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A New Food Pyramid.(Letter to the Editor)

Newsweek International

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Our Jan. 20 cover story on the perfect diet impressed many readers. "You've done a service--the seeds of disease are sown in infancy," wrote a pediatrician. A surgeon claimed, "A vegan diet controls diabetes." And a reader who lost weight walking insisted, "cars, not carbs, fatten Americans."

Eating for Lifelong Health

You have done a service to your readers by focusing attention on "The Perfect Diet" (Jan. 20). Undoubtedly, the enhanced consumption of fast fatty foods ("three F's") is a major health hazard with increasing incidence of obesity, diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure and coronary heart disease. What remains to be appreciated is that the ...

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