Gottlieb Lecture

Hey, Jill here again. I meant to post about this on my patient blog but kept forgetting to do so. So, since this hasn't been updated in a while, I thought I'd do it here.

Dr. Finegold gives a lecture at Gottlieb Hospital (and will be starting this at Prairie Stone as well) about the weight loss program. I was dragged into helping with this when one of our MAs couldn't make it because her daughter was getting married. I was prepared to hear everything I'd heard before and quite frankly to be bored out of my mind.

I was so very, very wrong. Now, understand that Dr. Finegold is indeed a man I've known all my life, and consider him to not be the most charismatic person I've ever been around. Despite that, he makes an excellent public speaker. I was truly inspired to renounce fast food (something I hold near and dear to my way of life) and to get to a frickin' gym and work out. I hate gyms and working out. But this lecture made me quit dragging my feet and contact the gym for a personal trainer, and I've been happier ever since. It actually scares me how well this talk worked.

He brings up some interesting points on how as a species we evolved to be a hunter/gatherer biology and how modern convience goes against this. We used to have to physically hunt our meat and live off of berries/roots/fruit/etc. We were lean, mean, low I.Q. machines. Culture wasn't at its height, but physically we were awesome. Technology and civilization has served to work against our natural physiology. Think about it: we no longer traverse the land on our own two feet but use cars to get places, even if it's five minutes away. Food is readily available in the supermarket, pre-killed (and packaged!) for us--or worse, we can get it "freshly prepared" in front of us in five minutes in a fast food line. Yet our biology is still rigged to the early days of hunting with sharpened sticks after lean deer or foxes or whatever-four-footed creature you could catch. Or fish. Or whatever. Anyway, he tells this better than I do. And with slides and pictures!

Next lecture is November 12th at Gottlieb Hospital. It should start at seven at night...though I'll double check that.