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I ♥ Junkfood Science.

How we've come to believe that overeating causes obesity, in which the blogger talks about the Minnesota Starvation Study.  It is fascinating.

In the years following this classic study, Dr. Keys put no stock in weight loss diets or height-and-weight charts. He called those charts “arm-chair concoctions starting with questionable assumptions and ending with three sets of standards for 'body frames' which were never measured or even properly defined.” And “diet fads are for the birds, if you don’t like birds,” he said in a 1979 University of Minnesota Update. He also noted diets such as those promoted by Adele Davis, based on natural foods and fears about processed foods, are “just full of hogwash.” There’s “no great sense to them at all.”

You should go read about the experiment.  It's worlds away from what I see nowadays, wrt diet and so forth.

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Question:

What's the purpose of Outlook's Journal?

I mean, I'm looking at the about page... is it like one place to track records from the other places?  So I wouldn't have to look at Tasks and Calendar to see events/tasks for a certain day?

Weird.