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Losing Weight

Posted Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1998, at 5:24 PM ET

I too was encouraged to find godliness and portliness running together. I read the story, though, and found that actually the study probably meant nothing. That's the trouble with these studies; it's like trying to pick up BS with a fielder's mitt. The subjects were broken down by states Michigan, Mississippi and Indiana had the highest density of tubalubs and also the populations with citizens most likely to have a religious affiliation. Hawaii, Massachusetts and Colorado had the least number of people with religious affiliation and the least number of fatsters. But isn't it possible to be religious and have not affiliation? Or to have an affiliation and no religion. You know the slogan: Nearest to church; farthest from God.

I should know on account of I go to church regularly.

The hot food story was the one about food desire and memory. They took people with severe amnesia, fed them lunch, turned around and fed them lunch again. And again. The amnesiacs kept right on eating. I wonder if I'm an amnesiac.

Remember the Quizzac, the fat lazy person you and I invented?

He his favorite line of poetry: "They also serve who only stand and wait." His prayer: "Give us this day our daily bread!"

His maxim: "An apple a day is not nearly enough."

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from: Benjamin Cheever

Losing Weight

Posted Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1998, at 5:24 PM ET
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Benjamin Cheever is a novelist and author of the forthcoming Famous After Death. Susan Cheever is a teacher, columnist, and writer. Her memoir, Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker, is forthcoming. They are siblings.
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