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- From: avery@netcom.com (Avery Ray Colter)
- Subject: Re: Advantages of being fat
- Message-ID: <x#gm88f.avery@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 00:19:08 GMT
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- peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel) writes:
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- >Well, but experience/statistics is on her side. I also was never slim
- >in my life. And when I was 18, I also was tested for blood pressure
- >and was diagnosed normal. But today, at 41, I have higher pressure
- >and some cholesterol (not yet alarming, but definitely above average).
- >So you perhaps have to wait just a little... :-(
-
- And that's all fat people are encouraged to do, evidently, if they don't lose
- weight: just wait around for disaster to strike.
-
- This is to me the most maddening attitude in the old guard's repertoire,
- that if a fat person doesn't get thin, they might as well stick their
- heads in the sand and let the prophecy come true with nary an effort of
- resistance.
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- "Heaviness is the root of lightness; calmness is the controller of haste"
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