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From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.med
Subject: Re: Need info on "Gold Key" Weight loss plan
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 15:52:00 EST
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In article <812@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>Where cynicism is very close to truth...
>
>There are no known effective weight loss programs (if "effective"
>means that the weight is not regained within a few months or years).
>
>The best thing you can do for overweight (presuming that it isn't
>life-threatening) is to ignore it and go on with your life.  Too many
>overweight people go through life unhappy and frustrated, trying to lose
>weight the whole time and only "yo-yoing".  For right now it is an
>unwinnable war; better to focus your attention and energy on something
>that you enjoy.

I beg to differ!!!!  Losing weight - "permanently" - is QUITE possible,
and will improve, among other things, your life expectancy.  While it is
probably true that "yo-yoing" is worse that staying moderately
overweight, the "war" is NOT "unwinnable".  We know a LOT more about
safe, effective, permanent weight loss now than we did even a few years
ago!

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