RAE—- you’re pretty much an ignorant person spreading nonsense.

I hope everyone reads and understands Andrea (March 23 1:05pm). She is dead on with her observations and conclusions.

For reasons that would confound Solomon, the food and drug “establishment” simply will NOT provide the general public with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth regarding their products.

“Beliefs” about foods and drugs are as entrenched as religious dogma and about as difficult to change. Just take a look at the miles of shelving full of utter CRAP in your food stores all shouting “LOW FAT!!!!” as if that meant one damned thing. (Well, it does mean one thing - almost a certainty that the SUGAR and SALT will be sky high.)

FAT DOES NOT CAUSE OBESITY.

“Dietary fat is NOT a major determinant of body fat and plays virtually NO ROLE IN OBESITY.” Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard University’s School of Public Health.

If YOU are one of those who cannot or will not accept this truth, then YOU are part of the problem.

It’s not WHAT you eat that makes you fat… it’s what your body DOES with what you eat that is the determining factor. It takes study and an awareness of YOUR system to get a handle on the highly complex nature of how our bodies deal with food. There’s a LOT for most people to learn.

For example, are you aware that our bodies do NOT need CARBOHYDRATE - ANY carbohydrate - to survive quite well, thank you? It’s true. We need protein and we need fat (fatty acids) but whatever carbs our bodies require can be manufactured by the body from protein and fat.

So why does the American Dietetic Association still recommend that “the lion’s share of our calories come from the one macronutrient (carbohydrate) we can survive quite well without?” (Living Low Carb - Jonny Bowden, PhD)

Especially since it’s carbs - sugars and starches - those addictive, great tasting drugs that cause insulin to skyrocket, hunger cravings to become irresistable, and FAT FAT FAT people waddling everywhere you look.

Please read and learn and use your heads people, or continue to die like flies until you do get the message.

blue——there is no controversy over the superiority of olive oil to other oils of
fats that tend to solidify at room temperature.

if you’ve a problem with olive, try safflower or sunflower oil

and the meat of today is a wee bit leaner than the stuff consumed by the
ancestors….

The red meat eaten today is not the kind of red meat that was eaten by our ancestors, which sadly lacked food coloring, antibiotics, growth hormones, and other interesting chemicals, and which largely ran through the woods and across the fields, instead of being raised in pens on a diet of ground-up cows, plastic beads, cellulose by-products, and shit.

Maani——ut’s not the beef and pork of itself that’s bad it’s the fat content.

and no one has ever revoked the warning that butter isn’t healthy.

EmileZ:

Yes, advertising is a big part.  So, of course, is the lobbying by the various food industries (meat, sugar, etc.).  See Super Size Me, Food Nation, etc.

Another aspect is that people may simply be confused (and thus become apathetic) when the government changes its mind.  For example, butter was “bad” - until it wasn’t.  Eggs were “bad” - until they weren’t.  Sugar was “bad” - until is wasn’t.  Salt was “bad” - until it wasn’t.  Etc., etc.

Ultimately, in all the cases above, is was (obviously) about moderation (in conjunction, of course, with one’s family and medical history, and how much exercise one gets).

The current “red meat” scare is of a piece with this.  Personally, I think it is poppycock.  Why?  Three main reasons:

-Human have been eating red meat since the dawn of time - yet lifespans have INCREASED over the millenia and centuries.  Yes, other factors are involved (better food safety, medical and health care, etc.).  But until these two studies, not a single study (out of hundreds, possibly thousands) showed any correlation between eating red meat and shortened lifespans.

-Humans’ teeth were created for omnivorous eating: we have incisors (recessed only one step) for “tearing” and molars (flatter than most mammals) for chewing.

-Our stomachs naturally create the enzyme that breaks down red meat.  This is DNA-related; i.e., “built in.”  If we were not meant to eat red meat, we would not have carried that enzyme through tens of thousands of years.

I predict that the red meat “scare,” too, will eventually be “tempered” by more reasonable calls for “moderation.”

Of course, if you are a conspiracy theorist, you might see this entire “red meat” scare as a way to get the 99% to eat chicken and pork, while the 1% keep all the (perfectly safe) red meat for themselves…

Peace.

