In a message dated 9/18/00 10:35:48 AM, Dori Zook <[log in to unmask]
writes:

<< Check it out.  The nutritionist quoted refers to increases in sugar
and
fat,
then blames it on the fat.  I learned in eighth grade science at a
three-room schoolhouse* that starch turns to sugar.  When will people
catch
a clue?

Dori Zook
Denver, CO

http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/
000916/world/afp/Obesity_becoming_a_worldwide_crisis.html  >>

The irony is in the name of one of the *nutritionists* quoted in the
article-

<< To avert a modern worldwide epidemic, Atkinson suggests smaller
food
portions, fewer fats and sugars and more exercise. >>   LOL!!!

Maddy Mason
Hudson Valley, NY