Posted on 06/27/2002 6:04:51 AM PDT by lennymoss
WHO debates obesity problem, ignoring hunger problem. Worth reading...
http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock062502.asp
President Reagan once quipped that sometimes in his administration, "the right hand doesn't know what the far-right hand is doing." The United Nations these days possesses two left thumbs, most concretely when it addresses nutrition. The U.N.'s World Health Organization strives both to shrink and expand waistlines across the globe. And even as WHO bureaucrats furiously add and subtract calories, millions of third worlders succumb to diseases that industrialized nations vanquished decades ago.
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