Fat Burning Foods

I need major help making some meal plans for myself. When I was 16 I was told I had PCOS. I don’t got to a doctor anymore because I can’t afford on, and I have no insurance. There is no way for me to see one at the moment (hoping that will change). I’ve looked around online for information, and though I do find some things, it’s hard for me to process it all and put it in action.

I read you need a low carb diet in order to lose weight when you have PCOS. My family goes to the store this Friday to shop for groceries and I’d like to have some things to add to the list. We can’t afford a lot, and what we do buy has to last a while, and feed the whole family. (We don’t really cook). Right now, some constants we keep in the house are: raw carrots, grapes, apples, bananas, lettuce, whole wheat bread, broccoli and tuna.

I’m not sure what else to add to the list, and I have a hard time making a food plan for the day. I need to stay at about 1200 calories a day.

Also, had a question about a couple of foods I have been eating, but I’m not sure if I should continue to eat them. Clif Bars, Crackers (whole wheat and peanut butter), and Fat Free Chocolate Pudding.

I tend to burn about 300-500 calories a day Monday-Friday.

Any help is much appreciated. If you think you can further help me, feel free to email me at : wocketinmypocket01@gmail.com
I also meant to add yolplait light yogurt to the list of things I don’t know if I should continue eating. is there a better yogurt?

A low calorie diet is a bad idea. Having PCOS usually means you are insulin resistant & your body doesn’t process carbs properly, so crackers & bread & fruit are not good ideas. As healthy as fruit may be, fructose the sugar in many fruits is the most lipogenic (fat producing) carb. I don’t know what a clif bar is but I’m betting it’s not good answer either. I don’t recommend Atkins bars & shakes for weight loss, I doubt other brands are any better.

Usually products that are marked "fat free" or "light" have the healthy fats replaced with sugar or starch. Sugar free chocolate pudding may not have sugar but it has lots of starches & is not low carb.

Healthy fats are needed for healing & regenerationation. I highly recommend virgin coconut oil, butter, raw seeds & nuts & olives. I recommend eating only grass fed animals but that is hard to do on a budget. My personal diet is very high in seeds - flax seeds, chia seeds & sun flower seeds as well as raw almonds & brazil nuts.

Someone is going to need to cook to feed a family healthy foods affordably. Most grocery stores sell 10# chicken quarters for $4-5 (.40#) or whole turkeys for .68# Buying whole foods is usually much cheaper than processed foods.

Yogurt is a good food, I buy the full fat plain yogurt & add berries & sweetener.

The best way to break a carb addiction is NO carbs for 3 days. Make a batch of deviled eggs, eat one every time you want "something" - have huge omelets with bacon, sausage, peppers, mushrooms & cheese. Pork chops smothered with peppers, mushrooms & cheese - pork rinds & dip or tuna/chicken/turkey/egg salad - steaks - sugar free cheese cake. Eat so much you won’t feel deprived of anything. By the 4th day, you will make healthy choices.

The first 2 weeks, you can have several cups of salad a day - Bacon, lettuce & a lil tomato with avocado/mayo dressing is my fav. Jicama, cucumber, celery & radish marinated in sesame oil & hot pepper flakes with rice wine vinegar & artificial sweetener. Make a stir fry with Bok Choy, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, celery, mushrooms, shirataki noodles. I love eggs & could eat deviled eggs every day. You can smother omelets & meats with mushrooms, peppers & cheese. Meatzza - Meatloaf with pizza toppings. I like thin sausage patties fried crispy with pizza toppings. Pork rinds & celery sticks are great crunch and can be eaten with dips (avocado/mayo/cayenne) & tuna/chicken/turkey/egg salads. I love my rotisserie & it makes meats tasty. I cook a turkey often & make soup with the bones & turkey salads. I’ll cube up some turkey meat mix in a couple of raw eggs add cheese & broccoli with cayenne powder & nuke 2 minutes for instant meal. Flax seed should be eaten 4T daily even in induction.

Ground flax seed (4 Tbsp) 1/4 cup water, sweetener, mix in a raw egg - let sit 10 min. to absorb liquid, put cream cheese in middle & nuke 2 min for daily fiber needs.

After 2 week, you add 5 grams of carbs per day every week & add greater variety of non starchy vegetables. Change your mindset - adapt what you like to eat to low carb -
replace bread with lettuce
replace pasta with cabbage
replace rice with cauliflower
replace potatoes with brocolli
Cabbage makes a good pasta substitute. Make lasagna with blanched cabbage leaves & thinly fried eggplant instead of noodles. Sugar free pasta sauce over fried cabbage. My fav is chicken cacciatore, I add greens & flaxseed for body & add pizza toppings too. Alfredo sauce is also low carb.

I make a lot of shredded cabbage & mayo or fried cabbage if I’m a bit more ambitious. I fry up bacon & onions & it makes any salad special (BLT) Avocado & turkey - grilled chicken - fajita meat & fried onions is great also. I’ll make a salad with 6 cans: mackerel, baby corn, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, artichoke hearts, sweet red peppers & add mayo & chia seed gel.

Kim Chee is fermented cabbage & one of the healthiest foods. You can make a huge batch & it will sit in refrigerator fine for a long time.

I make huge batches of food & freeze most of it. Go into the forums for recipes - I was shocked that fried "rice" made with grated cauliflower tasted like it’s name sake - faux mashed "taters" made with cauliflower & cream cheese - "potato" salad using cauliflower instead. Shirataki noodles are traditional in Japanese sukiyaki & low carb

Chia seeds sound expensive but 1# will make 10# food - Amazon.com has couple lbs. for $16 shipped to you. I buy mine in bulk - 24# for $5.83# with free shipping at getchia.com

I also order off Amazon - Lowrey’s Pork Rinds 18 for $15 - they pop like popcorn & are portion controlled.

