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lil_p_jizzle has more interesting things to say about body fat.I seriously love the internet for this reason alone. So many perspectives on a subject, from so many sources.
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Pure Weight Loss has been involved in a number of lawsuits over the years for making false claims about its weight loss program. (...) Two years ago, Washington state Attorney General’s office reported it had settled with LA Weight Loss for $800,000 plus $75,000 in attorney’s fees and court costs for similar charges of misrepresenting its programs. In addition, the centers were “prohibited from claiming that their supplements have any health or weight loss benefit unless they first have competent and reliable scientific evidence to substantiate their claims.” The Attorney General also alleged that there was “no such evidence to back up LA Weight Loss claims that its FB500 supplement caused customers to lose weight by trapping, blocking or otherwise absorbing dietary fat.”
It goes on to talk about other complaints against L.A. Weight Loss. Interesting Stuff.
Further to this subject, I am currently reading this book:
I'll talk more about my impressions of it later, but I wanted to mention the reactions I've been getting from women on the bus as I read it. Everywhere I go, I find women's eyes being drawn to the cover and examining it. One woman actually tilted her head completely to the side to read the title.
I haven't received this kind of reaction to bus reading since I was reading Carly's Sexography.
An interesting note on the gender divide: practically no men have noticed me reading Rethinking Thin, but numerous men noticed Sexography. One young man even commented, "That must either be incredibly interesting or incredibly boring." I smiled and said, "Incredibly interesting," then moved to the other end of the bus.
"Fat is a descriptive physical characteristic. It's not an insult, or an obscenity, or a death sentence."
Who is this Joy Nash person?
