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Old Sun, Aug-31-03, 14:49
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"Others worry that the whole business is just too hard to keep straight.

"We are putting before the public an extraordinarily complicated message, which I don't think they will follow or be very happy with," says Dr. Xavier Pi-Sunyer of St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City."

Alright...we can keep track of fat grams, percentage of calories from fat, percentage of calories from saturated fat, know our cholesterol numbers and keep track of Weight Watcher points, but we're too stupid to keep track of grams of carbs or choose the ones that are lower on the glycemic index??? Who does he think he's kidding????

Then again..he may have a point. After all, we have people bringing lawsuits against McDonalds et al claiming that they didn't know that eating fast food several times a day would make them fat and that they thought it was healthy.
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