Faux tapioca - 2 cups of water, 5 scoops of low carb whey protein powder, stir together & add cup of chia seeds, after they have started to absorb the water, add in 2 cans of coconut milk (or cream & added water) & artificial sweetener if you like & mix it all in. Cream a pkg. of cream cheese into a can of pumpki

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I recently decided I needed to get my diet in check and started eating very healthy foods and cut out all extras like salt, sugar, butter/margarine etc. I’ve also been walking 2 miles a day (I have bad knees so I can’t do much more) , burning about 300 calories a day, 5 days a week. With the new diet and exercise I’ve been having a hard time reaching the proper calorie intake for the day (my BMR being 1587). I’ve only been getting about 600-900 calories from the food I am eating. I’m feeling pretty good…no headaches, fatigue or moodiness. I would really like some input on how I can get my calorie intake up eating healthy foods and some good exercises I can do that are easy on the knees (please don’t suggest swimming-not really possible with the recession and all :). I also would like to know if taking in only 600-900 calories a day is still horrible for your body even if they come from nutritious foods.

Also, I eat 3 meals a day. With my schedule eating many small meals throughout the day is not really realistic. The following is a list of foods I eat on a regular basis:

Water, spinach, tomatoes, fat-free yogurt, fat-free cottage cheese, grilled chicken, lean pork, tuna, cantaloupe, strawberries, brown rice, almonds, oranges, veggie substitutes (sausage, bacon etc.), couscous, broccoli, egg whites, peas, red & black beans.

**note: I am trying to lose weight but not looking to jump from one unhealthy diet to another. I am in no way trying to starve myself or looking for a quick fix. I am just trying to live a healthy life style and would appreciate some suggestions. Thanks.

Maybe have regular yogurt and cottage cheese instead of fat-free? Or have real eggs instead of egg whites? That would give you some more calories from foods that are healthy.

Good luck with your plan, you are doing everything exactly right! I hate when people diet for a quick-fix and then go right back to eating the same old garbage after they lose a few pounds!

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Hi all,

Recently, I began doing the Insanity workout in order to get lean and get ready to go off to college (hopefully in Florida, meaning lots of beaches and bathing suits). I’ve been doing the workout for about a week and a half, and I’ve noticed that I’ve actually gained a pretty big amount of weight since starting.

I’ve been following the diet guide as closely as I can (always fat-free foods, measuring/weighing everything, following the meal plans, etc.,). I also did the calorie calculator, so I know how many calories I need when working out. But somehow my weight has gone up from 118-121 (it fluctuates, but that’s the usual range) to about 125… As stated before, I’ve followed the nutrition guide closely and kept my own food journal, so I know I’ve been eating right. I’ve also pushed myself pretty hard during the workouts, and I’m always sweating and exhausted at the end, so I know I worked out hard enough to burn some major calories. So I’m just wondering why the weight went up by 4 pounds? My clothes don’t fit any differently so I don’t think it’s muscle weight.. My jeans have gotten a *tiny* bit more loose around the waist, but otherwise there’s not much difference.

Some background information to help: I’m 17, female, almost 5′5, and moderately active. I’m not skinny, but I’m not chubby either, I have an average build, and my weight is pretty evenly distributed. I try to eat about 1500 to 1700 calories a day, and before doing Insanity I’ve done P90X and ran on the X-country team at school. To prepare for the Insanity program, I started running 30 minutes on the treadmill at a fast pace 3 days a week, and did body weight exercises.

I don’t have any health problems (no thyroid issues, so that’s checked off the list). The only possible guess I can come up with is that at one point I was eating very little (about 1200 calories) for about 2 years, and now the larger portions are catching up with me. The thing is, I tried to gradually raise the number of calories so that my body would take it better (I knew the way I was eating before wasn’t a good long-term solution, so I worked to change it), so the sudden weight increase just has me worried a bit. Any ideas? Did anyone else have this problem? Is this much weight gain normal at the beginning of the workout? I never got this much weight gain before, and usually I would lose it in about a week when I start a new workout.

Thanks a lot in advance, and sorry for the absurd amount of things I wrote, just figured the more detail I give, the easier an accurate answer would be.
I have recently started the insanity workout myself and it is a very difficult workout. There are a lot of plyometric exercises in the program. My guess is that the high impact exercises you are performing is building muscle and that is causing your weight gain. In people that do not have a solid muscle base to begin with (beginners and women who have never worked out) should expect to put on muscle weight. The good news is that this added muscle will raise your metabolic rate and cause you to actually lose weight and look better in the long run. Give it a little more time and you should see the weight comes back off, or at least makes you look better due to added muscle. Good luck

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Sorry it’s so long lol. Something to do right?
And yes….PART ONE!!!!
More will come….eventually…

Thanks!! I love learning random facts to tell my friends! They always wonder how I find things like that out!!

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My best friend said that my body weight is too low (I just turned 15 and I’m 5′6 and 112 pounds), and then she sort of implied that I’m anorexic. Let me list what I ate today though (I keep a food journal):

Breakfast 9:05
Multigrain and all natural, flavorless oatmeal made completely with whole grains, barley, oats, etc (according to the ingredients list), one cup of soymilk, one tablespoon honey, two tablespoons flaxseed, six dried apricots, 12 almonds, and a medium sized apple.

