People are, by nature, very gullible, nieve and border on ignorance. There are very few that strive for understanding. Most accept what is told them by friends, the media and the government without question. Take for, instance, the calorie. Millions of Americans read the labels of food containers and worry endlessly about the number of that a food contains. This is a classic example of human ignorance. How can one worry about something and not know what it is, where it comes from, and what it does? A French scientist, Antoine Lavoisier ....