I went to Safeway yesterday and there was a woman with a table set up
pushing a new ice cream that is low fat, with only a tiny percent of fat.
She was also pushing cookies and candy bars, all "low fat" and "healthy."

At 08:15 AM 7/22/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Corbie et al,
>
>I tend to agree with Troy.  I'd rather think like you, but it gets more and
>more difficult to do so.  Especially with pharmaceutical companies like
>Roche releasing new drugs like Xenicol.  To kick off the release of the
>drug, they sent their entire sales force to Disneyworld for a week.  That's
>got to be pretty expensive.  They are banking on serious profit.  (Do you
>know that once someone starts using Xenicol for weight loss, to maintain
>that loss they must continue taking Xenicol for life?)
>
>I find it impossible to believe that pharmaceutical companies are ignorant
>enough of the workings of the human body to still think that low-fat is
>correct.  Doctors, perhaps; mostly they probably just read the studies
>funded by the groups who stand to profit from maintaining the status quo,
>to use Troy's term.  Drug companies, no way.  But there is no profit in
>low-carb.  And after some of the stories I've heard in recent years about
>lobbyists and government, I have no trouble at all picturing a scenario
>that just 8 months ago (before I heard of low-carb and paleolithic
>nutrition) would have sounded like a nutty conspiracy theory to me.  (A few
>months ago, the FDA recommended adding another serving of grains to the
>daily intake.  The study upon which they based this decision was funded by
>the Denver Wheat Growers' Council.)
>
>If you think that it's nuts that a pharmaceutical company would be involved
>in such things, think about the tobacco companies.  How long have they
>known they were killing Americans?  (and everyone else they could get, for
>that matter?)  How long has the government known they were killing people?
> Why did it continue unabated for so long.  Pressure and re-election
>campaign money from tobacco company lobbyists.  I truly believe that in 5,
>10, or 20 years, there will be a similar debacle with the government, the
>AMA, and the pharmaceutical companies all being involved in lawsuits, etc.,
>because of holding back on this information.
>
>Take care,
>John Pavao
>
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>At 11:49 AM 7/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>The media make money from advertisers. Nearly half of television
>>advertising, for example, is paid for by producers of low-fat,
>>carbohydrate-rich foodstuffs.
>>
>>And what would pharmaceutical companies and doctors do if autoimmune
>>disease was drastically reduced through a massive shift to
>>low-carbohydrate/Paleolithic eating?
>>
>>A lot of people have a lot to gain from maintaining the status-quo
>>common wisdom of the low-fat diet.
>>
>>Troy Gilchrist <[log in to unmask]>
>>Co-author, NEANDERTHIN: A CAVEMAN'S GUIDE TO NUTRITION
>
>I doubt the media is influenced by low-fat diet via advertising dollars;
>it's more likely that they're just as brainwashed as the rest of society by
>the prevailing medical orthodoxy.  Maybe more so, since many media
>personalities are obsessed by personal appearance (a job hazard).
>
>The low-fat regime is a self-perpetuating problem.  I doubt that there's a
>vast conspiracy by pharmaceuticals to perpetuate disease by promoting
>high-carb diets.  It's most likely that they're also caught up in the same
>paradigm, and it's only as low-carb succeeds as a grass-roots movement that
>things will change.
>
>Corbie
>
>