Carol Frilegh ON The TPD!!!!! - sci.med.cardiology

Message from discussion Carol Frilegh ON The TPD!!!!!

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From: Dr Chaos <mbkennelSPAMBEG...@NOSPAMyahoo.com>

Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 19:46:06 +0000 (UTC)

Local: Thurs, Aug 7 2003 3:46 pm

Subject: Re: Carol Frilegh ON The TPD!!!!!

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On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 5:01:03 -0400, Steve <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:

> I would be remiss If I didn't point out that our friend Chung brought this up
> as a red herring rather than as a critique to be taken seriously. It is
> ironic and ludicrous (but perhaps typical and to be expected) that the father
> of such an arbitrary, unscientific, and unsubstantiated diet idea as "The Two
> Pound Diet" would fault counting calories as not precise :-) You seem to be
> an intelligent fellow... why you come to the defense of this charlatan is
> beyond me.

I think it's perfectly well scientifically substantiated, based on a
reasonable hypothesis about human nature. That is, specifically, that
the average extractable caloric density of food that people will
actually eat in the long run will be fairly constant. That is, say
over the month to year long timescales in question, not in any one
meal or two.

This implies that the likely source of obesity is the consumption of
excess mass. A diet that focuses on precise control of what is
precisely measurable seems like a good idea in the circumstances.

Lots of diet books focus endlessly on "what" to eat but I suspect the
overweight make consistent errors in the portion sizes.

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