In alt.support.diet.low-carb Alan Wright wrote:

It doesn't matter if we start eating like (some type of) Mediterranean or
not.
Could just as well be Chinese, Masai, or any other traditional diet of whole
nutritious foods. The important thing is to QUIT EATING LIKE AN AMERICAN
(fast food, processed food, sugar, trans fat, no nutrients, empty calories,
too many
carbs, etc...).

LOL! Too true. And we have to START MOVING!

The factor that these diet studies don't really seem to consider is how
many, many more calories people are burning not in 'exercise' but in
simple daily activity and physical labor. Heck, even your average
Northern European moves more in the average day than the average American.
(Except, I think, the English, who are approaching our level of sloth and
health problems.)

We are the most sedentary people on earth. We have saved so much labor
with our cars and myriad labor-saving devices that many of us barely move
anymore.

Dan
325/199/180
Atkins since 1/1/02 (yeah, it was a New Year's Resolution)
Besetting sins: good beer, German bread, and Krispy Kremes