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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jul 8 12:05:04 PDT 2007


On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote:


> Her claim is not that people may not weigh more but that "diets" have
> no effect on weight. Are you claiming that forced hunger and
> starvation are a diet?

"Dieting" may have no lasting effect on weight, because for whatever reason, people often go back to overeating. But eating less makes you lose weight. I'm sure the question is rhetorical, so I'm going to ignore it.

Doug



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