At 07:39 PM 05/23/2000 -0400, you wrote:

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>They gave out free food at the event---apples and bananas (great choice!!),
>white flour bagels (ugh!) and CHERRIOS (sponsorship is everything!!),
>candies at one booth (on cholesterol evils and blood lips) and some
>refeined, packaged, white little crackers that looked like what I got many,
>many years ago with fish chowder in restaurants.

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>Rachel

Reminds me of one time when I attended an Hispanic-oriented event here in
Albuquerque (keeping in mind that most "hispanics" here are Native Americans
and Mexicans). Most of the booths and many of the resulting give-away samples
revolved around: beer, cigarettes, cars, and disposable diapers... and the
food
booths featured typical "Mexican" food made with tortillas (mostly wheat
flour)
(me, I prefer corn the rare times I eat anything with a tortilla), fajitas
(with the meat fried in... what? lotsa canola and soy out there), curly fries,
green and/or red chili, and more beer. And no Hispanic-rights people were out
protesting any of this. Strangest thing.

Oh, and in reference to Native Americans and high rates of diabetes, a recent
local TV news article featured a Native (Laguna Pueblo, I think) woman who was
concerned about overweight and diabetes among NAs and that she is encouraging
everyone to exercise more.

Debby
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in Albuquerque
who should exercise more, too...