When asked why you avoid adding oil

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I found this neat article by McDougall on the top of " When friends ask why you

avoid added vegetable oil " at:

 

http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2007nl/aug/oils.htm

 

It's a bit long and full of big words, but it's very well referenced.

 

I've also posted a couple of short key excerpts (imho) at my blog.

 

FYI, Mark

http://www.soulveggie.com

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On Thu, December 18, 2008 10:07 am, Mark Sutton wrote:

> I found this neat article by McDougall on the top of " When friends ask why

> you avoid added vegetable oil " at:

>

> http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2007nl/aug/oils.htm

>

> It's a bit long and full of big words, but it's very well referenced.

 

He stopped me with the first sentence. I *hate* the fat-hating rhetoric

he spews, though I respect him in many other ways. I'm not ugly just

because I'm fat. People are not ugly and unattractive just because they're

fat. Fat people are as likely to be beautiful as thin people, and it's a

cultural prejudice that says otherwise.

 

See http://www.adipositivity.com/ and http://www.belliesarebeautiful.com/

and http://www.therotund.com/?page_id=190 and many many many more places

on the web where people are speaking out against the bigotry hurled at fat

people.

 

I'm a beautiful woman. Just as my two boyfriends, whose eyes light up when

I enter the room. I'm also a fat woman who prefers her food to be as

healthful as I can make it, so I try to limit (and, often, eliminate)

added fat in my food.

 

Dr. McDougall doesn't speak for me on this one, is what I'm saying.

 

Serene

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At 8:42 PM +0000 12/18/08, wrote:

>He stopped me with the first sentence. I *hate* the fat-hating rhetoric

>he spews, though I respect him in many other ways. I'm not ugly just

>because I'm fat. People are not ugly and unattractive just because they're

>fat. Fat people are as likely to be beautiful as thin people, and it's a

>cultural prejudice that says otherwise.

 

I urge those who take the time to look at the article not be biased or

prejudiced by those opening sentences of said article. To me, they are

irrelevant to the issue of added fat/oil being a real problem in terms of

health, particularly heart disease (which is killing some 400,000 men and women

every year) and that it's hard for most people (and vegans) to wrap their

cerebrums around it.

 

Whether or not McDougall is suffering from a cultural bias or the use of the

word " attractive " is debatable, it's not the key ideas being discussed.

Personally, I don't find " unattractive " and " ugly " as being synonymous. I also

think a case can be made that most subjectivity may have a cultural bias. Who's

to definitively say what's attractive or not? Some people like the rugged

wrinkle look excessive smoking causes in men, is it a cultural bias for others

to find it unattractive?

 

Me? I'd rather try to heart attack proof myself, keep my weight at what is

considered in a healthy range, than worry about whether being fat is attractive

or not. Someone doesn't like the way I look, I don't care and don't consider it

a cultural bias as anyone focusing on just one aspect of the totality of an

individual is inherently biased, regardless of cultural upbringing. For what

it's worth, I've been 75 lbs. heavier, 15 lbs. lighter... the former unhealthy,

the latter, healthier. Am striving to keep the latter.

 

Anyway, may I politely suggest that any major continuation of this

conversational thread strays from List Charter. My post was about the dietary

and health issues he wrote about, not a debate on whether McDougall is

culturally biased or not.

 

Best regards, Mark