The ridiculous idea of eating dessert for breakfast

I heard about this on the news this morning, and thought it was ridiculous.  Then, doing my daily internet rounds, I found that 70's big did an article on it as well.

A study was done where they took some overweight people, split them into groups, and had them eat identical meals and calories every day.  The one difference was that group A ate cake for breakfast.  At the end of the study, group A lost more weight than group B.  That's me oversimplifying the shit out of it.  The daily news wrote an article on the study.  It's very short, read it here quickly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/health/nutrition/dessert-at-breakfast-may-help-dieters.html?_r=4&smid=FB-nytimes&WT.mc_id=HL-E-FB-SM-LIN-NDB-022212-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click

If the average person heard the news report I heard this morning, or read this article, the first thing they'd think is "Awesome! I'm eating cake for breakfast!"  Like it's actually healthy.  I could break down just how fucked up this is, but 70s Big already did a great job of it.

The media acts like the media in that it takes an idea and then turns it into a big ball of fuck. In this article, researchers allowed fat people the option to have sugar-dense (fattening) food in the morning (i.e. cakes, cookies, chocolate, and ice cream) and found that those people lost more weight than the other group. The average American will see this, fist pump, and proceed to continue eating like shit.

The jist is that the NY Times did a terrible job of describing the study (not that the study was done well in the first place), and merely wrote the article to get people to read it.  It's shitty journalism.

Here's some more.

This irritates the shit out of me for several reasons. First, it provides a shortcut. If you’ve been training for a while, you know that there are no shortcuts. To anything. The first line on the back of “FIT” says, “Fitness is hard. Very Hard.” Giving people the erroneous impression of ease makes me sick. More often than not, fat people are fat because they do things that make them fat. Poor people are poor because they do things that make them poor. While this isn’t always the case, the belief that it is empowers the individual to actually give a shit.

Excellent article by 70's big, and I couldn't agree more with what he says.  Here's the link to his article.

http://www.70sbig.com/blog/2012/02/this-is-what-were-up-against/#more-6398

Eat real food.  Lift heavy weights.  Get healthy.  The formula is simple, the application of it is hard.  Don't look for shortcuts, they don't exist.  And as for cake, the only type you should be eating is this:

From one of the comments on the article

In other news, I squatted yesterday.  Hit 185 for 20 reps.  Felt awesome, but my back was aching afterwards.  Is this because of bad form?  Yeah.  I could tell from the get-go that my form wasn't good, but I kept going.  Here are the sets.

2/23/12 - Thursday

Squats - 1 set

135x8 (warmup)

135x5 (warmup)

185x20 super duper

Dumbbell Bicep Curls - 2 sets

30x8 (warmup)

40x7

40x6

Went home, ate some food, watched the Knicks get beat up, and then went to bed nice and early.