Snowlight wrote:
> I take offense to such statements that obese individuals are eating pizza
> and donuts and claiming they cannot lose weight.  That was stereotyping!
> It's hard for you to have sympathy?  There is no "bottom line" when it
> comes to obesity, there are obese people who do not consume as many
> calories as you do, and they gain weight.  Since you have never been obese,
> I wonder how you think you can make such blanket statements.
> *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Please notice that James was writing about specific people whom he actually
saw eating this stuff. Also, his 'bottom line' statement, while probably
intended to state that these people overeat didn't actually say that.
It said:
> Bottom line, if a person is heavier
> than they want to be they eat more calories than they burn.
technically this is true, even if you are eating very little (because you
may have lowered your metabolism by dieting so much that you are burning
even less).

Ilya