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LOL. Ok, Ok, let me try to explain.....

What you have said in your posts here is that everyone is stupid or uneducated, so they need you to tell them what to eat, or, that we should post warnings or close every McDonalds in the country.(please go back & read what you said). If you want to tell people what to eat, move to Dallas & get a job with the Cooper Clinic. Or, better yet, stay where you are and start your own clinic! It would be a good thing. Convince people to pay you for nutritional advice. Or become a Weight Watchers teacher, the program really works.

I direct no anger toward you. I'm sorry if I gave you that impression. This sudden interest by the press in food & fat people is just another manifestation of the cigarette wars. Its not about "saving" fat people from themselves, it's about transferring money from food producers to LAWYERS. The first lawsuits have already been filed. Every time someone tells someone else what they should or shouldn't put in their mouths, they play right into the lawyers' hands.

People in this country have been overweight since they moved off the farm and into the cities, and since jobs changed from manual labor to the desk. Fast food joints of every kind have been around forever. And suddenly...."our eating habits must be controlled and changed" says everyone (that is, according to the press). "And Fast food companies must be punished and taxed" says everyone. (that is, according to the politicians).

Just ask yourself, why? I have, and the answer and what I know is coming next is what "puts that chip on my shoulder".

Now, I have said too much. I'm gonna go have a cookie, or two......

everyone is stupid or uneducated, so they need you to tell them what to eat

I just ate a "cookie or two."

I never said "everyone" was stupid or uneducated, but a whole lot are. I make this statement based on my personal observations from having taught nutrition classes and the astonishment of those in my classes when I presented them with the nutrional contents of the typical McD's meal or iceberg lettuce.

I have no interest in telling people what they should or should not eat. But I do believe it is helpful for people to know what they are eating because they have been deceived, and I hate deception, in any shape or form. And I find the best defense against deception is to be educated. Learn the truth, then decide for yourself. Just don't act in ignorance.

I have no interest in promoting lawsuits. I personally believe, and resently posted on another thread, that a good use for lawyers would be to put them on border patrol.

FReegards, LGE

People in this country have been overweight since they moved off the farm and into the cities

Yeah, but obesity in our children is rising at a disportionate rate. I feel sorry for those kids who are being set up for a life of food struggles, by parents that do not know what they are doing because they think what they are feeding their kids is the right food!!!!

Again, educating people is different from policing them. I guess that's where we have misunderstood each other.

And now, back to my cookies....