Re: Why are so many people fat?

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From: Louis Boyd
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:19

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Bart Byers wrote:
> Dr. Wayne Simon wrote:
> 

> In the 1940s weren't farmers feeding hogs poisons to reduce their 
> thyroid hormone so they would gain more weight on less food?  In the 
> 1950s, didn't they discover that they could do the same thing by feeding 
> them polyunsaturates?
> 
> Corn oil appeared in 1889 and soy oil in 1930.  The heavy propaganda to 
> substitute polyunsaturates for animal fats came later.  Didn't most 
> American become overweight as polyunsaturates took over?

The fact that two things happen at the same time does not prove or even 
indicate that one caused the other.

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From: Louis Boyd <boyd@apt0.sao.arizona.edu>
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Subject: Re: Why are so many people fat?
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