A letter containing harmful advice remains in my memory from when I first saw it years ago in a women's magazine.

I remember years ago reading one of those women's magazines that gives dieting advice and on the Letters Page seeing a letter containing what I now realise was very dangerous advice, though it was innocently given. The advice registered in my memory because it was expressed in a highly original way.

The letter said words to the effect that when you are dieting by reducing calories and you inevitably experience a feeling of emptiness, you must not think of it as your body's way of telling you that you are hungry. You must think of it instead as your body's way of telling you that you are getting slimmer!

How wrong that letter was! - I wonder how many readers were damaged by that very foolish, though well-intentioned advice.

A feeling of emptiness in your stomach is your body's way of telling you that you are hungry and that you need to eat!

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Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

And see Sodium in foods