What's Your Poison?
Ursula Hennessey ·
Sep 24, 2010 at 6:51am
This video clip, which I saw a few days ago, has stuck with me. Other than the fact that Wolf is still madly in love and it's so nauseatingly obvious on his star-struck face, I am fascinated by Clinton's new diet success. He does look pretty good, don't you think?
A few folks on Ricochet, if I remember correctly from previous threads, are Atkins-type diet fans. I know Claire and Clinton are probably on the same page. I suspect Rob goes for high cuisine in all its forms. What about you? What food plan works for you? What doesn't?
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This is a fun topic! My dad follows a diet very similar to Clinton's--very vegetable and fruit based. Lots of smoothies (yum).
Myself, I don't really follow a "food plan"--I more or less eat what I like (it helps that I run almost every day). But I suppose I'm lucky in that what I usually want/like is pretty healthy: love fruit, love vegetables. Even though I have a sweet tooth, I really do not like sweet cereals or sweet drinks...they make me sick!
Edited on Sep 24, 2010 at 7:07amAug '10
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I'm just laghin' and laughin'. Wolf is like a little mutt, waiting for his bone. It's so rich hearing Clinton use his legendary Rhodes Scholarish mind, "Eighty-two percent of people who eat plant-based foods don't develop arterial blockage... seventy-four percent of ex-presidents married to chrome-plated harridans can get away with mistresses named Heidi in Geneva without being noticed by the Regime Media..." No, wait. I think I made up that last part. Sorry. But it depends on what your definition of "made up" is.
Sep '10
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I'm on a CNN free diet. Once I realized this network is polluting my consciousness and clogging my neural paths I stopped, cold turkey. Every now and then I see it on You Tube or passing in airports, but otherwise nothing. I did some research and found that 86% of people who stopped watching CNN and similar networks, had significantly fewer episodes of anxiety, fear and political misapprehension. Most of these folks also reported an increase in IQ believe it or not!
Feb '10
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I highly recommend people think about their diets and work hard to make it as natural as possible. I don't believe an exclusively plant-based diet is necessary for everyone, but most Americans could definitely use more plants and less animals. At our home we eat meat only a few times a week and feel much better for it.
This shouldn't be a political issue, although it has unfortunately become one. More power to people like Clinton, and on the other side to people like Huckabee, for realizing that they can take control of their own health and become much stronger and healthier through self-discipline. If we could only apply that to other areas of our lives-- we'd be so much better off.
I leave you with this headline: By 2020, 75% of America Will Be Obese. That, right there, is the source of our rising health care costs. It's actually a health crisis, not a health care crisis at all.
Edited on Sep 24, 2010 at 7:21amSep '10
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He looks pretty thin here too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIP_KDQmXs
I want you to listen to me, I'm going to say this again,I did not have culinary relations with that piece of meat, that 16 ounce porterhouse... These allegations are false and I need to go back to work for the Clinton Global Initiative.
May '10
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Oh, I don't think he looks good at all. Not so much in this clip, he looks OK here. But in the still photos I've seen of him lately and another clip I saw, it seemed to me he looked like a cadaver. Then again, I don't like him at all and I never think thin older people look very good or particularly healthy, at least certain older people. Oh, and I have no plan so maybe that explains my reaction.
May '10
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Bless you Emily and check back in with us when you turn 40!
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On the same page? I'm no more apt to subscribe to a food "plan" than I am to a planned economy. That's for the kind of people who never forget to sort the laundry into lights and darks. I consider myself lucky if I remember where I put the bills and pay them before they switch the lights off. My life would have to enter a whole new universe of personal organization before I'd be able to plan what I'm going to eat.
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Trace Urdan
Bless you Emily and check back in with us when you turn 40! · Sep 24 at 7:29am
I second that. And, I'm feeling it even though I just turned 39. Oh, and 3 kids in 5 years will kinda kill that carefree lifestyle, too.
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Ursula and Trace -- whenever I reach for that unneeded serving (usually of desert!), I tell myself, what the heck: since I won't be able to have it in twenty years, I might as well have it now!! ; )
Trace Urdan
Bless you Emily and check back in with us when you turn 40! · Sep 24 at 7:29am
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Oh! I thought you were vegan. I guess I got that wrong.
