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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <17938@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 17:46:29 GMT
- Article-I.D.: pitt.17938
- References: <1992Dec21.002143.26900@crd.ge.com> <dnsurber.725054011@node_26400> <1992Dec23.071242.6984@omen.UUCP>
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- Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
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- In article <1992Dec23.071242.6984@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
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- >instances. There is a feedback system that regulates body
- >weight within fairly narrow limits. Gordon doesn't believe in
- >it, but it is described by the Set Point Theory.
- >
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- This is true for normals, but not for many obese, who steadily gain
- year after year with no sign of an upper bound. I myself am
- one such person that if eats ad lib has no known upper bound.
- Of course, one never knows if there is an upper bound short
- of infinity, but I wasn't willing to find out by experiment.
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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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