[lbo-talk] putting quackery to the test

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Aug 12 07:19:07 PDT 2006


On Aug 11, 2006, at 1:40 AM, info at pulpculture.org wrote:


> It is truly the height of insult to have to read you guys ruining
> around claiming that you happen to know that women just don't
> really try to exercise and eat less. As if somehow they just
> haven't figured that out.
>
> The people who actually study this stuff point out this: people
> don't like to count. So the diet schemes are ways for them not to
> have to count calories. It's a psychological thing.

That's not what the magazine editors say. They say that people want magic substitutes for exercise and diet, and they have to come up with something new all the time to satisfy the urge for novelty.

Doug



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