Zero Powers wrote:
>
> >From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
> >
> >Zero Powers wrote:
> > >
> > > >From: "Cynthia" <cyn386@flash.net>
> > > >
> > > >----- Original Message -----
> > > >From: Michael S. Lorrey <mike@datamann.com>
> > > >
> > > > > Its not as if the entire US population suddenly mutated in the last
> >two
> > > >decades
> > > > > separate from the rest of humanity. There are significant reasons
> >why
> > > >the
> > > >average
> > > > > weight and rate of obesity is so high here, and its not medical.
> >Part of
> > > >its
> > > >the
> > > > > corn-fed diet, part is that Americans watch more TV than anyone
> >else,
> > > >and we
> > > >get the
> > > > > least exercise.
> > > >
> > > >I am convinced that corn is very bad, and I have thrown out my pop corn
> > > >maker.
> > >
> > > Are you serious? (Sometimes irony is hard to pick up over e-mail.) If
> >you
> > > are serious, what's so bad about popcorn? I eat the stuff literally
> >every
> > > day.
> > >
> >
> >Let me tell you a true story. When I was in the Air Force, I was first
> >stationed at McChord AFB outside Tacoma, WA, which is right next door to
> >Fort Lewis. A lot of the guys in my unit would go over to the army base
> >to go to the NCO club, called the Madigan Club, as they had great
> >dancing and music, and didn't get the Tacoma gang banger element that so
> >many other clubs in the area had to deal with (violence on a regular
> >basis). A lot of army guys I knew would go to the club with their wives,
> >many of whome were immigrants from Korea or the Phillipines. It was
> >rather sad to see these girls, who were raised on a
> >rice/pork/chicken/fish diet their whole lives, and were quite petite and
> >beautiful, plump up in mere months as they shifted their diet to the
> >standard american processed corn, sugar coated, diet, to become as wide
> >as they were tall....
>
> No question the typical American diet is bad. But *popcorn*?
Eat celery instead.
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