On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 01:03:05 EST, Gawen Harrison <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> [From AP story]
>They recommend consuming no more than 30 percent of calories as fat,
limiting
>protein to about 20 percent of the diet and consuming more fruits,
vegetables
>and complex carbohydrates to help satisfy hunger with fewer calories.

>``Based on the scientific knowledge we have, this seems to be the most
>efficacious way to go and it is most likely the safest,'' the Post quoted
>Xavier Pi-Sunyer, director of the obesity research center at St.
>Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York and editor of Obesity Research, which
>will publish the full USDA study in the March-April issue.

  Bio ->  http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/obesectr/NYORC/pi-sunyer.htm

  Org ->  http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/obesectr/NYORC/index.html

  Email -> http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/obesectr/NYORC/contactus.html

Wonder if they would respond :-) ?


Philip Thrift
http://www.paleofitness.com