lbo-talk-digest V1 #4343

[Leslilake1 at aol.com]

Aaack!  Along the same line, we've just started advertising for the next 
session of our weight loss class here at the hospital.  Our class costs $45.  
It basically tells you what you already know (eat less, exercise more), and 
then shows you some ways you may not have thought of to do this.  But - it 
has no magic, and there are a lot of people who want magic and are 
disappointed when I tell them what the class is about.  "Oh - I thought there 
was something new."  Nope.  Nothing new.  What's true doesn't change.   

I just talked to a woman today who had spent $800 a year ago on a seminar by 
somebody whose line was that wheat (among other things) was a kind of poison 
which everyone should eliminate from their diet until they were "detoxified" 
and then introduce back in judiciously.  Somehow this toxin made you fat (she 
couldn't explain the rationale, nor why you would start eating it again if it 
was toxic).  She lost weight, and then gained it back.  I can't imagine how 
the people that sell these programs live with themselves, but they apparently 
are able to.

But - I have a hard time living with myself sometimes, too.  What I do for a 
living is idiotic.  

Les  

  

In a message dated 01-05-14 23:38:42 EDT, you write:

<< From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>

 Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com

 Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:03:34 -0400

 

 >John Halle wrote:

 >

 >>I vaguely remember being brought up short a while back hearing Null

 >>endorse something which might be described, without going into to too much

 >>detail, as "urine therapy".

 

 I don't know how I'm going to pull of relating that to what I was going to 
post.

 

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 "Alternaquacks," astrologers, personal creativity coaches, pet sitters, 
Rolphers, tarot readers, and various spiritual guides post fliers on the 
bulletin board at the back of the coffee house I go to.

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