Comments on: If You’re Fat, So are Your Friends? http://www.bloggernews.net/18916 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:22:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Prof. Mohamed Elhashemy http://www.bloggernews.net/18916#comment-66530 Prof. Mohamed Elhashemy Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:56:51 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/18916#comment-66530 The Luqaimat Training Technique (LTT) Create New Norms I don’t believe that a man can get obese only because he is a friend of another obese person away by 500 miles. The only possibility is that they both share the same TV stations and impressed by the same ads of fast foods. On the other hand, a family could gain weight if one of its members got daily huge excess food. In the same time, a family could lose weight if one of its members is under a good diet program. The weight increase in people is not related to the norms of the huge size of the other people, but it is related to the norms of the huge volume of meals they eat in front of each others. In Jan 2005, I innovated the Luqaimat Training Technique (LTT), and I found that when family members or friends of my obese patients saw those patients eating Luqaimat (which is the least amount of food required to sustain a person's energy) frequently and lost a substantial amount of their extra weight, they subconsciously followed the same norm; hence they also lost a good deal of weight. By training people to eat Luqaimat frequently, we can create new food-volume norms in the hippocampus region of the brain. This can be named: Hippocampul Neuroplasticity. The Luqaimat Training Technique (LTT) Create New Norms

I don’t believe that a man can get obese only because he is a friend of another obese person away by 500 miles. The only possibility is that they both share the same TV stations and impressed by the same ads of fast foods. On the other hand, a family could gain weight if one of its members got daily huge excess food. In the same time, a family could lose weight if one of its members is under a good diet program. The weight increase in people is not related to the norms of the huge size of the other people, but it is related to the norms of the huge volume of meals they eat in front of each others.

In Jan 2005, I innovated the Luqaimat Training Technique (LTT), and I found that when family members or friends of my obese patients saw those patients eating Luqaimat (which is the least amount of food required to sustain a person’s energy) frequently and lost a substantial amount of their extra weight, they subconsciously followed the same norm; hence they also lost a good deal of weight.

By training people to eat Luqaimat frequently, we can create new food-volume norms in the hippocampus region of the brain. This can be named: Hippocampul Neuroplasticity.

]]> By: Jennifer http://www.bloggernews.net/18916#comment-65484 Jennifer Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:26:14 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/18916#comment-65484 Yeah, just another reason to exclude people based on their physical appearance. You don't see this kind of study done today on african-american people (this study was probably de rigeur in the 40s and 50s though)! or people who have down's syndrome! Or ANY group that is different from the willowy "ideal" that we are all (women and men) supposed to be. If we all looked the same this would be one helluva boring place. This kind of study is exclusionist and biased - it's prejudice in it's purest form. Yeah, just another reason to exclude people based on their physical appearance. You don’t see this kind of study done today on african-american people (this study was probably de rigeur in the 40s and 50s though)! or people who have down’s syndrome! Or ANY group that is different from the willowy “ideal” that we are all (women and men) supposed to be. If we all looked the same this would be one helluva boring place. This kind of study is exclusionist and biased - it’s prejudice in it’s purest form.

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