From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RDQvT-0007Pa-WB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:14:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1277A21C128; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:14:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297A821C0DA for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D168EDEBF7 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:13:18 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VYTssJJTQ-nx for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:26:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BCFDEB6A for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:13:18 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Computers and mental/emotional health Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:13:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201110102334.24742.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: X-KMail-Markup: true Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary-01=_tg5kOPmofXtnnoS" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201110110213.17739.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 79b3fdb8db651afc0c38989f724c6638 --Boundary-01=_tg5kOPmofXtnnoS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tuesday 11 October 2011 00:19:08 Adam Carter wrote: > > Have you ever wondered why the blooming of obesity has coincided with > > the popularity of the low-fat diet? > > Correlation implies causation? No, of course not, but it certainly makes me pretty suspicious. > Perhaps the blooming of obesity caused people to start looking for new > diets to address the issue. Could be, but I'd prefer to believe it was, and is, indoctrination by Those Who Know. There's a whole industry devoted to perpetuating the myth of the low-fat diet. You can get volumes of evidence from Atkins's books. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23 --Boundary-01=_tg5kOPmofXtnnoS Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On Tuesday 11 October 2011 00:19:08 Adam Carter wrote:

> > Have you ever wondered why the blooming of obesity has coincided with

> > the popularity of the low-fat diet?

>

> Correlation implies causation?


No, of course not, but it certainly makes me pretty suspicious.


> Perhaps the blooming of obesity caused people to start looking for new

> diets to address the issue.


Could be, but I'd prefer to believe it was, and is, indoctrination by Those Who Know. There's a whole industry devoted to perpetuating the myth of the low-fat diet. You can get volumes of evidence from Atkins's books.


--

Rgds

Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23


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