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To: Jill who wrote (6777)	3/20/2005 4:22:01 PM
From: Vendit™	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 8752

Jill, Are you still mad at Terry for dressing up like your doorman and taking your IPOD last month? rokkorfiles.com <gg>

To: Jill who wrote (6777)	3/20/2005 4:37:59 PM
From: Walkingshadow	Respond to of 8752

<< it is a huge market >> If so, you would never know it by the growth of these companies over the last 5 or 6 years. The world is hardly beating a path to their doorway, and I can't see that changing much going forward. Sugar is not the biggest problem, that is a red herring that has been blown way, way out of proportion. You heard it here first---five years from now all the "low carb" diets will be as popular as buggy whips. The number two cause of global death and disability (yes, that includes developing nations that never even heard of a Big Mac) is cardiovascular disease. Within 10 or 15 years, it will be number one, according to WHO projections (infection is still #1; I don't know for sure where diabetes is on the list, but I suspect it is not even in the top 5). The vast majority of cardiovascular disease is fundamentally caused by atherosclerosis. Over a half-century of research beginning with the landmark Framingham studies have unquestionably established the close link of atherosclerosis to elevated total cholesterol, low HDL, and high LDL. The proof is in the pudding: one of the very few wildly successful drugs ever developed against heart disease has been statins, which of course favorably alter lipoprotein profiles. Even though they have other benefits, the evidence indicating benefit solely due to effects on lipids is unequivocal. There is no question that dietary habits are a strong determinant of lipid profiles, and that most nations consume far too much fat, particularly saturated fats. Developing nations are rapidly doing the same, and we have already seen what happens when a country that has a low or moderate incidence of cardiovascular disease shifts to a high-fat diet: Japan... China.... Korea.... Some of the apparent increased morbidity and mortality results from increased life expectancy, but when you adjust for this, the evidence is clear: high fat diets in any population are bad, bad news, with far worse repercussions than high carbohydrate diets. The extent of the impact varies somewhat with the population studied, but the fundamental conclusion does not. Admittedly, diet is not the only factor at work, but that is the one in question here. << at least we both like aapl >> I never met an iPod I didn't love. The only thing better than an iPod is an iPod with a Mini Mac. Disliking AAPL is like saying you hate mom and apple pie and the girl next door. Or.... disliking AAPL is like saying you love Bill Gates and M$haft and software that crashes regularly and is as nimble as the battleship New Jersey. <gggg> T