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- From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:30:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.043007.5590@omen.UUCP>
- 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:
- >>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
-
- Well then, what was your BMI at 5, 10 and 15?
-
- >was told to quit feeding my face, so stifle with that nonsense.
-
- Gordon, if you knew what "feeding your face meant" why did you
- equate not "feeding your face" with terminal starvation when you
- knew better? Or was it a Freudian slip?
-
- Gordon, thanks for reminding me about Rena. We're still waiting
- for her answers to the legitimate questions already before her.
- The longer she ignores my communications the more concerned I
- become that she is more interested in protecting a diet based
- research establishment than progress toward effective obesity
- treatment.
-
- Gordon's other comments clarify the need to add some more basic
- information about current obesity research in Adiposity 101,
- rather than just mentioning it with references to standard works.
-
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