Lunch-type meal that I made small because I had tennis right after: 12:15

Half cup of soymilk, half cup of Kashi cereal, two tangerines, three ounces shrimp, large salad with salsa

2:20 snack with comfort food and vitamin C for my perceived illness:
Enough almonds to feed a small country, four tangerines, a banana, warm milk with honey, green tea (decaf), two squares of dark chocolate (86% cacao).

And for dinner I’m having some wild Alaskan salmon, some sweet potato fries that I make with herbs and olive oil, and a huge salad, and then for dessert I might have some dates and cheese.

If I eat like this every day, and I just try to eat really healthfully and all natural, chemical-free foods, then I can’t be anorexic, correct? Anorexia is a mental illness, after all. I just am extremely mindful of how I eat, and my doctor, who I visited yesterday, and who’s my uncle, said that I’m probably the healthiest person he’s ever seen. And then my best friend is like, "lol, you think you eat alot?" and then she lists like, I had pizza and Panda Express and ice cream, and then all this disgusting unhealthy food.

Am I sounding insane when I suggest that she’s trying to get me to be less healthy, and a little fatter? It seems to me that I actually eat a lot, and I’m naturally thin and I tend to burn a lot of calories due to my exercise (I have two hours of tennis with my team five days a week, private hour lessons on Wed and Sun, and I dance an hour and a half two days a week at school, one 45 minute private on Wed, and I run and strength-train for fun when I have time.)

Your BMI is 18.1 which is somewhat underweight. Anorexia is defined as being 19% or more underweight, but is also a psychological compulsion. So you’re probably not anorexic even though you could stand to gain a few pounds. Just watch out for thinking of food as "the enemy," or striving for perfection in your physical form. That’s the path to obsessing over food and developing anorexia. Hope this helped.

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This is not my own work….but this article is written so well that all I can do is pass it on to the rest of you…Although there are many great things about America, that were left out of this article…..its still a fantastic piece of literature
GOD BLESS AMERICA…….AND ALL THAT STAND WITH HER!

10 things to celebrate - Why I’m an anti-anti-American
By Dinesh D’Souza
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America is under attack as never before — not only from terrorists but also from people who provide a justification for terrorism. Islamic fundamentalists declare America the Great Satan. Europeans rail against American capitalism and American culture. South American activists denounce the United States for "neocolonialism" and oppression.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country. But in this country itself, there are those who blame America for most of the evils in the world. On the political left, many fault the United States for a history of slavery, and for continuing inequality and racism. Even on the right, traditionally the home of patriotism, we hear influential figures say that America has become so decadent that we are "slouching towards Gomorrah."

If these critics are right, then America should be destroyed. And who can dispute some of their particulars? This country did have a history of slavery and racism continues to exist. There is much in our culture that is vulgar and decadent. But the critics are wrong about America, because they are missing the big picture. In their indignation over the sins of America, they ignore what is unique and good about American civilization.

As an immigrant who has chosen to become an American citizen, I feel especially qualified to say what is special about America. Having grown up in a different society — in my case, Bombay, India — I am not only able to identify aspects of America that are invisible to the natives, but I am acutely conscious of the daily blessings that I enjoy in America. Here, then, is my list of the 10 great things about America.

– America provides an amazingly good life for the ordinary guy. Rich people live well everywhere. But what distinguishes America is that it provides an impressively high standard of living for the "common man." We now live in a country where construction workers regularly pay $4 for a nonfat latte, where maids drive nice cars and where plumbers take their families on vacation to Europe.

Indeed, newcomers to the United States are struck by the amenities enjoyed by "poor" people. This fact was dramatized in the 1980s when CBS television broadcast a documentary, "People Like Us," intended to show the miseries of the poor during an ongoing recession. The Soviet Union also broadcast the documentary, with a view to embarrassing the Reagan administration. But by the testimony of former Soviet leaders, it had the opposite effect. Ordinary people across the Soviet Union saw that the poorest Americans have TV sets, microwave ovens and cars. They arrived at the same perception that I witnessed in an acquaintance of mine from Bombay who has been unsuccessfully trying to move to the United States. I asked him, "Why are you so eager to come to America?" He replied, "I really want to live in a country where the poor people are fat."

– America offers more opportunity and social mobility than any other country, including the countries of Europe. America is the only country that has created a population of "self-made tycoons." Only in America could Pierre Omidyar, whose parents are Iranian and who grew up in Paris, have started a company like eBay. Only in America could Vinod Khosla, the son of an Indian army officer, become a leading venture capitalist, the shaper of the technology industry, and a billionaire to boot. Admittedly tycoons are not typical, but no country has created a better ladder than America for people to ascend from modest circumstances to success.

– Work and trade are respectable in America. Historically most cultures have despised the merchant and the laborer, regarding the former as vile and corrupt and the latter as degraded and vulgar. Some cultures, such as that of ancient Greece and medieval Islam, even held that it is better to acquire things through plunder than through trade or contract labor. But the American founders altered this moral hierarchy. They established a society in which the life of the businessman, and of the people who worked for him, would be a noble calling. In the American view, there is nothing vile or degraded about serving your customers either as a CEO or as a waiter. The ordinary life of production and supporting a family is more highly valued in the United States than in any other country. America is the only country in the world where we call the waiter "sir," as if he were a knight.

