On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:47:46 -0600, Ken Stuart <[log in to unmask]>  
wrote:
>
> Educators - teachers and adminstrators - are just as brainwashed as  
> everyone else.  People are also resistant to believing that their  
> favorite foods are harmful - especially if they can take the path of  
> least resistance, which is believing that what has been conventional  
> wisdom for the last 30 years is still conventional wisdom.    And, many  
> of the critical people are paid off by
> agribusiness.

I don't think there's any grand conspiracy in agribusiness.  I think it's  
just a simple matter of not having more immediate proof of any harm being  
done by grains.  The vast majority of people can sit down to a meal of  
grains and legumes and not feel any ill effects at all.  Maybe it elevates  
their insulin level or blood pressure or puts more fat around their waist  
-- but these are not immediately noticeable effects.  So if I try to  
convince someone that grains are bad for their health, their immediate  
response that I'm out of my mind isn't based on brainwashing or  
conspiracy, it's simply a matter of their personal experience.  If eating  
a meal of grains made them throw up, or have abdominal pain, or some other  
acute symptom, the argument would be much simpler.  But it's much harder  
to convince people about things which take years or decades to show up.

-- 
   Robert Kesterson
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