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Apps For Healthy Kids — Where PC Meets PCs
theodp writes "Put the Grand Theft Auto, Halo, and Madden away, kids! Over at Apps for Healthy Kids, First Lady Michelle Obama has a whole new slate of games for you to play with! Voting on entries in the White House-backed game development competition has begun, and you'll find exciting titles like Balanced Meal (6 votes), Blubber Blaster (9 votes), Calorie Quest (10 votes), and Count Peas (7 votes) — and that's just for starters."
Indoctrinate the children when they are young and they are yours for life. Even Hitler knew this. Not the same thing obviously, but I still don't like any political party working so hard to program children with their version of "wisdom".
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
Pahhleeze, Mrs. Obama!
Yet another bunch of blather about weight loss from a skinny person! Hasn't anyone read the research? The simple equation
(weight loss) = (calories in) - (calories exercised)
is wrong! Well, at least the usual assumptions about it are wrong. Read Gary Taubes' "The Scientist and the Stairmaster" (http://nymag.com/news/sports/38001/). The "common sense" approach to weight loss (eat less, exercise more) misses a really big factor: the body is charge. You are not a detached mind, your brain is inside your body, and your body doesn't want to let go of that fat. So, your body is going to tell your brain to exercise, or to eat. The body is in charge, your will is not. YOU ARE NOT IN CHARGE.
When fat people eat, and their blood sugar rises after a meal, insulin tells their cells to grab that sugar, and store it as fat. They run out of blood sugar, so their bodies tell them to
1. stop moving, to conserve energy.
2. eat more (NOW!) to get the blood sugar up.
the poor brain (and its side-effect, the will) are helpless before the body's command.
From the outside, it looks like fat people are lazy gluttons, so that's why they gain weight. But it's backwards: they gain weight (they turn sugar into fat), so they become inactive and hungry.
We skinny people (myself included) are just the opposite. When we eat, our blood sugar doesn't get turned into fat. There's lots of sugar around, so our body tells the brain to start moving, to burn the sugar off, and to stop eating, to keep the sugar from going up again.
Again, it looks like skinny people can control themselves, and exercise and THEREFORE lose weight, but again the causality is backwards.
What is actually going is a bunch of skinny snotty people imposing their prejudices on fat people. This has to stop.