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To: Rocketman who wrote (4346)	3/13/1998 9:21:00 AM
From: WTDEC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9719

Rman, great investment and health reports all in the same place! Many thanks, Walter

To: Rocketman who wrote (4346)	3/13/1998 9:00:00 PM
From: Cytokine1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9719

Rocket--we have sort of an open buy order for a minimum of 50 shrs of SEPR at 38 or less. How many shares are we looking to end up with? We have 146 shrs now, do we want to end up with 300, 400, or what? This will help me put an upper limit on a purchase... Love those fat, greasy, salty hamburgers, in moderation of course! C1

To: Rocketman who wrote (4346)	3/14/1998 1:32:00 AM
From: John Zwiener	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9719

Rocket, that stuff about salt is old news, about 15 years old. Only 5 % of high blood pressure is related to high salt intake. Salt IS important in congestive heart failure, and a low salt diet does help a lot. The media and the food companies are pushing the low salt fad on otherwise healthy people, not docs. I haven't heard a doc say that low salt diet is important in HEALTHY people for ten years. Blood pressure IS important if it is too high (why the idea docs think salt it's important?, they don't in 95% of cases). Cholesterol is important. When only the total cholesterol was available, the chances were that it was bad. Now that it has been divided up for the last 20 years, they know that the ratio is a more accurate predictor of risk. This "hot new info" is like the old method of grading pap smears into "Classes". This had been replaced 15 years before by grading them as dysplasias (and is similar to the Bethesda system). But the government would not reimburse unless the old class system was used. Then, the government "discovered" that paps were being read with that terrible old class system, and condemmed docs on how awful it was that they were still using it (even though they were the ones forcing it's use). It caused all kinds of publicity and people were rightous and indignant. But it was all an illusion produced by people that had something to gain from it. So the Bethesda system was agreed to, at some conference, at the last minute, just to have a common system. And the people that created the problem, claimed they solved it. Moral of the story,,many times, a story that implies that a good guy is out to save the ignorant masses, is an illusion.