On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:42:11 -0600, Robert Kesterson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>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.

That's certainly true.   But I'm not referring to any "conspiracy" by
agribusiness, just normal business operating procedure - like sponsoring the
Registered Dietitians organization, and sending people to conferences in places
like Honolulu and Cancun...