{"id":11962,"date":"2009-12-26T10:52:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T10:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/26\/how-to-lose-weight\/"},"modified":"2009-12-26T10:52:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T10:52:57","slug":"how-to-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/26\/how-to-lose-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Lose Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t doubt that Americans are the fattest people in the world. Some years back I landed at New York\u2019s JFK airport after a year in Turkey. Walking from the plane into the terminal, and without having given any thought to the matter, the first thing that struck me was how obese Americans are.<\/font><\/p>\n

Many are now speaking of an \u2018epidemic\u2019 of obesity in the USA as if obesity were a disease. This is liberal nonsense, of course, and needs to be exposed as such. It is nonsense raised to the second power when calls are issued for Federal programs to combat the problem. First of all, obesity is not a disease, but a condition caused and maintained by the voluntary act of overeating. No doubt, some people have more of a propensity to put on weight than others: basal metabolic rates and other factors vary from person to person. But this does nothing to change the fact that one\u2019s weight depends on the quality and quantity of what one freely shovels into one\u2019s mouth. Second, obesity is a personal problem to be solved at the personal level. The last thing we need are more Federal programs. <\/font><\/p>\n

I\u2019m here to give you the straight skinny<\/em>, in four monosyllables, and with my famous double your money back if not entirely satisfied guarantee. Eat less, move more.<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n

CORRECTION (12\/28): <\/font>Here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t doubt that Americans are the fattest people in the world. Some years back I landed at New York\u2019s JFK airport after a year in Turkey. Walking from the plane into the terminal, and without having given any thought to the matter, the first thing that struck me was how obese Americans are. Many … Continue reading “How to Lose Weight”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}