barbie gee wrote:

> So why do we now have so many suffering from a "metabolic disorder"?
> How did they get morbidly obese in the first place?
> Have human genetics changed in the past 50 years?

That's the $64,000 question. IMHO, a lot of it is traceable to the
people who make the food they sell us to eat. If they can find a way to
make a food more profitable, why shouldn't they? I agree with them -
it's up to us to say where our priorities lie by choosing to eat what's
good for us.

One could argue until the cows come home about the role of government in
regulating what we eat - suffice it to say that, whether or not one
would like the government to have a hand in this, one doesn't strictly
need the government to do that - vote with your pocketbook at the
grocery store, which is what I do.

-S-