Althousian free association goes from that to this — published on the same day, in the same place (the NYT) — from the obituary of Mickey Rose, who co-wrote "Bananas" and "Take the Money and Run" the 2 movies that "established [Woody Allen] as a filmmaker" and made him "popular enough to continue to do whatever he wanted to do," according to Eric Lax, who wrote “Woody Allen: A Biography."
In a remembrance e-mailed to Mr. Lax, Mr. Allen recalled what Mr. Rose had told him was the inescapable meaning of death: “No more malteds.”Key word: Malteds.
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Salt Med? And how did we get to this?
I visited my mother last week. Gained 7 pounds in 5 days, and I was too fat when I got there. I'm fixing that now. Lost the 7 pounds in the week I've been home. It was all cookies, and pie and stuff moms do with their love. Love is a dangerous thing. Lust is safer. That's my diet plan: pursue the lust. I lust for hiking, biking and working. Carbs are clingy whores who know how to please, but won't leave afterward.
Wiring a contraption into your mouth takes far less discipline than leaving food on the plate when you've eaten enough. I'm not recommending the contraption, just saying.
How long before governments/insurance companies force the obses to wear the Slow Bite?
Whether it seems sensible is not the acid test. If it turns out that it works then ask why it works when self control doesn't. If it doesn't then throw it on the trash pile with the magic fat burning suit.
The answer would appear to be, "No".
The Blonde worked a bariatric floor for several years and the patients were incredibly self-indulgent.
Everything that is old is new again. When I was in high school back in the early 80's I worked as a cashier at a grocery store. A young woman use come in that had her mouth wired shut to lose weight. All she could get in were shakes. She lost the weight and as soon as her mouth was unwired she put the weight back on.
"Slow Bite" has put Foghat's "Slow Ride" into my head.
Slow Bite / Take it easy...
I remember a character on Season 2 of "The Real World" getting her jaw wired shut to lose weight, so that must have been like 20 years ago. So the idea has been around for a long time. I think the "contraption" that Bittman is acknowledging is a simpler device that doesn't require a trip to the orthodontist or something.
Another thing about that contraption (just read the description more closely) is that you can take it out after the meal. You don't have to go around all the time like a freak, speaking through clenched teeth.
You're more training yourself to eat more slowly.
When my son was around three or four years old he knew he wasn't supposed to play with the window controls in the car but had a hard time keeping his hands off of them. He used to ask us to put the window lock button on so that he couldn't make the window go down.
they can still pour down the soda without restriction...
I don't know how well it works or not but the two actions "wiring your jaw shut" and "eating" are different.
Wiring your jaw shut each time you eat takes a different amount of self control (I'd say less) than remembering and then following through with doing something entirely automatic, like eating, in a non-automatic way each time.
Perhaps someone can have their rectum sewn shut. Might not want to eat much if that were the case.
Sorry.
Just lock us all in cells, make us "pedal the bike" to earn our electricity and enough food to maintain a healthy weight. We'll all be perfect! That or shoot all the assholes that think we can or should all be perfect. No, wait, we shouldn't have to shoot them, they just need to be made to mind their own business. There's far too little of that going on these days.
"Just lock us all in cells, make us "pedal the bike" to earn our electricity and enough food to maintain a healthy weight."
I like the idea of doing this while having electric cars.
I wonder how many stationary bike miles you'd have to pedal to produce the electricity to power the car for one mile.
Ah Bagoh, I'm glad to see you recognize carbs for the whores that they are. A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips.....
Someone else can do the math and get a more exact number but I would guess at least 100 bike miles per car mile.
That is just based on horsepower. A car will have at a minimum 50HP or more (Even the early VW bugs had 45HP)
A human can generate some fraction of a horsepower maximum. Seems like it is 25% or less from memory.
If it is 100:1 and you can steadily ride your bike 15 MPH, you would need to pedal about 6-1/2 hours to drive your car to the corner C-store and back.
John Henry
One of the big problems with the people who want green is that they fail to do the math.
They look and say "Oooh...Wind is free. If we put up enough windmills, free electricity for all" Ditto solar and other green boondoggles.
They never do the math to find out how expensive all that "free" energy is. I'm looking at the pols and the people who elect them. Obama is simply the most visible of these folks.
Not complaining about you, Ann. The bike to car ratio is an interesting question and thanks for bringing it up.
OTOH, if you were to say "Let's all ride our bikes while watching TV and generate enough power to run our electric cars." I would look askance at you.
Riding your bicycle, unless you are peddling pretty furiously, will not even generate enough power to run the TV itself, much less extra for the car.
John Henry
It won't stop people from drinking 64 ounce sodas.
Losing weight is easy. Just use smaller plates (dessert plates vs dinner plates) and allow 20 minutes per plateful to eat. If you finish faster then wait the remaining time before going back for more.
I followed that simple rule and I lost more weight than I care to think about. Plus since you are modifying your eating habits over a period of time the changes largely become permanent.
Ed, that is incredibly simplistic. If it were that easy we would have no 500 pound people. You obviously have no knowledge of metabolic disorders and I'm not speaking of the thyroid.
I'm sure that in that Wonderful Green Future Al Gore would have a herd of kulaks pedaling 24/7 to light his mansion.
Then we'll fix some malteds . . . alright Bob, alright??
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