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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
You Aren't What You Eat?
At least, you aren't necessarily what you eat. A new and disturbing study about to be published in a respected medical journal shows that women who ate healthy diets over a test period fared no better in avoiding cancer and other major illnesses than women who ate diets high in fats.No doubt the execs at McDonald's will welcome the news. They're bottom lines grow in direct relationship to the bottoms of Americans.
Who are we kidding? As the sage says, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Forty years ago, the genius cartoonist Jules Feiffer predicted (in inspired drawings) the future of America. "Barbarians" from the east will simply press their index fingers against our chests and our fat bodies will roll over backwards and keep going until we tumble into the sea.
As it looks to me now, they may not need to exert that much pressure.
Posted by:Lary Bloom at 7:40 AM
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