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  • Valerie Bertinelli and the Bikini Body Disorder
    Lauren commented on the article | almost 3 years ago
    Valerie Bertinelli and the Bikini Body Disorder

    Besides the problems with rhetoric and the focus and appearance rather than health, as noted thoroughly by others, my main problem with this and most weight loss stories is that the sort of dietary lifestyle they promote is not healthy.  Eating heavily processed, pre-packaged diet foods like Jenny Craig is next to the farthest thing from healthy that I can think of.  So maybe it helps you lose weight, but you're just going from one unhealthy, industrial diet to another, still malnourished and constantly fighting cravings for non-diet foods.The best way to look good, and more importantly, to be healthy, is to eat outside of the industrial food system.  You have to eat whole, unprocessed foods that are truly fresh and grown in a way that best preserves the health of living things and the environment.If you are healthy first, the weight will follow.  There is a terrible focus on and demonization of calories--calorie counting rather than paying attention to the substance of those calories, which IS crucial.  What needs to promoted rather than weight loss is a healthy diet and lifestyle that more closely resembles what people ate before the food processing industry guided all our dietary research, knowledge, and decisions.  If I see one more ad or story or newspaper article about how something is healthy because it is low-fat/low cholesterol, has some added nutrient, or because it lacks some terrible ingredient (like trans-fats), I'm going to pull my hair out.  Or drop out of society and become a reclusive homesteader.  Or move somewhere that has a real food tradition.

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