– America has achieved greater social equality than any other society. True, there are large inequalities of income and wealth in America. In purely economic terms, Europe is more egalitarian. But Americans are socially more equal than any other people, and this is unaffected by economic disparities. Alexis de Tocqueville noticed this egalitarianism a century and a half ago and it is, if anything, more prevalent today. For all his riches, Bill Gates could not approach the typical American and say, "Here’s a $100 bill. I’ll give it to you if you kiss my feet." Most likely, the person would tell Gates to go to hell! The American view is that the rich guy may have more money, but he isn’t in any fundamental sense better than anyone else.

– People live longer, fuller lives in America. Although protesters rail against the American version of technological capitalism at trade meetings around the world, in reality the American system has given citizens many more years of life, and the means to live more intensely and actively. In 1900, the life expectancy in America was around 50 years; today, it is more than 75 years. Advances in medicine and agriculture are mainly responsible for the change. This extension of the life span means more years to enjoy life, more free time to devote to a good cause, and more occasions to do things with the grandchildren. In many countries, people who are old seem to have nothing to do: they just wait to die. In America the old are incredibly vigorous, and people in their seventies pursue the pleasures of life, including remarriage and sexual gratification, with a zeal that I find unnerving.

– In America the destiny of the young is not given to them, but created by them. Not long ago, I asked myself, "What would my life have been like if I had never come to the United States?" If I had remained in India, I would probably have lived my whole life within a five-mile radius of where I was born. I would undoubtedly have married a woman of my identical religious and socioeconomic background. I would almost certainly have become a medical doctor, or an engineer, or a computer programmer. I would have socialized entirely within my ethic community. I would have a whole set of opinions that could be predicted in advance; indeed, they would not be very different from what my father believed, or his father before him. In sum, my destiny would to a large degree have been given to me.

In America, I have seen my life take a radically different course. In college I became interested in literature and politics, and I resolved to make a career as a writer. I married a woman whose ancestry is English, French, Scotch-Irish, German and American Indian. In my twenties I found myself working as a policy analyst in the White House, even though I was not an American citizen. No other country, I am sure, would have permitted a foreigner to work in its inner citadel of government.

In most countries in the world, your fate and your identity are handed to you; in America, you determine them for yourself. America is a country where you get to write the script of your own life. Your life is like a blank sheet of paper, and you are the artist. This notion of being the architect of your own destiny is the incredibly powerful idea that is behind the worldwide appeal of America. Young people especially find irresistible the prospect of authoring the narrative of their own lives.

– America has gone further than any other society in establishing equality of rights. There is nothing distinctively American about slavery or bigotry. Slavery has existed in virtually every culture, and xenophobia, prejudice and discrimination are worldwide phenomena. Western civilization is the only civilization to mount a principled campaign against slavery; no country expended more treasure and blood to get rid of slavery than the United States. While racism remains a problem, this country has made strenuous efforts to eradicate discrimination, even to the extent of enacting policies that give legal preference in university admissions, jobs, and government contracts to members of minority groups. Such policies remain controversial, but the point is that it is extremely unlikely that a racist society would have permitted such policies in the first place. And surely African Americans like Jesse Jackson are vastly better off living in America than they would be if they were to live in, say, Ethiopia or Somalia.

– America has found a solution to the problem of religious and ethnic conflict that continues to divide and terrorize much of the world. Visitors to places like New York are amazed to see the way in which Serbs and Croatians, Sikhs and Hindus, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Jews and Palestinians,

all seem to work and live together in harmony. How is this possible when these same groups are spearing each other and burning each other’s homes in so many places in the world?

The American answer is twofold. First, separate the spheres of religion and government so that no religion is given official preference but all are free to practice their faith as they wish. Second, do not extend rights to racial or ethnic groups but only to individuals; in this way, all are equal in the eyes of the law, opportunity is open to anyone who can take advantage of it, and everybody who embraces the American way of life can "become American."

Of course there are exceptions to these core principles, even in America. Racial preferences are one such exception, which explains why they are controversial. But in general, America is the only country in the world that extends full membership to outsiders. The typical American could come to India,

live for 40 years, and take Indian citizenship. But he could not "become Indian." He wouldn’t see himself that way, nor would most Indians see him that way. In America, by contrast, hundreds of millions have come from far-flung shores and over time they, or at least their children, have in a profound and full sense "become American."

– America has the kindest, gentlest foreign policy of any great power in world history. Critics of the United States are likely to react to this truth with sputtering outrage. They will point to long-standing American support for a Latin or Middle Eastern despot, or the unjust internment of the Japanese during World War II, or America’s reluctance to impose sanctions on South Africa’s apartheid regime. However one feels about these particular cases, let us concede to the critics the point that America is not always in the right.

What the critics leave out is the other side of the ledger. Twice in the 20th century, the United States saved the world — first from the Nazi threat, then from Soviet totalitarianism. What would have been the world’s fate if America had not existed? After destroying Germany and Japan in World War II, the United States proceeded to rebuild both countries, and today they are American allies. Now we are doing the same thing in Afghanistan and Iraq. Consider, too, how magnanimous the United States has been to the former Soviet Union after its victory in the Cold War. For the most part America is an abstaining superpower; it shows no real interest in conquering and subjugating the rest of the world. (Imagine how the Soviets would have acted if they had won the Cold War.) On occasion the United States intervenes to overthrow a tyrannical regime or to halt massive human rights abuses in another country, but it never stays to rule that country. In Grenada, Haiti and Bosnia, the United States got in and then it got out. Moreover, when America does get into a war, as in Iraq, its troops are supremely careful to avoid targeting civilians and to minimize collateral damage. Even as America bombed the Taliban infrastructure and hideouts, U.S. planes dropped food to avert hardship and starvation of Afghan civilians. What other country does these things?

