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The Sixth Sensation in Quotes for Weight Loss

There is only one fat person on the Melanesian island of Kitava, a businessman who spends most of his time in modern urbanized New Guinea eating western food. In 1965 some scientists locked people in a room where they could only eat nutrient sludge dispensed from a machine. Even though the volunteers had no idea how many calories the nutrient sludge was, they ate exactly enough to maintain their normal weight. This proved that their bodies wanted in quotes to lose the excess weight and preferred to simply live off stored fat once removed from the overly rewarding food environment. After six months on the sludge, a man who weighed 400 pounds of the study the experiment was down to 200, without consciously

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