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...prices are also totally out of whack. Two dollars for a slice. Five dollars for a sandwich. Tommy would have gone on an oat bran diet before he charged $6 for a hamburger...
...major report in the Journal of the American Medical Association ought to be the last word on whether oat bran really lowers blood cholesterol. The bottom line, based on a survey of previous studies: it does, but by an average of just 2% to 3%. Still, a 1% reduction nationwide could lead to a 2% drop in deaths from heart disease. The biggest reduction occurs in people with the highest cholesterol levels, but bran alone probably won't do much for couch potatoes who eat a high-fat diet. That's only so-so news for the Quaker Oats...
...perhaps the politicians are speaking in code. Codes have long been a part of the etiquette of political discourse: "welfare" for African Americans, "fairness" for tax the rich, "family values" for oat-based cereals and heterosexuality. When those on the political right first test-ran middle class as a conservative poster child, all they really seemed to mean by it was "normal," a code for white and not poor -- anyone else being a member of the supposedly profligate underclass that was dragging our nation down. Even when uttered by Democrats, middle class often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying...
Better medical treatment and health education for African Americans could reduce the black-white mortality gap by an estimated 60%. "We have a whole segment of our population dying unnecessarily, and we're worried about whether to eat oat-bran or wheat-bran muffins," fumes Dr. David Ansell, director of ambulatory screening at Chicago's Cook County Hospital. "It's the medical equivalent of Marie Antoinette's saying 'Let them eat cake...
...permanent evacuation. Perhaps, they say, dioxin was not such a serious threat after all. This kind of waffling only reinforces public skepticism about the credibility of scientists, who seem to change their mind with bewildering regularity whether the subject is the danger of dioxin or the benefits of oat bran...