[Osx-nutters] *Big* government

[Henry McGilton]

On Aug 28, 2007, at 9:21 PM, mmalc crawford wrote:

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> On Aug 28, 2007, at 9:17 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote:
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>> I'd love to see the studies you allude to.
>>
> It's a really simple formula:
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> 	<http://www.mypyramid.gov/steps/stepstoahealthierweight.html>
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> (Hint: "You will lose weight when the calories you eat and drink are
> less than the calories you burn.")


The September edition of Scientific American is devoted to
issues of nutrition, weight gain or loss, obesity, and such.
One of the researchers in one of the articles presciently and
succinctly (fore)echoed Malcolm's reference from above:

         'Eat Less, Move More'.

That's about all there is to the equation.

Maybe ten years ago, Barrons magazine carried an article on the
'fat' problem.    Their findings: 'the American 'food' processing
industry churns out 4,000 calories per day for every person in
the country (the Disgruntled States of America)'.    When I read
that article, my immediate reaction was, 'hmmmm . . . somebody
somewhere is eating my share' . . .

On the High Fructose Corn Syrup issue, I recommend anybody
really interested to read 'The Omnivore's Dilemma' by
Michael Pollan.

The first part of his book illustrates the Industrialisation
of Food Production in the USA.    This shows how the entire
American 'food' industry has devolved to a two-pronged base of
corn and soy.

The second part is somewhat disturbing, namely, the
Industrialisation of *Organic* Food Production in the USA.
But as you follow his logic, and --- if you think through the
logic yourself, you can't really come to any other conclusion.
The item that caught my eye in that section of his book was
a product label 'Organic High Fructose Corn Syrup'.

Sorry for the long ramble.

     Cheers,
         ........  Henry


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