I get that the point was to debunk wrestling as a spectator sport, but definitely agree with Coco on this. I felt bad for them too, especially the wrestler. Not very nice on the part of Stossel's team and far from funny. To me at least. Really disturbed me for some reason. And I have a great sense of humor. Oh well. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

~lanie

Wheatgrass Yogi Wrote:
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> coco Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > i didn't get any joy from watching that second
> > clip. maybe i don't have a sense of humour
> anymore
> > but that was so base and offensive it wasn't
> the
> > least bit funny to me.
> I think you missed the Point. Stossel was telling
>
> the wrestler that his business is 'fake'. The
> wrestler, in turn,
> was showing Stossel that an 'open-hand slap' to
> the side of the
> head isn't as fake as it seems.
> Some wrestlers are in great physical shape, but
> they're on heavy
> meat diets, and usually don't live into their
> 80's......WY


i certainly did not miss the point, i just didn't think things were handled well by either party. demonstrating to stossel that he's willing to slap someone in the face who questions what he does for a living proves only that he is a brute, nothing more. it says zero about wrestling. it's just ugly.

coco Wrote:
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> .....i just didn't think things were handled well
> by either party.
> demonstrating to stossel that he's willing to slap
> someone in the face who questions what he does for
> a living proves only that he is a brute, nothing
> more. it says zero about wrestling. it's just
> ugly.
I stand Corrected.
One of my favorite wrestlers, when I was a boy,
was 'Haystack' Calhoun. He was quite fast on his feet, even
though he was a large man. He died in his mid-50's from
Poor Diet.....WY
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"Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa is a term coined by Steven Bratman, a Colorado MD, to denote an eating disorder characterized by excessive focus on eating healthy foods. In rare cases, this focus may turn into a fixation so extreme that it can lead to severe malnutrition or even death."

The question then is weather someone is obsessed or just wants to improve their life by trying something different. Also, eating raw food can;t be called an obsession if you KNOW that it will improve your health by reading the research behind it.