Comments on: Hungry Girl

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:40:32 +0000

Hungry Girl is irresponsible by and large by promoting recipes that are mostly chemical-laden garbage. Thank you for your wise article. Her popularity is sad because she’s promoting the idea that low-cal is healthy, rather than eating healthy food is healthy.

By: Lea Hernandez

Lea Hernandez — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:36:59 +0000

I think the REAL reason we’re getting fatter (citation, Michael, from a reliable source!) IS diet food. Lubes, syrups, encouraging overeating of “diet” foods. (Just six of the deplorable, nutrtionally devoid Snackwells is just slightly more calories than two real cookies.)

Another component of the problem is that even our own government’s health department, the CDC, cooks the numbers. The exaggeration of obesity deaths by magnitudes as for the greater good.
Then again, the same government tried to give women a veterinarian as head of the Office of Women’s Health in the FDA.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901576.html

As you can tell, you’ve touched on a favorite subject. Thanks much for reviewing the book!

By: elise

elise — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:56:38 +0000

The reason this book is popular is that no one want to hear “eat less exercise more”. What people really want to hear is “eat what I’m used to eating, but weigh less”.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:24:24 +0000

Oh, I hated that site. I was referred to it at a Weight Watchers meeting a year or so ago, signed up, and was very quickly appalled by the reliance on Franken/pseudofoods in the interest of dieting. I quickly unsubbed, making sure to let her know that I found her “tips” and “ingredients” deeply offensive. I’d rather be fat off of eating real food than fat off of synthetic food.

By: Abi Jones

Abi Jones — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:16:20 +0000

I’m in Hungry-Girl’s demographic (and know folks who read her site religiously) but I can’t get past the tone and the obsessiveness. Plus, I eat (and write about) frozen food on a near-daily basis and even I’m appalled by all of the additives and junk in those recipes. Eating smart means reading the nutrition label AND ingredients list – especially when it comes to stuff like non-fat half-and-half. Ugh.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:16:06 +0000

I knew you’d be the perfect person to review Hungry Girl. Thanks for pointing out the ingredients in sexual lubricant and hemorrhoid cream. Yummy! No wonder Michael Pollan says “eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”

By: lylah ledner

lylah ledner — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:08:43 +0000

you captured me with your writing from the words “pink tinged pages.” read down and don’t think i could use the book.

i’ll come back and visit.

lylah