Post to article about poor white women's increasing death rate

http://prospect.org/article/whats-killing-poor-white-women#comment-23749

i come from a family that gets fat easily. i've peeled off 30-60 lbs many times in my life of 50+ years. Believe me, the issue is CALORIES. Restrict your calories, and i don't care what else you do, or are, or have, or do not have, YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT. It is insanely simple. Look at concentration camp victims --- they ALL lose weight, regardless of what pre-existing conditions they had. That's because their calories were RESTRICTED. I have done the very-low carb diets. They were no magic wand. You can't just eat no carbs then pig out. You will gain weight. A few people here and there say that they can eat maybe a few hundred more calories per day if they eat almost no carbs. Possibly that is true, in some cases. HOWEVER, the issue REMAINS: Calorie restriction os the issue. Calorie restriction is 100% GUARANTEED to make you lose weight. Period. Cutting carbs cannot make this guarantee. Many want to blame the evil food corporations. Hogwash. They are doing their job, making food as tasty as possible. It is your job to not eat it. Just because a knife-maker makes a sharp knife doesn't mean you have to cut yourself. As for all of these complicated metabolic theories -- once again, WHO CARES? Just RESTRICT CALORIES, and you will lose weight, guaranteed, and most all of this metabolic stuff will clear up. And, yes, it's hard. And, yes, it is psychologically and emotionally painful -- sometimes quite difficult. Yep. That's correct. I like to say about dieting, "If it ain't hurtin', it ain't workin'" Pain is pathway to slimness. So many want to dodge that. They shouldn't if they want to be slim.

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One other thing. Crystal was drinking Dr Pepper a lot. If she drank just 200 calories of Dr Pepper a day on top of her normal diet-- very easy to do -- in one year, she would gain 20 lbs! In five years, she would gain 100 pounds. And, take a look -- looks like 100 lbs to me, at least, It isn't soda that is bad. It isn't sugar that is bad. It is TOO MANY CALORIES that is bad. It is not complicated.