Diet and Weight Loss Tips – A Lesson from a Walrus!

Watching a nature program recently, I was informed that a single walrus can eat 4000 clams in a ten minute dive (Nature’s Great Events, broadcast by BBC, Feb. 11 2009), which seems a tad greedy to me, but then look at the size of a walrus. Are they that big because they eat a lot of clams or do they eat a lot of clams to stay that big?

And a diet of thousands clams can’t, one feels, do a lot for their digestion. This was borne out by another factoid about their digestive problems given to us by Sir David Attenborough, but I won’t put you off your food by repeating it here.

I would guess that walruses don’t have a particularly emotional relationship with their food. Their strategy seemed to be: get hungry dive – scoop up as many clams a possible burp – do it again.

We humans have much more imaginative ways of relating to food. And as we are not restricted to a diet of clams, we can