Fighting Obesity -- Round 3
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Today is April 1, 2005. In many countries, this is called April Fools' Day, a day when one can behave foolishly, even falsely, and possibly get by with it. Hmmm.
Harking back to our hugely controversial Holiday Satire in which we told people to stop eating to prevent obesity, I decided that April 1 would be a fitting date to close Round 3 of our obesity triad. Yesterday, MedGenMed published a klatch of serious, fresh letters detailing several aspects of obesity not dealt with here before.
Today we publish 5 more letters so that you, the reader, may have the opportunity to consider whether or not these are serious. The first letter says that humor is important, even in medicine, and that MedGenMed should publish more humor. The second sounds like a recurring theme that overeating is yet another form of addiction. An author without a name touts the virtues of Alcoholics Anony . . . -- uuhh -- Overeaters Anonymous. A doctor in Tennessee describes his success with controlling obesity by the click-a-chew technique. A California doctor describes how locking the food cabinet did the trick for his family. Finally, a Bemidji, Minnesota, doctor remembers a 100% successful, cheap, and safe Navy medical method of eliminating obesity. Five April Fools' Day letters. You decide which to believe. That's my opinion. I'm Dr. George Lundberg, Editor of MedGenMed .
P.S. The interest shown by authors and readers in clinical nutrition and obesity has been so great that we plan to begin an eSection in MedGenMed just for them. And that's not a joke.
Readers are encouraged to respond for the editor's eye only or for consideration for publication via email: glundberg@medscape.net . Please include the title of the Webcast Video Editorial that you are responding to in the subject line of your email.
This feature requires the newest version of Flash. You can download it here.
Today is April 1, 2005. In many countries, this is called April Fools' Day, a day when one can behave foolishly, even falsely, and possibly get by with it. Hmmm.
Harking back to our hugely controversial Holiday Satire in which we told people to stop eating to prevent obesity, I decided that April 1 would be a fitting date to close Round 3 of our obesity triad. Yesterday, MedGenMed published a klatch of serious, fresh letters detailing several aspects of obesity not dealt with here before.
Today we publish 5 more letters so that you, the reader, may have the opportunity to consider whether or not these are serious. The first letter says that humor is important, even in medicine, and that MedGenMed should publish more humor. The second sounds like a recurring theme that overeating is yet another form of addiction. An author without a name touts the virtues of Alcoholics Anony . . . -- uuhh -- Overeaters Anonymous. A doctor in Tennessee describes his success with controlling obesity by the click-a-chew technique. A California doctor describes how locking the food cabinet did the trick for his family. Finally, a Bemidji, Minnesota, doctor remembers a 100% successful, cheap, and safe Navy medical method of eliminating obesity. Five April Fools' Day letters. You decide which to believe. That's my opinion. I'm Dr. George Lundberg, Editor of MedGenMed .
P.S. The interest shown by authors and readers in clinical nutrition and obesity has been so great that we plan to begin an eSection in MedGenMed just for them. And that's not a joke.
Readers are encouraged to respond for the editor's eye only or for consideration for publication via email: glundberg@medscape.net . Please include the title of the Webcast Video Editorial that you are responding to in the subject line of your email.