On 9/30/2003 4:08 PM, jean and bill wrote:
In article , napalm-
says...

But American women appear to have been most affected by admonitions to
watch what they eat. Before the diet mania, the average American woman
took in 3,000 to 5,000 calories a day; today that average woman eats
less than 1,600 calories daily and is on some type of weight loss
program, according to Frances Berg, M.S., in Women Afraid to Eat --
Breaking Free in Today's Weight-Obsessed World (Healthy Weight
Network, 2000).



It ain't the fat, it's the carbs. See:

http://tinyurl.com/p7kc

Then again, it could be the 19% increase in caloric intake over the past
30 years...

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rheto...e/rhecofp.html