On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 01:03:05 EST, Gawen Harrison <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > [From AP story] >They recommend consuming no more than 30 percent of calories as fat, limiting >protein to about 20 percent of the diet and consuming more fruits, vegetables >and complex carbohydrates to help satisfy hunger with fewer calories. >``Based on the scientific knowledge we have, this seems to be the most >efficacious way to go and it is most likely the safest,'' the Post quoted >Xavier Pi-Sunyer, director of the obesity research center at St. >Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York and editor of Obesity Research, which >will publish the full USDA study in the March-April issue. Bio -> http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/obesectr/NYORC/pi-sunyer.htm Org -> http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/obesectr/NYORC/index.html Email -> http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/obesectr/NYORC/contactus.html Wonder if they would respond :-) ? Philip Thrift http://www.paleofitness.com