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- From: mazur@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur)
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.203414.28218@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
- Organization: Intermetrics Inc, Cambridge MA
- References: <1992Dec16.204156.0904966@locus.com> <17913@pitt.UUCP> <1992Dec29.024354.0201957@locus.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:34:14 GMT
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- In <1992Dec29.024354.0201957@locus.com> yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz) writes:
- >-- I wouldn't say the obese are overeating,
- >I'd say that in order to maintain normal weight they have to undereat.
- >"Normal" eating results, for them, in obesity, so eating must become
- >abnormal to compensate for abnormal metabolic processing. I submit that
- >that choice of words is less likely to be construed as suggesting that
- >someone has a "character flaw".
-
- Some obese are overeating. Some do so because of a "character flaw"--namely
- an eating disorder--and some do because they like to eat or tend to eat
- high-calorie (i.e., typical American fast food) diets.
-
- I won't presume to guess at what percentage of obese people fall into this
- category of overeaters and what percentage fall into Chuck and Bob's
- "abnormal metabolic processors" but it is just silly for them to ignore
- the reality of the overeaters.
-
- Beth Mazur "...life is more than a vision. The sweetest
- mazur@inmet.inmet.com part is acting after making a decision."
- ...!uunet!inmet!mazur -- The Indigo Girls
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