Take a look at Gary Taubes book   "Good Calories, Bad calories".  P
352 dealing with Pennington.  Then buy the book.  High fat with
restricted carbs ..................... Get your own adipose cranking.

  Bill

a neighbor wrote:

Delusion.

It's the "hunger is starvation" delusion.

Much smarter to eat the right amount (32 oz/day) of food:

http://WDJW.net/BeSmart

From your cite:

"Of course, there is a catch. You'll be hungry. It's not real hunger -
not like the painful hunger of starving people in impoverished
countries." -- Richard A. Muller

It seems even Physicist Muller is suffering from the "real hunger is
starvation and is painful" delusion.  Folks dying from starvation
(i.e. those that cause us to suffer when looking upon their emaciated
forms) are simply not hungry because they are in starvation ketosis.
Indeed, folks truly dying for any reason are simply not hungry.

The 2PD-OMER Approach does help people overcome the "hunger is
starvation" delusion  as evident by the fact that its US
$2,000,000.00 guarantee remains in force:

http://WDJW.net/Guarantee

There is pure joy in being used by GOD to change hearts:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/8824c8a5b7c7518c?

May GOD give you, neighbor, a new heart and a new spirit (Ezekiel
11:19-20 and 36:26) so that you would be born again of water and
Spirit (John 3:3 and 3:5) so that you would come to trust the truth,
Who is Jesus:

http://T3WiJ.com

Amen.

Be hungrier, which truly is healthier especially for diabetics and
other heart disease patients:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/9642aafa0aad16eb?

Marana tha

Prayerfully in the awesome name of our Messiah, LORD Jesus Christ,

Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Board-certified Cardiologist
and Author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/f882137d4e2858d8?

I'm overweight because I am diabetic. I am not diabetic
because I am overweight.

You have to remember also that eating is a survival
strategy, not entirely a matter of choice. Now that
my heart is pumping better and I have more energy I
am losing weight, though I doubt I'll ever again
achieve my ideal weight.

I'm not making excuses, just providing food for thought.

This is the article from the above site

The Physics Diet



Want to lose weight? Easy! Just remember the first law of thermodynamics:
conservation of energy.



by Richard A. Muller

Technology for Presidents

November 14, 2003



Here's an old joke. The dairy industry hires a physicist to improve milk
production. After several weeks, he's ready to lecture about his progress. He
draws a circle on the blackboard and says, 'Consider a spherical cow.'



I've told this joke many times, but nobody ever laughs -- except other
physicists. For the rest of you, I should explain that it is self-deprecating
humor. It makes fun of our penchant for oversimplification.



This month I want to talk about diet and exercise for weight loss, and I'm
going to oversimplify on purpose. Consider a spherical physicist.



Most dieters are so concerned about second-order effects, such as daily
fluctuations in weight and changes in metabolism, that they lose track of the
first law of thermodynamics: conservation of energy.



Want to lose a pound of fat? You can work it off by hiking to the top of a
2,500-story building. Or by running 60 miles. Or by spending 7 hours cleaning
animal stalls. (It is amazing what scientists have actually measured. This
last example is tabulated in the book Exercise Physiology by G. Brooks and T.
Fahey.)



Exercise is a very difficult way to lose weight. Here's a rule of thumb:
exercise very hard for one hour (swimming, running, or racquetball)­ and
you'll lose about one ounce of fat. Light exercise for an hour (gardening,
baseball, or golf) will lose you a third of an ounce.  That number is small
because fat is a very energy-dense substance: it packs about 4,000 food
calories per pound, the same as gasoline, and 15 times as much as in TNT.



If you run for an hour, you'll lose that ounce of fat and also a pound or two
of water. By the next day, when you've replenished the water, you might
think, 'the weight came right back!' But you'd be wrong -- you really did
lose an ounce. It is hard to notice, unless you keep running every day for a
month or more, and don't reward yourself after each run with a cookie.



