UPDATE: USDA's Great Nutrition Debate

[Nancy Gaston]

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UPDATE: USDA*s The Great Nutrition Debate



>From previous announcements you already know that the United States

Department of Agriculture is sponsoring its next Millennium Series
Symposium, The Great Nutrition Debate, on Thursday, February 24, 2000,
from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Jefferson Auditorium at the U.S.
Department of Agriculture South Building located at 14th Street and
Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington,
D.C.

Webcasting:
The symposium will be webcast for people who can not attend in
person.  The webcast can be accessed from the USDA Home Page at 
www.usda.gov   Instructions will be provided at that web site on how
to webcast the symposium.  Real Player will be required and may be
downloaded free of charge.  You may also check the CNPP web site at
www.usda.gov/cnpp

The program also will be archived for six months following the event for
people to access it from their PC via the Internet.

Speaker Update:
One additional speaker has joined the panel.  The list of speakers
includes:

Dr. Robert C. Atkins
author of Dr. Atkins* New Diet Revolution

Dr. Keith-Thomas Ayoob
of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Dr. Morrison C. Bethea
a co-author of Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat

Dr. Denise Bruner
President of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians

Dr. John McDougall
author of Dr. McDougall*s Right Foods

Dr. Dean Ornish
author of Eat More, Weigh Less

Dr. Barry Sears
author of The Zone