From: Mxsmanic on
Donna Evleth writes:

> I am really the odd case, since I don't seem to have Syndrome X. I have
> never even been overweight in my whole life, let alone obese, I did not have
> hypertension at the time of diagnosis and still don't. Yet the doctors
> diagnosed diabetes. Go figure.

Maybe that's why you've been successful in keeping your blood glucose normal
with diet and exercise.
From: John Rennie on
Mxsmanic wrote:
> Earl Evleth writes:
>
>> This household prefers bitter sweet. Not so cloyingly sweet.
>
> Some milk chocolates are sickly sweet, others are not. I rather like Poulain's
> 1870 milk chocolate, which is very rich and not excessively sweet.
>
> Near the bottom of the list is Hershey's chocolate. I thought that tasted good
> in the United States, but then I came to Europe and discovered how bad it was.


That's why Kraft has bought Cadburys.
From: Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) on


John Rennie wrote:
>
> Mxsmanic wrote:
> > Earl Evleth writes:
> >
> >> This household prefers bitter sweet. Not so cloyingly sweet.
> >
> > Some milk chocolates are sickly sweet, others are not. I rather like Poulain's
> > 1870 milk chocolate, which is very rich and not excessively sweet.
> >
> > Near the bottom of the list is Hershey's chocolate. I thought that tasted good
> > in the United States, but then I came to Europe and discovered how bad it was.
>
> That's why Kraft has bought Cadburys.
>
They have the Power?



--
"It is illuminating for purposes of reflection, if not for
argument, to note that one of the greatest 'fictions' of our
federal system is that the Congress exercises only those powers
delegated to it, while the remainder are reserved to the States or
to the people. The manner in which this Court has construed the
Commerce Clause amply illustrates the extent of this fiction.",
Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining, 452 U.S. 264, 307 (1981)
From: Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) on


Mxsmanic wrote:
>
> Earl Evleth writes:
>
> > It that the category you place yourself for the future?
>
> The future is very uncertain.
>
Basically heat death of the universe.



--
"It is illuminating for purposes of reflection, if not for
argument, to note that one of the greatest 'fictions' of our
federal system is that the Congress exercises only those powers
delegated to it, while the remainder are reserved to the States or
to the people. The manner in which this Court has construed the
Commerce Clause amply illustrates the extent of this fiction.",
Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining, 452 U.S. 264, 307 (1981)
From: Mxsmanic on
John Rennie writes:

> That's why Kraft has bought Cadburys.

They have plans to make it taste like Hershey's? They already produce cheese
that looks like vinyl upholstery.