Not funny Surfboy.

I’m kinda afraid to ask what you watched Herman doing in those videos.

@ heterochromatic

Never tried speedballs, more of a coffe man myself, but I did used to deep fry donuts and it wasn’t the same, though I am quite sure they are bad for you.

Come back when you have not only watched Herman Cain’s training videos (which are actually quite peppy and silly), but when you have worked the “cut table” for at least a few months. True story.

——You could probably smoke before you did speedballs——

don’t you find that you want to smoke much more AFTER your speedball?

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pizza helll, try working a grill and a deep-fryer if you want to go home with a head
full of grease…. I did that for a year

some days i do not eat meat or fish. i eat mostly well-boiled chicken. that reduces some fat. i seldom eat more
than 300 calories of it; and i never salt my meats or fish.
i eat fish almost every day; usually salmon and in small amounts.
i eat green/dried beans/peas, basmati/brown rice, lentils, millet nearly all vegetables, yams, sweet potatoes.
i use only olive oil. instead of salt, i use nikkoman sauce. seldom eat anything sweet.
when i am at computer, i stand. however, since external beam radiation treatment on my prostate, i lately have to
sit down now and then, because i get so tired on my legs.
i still manage to remain on my legs anywhere from 7-11 hrs a day.
i am about 20 pounds overweight. seems, i am even losing some fat; perhaps pound or so every 3 mo’s.
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btw, you want to know what my wife said to me??? she said, Bob, get a new ass!! yes, yes, my dear, i sure cld use a
nicer looking one, that’s for sure.
but the next day she sort of apologized by saying, Bob, you’re three quarters deaf! i didn’t say that—i said, Bob,
get off your ass! well, that second advice was even better that the first one.

@ heterochromatic

You could probably smoke before you did speedballs and live longer than you would on a diet of sloppy joes provided you were careful.

P.S. EmileZ does not encourage smoking, speedballs or sloppy joes, but if you had to choose one…. well, nevermind.

Face it: For the last generation, Americans have been utterly and totally engulfed by an “anti-food culture” which is a life of eating “manufactured filth.” Of course, they have been taught to quote the corporate mantra: “I’m just too busy to cook.” The fact is, we have become a nation of filth-eaters and every time people spend their hard earned money in a fast-food-filth-factory or purchase 50% of the garbage in the grocery stores, they are pouring money into the coffers of corporations that don’t give a shit about their health, safety or welfare.

I worked my way through high school and college as a professional cook and I subsequently worked in some nice restaurants over the years so I know a little about good food. I also spend a good amount of time in Italy which (despite the onslaught of Americanized-filth-factory food habits) remains a place where people are far more discriminating about what they put in their mouths. The average Italian child has a palate far more refined and discriminating than American adults whose only purpose in eating is to load their maws with as large a portion of whatever shit they can pay the least amount of money for.

Is it any wonder that bookstores have “cooking” sections in which the shelves are groaning under the weight of millions of fancy books about all sorts of cuisine and yet, most Americans don’t cook from scratch. When push comes to shove it’s “off to the filth factory” to eat McGarbage…........

smoking kills you quicker, and more painfully , if you’re smoking tobacco .

you might do better using a vaporizer before munchieing your sloppy joes.

@ heterochromatic

Which is why I think smoking, bad as it is, pales in comparison to the crap we are encouraged to eat, starting from a very young age, often even before we purchase the shit.

As a teenager, I used to work at a pizza place and the grease would literally soak into your entire body.

EZ——- It IS the advertising .......as well as that people never learn much in way of
what a healthy diet requires….and that people in the end don’t much care to
forego fatty, sweet and salty foods.

@ Anarcissie

If by now you see you mean ME…

All I see is a smart-ass rat.

All I learned in Home Economics was to prepare sloppy joes and such.

People used to laugh at home economics classes.  Now you see.

Renaldo & The Loaf - Hambu Hodo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlj3IdPjOrU

(Hambu=hamburger, Hodo=Hotdog)

It is all the damn advertising and such. It is part of our culture.

It is difficult to break away from.

Also, in many neighborhoods it is difficult to find healthy food.