On Fri, 30 May 2008 15:52:11 +0200, Silvio Bierman
<sbierman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :
>Ever noticed that most fat kids have at least one fat parent as well?
>It's all genetics and eating habits, both of which are hereditary.
The essential problem is for nearly all of their history humans have
evolved in a calorie-starved environment. The best strategy under
such conditions is to move as little and as efficiently as possible,
eat the highest calorie foods, and gorge whenever you get the chance
-- the strategy many animals use.
The problem is, in a world of abundance, that usually successful
strategy is fatal.
Given the failure of dieting, I think the solution lies elsewhere:
1. manipulating the programming/hormones of the brain to cause us to
like burning calories and avoid eating them.
2. putting us in an calorie-starved environment, more like the one we
evolved in.
3. making us exercise as a natural side effect of daily life, e.g.
substituting bicycle for car.
For example, they have discovered a hormone that the brain excretes on
seeing food that makes you hungry. A blocker for that would go a long
way.
Computers have evolved to reduce ever lower the number of calories you
burn per hour. We need to reverse that trend.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com
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