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BST MILK and Ordinary MILK Indistinquishable? Not Really.
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:28:35 GMT, "James Curts"
wrote: "Hua Kul" wrote in message om... "James Curts" wrote in message news:yDXRa.78891$OZ2.13823@rwcrnsc54... While watching a person or family make selections there are some obvious criteria used in the selection of items for the cart...Ignorance of the consumer is not one of the criteria used for selection of a food product. Twenty short miles to the West of this area are the agricultural communities which consist of a totally different culture. The Mexican populace...purchase a quite different variety of food products display the identical shopping criteria and again, ignorance is not one of them. The Mexican folks, in general, have probably read nothing of the topics we are discussing. However, they do display the same common sense, if not significantly influenced by financial shortcomings, shown by their educated and relatively wealthy counterparts from other parts of he world. In your observations have you been able to draw any conclusions regarding obviously different average health conditions of people in these disparate cultures, who's food choices you have characterized as "quite different" but seem to be implying are essentially equivalent? --Hua Kul My conclusions in part are that people from all walks of like select the highest quality foods their financial situation and tastes will support. Except in America and Australia. Just look at a few supermarket trollies. This includes the crossing of cultural food lines and implementing different generally healthy combinations into their diet. The variations of this are generally around the area of selecting a more bulky or filling item, pleasure items (sweets, etc.) and impulsive selections which often do not fit the norm for them. Consumers falling into this group are obviously trying to stretch the grocery budget. Visiting the grocery store may be one of their more significant shopping activities outside the home so the more frivolous items are found in the cart at the check stands. Often an item is to appease a child, or even reward him but the choice is made to please. Of interest is the grueling a customer may give the clerk or helper in a making a decision regarding a particular product. The lady buying $15 shishkabob will ask questions and point disparagingly in much the same manner as the mom buying $1.79 burger. And, almost humorously, stand and nit pick the cashier over items on the sales receipt. I can not make ignorance fit into this scenario. Wealth or the lack of it, human frailty or even utility of the moment perhaps. I believe people are formally as well as informally well informed and deviate from using this knowledge by choice or by circumstances. To the question of health I see obesity as the one overriding difference in any group of people. Less advantaged folks tend not to break from the confines of social lineage and are generally in the more financially suppressed portion of any given community. My bil and his American wife, are retired in Oz, but lived in US for 20 years on a salary package of 250k. They are as fat as pigs, both had heart surgery, and refuse to curb the good life. None of the rest of the family are so. I do not say this easily and certainly do not wish to offend anyone. I am just stating what I observe. These folks seem to be the most difficult to educate on health matters and in our country we are witnessing a new generation with disproportionate numbers of inactive obese children. Just as a smoker/drinker demands his right to smoke/drink an obese person is highly offended when asked why they continue to eat foods which contribute to their weight problem. But you are ignoring the fact that many of them have diets now that DON'T contribute to their health problems. As I have said before, a fat person who eats a eucaloric, healthy diet, won't lose weight. I will not continue on the obese issue but, sadly, I find them the one group which are the most difficult to help and convince that diet aids and training are indeed available. They are also the one group which, although happenchance of birth and circumstances set the stage, will seldom willingly move toward better ends. It is tough but in a high percentage of cases well within their power to do so. |
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