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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.veg,net.med
Subject: Re: FLAME:FLAME:FLAME:Nutrition Puzzle Solved
Message-ID: <1205@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 15:46:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 11 15:46:33 1984
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References: <70@azure.UUCP> <10440@gatech.UUCP>
Reply-To: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept
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Summary: 

In article <10440@gatech.UUCP> carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard) writes:
> "Nutrition Puzzle Solved" was and still is the biggest bag of garbage 
>  I have ever read.
>  
The information in the referenced article is almost verbatim from "Fit
or Fat" and its sequel (I can't remember the title, but it's the one
with most of the information about fat) by Covert Bailey.  I found them
both well written, informative, correct (within the state of current
knowledge at the time they were written) books.  More importantly, my
wife, who is a PhD student in Biology/Biochemistry agrees.  She pointed
out only one flaw that she could see, which was only proven false very
recently - that is the myth that complex carbohydrates digest more
slowly than simple ones (bet you didn't know that was a myth, did
you?).  Turns out it's much more complicated than that, and I think
"they" don't have a good correlation with anything at this point.  (This
myth was information that was considered "obvious", so nobody tested it
until recently.)

So my advice to you is don't flame if you don't have all the facts.

=Spencer