[lbo-talk] 300 Pounds of Joy (Was Re: 4 July - Help me Think)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jul 8 07:54:56 PDT 2007


On Jul 8, 2007, at 11:41 AM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:


> At 08:40 AM 7/8/2007, you wrote:
>
>> On Jul 8, 2007, at 8:50 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote:
>>
>>> According to Gina Kolata's latest book -- Rethinking Thin: The New
>>> Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting --
>>> Not
>>> even exercise and reduced calories will help in the long run.
>>
>> So why, if corpulence is so baked in the cake, are Americans now so
>> much fatter than they used to be, and so much fatter than most other
>> people in the world?
>>
>> Doug
>
> this kind of approach always makes me laugh at the thought that you
> actually dig cat's line about looking for the right questions to
> ask *your*
> answers.

Could you expand on this wisecrack?



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