At 03:21 PM Thursday 5/24/2007, Alberto Monteiro wrote: >Nick Arnett wrote: > > > > By letting those who are to blame for their own illnesses just die? > > ;-) Seriously, though, I'd have a hard time differentiating personal > > from systemic causes for unhealthly lifestyles when there's so much effort > > invested in advocating them in advertising, marketing and so forth. > > People are social creatures; it's naive to imagine that some sort of > > "Just say no" mentality would make all those problems go away. I'm > > not saying you're making that argument, but I've certainly heard it. > > >There is a big part in parents responsability. Now (partly because >of economic pressure) I seldom bring my kids to unhealthy foodstores >like McDonalds, but even when I was less miserable the max was >1 MacDonalds per month. > >And there's a very Evil aspect of this: food with trans fat costs >_much_ less than a similar food without trans fat. If I were >paranoid, I would suggest that the reason is that Food Companies >and Medical Companies are owned by the same evil and greedy people.
Another possibility is that foods prepared with trans fats reportedly have a longer shelf-life than the same foods prepared without trans fats, making them cheaper to transport and stock because they do not require so much in the way of other preservation techniques and can be kept on the shelves longer without losses due to spoilage and so larger shipments can be made less often than would be required to keep fresh stock of more perishable foods on the shelves, which could cut down on transportation costs . . . -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
