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echo: anything_goes
to: Cindy Haglund
from: George Pope
date: 2006-02-14 18:23:08
subject: Hot Air Balloons

CH>  CH> Exactly my point George. But then it's the way the word is misused
CH>  CH> too.
CH>  CH> "Diet" is supposed to mean 'the way you eat'
rather than 'cutting down
CH>  CH> on intake; eating less'. But then this is how it is misused.
CH>
CH>  GP> Except, if you are making a PLAN to cut down on intake & eat less,
CH>  GP> that is legitimately called a "diet", too!
CH>
CH>  Nod but a 'diet' can also mean 'the way I eat to maintain my weight
CH>  loss :) Once 'diet' becomes habit, perhaps it's not a 'diet' anymore
CH>  but rather simply the way we eat.

Right -- it means "a food regimen"; thus a football player or
boxer trying to
INCREASE his weight is on a diet, too!

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