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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: PROLIFE who wrote (507711)	12/11/2003 6:43:36 PM
From: geode00	of 769670

ABC News did a special on how agricultural subsidies add to the obesity problem. Funny how food industry spokesmen and government spokesmen with multiple chins flowing out over their neckties deny the connection. ROTFLMAO. Corn is so highly subsidized that high fructose corn syrup is in everything now as a filler and flavor enhancer. It's incredibly cheap and has even replaced the more expensive sugar. Fruits and veggies don't get the huge subsidies that corn (fed to livestock and ingested as things like Oreos) does. Even healthy foods like soybeans aren't being eaten as soybeans but are ingested as soybean oil. Last year nearly 3000 new food products came to market of which around 90% were highly processed, essentially junk foods. Only about 10% had any resemblance to fruits and veggies (mostly fruits in gelatin and stuff like that). Wow, the denial is amazing. We now ingest more corn in processed foods than in any other form. Atkins is right about one thing, in order to follow his eating plan, you have to buy from the edges of the supermarket. Everything in the middle is highly processed carbs.

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