and the symbols used today in statics are not the same as they were. I do not know if it is an industry thing or time.

In the following study, look at the scanter of the data on the last graphs where the data is plotted (page 5). and note the statement. (49% cross-block covariance; P = .004) where P is the probability that hypothesis is wrong. Something does not compute there. Is the P value reported for the line or the data?

http://www.drperlmutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/gastro_probiotic2013.pdf

This type of study should be a cross over design with a wash out period between to mean anything.

Also not that this are a small groups but it does not say how the people were selected and assigned to the groups. Prescreening for favorable response? also it was funded by Danone Research.

It don't matter what they say, I sill am not gonna eat rotten dairy products.

REF
In statistical significance testing, the p-value is the probability of obtaining a test statistic at least as extreme as the one that was actually observed, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.^[1]^[2] A researcher will often "reject the null hypothesis" when the p-value turns out to be less than a certain significance level, often 0.05^[3]^[4] or 0.01.

ref bad logic https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/pdf/FallaciesPoster24x36.pdf

Monday, April 7, 2014

Disordered Eaters

Disordered eaters are people who nibble, pick, binge and fast, snack all day rather than three moderate meals each day. The most difficult thing for a recovering overeater, who must generally live on three moderate meals each day, living to live with a 24/7 snacker. There is always food out, exposed for temptation. Visual food cues are the most terrible things. There is no solution, it is a learn to endure situation. Or leave, what other choice is there? Talking to this individual is not helpful, never has been, and is not worth the blow back.

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