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Rather than assessing whether to diet or not to diet, perhaps people should eat whatever they want whenever they want unless they have health concerns preventing them from doing so. However, watch out... because here comes the catch. The catch is Mother Nature didn't supply the human race with refrigerators, freezers, pantries, or kitchen cabinets full of food and high calorie drinks enabling us to indulge ourselves at our every whim. What she did supply us with is plenty of fruit, vegetables, and game, and the ability to hunt.

Mother Nature must have known exactly what she was doing too because most humans don't long to become vegetarians, hunting requires exercise, and exercise burns calories. Just imagine the percentage of calories yesterday's cave folks and today's hard core jungle natives burn while chasing prey, catching and fighting prey, and then skinning prey and preparing it for consumption without modern day weaponry!

Okay yada yada yada Sure, this may sound a bit F-A-A-R OUT but it has concrete meaning to which most of us can relate.

Using myself as an example in the diet or not to diet question, after twenty years of marriage, one day it came to my attention that my body had grown into something I didn't want it to be - an overweight person. Okay... I wasn't drastically above what I should've been for my size and height. However, that's not the point. The point is {forgive me if you don't understand this kind of conceit} I am a very vein person. Yeah. I know. Some people don't like it when someone has too much vanity. It's true however. I don't know how I became this way, but ever since my 'tween years, when I started paying attention to my appearance, I've had this attitude. My vanity coupled with the fact that I'm also a health conscious person did my appearance justice until I married my husband whose diet is drastically different from mine.

Cooked breakfast, lunch, and dinner everyday including, or followed by snacks, soda, and more often than I was accustomed to, alcoholic beverages is his style. Hanging out with him so much - eventually I began eating what and when he ate. Not intentionally, you understand. It just sort of happened. His desire to cook, my lack of desire to do the same; especially while bogged down with child rearing, allowed him to have at it - preparing meal on top of meal of the likes that I would have never prepared and eaten prior to marrying him. What was worse was on days I did cook; I frequently cooked a la his

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