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To: thames_sider who wrote (2651)	3/14/2002 9:33:43 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Stil, I want to hear of someone who's done the former plan and had it work. Hmmm. There was some discussion a while back about the power or prayer and whether or not it was testable. This might be more easily testable. Someone should do a study. Weight loss would be the one thing that could make a believer out of me. Karen

To: thames_sider who wrote (2651)	3/14/2002 10:40:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Shamblin's program attracts many overweight Christian women because it does not focus on counting calories or eliminating favorite foods. If you get right with God, Shamblin says, you will lose weight. <<OK, this sounds testable. If that works it's surely miraculous.>> I don't find it miraculous. Because it doesn't say you don't have to cut calories and stop eating brownies and ice cream twice a day, if those happen to be your favorite foods. It says a different thing altogether. It says the program doesn't "focus" on those things. What it focuses, on, though, may very well give those unhappy people who resort to it certain emotional and psychological rewards, and accompanying brain-chemistry changes, that enable them to pass up the brownies without feeling miserable or desperate. So I buy it, at least theoretically.