Adding our weight to the conversation

I'm diving in here with something that's being discussed all around me at the moment: Let's talk about weight. Recent years have seen an explosion in the number of TV-programmes, magazines and newspaper articles relating to weight. What one should weigh, how to weigh less, why you weigh more. Repeat ad infinitum, ad nauseum. I don't think it's a mystery why the number of people with eating disorders is sky-rocketing. It's a really stange phenomenon, this. Not the eating disorders, the weight-loss thing. It's not nuclear physics: if you eat more calories in a day than you burn off, you're going to gain weight. No matter if you're only eating oranges, 4000 kcal of that a day with no exercise and you're still going to grow an ass eclipsing the sun (that is, if a very small pensioner was walking along behind said ass). It doesn't really leave much room for discussion, does it? Yet the news-stream about weight is never-ending. Mostly, it seems to be about diets. What food groups to cut out, how to dispel hunger pangs, can you or can you not eat a bar of chocolate on a Friday night. Bla bla bla. Humbug. Listen here, doughnuts. I've got a degree in biomedicine so I kind of know what I'm a-talking about here. Evolution invented cravings for a reason. If you cut out, say, everything but pineapples and champagne from your diet you're not going to live long. Hence you crave something containing FAT, or say MINERALS. If you lived in stone-age times, your South Beach-ass would be dead in a cave somewhere. All your cells contain fat in the membrane that surrounds them. They need it. This same membrane also needs cholesterol to keep itself pliant. Who wants stiff cells? Plants have them, but they don't need to be able to make facial expressions, either.
With all this said, there is good food and bad food. The more processed and chemical-laced it is, the more lacking in actual nutrition it will be. Eat fresh veg, fruit and meats. Throw in some milk and cheese for your bones. And get off your lazy ass and go jogging.
Oh, and every so often, have a nice chocolate dessert and enjoy. Enjoyment is part of being healthy. See, the theme here is "balance". Eating salad and salad only is so boring. It would also eventually get boring if you ate at michelin-starred restaurants every day three times a day. Balance, people. Use your common sense.

Someone once told me they wouldn't trust a thin chef. Well, Titti is the best chef I know and there isn't an extra pound of fat on her body. She's got muscles (she also has some really cool tattoos, but that's another story). I think I'd rather trust a chef who doesn't stay behind to gorge on the chocolate before going home at night. In the same spirit, I wouldn't trust a drunk sommelier. You can have too much of a good thing, you know.