In article bxXGe.5979$r12.5870@trndny04,
George Patterson wrote:

Jim N. wrote:

Why is it that in American society we need the quick fix- gastroplasty and
other fat reducing surgery or diet pills rather than watching what we eat
and increasing our exercise? Why are our children the fattest in the world?

Because some decades back American health "authorities" came up with the idea
of
the "food triangle", and American companies started manufacturing stuff based
on
that model. When I was a kid, Italians were the heaviest people in the
western
world, and it was presented as fact that this was because their diet was
heavy
on starch and bread. What did people expect would happen when we adopted the
same model?

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.


Actually, it's called the "food pyramid," and it was (and continues to
be) created out of thin air by the DAIRY INDUSTRY in order to hoodwink
the American people (not a very difficult thing to do) into believing
that milk and milk products must constitute a major and necessary
component of our daily diet. The dairy industry is as crooked as any,
and lines the pockets of politicians from the president on down. There's
no one on any government nutrition panel that isn't nursing on the dairy
industry in a big way, and spitting up the result.