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To: carranza2 who wrote (33022)	4/13/2008 2:00:41 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 217713

That's why the beef industry began corn feeding cattle prior to slaughter in the 1800s, it made the beef taste better and was sold as a premium product. The same reason farmers began cross-breeding plants 5,000 years ago to develop better tasting fruits and vegetables. The problem is that better taste is not always synonymous with healthier. Worse still, it's far from clear what healthy is. Many long believed that eating cholesterol created high cholesterol levels and heart disease. My Granddad was a Doctor and claimed they were wrong, instead the cause was sugar and high carbohydrate diets. In fact the mainstream of science has now nearly agreed on this point. The study published last month of Zetia, a drug which reduces cholesterol absorption, with a statin compared with a statin alone makes this point more obvious. Although adding Zetia does reduce blood levels of cholesterol, it does not reduce arterial plaguing and heart disease. So what is healthy is often little more than a fad. .

To: carranza2 who wrote (33022)	4/13/2008 2:00:42 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 217713

That's why the beef industry began corn feeding cattle prior to slaughter in the 1800s, it made the beef taste better and was sold as a premium product. The same reason farmers began cross-breeding plants 5,000 years ago to develop better tasting fruits and vegetables. The problem is that better taste is not always synonymous with healthier. Worse still, it's far from clear what healthy is. Many long believed that eating cholesterol created high cholesterol levels and heart disease. My Granddad was a Doctor and claimed they were wrong, instead the cause was sugar and high carbohydrate diets. In fact the mainstream of science has now nearly agreed on this point. The study published last month of Zetia, a drug which reduces cholesterol absorption, with a statin compared with a statin alone makes this point more obvious. Although adding Zetia does reduce blood levels of cholesterol, it does not reduce arterial plaguing and heart disease. So what is healthy is often little more than a fad. .

To: carranza2 who wrote (33022)	4/13/2008 5:42:26 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217713

21 years ago system was crumbling. “Unemployment is observed to be at historically high rates in almost all the advanced countries of the world. Yet economics and economists in these countries have been able to offer very little in the way of explanations which are either convincing or even satisfying to laymen about the origins or the cures of this phenomenon.” Simpson David, Love Jim, Walker Jim, 1987, The Challenge of New Technology, Brighton, Wheatsheaf Books Ltd. I saw it clearly that countries would shrink. Regardless this shrinkage is an unreversible trend, developed countries try to, artificially, stick to their actual size. Rapid economic change invariably means disruption to sectors and geographic regions bringing about political pressures to alleviate pains of adjustment; there are congenial tendencies in our economic institutions and political processes to slow things down, to seek breathing time, and to retard the pace of structural change through measures that shield disrupted enterprises or industrial sectors from global forces of change. Industrialized countries artificially try to keep their share of world’s wealth by protectionism, non-tariff barriers etc." Clinton's strong dollar, tech bubble, printing com gusto, creating conditons for 'capital flights' to fleece the countries with lousy economic policies. Those were all artificial means of keeping what cannot be kept. What people see today, is the results of two decades of mismanagement of wealth. I saw and studied that 20 years ago and have been ever since, monitoring.