>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

For some reason conspiracy theories are found close on the tail of
idealistic diets. I've gotten so that it is like white noise, but it does
deserve a response, and yours was fine.

Cheers,
Kirt

Kirt Nieft / Melisa Secola
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