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Old Sat, Oct-17-09, 20:40
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As a matter of fact, I like arguing over gravity. I believe the plasma theory of astronomy is vastly more likely to match reality than the fictional equations of the red shift paradigm. ;-)

You chose the totally wrong argument for your perspective there doctorK. Karen Carpenter did not die from being underweight; she was in fact recovered when she died. She died from the damage to her heart muscle sustained while following a low calorie eating plan which all the "calories in, calories out" proponents would assure us are all that is necessary for fat loss, but here's the hitch: while her dietary habits of anorexia were in fact EATING HER ORGANS, she was not however free of all fat cells; as Gary Taubes so nicely exampled at length in his book, you can in fact "low calorie" yourself to actual death prior to losing all the fat people are sure that merely reducing calories will take care of.

In the case of the lovely and talented Karen, she effectively "lost weight." Unfortunately it turns out the "body composition" aspect was not on her side. That is generally the way it goes with low-calorie diets -- she just went overboard with anorexia for a more stark example.
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