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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!emory!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!spdcc!dyer
  2. From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.med
  4. Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.022147.13249@spdcc.com>
  6. Date: 23 Dec 92 02:21:47 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Dec23.022147.13249
  8. References: <1992Dec13.000934.28433@omen.UUCP> <17878@pitt.UUCP> <0kgrdf-@lynx.unm.edu>
  9. Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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  12. In article <0kgrdf-@lynx.unm.edu> bhjelle@carina.unm.edu () writes:
  13. >"Adipocyte hyperplasia" is another politically-correct phrase
  14. >for obesity. Chuck's diatribes are full of PC jargon, but
  15. >you have to know what to look for in order to recognize it.
  16.  
  17. This is a slur against all politically-correct jargon.
  18. This isn't C by any stretch of P, except in Chuck's own world.
  19.  
  20. >I would suggest "metabolically different" but apparently
  21. >that phrase is already reserved for the life-impaired
  22. >(ie, dead people).
  23.  
  24. Triglyceridically challenged?  Differently lipased?
  25. Energy efficient?
  26.  
  27. -- 
  28. Steve Dyer
  29. dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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