In a message dated 4/19/01 7:18:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< Anyway, he goes to the clinic.  He's off all meds within days.  These
 included heart and diabetes meds, a laundry list of disease-sustaining
 pharmacueticals.  In just a few months, everything was back to normal. He's
 now healthy as a horse, does several games of golf in a week.

 Doctors and John Q. Public simply cannot grasp the idea that the effects of
 insulin go far beyond the digestive tract and the waistline, that they also
 play a role in heart disease.  It will be a long time before they wake up
 and smell the coffee.  Until then, it's just more drugs.
  >>

Isn't this the truth......... I guess what's really driving this is the
pharmaceutical industry. Doctors these days are really just agents for the
drug companies. There is so much money to be made from the latest wonder
drug, and there is absolutely no money to be made from healthy people.

The Economist magazine did a piece on the economic gain to the economy of
obesity. All the overproduction of food, the fast food restaurants, the
$200,000 a year heart surgeons, the drug industry, etc., all add to the GNP.
It is actually in the country's economic interest to continue like this. This
is the perverse effect of economics.

However, it may be self correcting. Nature has a way of taking care of
things. I am told that we may start seeing heart attacks occurring in 20 year
olds, because of rising obesity in children. In which case they won't
reproduce, so they will die out.

Charles
San Diego, CA