Comments on: Jimmy Moore’s Blogiversary, Part One

By: Weight Reducer

Weight Reducer — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:49:26 +0000

I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more articles from you in the future.

- Jack

I appreciate the compliment. Welcome aboard.

By: TonyNZ

TonyNZ — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:39:20 +0000

“I believe they want people to be sick to make money.” – Carl

The first person to add sugar to chewing gum was a dentist. Talk about ensuring repeat customers.

Not all doctors are created equal. People can know this. Word of mouth is a powerful thing. There are a couple of doctors I know that I would trust with my life. The sad thing is, you should be able to trust all doctors with your life, yet there’s some I wouldn’t trust with my lunch.

The sad thing about drugs causing weight loss is that many drug studies don’t look at everything. What else causes weight loss? Cancer? AIDS? Malaria? I personally once got down to a BMI of 16 from a viral illness. That the people in the drug trials lose weight is fact, the fact of how the weight is being lost is seldom investigated satisfactorily.

I believe most doctors are repeating what they were taught, not trying to make us sick.

By: carl

carl — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:24:13 +0000

I have saved my health and control my diabetes by living the low carb life. The propaganda is very strong about fat. Don’t believe it! Fat is good for you! We have been so brain washed for so many years I know how hard it is for people to believe this. Our medical community is pushing this propaganda crap and drugs. I believe they want people to be sick to make money. I know of no other logical explanation. I have spent a lifetime looking for a doctor that I can trust and have not found one. I have given up.

People think doctors are educated and smart. Maybe they are but they chose to dispense poison and bad advice to their patients to make money. This is my life story. I was on all the medications; for diabetes, blood pressure, and cholesterol. I was spending $600 per month on prescription drugs. The real kicker is; They don’t work! If they work at all they do very little and then there are the side effects. One drug prescribed to me was Avandia. It was finally removed because a couple of its side effects were death and blindness. Another major problem with prescription drugs is people use them as a crutch; I can eat this jelly donut, I will just take another pill or inject some more insulin.

By: shutchings

shutchings — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:23:14 +0000

I wonder if the difference between Jimmy and Kevin could be that Jimmy has an optimistic explanatory style and Kevin had a pessimistic explanatory style (see Dr. Martin E P Seligman’s book “Learned Optimism”). Could explanatory style be that crucial?

I didn’t know Kevin, but I can tell you from my many exchanges with Jimmy that he is indeed an optimist.

I definitely believe it’s important how we interpret our experiences. According to Thomas Edison, he discovered 10,000 ways not to make a light bulb. He never referred to those experiments as failures.

By: catherine

catherine — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:17:38 +0000

riveting interview. what a dramatic story. thank you!

By: TonyNZ

TonyNZ — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:21:47 +0000

I personally know 4 diabetic people who went on Atkins and said it improved their quality of life immensely.

Nice post.

Considering how Atkins was savaged by the AMA, it’s amazing his diet caught on and remained popular.