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From: ded@milo.UUCP (Don E. Davis)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Starved for affliction
Message-ID: <186@milo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 15:52:01 EST
Article-I.D.: milo.186
Posted: Fri Feb 21 15:52:01 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Feb-86 06:30:21 EST
Reply-To: ded@milo.UUCP (Don E. Davis)
Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD
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Keywords: fast


I'm trying out a new diet where I fast on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and
eat anything I want the remainder of the week (though I tend not to eat
excessively those days either).  I take vitamins and drink plenty of fluids
because I'm supposed to with this diet.  These sort of "starvation" diets
have a bad reputation so I've been on guard for ill effects, but
haven't experienced any.   In fact, I like this diet because it has so
little impact on my lifestyle (not counting Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday!).  With other diets you have to eat like a rabbit for a month
straight.  With this diet I can munch on Roy's fried chicken 4 days
a week.

I once heard about a doctor who gave this diet to rats and discovered
that they lived to the rat's eqivalent of 140.  I'll let you know
if this works for humans in the year 2086.  See ya then!


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					Don Davis
					JHU/APL
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