[lbo-talk] putting quackery to the test

info at pulpculture.org info at pulpculture.org
Sat Aug 12 09:04:57 PDT 2006


At 10:19 AM 8/12/2006, Doug Henwood wrote:


>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

heh. OK Doug. I'll take mag editors over science.

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