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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <17878@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 17:28:20 GMT
- References: <1992Dec05.003236.11454@omen.UUCP> <17744@pitt.UUCP> <1992Dec13.000934.28433@omen.UUCP>
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- Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
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- In article <1992Dec13.000934.28433@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
- >In article <17744@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec05.003236.11454@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
- >>>
- >>>The current Adiposity 101 cites almost 20 papers that conclude
- >>>the obese generally didn't get that way by feeding their faces.
- >>
- >>Well, not exactly. If you don't feed your face you eventually will
- >>suffer the same fate as those currently in Somalia.
- >
- >Hardly. "Feeding your face" is a perjorative term that means extreme
- >hyperphagia. It is my mistake in using a phrase that is meaningful
- >only to those who grew up fat at a tender age.
- >
-
- I know what it means, and did grow up fat at a tender age and
- was told to quit feeding my face, so stifle with that nonsense.
- You dragged it in as if it was part of your scientific studies,
- which most certainly it was not. Perhaps it further shows that
- you are too emotionally bound up with the fat stuff to be objective
- about it. Nobody is saying you have to have extreme hyperphagia
- to get fat. Just another one of your straw men that you set
- up to make you look better. You really should sit in on Rena's
- course sometime, just so you could correct some of these crazy
- ideas you have about what obesity researchers believe.
-
- >>Even if the obese don't eat more, they are eating too much for them.
- >
- >Haven't we heard enough of this old time diet religion already?
- >
- Apparently you haven't, since you still seem to believe you are
- not eating too much.
-
- >>They are moving on, but you have to have something to move on to.
- >
- >The new methods are already far better for those with adipocyte
- >hyperplasia. At least they haven't been shown to increase the
- >severity of adipocyte hyperplasia by 10 per cent per treatment.
-
- Excuse me? What new method are you referring to in which
- changes in adipocytes were measured? I'm not familiar with
- any such treatments.
-
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "I have given you an argument; I am not obliged
- geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | to supply you with an understanding." -S.Johnson
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