Do you have the study abstract for the composition on human body fat on hand? I’m attempting to show in a nutrition class that my diet is (unexpected) nearly identical in terms of fatty acid composition to storage percentages and I can’t find the paper you came across.

Best,
Skyler

I’ll see if I can dig it up.

“ladies first.” Women, and men, say this all the time. There’s no “men first.”

I didn’t say no one must be offended, I pointed out the misandric sex bias that only men can be offended.

Should a ‘real’ woman find a misogynistic joke funny as well?

Comedians are aware of the power (real or perceived) totem pole. You can insult people higher than you on the pole, but not lower, or you risk a hostile audience. It’s why blacks can make jokes about whites, but a white comic who makes jokes about blacks will be booed off the stage.

So once again, you really need to get over it. If a line suggesting men are prone to piggish behavior offends you, you’re the one with the problem.

It offends me because it is a sex bias. You don’t make similar jokes bashing girls. You only pick on guys. Tim Allen doesn’t have any line saying “women are cows.” It’s a misandric double standard. Bashing women offends people but not bashing men.

No, I don’t bash women because I’m not one. And guess what? You don’t see white comics making fun of blacks, but you see black comics making fun of blacks. Jewish comics can tell Jewish jokes. Female comics can make jokes about PMS. Get the picture? Double-standard, really? Jesus, you’re a moron … it’s called picking on your own kind, a standard in comedy.

There, was that an appropriately balanced slam on females for you?

here’s my “humor”:

“I already knew that humans and cows share a lot of the same DNA. (Some would argue this is more true for women than for men)”

there, that’s my “humor.”

As someone who spent years on the standup circuit — doing a totally clean act, by the way — I learned that it’s impossible to do humor without somebody getting his or her nose out of joint. That’s because some people LOVE getting their noses out of joint.

If the “men are pigs” line (which launched Tim Allen’s career) offends you, you are too easily offended. I have a theory about the easily-offended types: it’s how they make themselves feel superior and important. If you prefer to be offended by that line, be my guest, but it’s your problem, not mine.

–what kind of misandric, man hating insult is this?

I put it in the category known as “humor.”

http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/users/jyelon/lowcarb.med/topic8.html

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1662484,00.html

http://www.frauenklinik.uni-wuerzburg.de/forschung/ketogenic_english.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17313687

http://www.crossfit.com/cf-journal/seyfriedInterview.pdf

It’s only a little but it’s a start.

Keep it coming guys
Mike

Brilliant!! This post is the most enlightening thing I’ve read all day. The comments are fascinating as well. I’ll be rereading it all… and I intend to bring the article to the attention of several of my health-minded friends.

Keep up the good work!

Thank you.

[...] It seems logical that our own bodies burn our own stored fat with no ill effects. So eating that same fuel (fat) should be just dandy as well. Have you run this by a bio-chemist or such? Maybe Dr Mike Eades has a take on this. … [...]…

I found out from Richard at Free The Animal that Dr. Mary Vernon had explained the same concept some time ago — all diets are high-fat diets once you start burning your own fat.

I’m sure there are other websites to visit on the ‘net, but right now I seem to be glued to yours! I have just gone through a one-man 14 month battle with the NZ drug agencies, Pharmac and Medsafe, over the supply of Levothyroxine… so I’m hesitant to jump down their throat too quickly regarding ‘statins’ – at least until their wounds have healed. I won, they lost – sh*t happens.

The statin battle will be huge. The included link is commentary from our New Zealand Medical Journal http://www.nzmj.com/journal/119-1236/2033/ I read it with total frustration and much hair pulling, then I read the “Potential conflicts of interest” near the bottom of the page… and everything fell into place. The only fair commentary can be found in paragraphs 2 and 3, under the heading, “Pharmac’s Failures”.

Again, thanks for your spirited commentaries. You provide much inspiration.
Allan Campbell
p.s. isn’t it time your show went on the road? I can almost guarantee packed houses in NZ!

I’ve thought about the lecture circuit; sounds like fun. Still waiting to see what kind of coverage we get for the film world-wide before making that plunge. Then, of course, I’ll have to figure out how to get started.