– America, the freest nation on Earth, is also the most virtuous nation on Earth. This point seems counterintuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice and immorality in America. Some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens. Virtue, these fundamentalists argue, is a higher principle than liberty.

Indeed it is. And let us admit that in a free society, freedom will frequently be used badly. Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to do good or evil, to act nobly or basely. But if freedom brings out the worst in people, it also brings out the best. The millions of Americans who live decent,

praiseworthy lives desire our highest admiration because they have opted for the good when the good is not the only available option. Even amid the temptations of a rich and free society, they have remained on the straight path. Their virtue has special luster because it is freely chosen.

By contrast, the societies that many Islamic fundamentalists seek would eliminate the possibility of virtue. If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran’s. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all. Consider the woman who is required to wear a veil. There is no modesty in this,

because she is being compelled. Compulsion cannot produce virtue, it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue. Thus a free society like America’s is not merely more prosperous, more varied, more peaceful, and more tolerant — it is also morally superior to the theocratic and authoritarian regimes that America’s enemies advocate.

"To make us love our country," Edmund Burke once said, "our country ought to be lovely." Burke’s point is that we should love our country not just because it is ours, but also because it is good. America is far from perfect, and there is lots of room for improvement. In spite of its flaws, however, American life as it is lived today is the best life that our world has to offer. Ultimately America is worthy of our love and sacrifice because, more than any other society, it makes possible the good life, and the life that is good.

Dinesh D’Souza’s "What’s So Great About America" has just been published in paperback by Penguin Books. He is the Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. E-mail: thedsouzas@aol.com.

wow…give me a minute.

a quick browse trough it seems to show me that youre basically trying to make america look like some shining example of perfection. the reality of the matter is is that ots not.

the few things i did read seem to be the exact pola opposite of what america actually is. if america needs a brocure them im sure they can ask you (or whoever wrote this) to chime in.

the america you portray and the america that is are two different things. i think you simply refuse to beleive that america is bad so youve either come up with or subscribed to someone elses claims

at this point im willing to come to the conclusion that youre also a born again christian. if im correct about that then im correct about the post (the question you posted)

welcome to reality. america is not a shining example OR a shining beacon. it is a good country tough…but horridly corrupt and poorly run. america CAN become a nation like you posted…but it isnt anywhere near that.

