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
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