Monday, July 18

Another Taboo Word

In You Can Relax About Food and Eat What You Want, diet skeptic Sandy Szwarc reports on a study "that found the greatest improvements are among women who don't diet." Maybe so. I've repeatedly heard that diets don't work.

The weird thing she mentioned is "nondieters, by learning the joys of movement separate from an 'exercise' or weight loss regimen, had nearly quadrupled their physical activity."

I can't believe that one can't can't utter the word "exercise" without apparently causing some kind of crisis in people who dislike to move, and that one has to teach them "the joys of movement" disconnected from this fearsome "exercise" to get them to get off their butts. So I guess "exercise" is going to become another taboo word.

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