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July 16, 2002
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Fat doesn't make you fat after all!
Brian Micklethwait (London)  Opinions on liberty

This is just to get the hang of the new blogging procedures, which Perry is demonstrating to me right here, right now.

But this is a great story, from yesterday's Times (T2 – Monday July 15 – sorry, The Times is unlinkable these days). It turns out that all the medical advice we've all been deluged with over the last half century about not eating fatty foods could be the reason why so many people have recently become so very, very fat. It works like this. Fat doesn't make you all that fat, but it does make you feel full. As a result, if you don't eat any fat, you don't feel full, and you do eat more of the stuff (carbohydrates etc.) that do make you fat. Ergo … Classic.

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