Oh, right, it's Cornell, which as everybody knows, is the Ivy League's safety school.

I think it is depression that keeps me in one place, everything is so over whelming.

Overcoming depression is extremely hard.

I know that I feel better if I get up and do something productive, but it's hard to get up and do something when I just don't care. Then, because I don't do anything I feel worse and I become less likely to do something. And so it goes...

It's an insidious feedback loop that is super hard to get out of.

they do not exercise the same way, couple that with quadruple the size of portions from the 60's and 70's and you have
fat people. Even our coffee intake (Starbucks) is laden with calories. 1 little frappacino is 500 calories! More processed food,
less fresh home make stuff, it all adds up. I knew people growing up who had ding dongs and twinkles all the time. They are not
fat.

Previous studies that linked junk food consumption and obesity failed to account for the distorting effects from the roughly 5 percent of people who are either chronically underweight or morbidly obese, according to Just.

And that it's not just the junk food to blame. All of which seem pretty obvious.

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Most people consumed nearly identical amounts of junk food, on average, whether they were at healthy weights or obese, according to the study published in the journal Obesity Science & Practice.

Previous studies that linked junk food consumption and obesity failed to account for the distorting effects from the roughly 5 percent of people who are either chronically underweight or morbidly obese, according to Just.

While the study acknowledges junk food is an unhealthy choice, it says junk food gets far more blame for obesity that it deserves. While advising people to eat less junk food is good advice, it does not appear to be an effective way to lose weight, the study says.

Reducing the calories of food eaten at home and the frequency of snacking may be more successful dieting advice for most people, according to the study.

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but it's not specific foods that are making us fat.

Sometimes I overestimate the common sense of the general population. If this study makes some people reconsider their diets, then good. I don't think there is a lot there that most of us already didn't know.

do is talk about portion size and keeping active. You also talk about three meals a day and healthy foods. This last tells you that the things you eat are important but have a wide range.

My first thing I did was stop drinking pop - my daughter did not want me to use diet drinks so we went with water for the most part. My biggest problem is loving candy to much. I solve that by buying a candy bar only when I go to the store.

Most of us should just follow common sense rules and it would help.

Intake of calories that exceeds burning of calories. There is no mystery to this.

This is basic stuff.

I know that's my problem.

I don't think that's rocket science.