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If you say that government is too big and truly overweening, you elicit a surprising degree of agreement among people, even mainstream columnists, economists, and nearly everyone. Even government employees, who famously resent their bosses, might be quick to agree. If you hang outside the offices of the IRS in Washington, D.C., in the park at noontime where its employees take their lunch, you will get an earful of vitriol against the bureaucracy such as you wouldn’t hear outside 1990s militia circles.
Incidentally, the government is having a terrible time recruiting employees. Only 16% of college-educated workers say that they are interested in a government job. Among those without a college degree, there is twice the level of interest. Among people currently employed, those with managerial or professional occupations show a low interest level of 17%.
Among those who want work to be challenging and enjoyable, only 9% thought a government job qualified. And, interestingly, among those who say they want to make a contribution to society, 90% said that non-government work in the private sector, whether for profit or non-profit, is the way to go.
Now, what this means is that the smart set avoids government. Government work might still be attractive to people with fewer economic opportunities, but they are entering it for reasons that are not ideological. And for that reason too, they are less loyal to the public sector and glad to bail out if something else comes available.
Most people view this as a very bad trend. I would only say that it is a significant trend, especially considering that in the heyday of government central planning, government sought to attract the best and the brightest. Often it did. Now, one might argue that if government were doing what it should be doing, this would be a good thing. But if government is doing many bad things, it is certainly not a bad trend for it to experience a brain drain.
It is always a tragedy to see smart and entrepreneurial men and women be attracted away from productive employment in the private sector toward a position of power in the public sector. It makes us poorer to have the talents drained away from wealth creation toward wealth destruction. As for the very few good people in politics — Ron Paul is the great exception that proves the rule — they are true public servants only insofar as they work to diminish government power rather than increase it.
So long as government is large and overweening, we are better off with a public sector that cannot attract the best and brightest. They should stay put where they can continue to expand the range of goods and services offered within the market framework. It is the market that provides us the means necessary to improve our standard of living, and the tools we need to maintain some degree of independence from the state.
We often rail against incompetence in government. But before we go too far with this language, we need to consider that competence in government may be a far worse fate. We don’t need genuinely competent antitrust enforcers, drug and food regulators, tax collectors, money manipulators, labor-law interventionists, gun grabbers, and environmental police. As H.L. Mencken said, we should be thankful that we don’t get all the government we pay for.
To be sure, we are paying far more today for government than ever before. Consider the real annual growth rate of total government outlays by presidents. Under Nixon, it was 3%. Under Carter, it was 4.1%. Under Reagan, 2.6%. Under Bush’s dad, 1.9%, a figuring owing to the cuts in military spending. Domestic spending soared. Under Clinton, whom we all denounced as a socialist, it was 1.5%, the lowest rate in the postwar period. And under the present Bush, who promised less government? The real annual growth rate of total government outlays has been 5%, which compares to Johnson-era spending.
The old rationales for government growth may have been discredited in the public mind. But they are alive in Washington, among the special interest groups, and among the media. I would like to identify the main ones.
Rationale Number One: The Good Samaritan State. In this view of government, the state should act like the third person to come upon the poor man who had been beaten and robbed. They imagine a population that is divided among three types of people: victims, victimizers, and those who refuse to help.
The victim classes we know all too well, because the litany is said again and again within the structure of labor law: the elderly, the very young, ethnic and racial minorities, religious minorities, sexual minorities, the physically and mentally disabled, workers, the underpaid, people in rural areas, those who deal with urban overcrowding, people who breathe dirty air or eat chemically produced products, artists, the manufacturing industry, people with peanut allergies, the dyslexic, short people, fat people, the leisure deprived, and I’ve probably left out a hundred or so other groups.
Among the victimizers, we similarly have a list: capitalists, racial and ethnic majorities, sexual majorities, the overpaid, managers and CEOs, people who live in gated communities, the well armed, consumers of cell phones, owners of mines, anyone living off a trust fund, fully abled men, and anyone who resents social managers telling them what to do.
In the view of those who advocate the Samaritan State, these two classes of victims and victimizers are constantly at war. There is nothing but conflict between them. The loss of one is the gain of the other. These categories are fixed and unchanging. The lack of harmony of interests is built into the structure of the social and economic world. The remedy requires an institution that is relentlessly engaged in reweighing the power relationships between the two groups. The conflict cannot be finally ended, but justice requires that the victims are given an unending stream of compensation and that the victimizers are treated with disdain and punished for their very existence. Social justice thus requires that victimizers are reduced, disabled, denounced, and spat upon, while the victims must be exalted, fed, clothed, funded, and made whole.
This is how the Left, broadly speaking, thinks the world works, and should work. It doesn’t matter whether one considers oneself a hard Marxist or a soft social democrat, the intellectual tie that binds them together is the view that conflict and not cooperation characterizes the work of society in the absence of an institution dedicated to bringing about social justice.
The institutional answer is, of course, the state. The state is the Samaritan who lifts up and exalts the meek, and smites the proud and powerful who would otherwise walk right past the poor person on the street, who is the very archetype of the victim in the leftist view of how the world works.
But there are many things wrong with this view of society. In the parable, the victim was beaten and robbed. He was exploited only in a very narrow and old-fashioned sense: his person and property were violated. These are crimes against libertarian ethics, a system of thought that mirrors what every religious and ethical system has taught: do not kill and do not steal. In other words, he was not a victim of some hazy notion of Social Injustice.
He was not discriminated against, exploited by an employer, made to work long hours, or denied a comfy living in his old age. There is a huge difference between being beaten and robbed, and having to pay high prices for prescription drugs. The great error of the Left is its inability to distinguish the injustice of violence from the supposed injustice of inequality of material condition.
As for the Samaritan, he was not acting as an agent of the regime. He used his own money to help the victim. He got him back on his feet and paid his bills at the private clinic where he was deposited for care. The Samaritan did not rob someone else to give money to the man on the street. He presumably got his money justly by hard work and investment. He had no desire to keep the man dependent, nor to exercise power over him, tax him, regulate him, nor send him to war.
The state is something very different. It has no income but that which it robs from someone else. It seeks its own gain at others’ expense. It protects itself and promotes itself before the interests of everyone else. It is beholden to special interests who create and control its regulatory apparatus. It is not impartial. It sides with its friends over its enemies. Moreover, the state is an exploiter, a murderer, a violator of human rights.
The typical response of the Left is to say that they want a state that does only good things such as share and care, and not bad things such as steal and kill. But this cannot be. We might as well wish for a lion that only purrs and cuddles, or a rattlesnake that only provides percussion accompaniment to mariachi music. The very nature of the state is that it exists only through and for compulsion. To imagine otherwise is not to face reality.
Rationale Number Two: The Solomonic State. In the Bible we are told that King Solomon had "understanding exceeding much and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore." And his "wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt." He was "wiser than all men" and "his fame was in all nations round about." He spoke "three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five." He "spake of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom."
Now, I’m not here to dispute the Bible’s account of Solomon’s wisdom. But let us also recall that Solomon’s rule later became close to tyrannical. His son Rehoboam inherited his power, and when the people begged for relief from Solomon’s "heavy yoke," and instigated a full-scale crackdown: "My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions."
To be wise and prudent is not characteristics of rulers. In fact, it is very dangerous to hope that they may be. If we set out to find such a person, and have fantastic power available to him when we believe he has arrived, we have set up the framework for tyranny. The founders knew that no man can be trusted with power. They attempted to construct a system that presumed that men were corruptible, and that there would be some means to dislodge them when their corruption showed.
Still, today many people long for the Solomonic State as a means of dispensing justice. Unlike the Samaritan model, the goal here is not charity but the just wielding of the sword on behalf of the right and true. Thus should we seek out righteous men of learning and moral character who know what evil is and have the courage to stand up to it and destroy it. This model is what inspires this mentality.
