I think telling people the truth about weight loss leaves them far better equipped to tackle the problem.
He is searching for the awkward truth, the "weight, texture and irreducible uniqueness of what he sees".
And he is telling anyone who asks that the truth about weight loss is that the medical and behavioral treatments that doctors can offer are usually ineffective.
But for investors on the outside, this pattern reflects the underlying truth of Weight Watchers International as a company and a stock.
The truth is that weight is a number; it's not a grade or an indicator of one's value.
"If they really worked, we'd be running out of dieters," said Glenn Gaesser, professor of exercise physiology at Arizona State University and author of "Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health".
The truth is, the weight I am now is the one I have been most often throughout my adult life and representative of how my body naturally exists, in a healthy state.
In truth though, the weight and warmth is all on the French side: the Polish woman is dying – it happens dramatically, mid-aria, on stage – and her spirit seems to somehow transmit itself to Paris and can live again, infecting her double with strange emotions and unexplained impulses.
"The first thing he should ask himself," Linda Bacon, author of "Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight," said when I asked for her input, "is whether she is comfortable with her body and with her relationship to food".
The truth is that weight extremes on either end are not healthy, and using rhetoric to cover up their real danger is not helping anyone.
