Taubes stuffs--- There's lots of good stuff in the Red book, as readers are finding out, but the subtext is even more world-changing than the surface stuff. It's not super sub...he implies as much...but once you digest it all and buy into it, your view of the world (at least, of fat people) flip-flops.
Then: They eat to much and exercise too little. It's their own fault. Duh. Now: They try so hard, but are following bad advice. They can't afford to eat low-carb, and don't know about it, and aren't likely to read about it, and it's not being told to them by their community, and all they know is that they and lotsa their friends and fam keep getting fatter. They come to accept it, and they'll deal with the diabetes later. Every television commercial for Honey Nut Cheerios reinforces the wrong message. The positive for...somebodies...is that it's better (in a way) to look at a trying overweight person and feel pity because they just don't know, than to see the same person and feel disgust for that they seem to have done to themselves. We don't live in a place world that makes it easy to approach them and broach the topic---that's weird and can be hurtful and wrong on a few diff levels. On one hand, it would be a caring thing to do, but on the other hand, you'd get smacked down in one second, and everybody in the world would hate you. I have a cousin who is 30 x 350 and the mother of two daughters, both of whom seem to be going the same way. She eats low-fat, hardly any meat, is nearly vegetarian. I've seen her twice, so I don't know her well enough. She likes me, and I don't want her to not like me. Her husband is a great guy (and is leanish), and he likes me, too. We all get along. I feel like, to keep the relationship, I can't say anything. The risk is too high. Then if I don't say anything, who am I not saying anything for? If I were to contact her, she'd be thrilled to hear from cousin Grant, and eventually she'd say "Boy, it's so good to hear from you. What's up?" So...I am hoping that somehow the book gets into her hands. She reads a lot. She's not F and S, she's just F. Anyway....I don't see her as a lazy pig, that's for sure. I see her as being born with a degree of insulin resistance (he mother was heavy), and having lived a life of eating high carb (by means of low-fat/ calorie), and having her insulin resistance escalate to the point where her blood is constantly "full" of insulin, which makes it impossible for her to arrest her growth. It would be great if the local bookstore (the one in Pt. Reyes) stocked the book, and she happened upon it, but would an overweight person feel comfortable buying a book of that title (Why We Get Fat) from a salesperson who isn't? I don't know about that. Anyway...the whole scenario---is going on out there in the anonymous world all the time with strangers who haven't yet given up, but eventually will because nothing works. It's better, or at least kinder, to think of them as victims of bad diet propaganda, than of "bad food choices." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
