Why losing weight is so hard and gaining weight is so easy

Now a(nother) reason to sue, or at least report to the FTC, ATT-SBC-Yahoo! (Maybe you already have one.)

Why? They are distributing bad health care advice.

While you are at it, tell the FTC about Oprah and her IMHO nutritional homicide maniacs, too.

First, a story.

I almost never comment about other people's blogs because I perceive them to be less damaging than the MSM articles and press releases that are the fodder of MSM articles.

I use ATT-SBC-Yahoo! as my ISP. The home page has an area that contains today's NEWS. You know, stuff like politics, wars, fires, murders and American Idol (Idle) stories.

Today, the one linked to this entry was part of the NEWS.

Thought I would check it out since now, it is likely to be seen by many people.

The link to the story took me to a blog.

So, some comments since the info is so crappy and widely distributed courtesy of ATT-SBC-Yahoo!

Here is what this low-functioning moron is spouting:

"FACT 1 - It is Simple Math: To maintain your ideal weight, you need to eat as many calories as you burn in one day."

Fact - Wrong. First there is no such thing as an "ideal weight."

Second, eating as many Calories as you burn maintains any weight you are at, too much or too little.

"FACT 2 - A Pound is a Pound is a Pound: One pound of body mass represents 3,500 calories. Regardless, if you are trying to lose a pound or gain a pound, the pound will always represent 3,500 calories. So, if you eat 3,500 calories more than your body requires, you will gain 1 pound. Similarly, if you eat 3,500 calories less than your body requires, you will lose 1 pound."

Fact - All of the above is wrong. Too much time is needed to deal with all parts. Sorry.

A pound of muscle has far fewer Calories than a pound of fat.

One pound of body FAT, not body mass, represents 3,500 calories.

The weight gain and weight loss info is wrong, too. See here and here.

"FACT 3 - Exercise is Weight Discriminating: Whether you are 120 pounds or 175 pounds, you will gain one pound from eating 3,500 calories more than you need."

Fact - Wrong. If you add 3500 Calories to your body you can gain anywhere between 1 and 6 pounds, depending on whether you add those Calories as fat or muscle or a combination of the two.

So who is this idiot and ATT-SBC-Yahoo! touted expert?

Brett Blumenthal.

This is how she describes herself.

"Brett's passion for health and wellness began as a freshman in college, where she quickly realized that exercise and good nutrition were vital to releasing stress and maintaining balance. She became an AFAA (Aerobics and Fitness Association of America) certified group fitness instructor and has taught for Gold’s Gym and Bally’s Total Fitness in New York. She taught all types of fitness classes, but especially enjoyed helping students understand fundamentals of nutrition, fitness and overall wellness. She founded Sheer Balance, a company dedicated to health and wellness, when she realized that many of her friends and colleagues constantly struggled with finding balance in their every day hectic lives. Further, she realized that many of these women were frustrated by the overwhelming amount of information that was contradicting, unclear and misleading when it came to healthy living. As a result, she saw a need to provide women with the right tools and information to make living healthy, easy and fun."

Too bad her "passion" is devoid of smarts.

Her bio also serves to display the kind of talent Gold's and Bally's hires to teach and how lousy an AFAA certification must be.

In any event, I assume she means well, but is just another idiot, incapable of critical thought, who bought into the main stream approach and saw a way to make a buck parroting it back to an unsuspecting public.

It's unfortunate that "She taught all types of fitness classes, but especially enjoyed helping students understand fundamentals of nutrition, fitness and overall wellness."

With an understanding like Brett's, pray that those she helped survive.

And if Brett really wants women to be provided with "the right tools and information to make living healthy, easy and fun," she should shut her piehole and find employment in another area.