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Eat, Drink and Be Merry
Or why we should learn to stop worrying and love food
Scientific American ^
| January 14, 2007
| Michael Shermer
Posted on 02/09/2007 7:27:49 AM PST by Leisler
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Since the go-go Government had introduced the new 'food pyramid', obesity and diabetes have soared, and heart disease hasn't changed. Oh well, a billion dollars of fluff down the drain.
Typical government featherbedding for jobs. I suppose there must be thousands of nicely paid, no lifting, in by 9 and out by 3, government jobs concerning 'diet.'
Hey, remember pill addict, my back-my back Kennedys Presidents Medal of Fitness program from the 60s? We were all going to wear cheap blue windbreakers with little patches. Right. Id just wish the FedGov would just figure how to pour concrete and do expansion joints so my kidneys wouldnt be pissing blood from their soviet quality road building. When local, state and feds can build something that isnt falling apart before the project is done, they can start preaching.
Anyways, I suppose with the successful war on smokers, next is going to be the chubbys and those that cant walk half a mile. Someday in order to get FedGov sheeple health care, youll have to prove you can meet age physical fitness standards.
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posted on
02/09/2007 7:27:52 AM PST
by
Leisler
To: Leisler
Everything in excess!
To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites.
Moderation is for monks.
LAZARUS LONG
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posted on
02/09/2007 7:33:38 AM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: Leisler
Anyways, I suppose with the successful war on smokers, next is going to be the chubbys and those that cant walk half a mile. Someday in order to get FedGov sheeple health care, youll have to prove you can meet age physical fitness standards. And therein lies the rub. With national healthcare government will assume the right to control almost everything you do, because "they" are paying for it even if it is your money. We will also see euthanizing the elderly because they cost too much to keep healthy and alive.
Throw in Global Warming and the environmental police to control all that business does and, voila!, complete government control of everything.
Do you think there may be a leftist plan afoot?
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posted on
02/09/2007 7:43:15 AM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
To: Leisler
I am half Italian, 45% German and a little Irish. I love potatoes, a good arabbiata pasta sauce, and sausages.
I find that having a good spicy food every once in a while keeps the viruses and colds away. Have something that hurts a bit every week, plus a bunch of garlic if you enjoy it, and you will be fine.
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posted on
02/09/2007 7:45:14 AM PST
by
ikka
To: Mind-numbed Robot
Follow the money. Where else will lefties get more jobs, offices, laptops, seminars, pensions? They're not going to do anything to compete against the Asians, or invent anything.
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posted on
02/09/2007 7:52:51 AM PST
by
Leisler
(REAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS WALK.)
To: ikka
Interesting.
I find that beef actually beefs me up. I'm serious. I can go for two, three, or four weeks just eating my regular awful food including other meat such as chicken, etc. But then I'll have a steak or some roast and I always feel better and more alert and a little stronger the next day. I'd say it lasts about a day and a half. I've noticed that for years now.
To: Leisler
I think that too many of us eat too much AND the government programs are a waste of money and time.
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posted on
02/09/2007 8:06:35 AM PST
by
villagerjoel
(Give me liberty, or give me death!)
To: A knight without armor
Absolutely, I have noticed the same thing. Every now and then a good steak , even with some fat like a ribeye, makes everything right.
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posted on
02/09/2007 8:22:47 AM PST
by
ikka
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites.
Moderation is for monks.
LAZARUS LONG
Anything worth doing is worth over-doing.
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posted on
02/09/2007 8:24:21 AM PST
by
CPOSharky
(Year = 365 days. muzzy 'most holy' days = 450. Go figure.)
To: villagerjoel
The feds encouraged people to move from a meat/fat diet to a starch/sugar diet. People are way fatter now.
Through taxation, women left the home, and kitchen, and into the tax producing labor market. Good for the government, bad for the family dynamics and food health. Again government not just being in err, but manufacturing problems, which of course require new government powers, jobs, moneys and such. I'd say for the government, the perfect environment would be a public housing slum. These are basically pathological patterning factories that produce human problems year after year for decades and generations.
No messed up people, no need for government agencies/jobs/budgets. We can't have that now can we?
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posted on
02/09/2007 8:28:05 AM PST
by
Leisler
(REAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS WALK.)
To: ikka
Red meats have unknown enzymes that are not available in any other protein source. Listen to your body.
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posted on
02/09/2007 8:29:49 AM PST
by
Leisler
(REAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS WALK.)
To: Leisler
I suppose with the successful war on smokers
Food addicts didn't stand up for smokers, so they take what they get. We've been warning them for over a decade, but they were too busy walking past, fake coughing and giving us crappy looks as we stood outside the restaurant having a smoke. I hope they enjoy the machine they created turning on them.
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posted on
02/09/2007 8:29:52 AM PST
by
mysterio
To: ShadowDancer
Just like the headline...
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posted on
02/09/2007 8:30:35 AM PST
by
dakine
To: Leisler
I say eat what you want. It's all genetics anyway. My Austrian grandfather smoked unfiltered Camels and ate bacon and eggs for breakfast, meat and potatoes for dinner, lived until he was 94 and died a painless death with a sound mind. I guess if he had never smoked, maybe he could have lived 15 more years. LOL
To: Leisler
Hey, remember pill addict, my back-my back Kennedys Presidents Medal of Fitness program from the 60s? We were all going to wear cheap blue windbreakers with little patches.You've been nursing this grudge a long time. I like that.
To: A knight without armor
I can go for two, three, or four weeks just eating my regular awful food including other meat such as chicken, etc. But then I'll have a steak or some roast and I always feel better and more alert and a little stronger the next day. I'd say it lasts about a day and a half. I've noticed that for years now. The same thing here. When I have been on some of the veg type of threads no one seems to understand that I NEED to have beef. Other types of meat (except lamb. mm. lamb.) just don't do it. Our bodies know what we need.
To: Andy'smom; bradactor; politicalwit; Spunky; mplsconservative; don-o; boadecelia; freeangel; ...
To: Leisler
Glassner notes a study showing that as meat consumption and blood cholesterol levels increased in groups of Greeks, Italians and Japanese, their death rates from heart disease decreased. The low-fat diet is going to go down in history as the greatest fraud ever devised...and most doctors are still pushing it.
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posted on
02/09/2007 8:39:01 AM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: HungarianGypsy
The same thing here. When I have been on some of the veg type of threads no one seems to understand that I NEED to have beef. IIRC somebody said,"I didn't get to the top of the food chain to eat from the salad bar."
Or something like that.
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posted on
02/09/2007 8:46:22 AM PST
by
CPOSharky
(Year = 365 days. muzzy 'most holy' days = 450. Go figure.)
To: HungarianGypsy
Could you please add me to the kitchen ping list?
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posted on
02/09/2007 8:50:25 AM PST
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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