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On Tuesday 11 October 2011 00:19:08 Adam Carter wrote: |
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> > Have you ever wondered why the blooming of obesity has coincided with |
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> > the popularity of the low-fat diet? |
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> Correlation implies causation? |
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No, of course not, but it certainly makes me pretty suspicious. |
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> Perhaps the blooming of obesity caused people to start looking for new |
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> diets to address the issue. |
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Could be, but I'd prefer to believe it was, and is, indoctrination by Those |
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Who Know. There's a whole industry devoted to perpetuating the myth of the |
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low-fat diet. You can get volumes of evidence from Atkins's books. |
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Rgds |
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Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23 |
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