Anyone else watch The Biggest Loser?

Fortress/Sprinter Girl - I could not agree with you more. It goes back to my whole "taking responsibility for yourself" thing. It's not the transfats that are the problem, it's the people eating them. Far too many people in our society just want to pass the buck to someone else rather than decide for themselves to be healthier. It's like all those lawsuits against McDonald's ... for making people fat, for the hot coffee ... it's riddiculous. Growing up my parents ate all sorts of "hearty" meals with butter, cream, and lots of fat, but they were both rail thin why - genetics was a part, but they also went outside and *gasp* played. They didn't sit inside and play video games, they didn't eat bags of chips and gallons of ice cream - those were rare treats. I was always outside as a kid running around - it wasn't video games (they were around though), and lesson after lesson ...

Fortress/Sprinter Girl - I could not agree with you more. It goes back to my whole "taking responsibility for yourself" thing. It's not the transfats that are the problem, it's the people eating them. Far too many people in our society just want to pass the buck to someone else rather than decide for themselves to be healthier. It's like all those lawsuits against McDonald's ... for making people fat, for the hot coffee ... it's riddiculous. Growing up my parents ate all sorts of "hearty" meals with butter, cream, and lots of fat, but they were both rail thin why - genetics was a part, but they also went outside and *gasp* played. They didn't sit inside and play video games, they didn't eat bags of chips and gallons of ice cream - those were rare treats. I was always outside as a kid running around - it wasn't video games (they were around though), and lesson after lesson ...