On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:50:06 -0500, "Roger Zoul"
wrote:

Last Shot At The Mu_n wrote:
::: But if you ask around among your friends and acquaintances who went
::: on diets on January first, you'll probably find that very few are
::: still at it six weeks later. . . .
::
:: Why is that?
::
:: Several reasons. One, no real commitment to the realities of lowered
:: food consumption. Two, they know that book diets fail at extravagant
:: rates. Three, no change in their relationships with food.

I agree with your reasons 1 and 3. However, number two makes no sense.
Diet books do nothing. Dieters have to do the work.

When you go on book diet (Atkins, Ornish), one usually checks around.
What they find is a constant stream of failures, walking living obese
failures.

Kinda takes the shine off, dontcha think?


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