May '10
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To take Ursula's query seriously for a moment (and at the risk of some serious mockery from Claire & Kenneth,) I have found nothing as effective as tracking net caloric intake. It can be a grind and you don't have to be fanatical about it, but there are Web-based tools now that make it somewhat easier to track both intake and outflow and manage yourself to a net negative calorie mode -- such as About.com's Calorie Counts (see link below). This is highly effective if you are actively trying to get smaller. Also studies show that weighing yourself daily makes a big difference -- it helps keep a situation from getting out of hand. The whole plant-based diet + protein shake thing doesn't really seem sustainable... especially for Bubba.
http://caloriecount.about.com/?utm_medium=toolbar&utm_source=Firefox&utm_campaign=toolbar_home&utm_term=home_homepage
May '10
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The ban on Michelle Obama comments forbids me answering this question (though the Daily Caller has a good article on that today). Except that it's a national disgrace the Cookie Monster doesn't even eat cookies these days. And that kids are forbidden bringing cupcakes to school birthdays.
However, anything less than whole milk is gray water, and I eat one vegetarian meal a day, except on Fridays, which are old-school meatless, and that my old cooking teacher planned to eat every edible animal at least once. I'd settle for dog on a stick. Sadly, while impervious to cholesterol, I am hereditarily prone to ulcers and liver disease, which prevents guzzling as much as I'd wish. If anyone has a spare liver, could I borrow it for the weekend?
Not sure what the nutritional value of that diet is, and really don't care much. It's mainly genetics.
May '10
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Like Emily, I throw caution into the wind. For whatever reason, I'm incapable of putting on fat. My siblings all have to watch their diets, so it's apparently not age-related. The only time I was able to quickly build muscle was when I was drinking protein shakes, guzzling three or four thousand calories as a snack between meals.
I eat for taste. Sorry.
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Aaron Miller: Like Emily, I throw caution into the wind. For whatever reason, I'm incapable of putting on fat. My siblings all have to watch their diets, so it's apparently not age-related. The only time I was able to quickly build muscle was when I was drinking protein shakes, guzzling three or four thousand calories as a snack between meals.
I eat for taste. Sorry. · Sep 24 at 8:28am
Ahhh, you and Gisele Bundchen. Cheers! (... but a bit jealous.)
Jul '10
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I eat whatever I want, once a day. I try to stick to steaks/chops, roasts, fowl, stews, charcuterie-laden sandwiches, and various cured fruits.
Jun '10
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Clinton doesn't look this good in person. He has a bulbous nose pockmarked by alcoholism and small piggy eyes. TV makeup covers a world of sins - literally in his case.
Aug '10
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You're right, Clinton looks like he's cozying up to the 'Reaper.
As the fat-friendly Atkins Diet has proven by contrast, people who go on low fat diets often look gaunt and scraggly. They can also suffer from muscle and bone loss.
Fat, calcium, and protein are what the body needs. Many vitamins are fat-soluble, so you need to have a reasonable amount of body fat. The Atkins often builds muscle on people, and their fat balance comes more into line; less fat, more muscle.
Because muscle weighs more than fat, they may not lose that much weight, but - as happened with me - waist size goes down, clothes fit better, and stamina and strength greatly increasse.
Jul '10
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Busy System Admin:This shouldn't be a political issue, although it has unfortunately become one. More power to people like Clinton, and on the other side to people like Huckabee, for realizing that they can take control of their own health and become much stronger and healthier through self-discipline. If we could only apply that to other areas of our lives-- we'd be so much better off.
I leave you with this headline: By 2020, 75% of America Will Be Obese. That, right there, is the source of our rising health care costs. It's actually a health crisis, not a health care crisis at all. · Sep 24 at 7:16am
Edited on Sep 24 at 07:21 am
Eh. Smoking declines, weights go up. Is it really a crisis, or an unintended consequence? To quote from the article you cited:
"The lifespan of an obese person is up to 8-10 years shorter than that of a normal-weight person, the OECD said, the same loss of lifespan incurred by smoking."
If you're going to bother us about our diets, clearly you're not a busy enough system admin.
Edited on Sep 24, 2010 at 4:30pmJul '10
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I disagree with your take on Wolf's expression. It looks to me like he chose a blue tie to match the blue background (and the Dem's color) only to be horrified that Clinton wore RED! I think he was beating himself up mentally. Didn't hear a word Clinton said.
And who knew Big Macs were a plant?