YOu may not even be aware of how it sounds to the average reader, but it comes across bullying and insensitive on a board that's devoted to helping people try to improve their health and weight.

You might want to give a thought to how you come across when one of your dogmatic statements is disagreed with. One of the reasons I post on this board is that I get to learn stuff and, believe it or not, folk do lurk without posting and to all appearances want accurate information to improve their health and weight. I've gotten the odd e-mail from names I don't recognise in the past as I have during this recent flurry of posts requesting further information that those same folk presumably didn't feel comfortable asking on the board.

When folk read statements that it's "possible to gain weight on 500Cals a day".....and links that're supposed to support the statement that have no relationship at all, I could see why they wouldn't think there's much of value to be picked up. Sorry to lump you in with that poster, but the two of you have an awful habit of posting opinion-as-fact and getting testy when the facts are actually presented.