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Apparently, Senator Barack Obama attended my alma mater before transferring to Columbia...

"Almost 30 years ago, he was a freshman from Honolulu living in Haines Hall, playing pick-up basketball and developing a reputation as a campus activist.

Today, Barack Obama ’83 is a Democratic presidential hopeful, and the national media have discovered that he spent his first two years of college at Occidental."

Here is the full article:
http://www.oxy.edu/x2526.xml

It is amazing to think that it wasn't that long ago that the focus of fields such as nutrition and public health was preventing undernutrition, where as now the major focus is overnutrition. The obesity "epidemic" is well publicized by the media, but in addition to obesity the occurences of diabetes, heart attack, and cardiovascular disease have also dramatically increased.

I was laying on the couch in a lazy one-more-day-till-school-starts funk, enviously watching the Food Network wishing I could afford to cook lobster rolls and roasted loin of pork when I noticed that several of the recipes demonstrated called for sea salt. I began to wonder how many people use sea salt, kosher salt, or another variety of gourmet salts; because the salt in my cupboard is good old fashioned Morton's iodized salt. Table salt has been fortified with iodine since the 1920's to help prevent iodine deficiency.