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From: phil@osiris.UUCP (Philip Kos)
Newsgroups: net.cooks,net.med
Subject: the food groups vs. the chinese
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Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 22:07:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 22 22:07:42 1986
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Several months ago there was a long discussion about the lack of
dairy products in Chinese cuisine, with lots of speculation about
lactose intolerance, etc.  Well, it put a bee in my bonnet, and
I'm just now getting around to posting the questions raised in my
mind.

I was always told as a child that if you did not eat a combination
of foods from the "four groups" (meats, grains, veggies, and dairy
products) that you just wouldn't be healthy.  Well, if the oriental
races don't eat any dairy products to speak of, how can they stay
healthy?  They must be getting the calcium and other nutrients from
somewhere; where is it?

Along the same lines, is the (apparently) bogus importance of dairy
products just a bunch of simplistic propaganda promulgated by the
dairy industry?



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