Posted by mongol at 141.242.7.4 on July 05, 2001 at 23:37:40:
In Reply to: Not to be all AMWAY... posted by Darth Dobbin on July 05, 2001 at 23:25:21:
Actually, as I write a fitness column, I looked into the Atkins diet and while I have seen a few folks with great results on this diet plan put the additional protien is a lot for your body to deal with. Protien is an extremely complex molecule and it requires a great deal of work for the body to do so (sometimes the body gives up resulting in the starved look of folks whose bodies just give up on finding needed nutrients in food taken in but looks to itself in canablistic effort at self preservation). I don't advocate the diet as the agressive intake of protien can in fact lead to renal faliure when the diet is abused. A lifetime on dialysis is a high price for a trim girlish figure.
I an a good sized guy but I am healthy. As long as folks are throwing sizes out though, my waist size varies from 36 to 40 depending on the cut of the pant. While not huge, it's a good size but no exactlly mammoth.
I want to say though, that was great thing that you did for your pal and I'm sure that you keep an eye out for him as you have in the past. He's lucky to have a pal like you (I honestly didn't mean for that to sound sarcastic if it did).
Mongol