gwern comments on The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet

[gwern]

(In Italian we have a phrase falso magro lit. ‘false lean [person]’ for people who weigh less than one would guess by looking at them.)

But… wouldn’t that make them truly lean? Or falsely fat?

[A1987dM]

Dammit… I meant “more than one would guess”. Fixed.