From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: My New Diet --> IT WORKS GREAT !!!!
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
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In article <1993Mar27.142431.25188@inmet.camb.inmet.com> mazur@bluefin.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur) writes:
>In article <1ov4toINNh0h@lynx.unm.edu> bhjelle@carina.unm.edu () writes:
>
>On the other hand, we do a good job of implying that the person who
>weighs 400lbs is "overeating" when in fact, the body probably doesn't
>make any moral judgements about its composition.  Conceivably, the 
>body works just as hard maintaining its weight at 400 as someone else's
>does at 200.
>

Undoubtedly it does, to maintain such a weight.  And it does so
primarily by overeating.  If it didn't, the weight would drop
back to normal.


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