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- From: bhjelle@carina.unm.edu ()
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 18:53:25 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- References: <17744@pitt.UUCP> <1992Dec13.000934.28433@omen.UUCP> <17878@pitt.UUCP>
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- In article <17878@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec13.000934.28433@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
- >>>>
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- >>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.
- >
- "Adipocyte hyperplasia" is another politically-correct phrase
- for obesity. Chuck's diatribes are full of PC jargon, but
- you have to know what to look for in order to recognize it.
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- I would suggest "metabolically different" but apparently
- that phrase is already reserved for the life-impaired
- (ie, dead people).
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- Brian
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