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I wish I could embed YouTube videos here but it messes up the layout. Especially I would like to embed this charming video from Kevin Mullaney, whom you may remember from an earlier video about the Shangri-La Diet. In the newer video, he calls SLD “a lazy person’s diet”. I like that!

Kevin’s ticker indicates he has lost about 60 pounds. The last 10 were from SLD plus a low-carb diet.

Thanks to Buxi.

This coming Wednesday (July 9), Stephen Marsh and I will be on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet to talk about the Shangri-La Diet. (In the Bay Area, this show starts at 9 am on the FOX affiliate. It lasts one hour.) When Stephen asked his boss for time off,  she said, “But you’ve always been thin.” Music to my ears.

As any reader of The Shangri-La Diet knows, I attribute the obesity epidemic to ditto foods — foods that taste exactly the same each time, such as factory food and fast food. We eat a lot more of these foods today than 50 years ago or even 20 years ago.

An alternative explanation of the obesity epidemic that many people believe is too little exercise. People who deal with childhood obesity, in particular, often say the problem is too much TV, too little playground.

If kids are fat due to lack of exercise, more exercise should be a good solution. A new study shows it isn’t. It turns out that giving kids more P.E. doesn’t cause weight loss:

In studies involving nearly 10,000 children, primarily in elementary schools, none demonstrated a reduction in BMI with those who were assigned to the most phys-ed time, compared to those who didn’t have as much.

Via Calorie Lab.

… continues:

The only person I’ve told about SLD is my wife, and she specifically told me not to tell her family about SLD.

I have never read a better description of the difference between being fat and not fat:

I had a gastric bypass and ate 750-1000 calories of liquid meal replacement a day.  I had complications and couldn’t swallow food.  I lost over a hundred pounds.  I regained it over a number of years.  Once I lost weight and was normal–my life did change for the better.  It’s the only reason I had my child.  For the first and only time in my life it was easy to have people in my life.  People wanted to be around me.  I had boyfriends who treated me well for the first and only time in my life.  I got married.  All this happened very quickly and easily with no effort on my part.  Being fat is completely different.  I think the way people treat a fat person is similar to being disfigured or in a wheelchair with your legs cut off .  In many instances it is better to be dead than to be this fat.

From an anonymous blogger who weighs about 280 pounds. She isn’t trying to sell anything, make a journalistic or academic point, appear to be this or that. The post goes on:

My daughter had a fat friend over for a sleep over the other day.  It’s the second fat friend she’s ever had over.  The difference between these girls and the thinner girls is striking.  The fat girls are obsessed with food.  They are more driven to eat, more interested in food, more hungry than the thinner girls.  The thin girls are interested in food far less.  It’s not that they are better than the fat girls, they are simply less hungry.  My daughter first fat friend got up all through the night to raid our refrigerator.  This child acted as if she were starving.  She ate until she was literally ill and threw up on the sleeping bags.  Then later she peed on my daughter.  My daughter is fastidious and she was completely revolted.   That was the end of the friendship.

I came across this because she is trying the Shangri-La Diet.