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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <17913@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 00:46:58 GMT
- References: <1992Dec05.003236.11454@omen.UUCP> <17744@pitt.UUCP> <1992Dec16.204156.0904966@locus.com>
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- In article <1992Dec16.204156.0904966@locus.com> yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz) writes:
- >geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >
- >| Even if the obese don't eat more, they are eating too much for them.
- >
- >And I suppose diabetics are just taking in too many carbohydrates? I
- >mean, if you don't take in any, you won't need to take insulin anymore,
- >right?
- >
- >Why, Gordon, do you continue to insist that the solution to obesity
- >lies NOT in fixing the metabolic processing of what's eaten, but
- >rather with merely reducing the amount eaten (whether by life-long
- >willpower or some future pharmacological intervention that affects
- >appetite)?
- >
-
- Because I don't know how to fix the metabolic processing (other
- than by exercising more) of what's eaten, and neither do you. I do know how
- to diet. And I never insisted that dieting was *the* solution
- to obesity. It is a solution for some, but not a very satisfactory
- one. Unfortunately, I'm still waiting for a better one. I don't
- know whether you have a weight problem or not, but believe me, those
- of us who do would be very pleased to have a better solution than
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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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