Actually, the culprit might be Big Agriculture rather than Big Pharma, if this Jim Lehrer NewsHour report is correct: "The U.S. Department of Agriculture promulgated the dietary guidelines for America in 1995, with a BMI healthy weight limit. The limit was at 25. The WHO, World Health Organization, uses that definition. All the countries around the world, all the European countries, Asian countries, India, Latin America, they use that definition, so we're not doing something radical or new or different. We're really coming into line with what was already federal guidelines and what the rest of the world uses to define overweight. "
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Date: 2008-01-10 06:53 pm (UTC)