From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 19:54:07 MDT
On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 06:23:09PM -0400, gts wrote:
> reached epidemic proportions. Something is very wrong, and you can be very
> sure that the dairy and grain industries are not going to help us identify
> the problem. In fact they will fight very hard through their lobbyists to
Don't many Europeans, e.g. the French, eat diets rich in dairy and grain
products? I know they're thinner than Americans and their life expectancy is
fine, how's their diseases like strokes and heart attacks?
Of course they do eat their veggies, and there's that red wine thing, and they
don't eat a lot... of course alcohol isn't part of the paleodiet either.
_Food Politics_ made the point that American farmers are rather
overproductive, and their basic interests, their 'honne' to steal a word from
a book on Japan I'm reading, is to get people to eat more. When 3800 calories
per American are being produced... so there's a lot of political resistance
to the gov't ever saying anything as explicit as "eat less", instead it's all
"in moderation" and "part of a balanced diet". Never never "Eat less you
pigs".
-xx- Damien X-)
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