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. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
