PeteBDawg
January 4th, 2005, 01:03 PM
Check out this informative article in the New York Times (sorry, free registration required).
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/04/health/nutrition/04fat.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5094&en=a6df5c7370f94009&hp&ex=1104901200&partner=homepage
It's about how, for a bunch of reasons, commercial weight loss plans have avoided any sort of studies on whether their plans actually work, and how the little bit of data available tends to show that they don't, and that you end up wasting money on a lot of nothing.
If you ever doubted you were in the right place, slogging through spreadsheets and reams and reams of information on food and exercise yourself for free instead of paying cash for something much simpler and easier, perhaps this article could convince you.
Actually, John should write a letter to the Editor of the Times on this - I think his context of success is pretty much the ideal counterpoint to the well-founded doubts raised in this article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/04/health/nutrition/04fat.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5094&en=a6df5c7370f94009&hp&ex=1104901200&partner=homepage
It's about how, for a bunch of reasons, commercial weight loss plans have avoided any sort of studies on whether their plans actually work, and how the little bit of data available tends to show that they don't, and that you end up wasting money on a lot of nothing.
If you ever doubted you were in the right place, slogging through spreadsheets and reams and reams of information on food and exercise yourself for free instead of paying cash for something much simpler and easier, perhaps this article could convince you.
Actually, John should write a letter to the Editor of the Times on this - I think his context of success is pretty much the ideal counterpoint to the well-founded doubts raised in this article.