Re: The Gods Must Be Crazy/Satietrol

[Guest guest]

P.S. Almost forgot: with our newest find (thanks to member Suzie Cart)

which is Satietrol, you can curb your appetite and do CR without being

hungry.

on 8/23/2002 8:31 AM, Francesca Skelton at fskelton@... wrote:

> Janet: Welcome to de-lurkdom!! Here's good news for you!! You don't

> have to do CR. You can just eat a more healthy diet and reap benefits.

> That's the ON part of CRON. Have you read BT120YD? Dr W explains this.

> We say this in our file: " CR Made Easy " . You will no doubt also lose

> weight if you cut out the wrong foods. So eat all you want of healthy

> foods; don't go hungry; lost weight anyway!! That's the bonus!!

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> Please let us hear from you again.

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> on 8/23/2002 8:10 AM, birdsrfun@... at birdsrfun@... wrote:

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>> Hello

>> I am a lurker here with a BMI of 25.

>> I keep hoping for miracles for weight loss. Thirty years ago it was

>> announced that within two years they would have a product out that would

>> allow us to eat all we wanted and the fat would just slide through us! I

>> waited--a healthful product never happened. Hey, I am still waiting, it has

>> only been thirty years.

>> Now there was another announcement on TV a couple of weeks ago and I wonder

>> if any of you have heard about it. If it really may work as they say, I am

>> willing to wait another thirty years to get thin! Well, at least two years.

>> For those of you who have seen the wonderful movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy,

>> you can picture the little Bushman, AKA Sandmen, of the Kalahari Desert.

>> They were very thin, very energetic people who live on almost nothing. The

>> announcement on TV was that there is a plant these people eat to give them

>> the ability to run long distances (probably in search of food) with energy

>> and no hunger. The TV showed a dried up cactus type shrub.

>> There are many people interested in this and there is are several groups that

>> are trying to see that the Bushman benefit from it all. Pfizer, the drug

>> company is involved in this. I was ready to buy stock in the company and

>> could not believe their stock has actually gone down since this miraculous

>> announcement. It seems such an easy drug to work with and get to market. It

>> has been used for probably hundreds of years. Yet, I have heard nothing

>> further on it and it has been at least two months since the announcement!

>> Has anyone else heard of this? I am willing to wait for a miracle. Of

>> course with the snail's pace of science, maybe I had better become a CRon so

>> that I can live long enough to actually see some of the miracles they talk

>> about. I am in awe of the discipline you guys have. I don't think I could

>> do it, but you are giving me good ideas.

>>

>> Janet

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