Hello and welcome to this week's, or one of this week's podcast episodes.

This episode, I am going to dedicate to Catherine because she has been trying to get me to watch a certain TV show that's been on recently

that's giving out loads of awful information about

nutrition and I almost cut her off a little bit and was just like I don't watch TV I don't have

time to watch TV which is true I don't watch a lot of TV or really any at all mainly because

I think it's a massive waste of time and I also think it's kind of something you do more socially. Like I would never

sit on my own watching TV, but I would sit with other people watching TV, even though in a way

watching TV is kind of antisocial. Anyhow, that is besides the point. The program did bring up

some really interesting points. So I'm going to go over

them now and I'm going to apologise to Catherine for not going over them sooner. But hopefully this

whole podcast episode dedicated to you makes up for it. So the first topic I want to cover is health and obesity. And this can be quite a

controversial topic. So in this show, one of the ladies was suggesting that there were no,

or not even suggesting, outright saying that she didn't believe there were any

negative health outcomes of being obese. Now, this just simply isn't true. And I want to make the

point here that this says nothing about you as a person if you're overweight or anything about how brilliant you are, about how smart you are, about, basically about you.

Let's, from the start of this, look at fat as something that you have, not something that you are,

and realizing that it is just an excess store of energy.

Basically, if you have too much body fat,

if you're storing a little bit too much body fat, all it means, or a lot too much body fat for this particular example, i.e. if you are obese, all it means is that you have consumed more

energy than you have expended over a fairly long period of time.

That's it.

So let's try at least to take the emotion out of this topic.

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