When I was 39, my doctor informed me that I had virtually no thyroid function left. I went screaming home and called my mother in a panic, and she calmly commented, "Of course your thyroid stopped working-- you're about the age when mine stopped … [Continue reading]
One of the things I wanted to do with 2 Rich 2 Thin was address the incredible volume of misinformation and outright untruths repeated again and again by weight-loss pundits. Well, yippy skippy, now I don't have to, because Dr. Nancy Snyderman has … [Continue reading]
Any number of people have remarked that one of the smartest things you can do to be healthy is to, "choose your parents wisely." That's doubly important when it comes to your weight. I feel very fortunate that I had normal-to-thin parents with no … [Continue reading]
Today I'd like to address a scourge on Society, a class of nefarious evildoers determined to corrupt the innocent and lead them down them the long, dark road of addiction. Of course I'm talking about the store employees at your local Krispy Kreme … [Continue reading]
One of the oddest truths in modern American society is that a lot of poor people are fat. As I talked about in Survival of the Fattest, starvation has always been the problem, not obesity. But our modern poor are far more affluent than their … [Continue reading]
I've spent some time in France and trust me, French women get fat just like the rest of us. Sophisticated urban French women don't as a rule, but then neither do sophisticated urban American women. But I have to agree with Mireille Guiliano that … [Continue reading]
My son will eat pretty much anything put in front of him. My husband, not so much. He HATES vegetables. He comes by it honestly; my mother-in-law pretty much cooks all vegetables until you can mash them, so it's no surprise that my husband assumes … [Continue reading]
If you were ever near a TV in the 70s, you probably remember the series of ads where an off-camera narrator tried to foist Chiffon Margarine off on Mother Nature instead of butter. She responded with the phrase, "It's not nice to fool Mother … [Continue reading]
A few years back, when a certain psychologist (I'll call him "Dr. Bill") was hawking diet advice via the TV show of his good friend (let's call her "O"), I watched just long enough for the top of my head to blow off. I mean, in the first place, … [Continue reading]
I don't know, do you? I am a healthy size 14, which apparently makes me the average American woman. I would like to be a healthy size 12. I was a size 10 before I had my son, but between the spreading of my ribs that he managed with his little … [Continue reading]