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Hotel maids challenge the placebo effect
- Alex3917 19y agoAnother interesting finding: You gain less weight if you liquefy your food in a blender than you would eating the same quantity of that food prepared normally. Your body absorbs less calories because it doesn't taste as good. There was a good writeup of this in Emotional Intelligence, and the people who advocate the Shangri La diet mention it in a lot of their writing as well.
- byrneseyeview 19y ago"The researchers say that it holds promise for mind set related weight loss. However, since you now know about the study, it'll never apply to you. Sorry. " http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2007/03/030207.html http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2007/03/030207.html
- derefr 19y agoI don't know about that. Whenever I take aspirin, I feel the effect of it immediately, well aware that it hasn't had the time required to enter my bloodstream. I once even repeated the words "placebo effect, placebo effect" aloud as my headache vanished.
- aston 19y agoSimilar effect to what Guy Kawasaki's highlighted: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/12/how-to-not-chok.html http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/12/how-to-not-chok.html
- BrandonM 19y agoFor example, Brody notes one study where researchers gave asthmatic patients a drug that actually makes asthma worse. When they gave the drug to the patients, they told them that it relieves asthma. Nice, just nice. Remind me never to participate in a research study.
- michaelneale 19y agoyeah that is just mean.
- terpua 19y agogreat find dood
- michaelneale 19y agoOR, alternatively, the US Surgeon General's advice is not really that great, and/or the minimum wage working poor maids can't possibly eat healthy in their money and time poor lifestyles.
- philh 19y agoThat doesn't explain why one group lost weight and the other didn't.