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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
- Subject: Re: When Food Is Love
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:04:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.232742.11565@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
-
- >I'd love to meet someone formerly fat who followed Roth's
- >recommendations and became thin, but I'm pretty skeptical!
-
- Know what? I'd love to meet someone formerly fat who followed X diet plan
- and kept the weight off permanently -- or for even 10 years. I still haven't.
- I've heard about them, and TV diet ads display them, but I haven't met one
- personally yet.
-
- >What's more, I wonder how wise such a recommendation is. It's more like
- >giving people "permission" to overeat if they want to.
-
- I think Roth's -- and others' in that movement -- point is that we can
- _stop_ overeating. I haven't read much of her stuff, but it seemed to me
- that she definitely doesn't advocate overeating.
-
- >There's an enormous hormonal
- >component to fat deposition and distribution, as I mentioned before.
- >In other words, we're stuck with lousy genes.
-
- Could be.
-
- --
- The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world --
- if only from time to time. -- Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood"
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