substitute for

[Jonathan Lighter]

"I am looking to replace [or "eliminate" or "get rid of"] oil in home-made
salad dressings ..."

JL


On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Dec 21, 2013, at 10:47 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > At 12/21/2013 08:51 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >> Pretty neat; this can complied with by those who really are trying
> >> to improve their cholesterol results and who are willing to give up
> >> refined carbs for high fiber foods, and also by those lazier sorts
> >> who must be relieved to know that all they need to do is junk the
> >> fiber and switch to lots of refined sugar, white bread, and
> >> pasta.  Something for everyone.  Isn't language flux useful?
> >
> > I hope the side that switches to lots of refined sugar doesn't get
> > too much flux.
> >
> They'll just need to fire up their flux capacitor and travel back to
> before cholesterol was discovered.
>
> LH
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