There are many problems with this model. One man might be very wise, even the wisest of all men. But as F.A. Hayek might remind us, all the accumulated knowledge in the head of one person is still infinitesimal as compared with the wisdom that emerges through social cooperation on the marketplace. We can consider the price of any good on the market as it stands right now, and know that this one price results from the accumulated decisions of millions of people across thousands and thousands of sectors of economic activity spread throughout the world. The knowledge is dispersed in a million directions and results from small decisions and actions by economic actors. But the result is a single indicator that assists in allocating resources better than any single mind could ever do.
The model of the Solomonic State also imagines that somehow the social order we see around us cannot possibly have come about without a single will operating in society, some firm hand that has designed the order and keeps it running smoothly. People who think this way imagine that in the absence of this firm hand, there would be nothing but a Hobbesian state of nature, where society is a war of all against all and life is nasty, brutish, and short.
Our age is notably lacking in the likes of Solomon, and so those who fear the Hobbesian state of nature turn to the managerial state to act wisely in the interest of justice and order, at home and abroad. They might not always like what the rulers do, but they consider the alternative to despotism more fearsome. They warn about the dread results of anarchism and liberty, where people senselessly kill and rob without consequence. They fear this liberty more than they fear the abuses of power.
This, I submit, is the mentality of many conservatives and many on the Right. We see it in the affections they have for Bush, the Patriot Act, the war on terror, and how quickly people fall for any leader who uses Manichean rhetoric in defense of the latest nationalistic crusade.
What these people need more than anything else is a familiarity with the insights of the old liberal tradition as represented by Jefferson, Bastiat, Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard. They need to come to see how order is not the mother of liberty but its daughter. They need to see how society is harmonious not because of the state but because of the prevalence of human cooperation in the marketplace, where people work to trade to their own mutual betterment.
People who fail to understand this become the unwitting servants of tyranny, particularly in the modern age when it is so obviously not wise but stupid and violent and presumptuous. They imagine that the state can posses godlike powers and bring justice and order, but they end up only empowering the worst elements in society, bringing injustice, and chaos.
Now, you might say that the old liberal view of society is naïve. It might be in people’s interest to learn to trade rather than steal but we live in a fallen world. If not for some overarching controlling force, people would loot each other unrelentingly and kill for fun. Now, to this I can say that it is true that some societies have not learned to make trading and peace significantly more prevalent than violence and killing. History is strewn with examples.
The question we have to ask ourselves is whether a society that fails to learn the art of civilization will erect and sustain a state that will impose civilization on the people. I submit that history also teaches that when a people are brutal and uncivilized, the state is even more so. The state is rarely and maybe never better than the people it rules; in fact, it is almost always worse.
Rationale Number Three: Log-Rolling. Given these two very different conceptions of the state, one favoring the welfare state and the other favoring a warfare state, why don’t the visions cancel each other out? So intense is the desire of one group to have the state that it wants that it is willing to put up with another group’s desire for its conception of the state. The two conceptions decide to cooperate and erect a state that purports to behave both like Solomon and like the Samaritan. That is the origin of the guns-and-butter state, or the welfare-warfare state, or the modern state as we know it, one that purports to meet every need.
We see how this log-rolling works every day on Capitol Hill. One group wants more money for tanks and weaponry, and the other wants more for Medicaid and education. If both agree that politics is the art of compromise, they will put up with the other group’s priorities in order that their own vision can be fulfilled.
On the Right, we find that the love for the police power is more intense than the hatred of redistribution. On the Left, we find that the love of redistribution is more intense than the hatred of war and leviathan. They therefore work together to erect a massive and ever-growing executive. They are similarly unwilling to oppose the state in total. They fear that in doing so, the state as an institution will be discredited, and their conception of what the state should do along with it. Neither side particularly loves big government but both sides agree that it is better than the alternative of letting people alone. So they log-roll to support the public sector above all else, even when it means that they must sleep with their ostensible political enemies.
Rationale Number Four: The Inflationary State. Now we come to the reason this system is able to perpetuate itself. And there is something of a mystery to explain here. No people anywhere will put up with a leviathan that grows and grows forever. At some point, the problem of funding state expansion will result in too much violence against property, and the people will revolt. Indeed, if the federal government had to collect all its revenue through a tax of any kind, leveled right now against the public, I submit to you that it would spark a tax revolt on a scale never before seen in modern history.
Thus do we have the central bank to create money for the state. Thus do we have paper money that can be created in unlimited quantities. Thus do we have deposit insurance to make banks failure proof, so that the masses will never doubt that the credit pyramid is immortal. Thus do we have the Fed’s power to manipulate interest rates and control the flow of credit to the system.
An economist at Lehman Brothers sent us an interesting chart the other day. It compares the level of price increases across many Fed regimes. Under the first Fed governor Charles Hamlin, the dollar declined 8% in value. Under Thomas B. McCabe from the late forties, it declined 7.2%. Under Arthur Burns, wholly owned by Nixon, the dollar declined 42% in value. Under Volcker, Mr. Tight Money, it fell 40%. And under Greenspan, who has a reputation as a great inflation fighter, the value of the dollar in terms of goods and services fell fully 44%!
Inflation serves the cause of the state by giving it room to run up debts without limit and fund its activities without making the people cough up more revenue. Indeed, that is the primary purpose of the inflationary state. People often say to me that a gold standard is impractical. In fact, that is not the case. It is very practical. It is the free-market answer. The state doesn’t need to produce money any more than it needs to produce shoes or shirts or clocks. The problem is that we lack the political will to stop the inflation monster.
Rationale Number Five: The Propaganda State. In every society control of educational institutions increases in tandem with the rise of the state. This is because the state needs these institutions to inculcate the civic religion of loving the public enterprise, and also because the less people know about the idea of liberty the more the state is provided the room to grow.
Consider the Department of Education. Ever since its creation, every Republican administration has come to power with an intention to abolish it. But once they get in power, they find that bureaucracy has its uses. Instead of cutting or abolishing it, they increase the agency and give it more to do. The more the state does, the more the state sees the need to control public opinion by controlling the schools.
Now, there is a point of optimism here. If any state could rule without propaganda, it would surely do so. Why then do states find educational control and the propagation of the civic religion in their interest? Because at some level, every state, in all times and places, is required to seek the tacit consent of those it governs. No state can control a society by use of the sword only and alone. It must also seek some degree of ideological conformity with its own goals. Otherwise its rule becomes threatened and destabilized.
The other side of the coin is that states can indeed be destabilized by the ultimate counterrevolutionary tactic of providing alternative sources of education. As Mises said, all of history is a battle of ideas. Where the ideas of freedom are triumphant, liberty prevails. Where the ideas of freedom are buried and suppressed, despotism prevails.
Our pathway is clear. It is a choice of the Mises Institute not to mix in the mire of a political system that is wholly owned or attempt to seek favor from influential opinion makers. Our path is one of education, pursued with high-minded ideals, advanced using the most modern methods, and animated by the spirit of guerilla warfare. There are Misesians and Rothbardians strewn throughout the academic world, financial and banking houses, law firms, and in every walk of life, not only in this country but all over the world.
We have worked for nearly a quarter of a century on a very radical project of advancing economic science and logic. We have pushed to keep the fire of freedom burning brightly. We have sought to teach anyone and everyone about the workings and benefits of liberty. We have come under pressure from left, right, and center. Yet the attention given to this body of ideas grows by the day.
We can prevail against the Propaganda State. So long as we are free to do so and have the means available, we will continue to do so. This is our weapon against power. It is the most effective weapon anyone could ever possess. If we win this victory, we win all others.
We thank you for supporting education for liberty, and for being part of the revolutionary vanguard that sees through the errors of our day and imagines a brighter future of freedom, private property, and peace. : Mises Institute

