diet books, was more on man the hunted if you're interested

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At 2:46 PM -0700 9/11/07, fraggle wrote:

....i mean...i could come up with a diet that said " people would blue

eyes should eat cranberries because of of the lightness of their eyes

and the reflective qualities there of "

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....and I'd bet you could sell lots of copies of an " eye color

correlated to what type of berries you need to eat " diet.

 

The market for " diet " books is wacky. I think people are looking for

authorities to tell them what they want to hear, or how to

rationalize what they are doing, and it doesn't matter whether the

info is reality-based.

 

Reminds me of the psychologist who divided students into 2 groups,

those with blue and brown eyes, and attributed different qualities to

each. Result was that behavior changed based on expectations -- in

extreme ways.

 

Lesson: don't discount the power of beliefs and expectations -- often

more powerful than any other factor.

 

Rambling...