Oh Look, More New-Age Stupid!*

by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org

How does this sort of tripe wind up in print?

Aamodt is a neuroscientist, book author and former editor of a leading brain research journal. She also has become a prominent evangelist of the message that traditional diets just don’t work and often leave the dieter worse off than before. And she’s an enthusiastic proponent of mindful eating.

“I define it as eating with attention and joy, without judgment,” Aamodt said in an interview. “That includes attention to hunger and fullness, to the experience of eating and to its effects on our bodies.”

Riiiight.

Look folks, there are people who have a mental disorder when it comes to food. I accept this, because it is trivially shown to be true. But the vast majority of people who are overweight are not sick in the head or suffering from some psychosis — they’ve been actively misled as to what’s going on and the media spurs this with its crap “reporting” such as this article.

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