Complete video at: fora.tv Former FDA commissioner David Kessler argues that eating, even while trying to lose weight, must be pleasurable and rewarding. Dr. Kessler argues for moderation and portion control. There’s no “magic bullet,” he says. —– Drawing on years of extensive research and interviews with medical experts and industry insiders, former FDA commissioner David. A Kessler tears the brightly colored packaging off the food business to reveal the startling cultural, biological and psychological influences that have produced a nation of people hardwired to overeat. The more hooked on these foods we become, the more of them we will buy. – Commonwealth Club of California David A. Kessler, MD, is the Dean of the School of Medicine and the Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Kessler served for six years as the Dean of the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Kessler, who served as Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from November 1990 until March 1997, was appointed by President George HW Bush and reappointed by President Clinton. As Commissioner of the FDA, he acted to speed approval of new drugs and placed high priority on getting promising therapies for serious and life-threatening diseases to patients as quickly as possible. He introduced changes in the device approval process to make it more efficient and ensure that it meets high standards. Under his direction, the

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This guy has a good book too.

April 28, 2010 2:14 pm

Learning to recognize when you’re hungry and eating only to satisfy that hunger is the most important thing. More important than eating ‘healthy’, more important than limitting portion size.
Ever known ‘those’ people who eat fast food, etc and are still lean. Well what you dont see is that when they go home and are full from their food they dont snack, dont obsess about food, etc.

April 28, 2010 2:32 pm

i agree with this man 100%! DIETS DID NOT WORK FOR ME! When people say just cut out ALL of things you enjoy and transition to the foods that are good for you even if you don’t like them is a bad idea! I should know, it did it and all it did was cause me to crave and binge, fall off the wagon! But if you eat healthy and have small portions to the food you enjoy then it’s MUCH MUCH easier to get the weight off and keep it off! Some will disagree but it’s the only thing that worked for me.

April 28, 2010 3:22 pm

I know what you mean. A good friend of mine who is into bodybuilding said: “Actually a cheeseburger would be a well rounded meal if it were made from whole foods, and with a whole wheat bun instead of bleached white buns.” I agree. If the meat were organic and healthy, the lettuce, tomato and onion and a piece of organic cheese would be a healthy meal with a lot of nutritional value.

April 28, 2010 4:20 pm

You are so right. I am sure that it is these chemicals and the packaged garbage that have gone a long way in giving people diseases as well as making them addicted and fat!

April 28, 2010 5:18 pm

chinagrrl, that is so true. I am having to struggle with that now. Plus additives in fast foods (like msg and others) truly do get people addicted so it IS hard to control portions!

April 28, 2010 5:47 pm

Portion control is hard – period! Not everyone can stop after eating just one potato chip. Basically, it’s supposedly okay to eat anything you want as long as it’s within portion. Unfortunately when the food is too tasty, it’s just not possible. Very hard to do, even harder sometimes to understand how to do it.

April 28, 2010 6:28 pm

I do think that regardless of portions, there are foods that humans should never eat. The quarter-pounder is a straw man argument. He acts as if his nutritionist friends are looking over his shoulder when he eats a cheeseburger. Most nutritionists are not saying never to eat cheeseburgers. However, twinkies and Pan pizzas really should never be eaten by humans. If u exercise and eat real food, you can eat large portions. Most people just don’t understand how far from real food their diet is.

April 28, 2010 7:23 pm

I think his point was contradictory. First he said it’s all about portions. To prove this he said eating a cheeseburger or three chicken strips was ok, but then he said that loading it with cheese and bacon doubled the calories and was dangerous. The fact that he gave particularly high-fat foods (cheese and bacon) shows it isn’t just about portions.

April 28, 2010 7:30 pm

Duh. I’m skinny because I don’t eat a lot.

April 28, 2010 8:16 pm

I recently dieted for about a month and lost about 10 kilos. I just ate normal food, except about one meal a day.

April 28, 2010 8:29 pm

Lotta wisdom in that.

April 28, 2010 9:21 pm

Cheeseburgers have a lot of shit in them and they’re obivously not healthy, we agree, but saying their nutritional value is low, is just untrue. They have a lot of calories and quite a bit of proteïn, which IS nutritional value. It’s still better than eating nothing.

April 28, 2010 10:00 pm

there is very little nutritional value in cheeseburgers and fried chicken strips but there is a lot of trans fats, saturated fats and preservitives that will make you depressed and fat… best advice is cook healthy food at home.

April 28, 2010 10:44 pm

Heck, I was really hoping for a short term fix.

April 28, 2010 11:02 pm

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