Giving the USDA input on the new dietary guidelines

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Here's a action opportunity, tailor-made for this bunch! Dr. Mercola

has a piece:

http://www.mercola.com/2003/oct/1/dietary_guidelines.htm

describing the input process for the USDA's latest round of " dietary

guidelines " . Influencing what goes into that document could be very

important to help " our fellow Americans " (non-US members, feel free

to help us out too!) improve their health, especially the masses who

rely on the gov'ment to tell them how to live... Imagine the

positive impact on so many lives, not to mention health care costs

(and potentially on the impending bankruptcy of our social support

systems like Medicare and social security) we might have if only we

could redirect them back toward sane foods, even just a little bit.

Here's the contact info from Mercola's piece:

email comments to: dietaryguidelines@...

or, send written ones (keep in mind the govmnt's delays for

its " sanitizing " process for paper mail sent to it... is this only

for Congress, or for all agencies??):

McMurry

HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Room 738-G, 200 Independence Avenue SW.

Washington, DC 20201

I don't know yet if WAPF has a set of talking points they'd like to

see used. You're all intelligent enough to make your own persuasive

arguments on this subject...