The Diet. Coming soon, already eliciting strong comments:

In answer to: …we who diet have a never ceasing obligation to those who starve–– Robert Kennedy

Scarlet wrote: The letters in the word "diet"can be made into more words such as "tie" , "edit", "id.", and :e.i." The word that can be made from "diet" is "die" which keeps me from dieting. We eat to live.

And Judy wrote: When I saw your email, I thought of: Instant Calorie Cutter. "Women unconsciously chow down on hundreds of calories while cooking meals," says dietitian Somer. "We finish our kids' scrambled eggs, taste the sauce not once but several times, grab a bite of last night's leftovers while rummaging through the fridge for tonight's meal, munch on a cookie while stirring the stir-fry!" The damage: You can put away as many calories from this form of nibbling as you would sitting down to a full meal. To discourage all that nibbling while satisfying the urge to munch, chew sugarless gum while you're cooking and cleaning up the kitchen. The calories saved could easily add up to a half-pound or more of weight loss a week.