There is a much easier way to lose weight, as we can learn from the first law
of thermodynamics. Eat less.



A reasonable daily diet for an adult is 2,000 food calories. That's 8.36
megajoules per day, or about 100 joules per second -- in other words, 100
watts.  Most of that ends up as heat, so you warm a room as much as a bright
light bulb. Cut your consumption by 600 calories per day and you'll lose a
pound of fat every week. Most diet experts consider that a reasonable goal.
Don't drop below 1,000 calories per day, or you might get lethargic. But at
1,400 calories per day, you can easily maintain an active life.



Of course, there is a catch. You'll be hungry.



It's not real hunger­not like the painful hunger of starving people in
impoverished countries. It's more of a mild ache, or an itch that you mustn't
scratch. To be popular, a diet must somehow cope with this hunger. Weight
Watchers does it with peer support. The food pyramid does it by encouraging
you to eat unlimited celery. Some high-fat diets satisfy all your old
cravings -- and figure you'll eventually cut back the butter you put on your
bacon.



Last April, I had once again grown out of my belt. I wasn't grossly
overweight: 205 pounds in a six-foot, one-inch body.  That wouldn't be bad
for a football player, but I'm 59 years old, and the excess pounds weren't in
muscle. I had gained a pound a year for several decades. I felt heavy and
old. I decided to try conservation of energy. I gave up lunch and snacks.



How to cope with the hunger? I attempted to enjoy it. I thought of the movie
Lawrence of Arabia, in which T.E. Lawrence says, 'The trick is not minding
that it hurts.' I told myself that the mild ache was only the sensation of
evaporating fat. That interpretation has some basis in physics. When you lose
weight, most of your fat is converted to the gases carbon dioxide and water
vapor, and so you get rid of fat by breathing it out of your body.



Physics works, and I lost weight. By August, I was down to 175 pounds, a
30-pound drop. My belt went from 42 inches to 36 inches.  My Zen-like
approach to hunger also worked; I found myself declining offers of chocolate
cake because I didn't want to lose the sensation of evaporation. I didn't
change my level of activity, and managed to maintain my diet while taking
trips to Cuba and Alaska -- and during  a week-long backpacking excursion in
the Sierra Nevada. A key innovation: I kept up the social aspects of lunch,
without eating. I watched others gobbling cheeseburgers, while I sipped diet
cola. It really wasn't that hard to do. And the mild afternoon discomfort was
compensated by several positive developments. Dinner became truly wonderful.
I hadn't had pre-dinner hunger for decades. A sharp appetite turns a meal
into a feast. No more cheese 'appetizers' for me.



Moreover -- and this may sound silly coming from a physicist -- I was
surprised that I began to feel lighter. I no longer walk down streets -- I
float. Distant stores seem closer. And my knees have responded to the lighter
load. Their aching, which I had mistakenly attributed to aging, went away.



Food is instant gratification. And fast-food chains and gourmet restaurants
serve tasty food at remarkably low cost. It is a situation unprecedented in
history and unanticipated by our genes. No wonder we are overweight.



Anybody can lose weight. Energy is conserved. Just stop scratching that itch.
Of course, you'll have to sacrifice instant gratification. Is it worth it?
You decide. Food is delicious and cheap. You might reasonably choose to take
advantage of this unique historical circumstance, and decide to be fat.



It's been seven months since I started my diet, and two months since I left
it. I've begun eating a light lunch, and having an occasional small snack.
I'm still at 175. But I never want to lose the delicious edge of hunger
before dinner, or the floating sensation when I walk. Moving takes less
energy now, so I have more energy. I no longer feel like a spherical
physicist. And for losing weight, dieting sure beats cleaning animal stalls.









-------------------

Richard A. Muller, a 1982 MacArthur Fellow, is a physics professor at the
University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches a course called 'Physics
for Future Presidents.' Since 1972, he has been a Jason consultant on U.S.
national security

Will do, thx.