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The April J. Nutrition at http://www.beloit.edu/nutrition/litnotes/litnotes07aprjnutr.htm includes much more information suppporting using fish oil for adults, babies, and during pregnancy. Soy reduces prostate cancer risk, and high fruit-low meat reduces colon cancer risk. For those trying to get in shape, you do not need extra protein. Food assistance programs for the elderly are very important preventing obesity and depression - so aid programs to the poor save us lots of tax dollars. Would you rather be taxed $5 for food aid, or $500 for emergency room visits for depressed elderly?

A COUPLE OF POINTS WORTH MENTIONING in this issue: "between 1995 and 1999, smoking caused half a million death and $150 billion in annual health-related economic damage... In the year 2000, excessive and risky drinking in the US took 85,000 lives and cost $185 billion in financial damage."