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