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

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