From: dietz@dls.net   
      
   Earl Colby Pottinger wrote:   
      
   >>Many americans starve each year.  They suffer from anorexia.  Most do not   
   >>create headlines when they die.   
   >>   
   >>Anorexia is distressingly common in the elderly, btw.   
   >   
   >   
   > But that was from thier own choice of actions.  Not because they were taxed   
   > to the point of not being able to feed themselves.  Also with the elderly it   
   > most often is because they choose the wrong foods or don't know where to go   
   > to get help if they are low income.   
      
   This has been a tangent, but your statements here really aren'y true.  Anorexia   
   is a neurohemical disorder.  It's not a conscious choice on anyone's part.   
   These victims literally cannot force themselves to eat enough -- the   
   underlying brain   
   circuitry that controls satiation and disgust won't let them.  This is no   
   more a choice than (say) Alzheimer's disease.   
      
   Politically-induced starvation is, of course, a different category entirely,   
   but   
   the claim being addressed was that "a person truly starves to death in the USA   
   or Canada it is considered a major news story."  This claim was not qualified   
   so as to exclude anorexia.   
      
   	Paul   
      
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