To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist>
Subject: Re: singer-friendly diets
Date sent: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:10:13 -0500
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

Mike,

I agree that restricting calories too far is a no-no, which is why I would
always recommend setting up a diet with a nutritionist (one's doctor can
refer you under most health plans).

But no matter how it stacks up, the way to lose weight is not to diet, but
to permanently change the way we eat. And however you slice it, if you eat
more calories than your body uses, you will gain weight. And vice versa.
And no amount of food-combining, blood-type matching, macrobiotic purity, or
rotation-planning, will change it.

Don't forget: every single weight-loss gimmick (pills, creams, books) comes
with TESTIMONY BY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS in big headline type. Perhaps they
are farm veternarians. Don't know. All I know is that there is yet to be
some "secret", patented, revolutionary, cure for our American butt fat. The
cure is free: common sense.

My personal opinion is: let's take all the time that one would spend reading
books about food, and use it to work out, or help out in homeless shelters,
or watch the sun set, or kiss our children, or make music.

Oh, and one more thing: never keep M&Ms in the house.

Carol Spradling
Syracuse, NY