Posted on 03/28/2010 3:59:39 PM PDT by tobyhill
They’re just making shit up now. (SARC & a Smile)
Yeah, whatever, Sarah Klein....I am a big boy and make my own choices of what I want to eat without being told, kkthx.
This is an important discovery. Why mix it up with politics?
It’s the carbs!!!!
And humans are not rats!!!
These people may be the worst health hazard our Country faces. Feel 'murderous thoughts' with their every pronouncement. OMG. . .stop the madness. . .but no hope of stopping the Gov. funding for sure.
If Fox News give these people and/or their stats, one breath of air time; please let them hear from you. . . they will hear from me - as usual.
Pure bunk.
So these political scientists think they can fool us into thinking they are biochemists? Not!
They are just trying to screw the corporations which, to them, are those evil Capitalist.
If you think it’s not important, why did you post it?
And sometime last summer, my wife found some bacon I had stashed in the freezer. I told her it was for a recipe. She didn't seem happy when she found out that the recipe was bacon and eggs.
How do I get this monkey off my back???
Ok, I’ll take my ribs Memphis-style dry rubbed, thanks...Rendezvous- or Corky’s-style!
Hmmmm... maybe it wasn’t all that good of an idea to hand the right to tell people what they could put in their bodies to the federal government after all?
Too many people have been gung-ho for decades to have the feds intrude in every aspect of the lives of drug users and abusers. Those “other” people needed to be tightly controlled. It was for their own good, after all.
When the federal government bans trans-fats, high fructose corn syrup and nitrates, it’ll be for everyone’s own good, too.
Turns out that there isn’t such a thing as a “little bit” of government intervention into the subject of what people do to themselves.
I don’t do drugs and drink perhaps once or twice a year, but I eat every day and plan to be pretty peeved when the government decides to ban potato chips and cupcakes based on the exact same rational as banning drugs.
Meanwhile, the drug problem is as bad as ever, the prisons are full of drug abusers in with mandatory sentences, and violent offenders get let go to make room for the druggies. I wonder how much more of our taxes they’ll take to hire the food police and send people to food jail, food rehab, and food diversion classes.
I hope it was all worth it.
Where’s the evidence?
I think you're assigning a lot more importance to this than is justified from what's written in the article. The results in laboratory rats are not necessarily indicative of human results. Maybe they'll follow this with research using primates. Maybe not. Doing so is very costly and, unfortunately, so many of these studies are undertaken today simply to obtain grant money.
Reading further into the story will provide the evidence needed to realize that this study may not receive the peer review the authors hope for or that the title would lead one to believe.
Dr.Gene-Jack Wang, M.D., the chair of the medical department at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, in Upton, New York says:
Dr. Wang appears to be a strange man who needs to get out of the lab and into the real world more often. His ability to think rationaly is being seriously diminished.
He goes on to add:
Huh? He's working it a little too hard for me to believe he's after anything other than media attention via alarmism. This is a proven track for obtaining federal grants.
Now that he's delivered the fear, he adds the disclaimer:
No Sh!t doc. We've known for a long time that overeating is a learned behavior.
The best is saved for the end:
Yup. There it is. The truth finally comes out. Now, if the NIH will just come up with a few million we can take this to the next level to really, finally, determine if we have anything important here.
Why mix it with politics? Because the politics of fear, the politics of the food Nazis, and the politics of the toxic terrorists are all actively at work here. There's a reason these studies get funded. The majority of them have little to do with finding the truth.
Making cheesecake is easy and takes only about 15 minutes, not including baking time. I promise — I just made one yesterday.
Ow! May I have another, sir? Thanks for the insight.
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