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From: mazur@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Gaining weight
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Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 16:07:00 EST
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Nf-From: inmet!mazur    Dec  6 16:07:00 1985


What your friend could try is dieting.  A book I read recently was by
a man at a weight control center who put people who needed to gain 
weights on diets.  It is a very interesting concept.  

Since the body usually reacts to a drastic intake in food by slowing 
down the metabolism, what he would do was put people on 500 calorie 
a day diets for 3 days, and they would usually lose 5 or so pounds.
Then he would ask them to go back to their normal eating habits until
their weight plateaued - which was usually 1 or 2 pounds higher than
it had been before!  This process was repeated until the desired
weight gain had been achieved.

Since this is not my problem, I can't try it out, but it makes a lot
of sense to me (and explains in a simple way why 95% of weight loss
is not maintained).  References available upon request.

Beth Mazur
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