Comments on: Losing Weight With S.P.E.E.D.

By: Dy

Dy — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:19:23 +0000

Tom, thank you for sharing this resource. I have a dear, dear friend who is morbidly obese. She’s a beautiful, vibrant, funny, warm woman, trapped in an unending cycle of heart medication, blood pressure medication, diabetes medication, self-flagellation, disappointment, and shame. She and I often talk about her struggles and her situation, and she is receptive and open to learning. She *wants* to be in a better place.

But when I say that her physician, who tells her to eat, say, a baked potato, with margarine, and a glass of water, for lunch, is *way off base*, she (rightfully) wants to know why. And *that’s* where I lose her. I need a way to explain, in layman’s terms, and without making her eyes glaze over, exactly why the advice she is following is only feeding the vicious cycle. She’s smart, but it’s confusing. That’s all there is to it. This book just may be the key to helping her learn to shift gears. Thank you!

It’s a good one. Much more accessible than Good Calories, Bad Calories.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:03:52 +0000

More FATTY HEAD & Body Musings:
Charlie Rose had some fascinating neuroscientists on Thursday night. I was intrigued. At one point, one said that there is a difference between silicon computer circuits and human brains, because one is silicon and the other is ‘meat’! He’s wrong. Our brains are mostly FAT.
When I calculated the astounding 2 football fields worth of fatty surface area covering our 100 trillion cells, I didn’t add the acres more of the fatty coating to all our 100 billion neurons’ axonal fibers. I will do that calculation soon because as I was listening to the show, it occured to me that these make-up a lot of additional fatty acreage and were not included in my previous calc. (I only accounted for the membranes covering the average cell’s ‘body’ originally) Axonal processes are in addition to the 100 trillion cell’s surface area membrane covers and they are interstitial and outside and additional to my first calculation. Also, there are multiple fatty membrane bound organelles INSIDE (intrastitial) each and every one of our 100 trillion cells, though they are smaller (okay organelles are not so much in the rbc’s). Also, the bacteria we harbor, 1000 trillion of them, again while smaller, turnover DAILY and we supply their fatty building material. I don’t know yet how to account for that and what the ‘tonnage’ of saturated animal fat we must have in our diets to thrive and remain mentally sound. But I will get back to you on it.
I have been thinking about our evolution and what might have sparked our branching off from our closest relatives and also accelerating away and taking off from more distantly related carnivores. We figured out how to get into the braincases and into bones. We ate bugs, brains, bone marrow, and (don’t be grossed out) BM’s. I’ve read about this last speculative suggestion because feces still contain huge amounts of energy (animal poop fertilizers anyone?). We also became social and learned how to hunt together. Voila. Then when we figured out agriculture, we got more populous. The more people around, the more chances for genius and technological advances. So agriculture is a full-circle double-edged sword. We are smart, numerous and no longer thriving on wheat and sugar and frankenstein vegetable ‘fats’ after we reproduce and head into old age!!!!!!!
Laurie

By: Terry OCarroll

Terry OCarroll — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:00:01 +0000

Thanks for the review, I’ve just ordered a copy of the e-book version. Hopefully it’ll be helpful in my fat loss efforts.

I believe it will help.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:29:46 +0000

This looks like one I’ll want to add to my library. Thanks for sharing!

You’ll like it.

By: Elenor

Elenor — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:41:14 +0000

Ordered it, and through your site too! {wink}

Been TRYING to get my mom to actually watch your movie: took it and my netbook to a week in upstate NY clearing out her sister’s apartment… she was too “stressed and too tired to watch,” so I watched by myself… (again…). Pointed out that her breakfast (she’s 85…) is REALLY protein deficient — Shredded Wheat and in my head I hear your voice: “71″ (glycemic index); she stalks over to the closet to read the label, intending to prove me wrong… and says nothing: ’cause there’s pretty much no protein), a sliced banana, milk (at least it was whole milk, cause I was there… usually 2%), and a bit of toast… {eye roll} She cannot accept that she’s protein deficient because she’s thin and has muscles in her legs from walking the dog… She IS sort-of low(er) carb, lost 60-some pounds going low carb a number of years ago, when she also took up walking (bless her heart!), so she’s WAY better than she was… but I’m trying to introduce her to protein powders, since she’s not eating enough protein to rebuild muscle and organs and all!

Maybe this shorter book will help. Thanks again Tom for bein’ here and doing what you do. You and Jimmie and the Eades are my every-morning visit to keep my resolve up. Taking your movie out to LA where my mom, my sister and her husband and their 12-yr-old Type 1 son live… We’re gonna have a movie night!! (With shackles, if I haveta!)

Enjoy movie night. Glad you ordered the book, too; but I don’t embed the Amazon merchant code in the links to any books I recommend. That would be a bit too close to a paid endorsement.

Now, if you decide to click the Fat Head ad in the sidebar and go shopping for whatever, that’s a different story … then Amazon identifies us as the referring site.

By: Matt Stone

Matt Stone — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:57:45 +0000

Hey, if you’re looking for cliff notes on Taubes that’s fun for the whole family, Fathead is a much better alternative than any book I’ve read, including my own weight loss book.

I appreciate that, although I hope the film inspires some people to read the books too.