http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/04/2.../WHOdiet_030423


umm... hello? sugar IS a carbohydrate!

of course eating more than 25% sugar doesn't make any difference if you're comparing to a high carbohydrate diet! duh!



RealityS

Lets face it, the only way we can feed the huge and growing population in this world is with carbs. Grains are the only food that currently can be produced in sufficient quantities to feed the growing population. The problem is that highly refined carbs(sugar, wheat flower, and white rice) are the products that are being provided to these populations and it is slowly killing them. One way to decrease the impact of a high carb diet is to limit the simple carbs(sugar) and I think that is what the WHO is trying to do here. I don’t know if they realize that the hi-carb diet they propose is what is causing the obesity epidemic or not but they really can’t propose anything else as there is just not enough protein and fat in the world to feed all these people. I really don’t think the WHO has any other choice then to support a hi-carb diet.

Grains are the only way to 'feed' the population using ships, tractors, erosion, diesel fuel, grain elevators, and plows on arable land, it's true. But what of the far greater grazing lands available to those little mobile solar-powered harvesters and soil-builders called 'animals' which, when eaten, provide actual nutritive value?

Thank goodness the WHO (as opposed to the Who) promotes the consumption of grains, population growth, and dependence on the WHO in areas which can't possibly grow their own grains or sugar.

Kind of like Evian convincing many people that drinking water comes from the French Alps.

(Something called Voisin Grazing or Management Intensive Grazing is an interest of mine, which is where this rant came from.)

You know what is scary ??? Looking at a picture of the UN Oil-for-Food Program warehouses. It is nothing but Grain and Sugar from what I could see and this is what they are giving to the Iraqi people. 10 years from now, they'll all be obese, laying on their looted couches, and watching their looted TVs because the grain and sugar will have left them obese and with heart disease.