Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.med Subject: Re: Need info on "Gold Key" Weight loss plan Message-ID: <392@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 19:55:03 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.392 Posted: Thu Oct 24 19:55:03 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:28:40 EDT References: <378@cylixd.UUCP> <812@terak.UUCP> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 23 Xref: watmath net.consumers:3233 net.med:2625 Summary: In article <812@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes: > >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. >-- You are correct in that it is better to remain overweight than to yo-yo up and down by periodically starving yourself. However, neither of those two options is ideal. You are wrong to say that there is no effective weight-loss program. Most people will be safely able to take off most excess weight and keep it off merely by a daily half hour of race-walking (or an alternative suitably strenuous exercise). Frank Silbermann