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My best friend said that my body weight is too low (I just turned 15 and I’m 5′6 and 112 pounds), and then she sort of implied that I’m anorexic. Let me list what I ate today though (I keep a food journal):

Breakfast 9:05
Multigrain and all natural, flavorless oatmeal made completely with whole grains, barley, oats, etc (according to the ingredients list), one cup of soymilk, one tablespoon honey, two tablespoons flaxseed, six dried apricots, 12 almonds, and a medium sized apple.

Lunch-type meal that I made small because I had tennis right after: 12:15

Half cup of soymilk, half cup of Kashi cereal, two tangerines, three ounces shrimp, large salad with salsa

2:20 snack with comfort food and vitamin C for my perceived illness:
Enough almonds to feed a small country, four tangerines, a banana, warm milk with honey, green tea (decaf), two squares of dark chocolate (86% cacao).

And for dinner I’m having some wild Alaskan salmon, some sweet potato fries that I make with herbs and olive oil, and a huge salad, and then for dessert I might have some dates and cheese.

If I eat like this every day, and I just try to eat really healthfully and all natural, chemical-free foods, then I can’t be anorexic, correct? Anorexia is a mental illness, after all. I just am extremely mindful of how I eat, and my doctor, who I visited yesterday, and who’s my uncle, said that I’m probably the healthiest person he’s ever seen. And then my best friend is like, "lol, you think you eat alot?" and then she lists like, I had pizza and Panda Express and ice cream, and then all this disgusting unhealthy food.

Am I sounding insane when I suggest that she’s trying to get me to be less healthy, and a little fatter? It seems to me that I actually eat a lot, and I’m naturally thin and I tend to burn a lot of calories due to my exercise (I have two hours of tennis with my team five days a week, private hour lessons on Wed and Sun, and I dance an hour and a half two days a week at school, one 45 minute private on Wed, and I run and strength-train for fun when I have time.)

No, you’re not anorexic, you’re just health conscious! It sounds to me like she’s jealous that you can manage what you eat.
Just be careful that you’re getting enough protein!

EDIT:
Hnnoor, what’s up with using my answer word for word?

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My best friend said that my body weight is too low (I just turned 15 and I’m 5′6 and 112 pounds), and then she sort of implied that I’m anorexic. Let me list what I ate today though (I keep a food journal):

Breakfast 9:05
Multigrain and all natural, flavorless oatmeal made completely with whole grains, barley, oats, etc (according to the ingredients list), one cup of soymilk, one tablespoon honey, two tablespoons flaxseed, six dried apricots, 12 almonds, and a medium sized apple.

Lunch-type meal that I made small because I had tennis right after: 12:15

Half cup of soymilk, half cup of Kashi cereal, two tangerines, three ounces shrimp, large salad with salsa

2:20 snack with comfort food and vitamin C for my perceived illness:
Enough almonds to feed a small country, four tangerines, a banana, warm milk with honey, green tea (decaf), two squares of dark chocolate (86% cacao).

And for dinner I’m having some wild Alaskan salmon, some sweet potato fries that I make with herbs and olive oil, and a huge salad, and then for dessert I might have some dates and cheese.

If I eat like this every day, and I just try to eat really healthfully and all natural, chemical-free foods, then I can’t be anorexic, correct? Anorexia is a mental illness, after all. I just am extremely mindful of how I eat, and my doctor, who I visited yesterday, and who’s my uncle, said that I’m probably the healthiest person he’s ever seen. And then my best friend is like, "lol, you think you eat alot?" and then she lists like, I had pizza and Panda Express and ice cream, and then all this disgusting unhealthy food.

Am I sounding insane when I suggest that she’s trying to get me to be less healthy, and a little fatter? It seems to me that I actually eat a lot, and I’m naturally thin and I tend to burn a lot of calories due to my exercise (I have two hours of tennis with my team five days a week, private hour lessons on Wed and Sun, and I dance an hour and a half two days a week at school, one 45 minute private on Wed, and I run and strength-train for fun when I have time.)

No, you’re not anorexic, you’re just health conscious! It sounds to me like she’s jealous that you can manage what you eat.
Just be careful that you’re getting enough protein!

EDIT:
Hnnoor, what’s up with using my answer word for word?

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