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To: epicure who wrote (172981)	10/2/2011 6:23:33 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542937

The loophole that the junk food marketers exploit is that most of their target customers don't know what they don't know about nutrition and/or they really don't care much at all. I was fortunate to marry someone who didn't come from the US processed food tradition, and steered me in better directions over the years. I remember the story of a western AIDS expert who came to Lesotho. In his final report, he literally said that the Basotho were fucking themselves to death, compounding the dangerous virus with equally dangerous behavior (I'll spare you some of the gory details). That's the cultural norm, and seeing thousands die hasn't changed that. I don't think that food industry marketing will change until it stops working. And we've seen over the decades how content Americans are to eat themselves to death. Eating right is not more expensive if you shop carefully, and regular exercise is absolutely free in its most basic forms. People don't know or don't care to acknowledge and act on that. They buy the fatty crap and cheer themselves on.

To: epicure who wrote (172981)	10/2/2011 6:29:01 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542937

The kids are learning. Both of my kids are very careful about what they eat. I have never eaten a meal without thinking about it and have been pretty good over my life. I do cheat-lol. Vitamin D is turning out to be a big deal up here as until recently docs didn't know how many peopel were deficient and how important it is. Up here we have a pandemic of vitamin D deficiency. I got lucky in that I usually was outside exercising around noon, so I was getting what little there was, but it was by accident. It was my lunch time and I didn't used to know. My younger daughter is a vegetarian and organic "farmer". My other kid is just careful. I have had 4 cats and all lived to be 19 or older and all died of kidney failure. So I have seen what a diet can do for animals. I cut back on the protein for them around 15 years of age. When we burn protein we have a by product of uric acid and ammonia which is really hard on the kidneys, but buring fat or carbs for fuel is cleaner.