In a message dated 4/24/01 3:11:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< The quality of women's diets improved overall, marked by lower intakes of
 butter, bacon, RED MEAT*, margarine and saturated fat. Hispanic and
 non-Hispanic white women, but not black women, ate less cholesterol and
 total fat, findings show....
  >>
Hard to see how this is an "improvement". The only thing wrong there is the
margarine. They will be eating more carbo, if they've reduced their fat
intake. I'll bet they are putting on weight. Why doesn't somebody figure out
how Spanish women eat?

Charles
San Diego, CA