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To: StockDung who wrote (9973)	6/7/2002 2:30:49 PM
From: Axxel	Respond to of 19428

My newsletters appear on a number of financial web sites...I have no monetary relationship with any of them at the moment or in the past. And I have no issues with anyone there. Read the disclaimers and ye shall learn...do not read the disclaimers and ye shall stay in the dark.

To: StockDung who wrote (9973)	6/8/2002 10:23:53 PM
From: Axxel	Respond to of 19428

Folic Acid Fortification Failure In Europe Lambasted The failure of European governments, including the United Kingdom, to fortify flour with folic acid has allowed a continuing epidemic of preventable human illness, according to an editorial in this week’s BMJ. Fortification could save as many lives as are lost each year in vehicle crashes, writes Professor Godfrey Oakley of Emory University in the United States. Yet in Europe, fortification has been delayed because of erroneous speculation of possible harm for elderly people. Recent evidence indicates that fortification improves the lives of adults, including elderly people, and that it is safe. In 1998 -- the year in which fortification was made mandatory in the United States -- deaths from stroke and heart attack declined by 3.4%. Although fortification of flour is long overdue in the United Kingdom and the remainder of Europe, the UK board of the Food Standards Agency recently decided against mandatory folic acid fortification. Ministers should not accept this recommendation, argues the author. Rather, they should follow the advice of the Department of Health committee on medical aspects of food and nutrition policy and require universal fortification of flour with folic acid. This prudent action would improve the health of children and adults. Rare is the opportunity to implement a sustainable, inexpensive, and effective intervention to prevent major human diseases, says the author. Folic acid fortification of flour is one of those rare opportunities. Governments that do not ensure that flour is fortified with folic acid are committing public health malpractice, he concludes. (Reference: Delaying folic acid fortification of flour BMJ Volume 324, pp 1348-9.) Related website: BMJ Editorials (Scroll down for the one on folic acid.) 07-Jun-2002

To: StockDung who wrote (9973)	6/8/2002 10:27:03 PM
From: Axxel	Respond to of 19428

If you think about it, that description characterizes most people – probably even you. You know a little bit about a lot of stuff, but for the most part you're clueless about the way most things actually work. Try to explain to someone how a computer functions or what makes plants green or how airplanes resist gravity. We take these things for granted with only a cursory knowledge of the underlying principles. We're all dullards when you come right down to it. But you also probably have intimate knowledge on something that intrigues you or something you collect or do. You know the lines from your favorite movie verbatim. You remember the statistics of every player on your favorite team. You excel at a certain sport. You're a master at what you do. It's what makes you unique. That's what the Internet is all about. The net is teeming with idiot savants, experts with home pages devoted to singular topics. Many argue that the Internet has fragmented society, but it has also brought people with similar interests together. You probably have more in common with a fellow Pez dispenser collector living in India that you e-mail or chat with on the net than you do with your own neighbor.