Here is the Oprah.com form.

https://www.oprah.com/ord/plugform.jsp?plugId=216

We’re working on that one.

Makes no sense that it would all hit me so fast but most of the weight I gained was abdominal. I have no health insurance but I don’t think I am diabetic yet–however, I’m likely prediabetic. This stuff is taking its toll on me already. I come from a line of women who age late and tend to age well, IF they take care of themselves. Of course that’s been hard to do on a low income–my life’s recently taken a turn for the better and hopefully I’ll get a handle on it now. I don’t mind the gray hair, I just mind what it portends. My mom wasn’t graying yet in her mid-thirties.

Re: gray hair and diabetes–Your joke is apt, and your friend’s remark about diabetes appearing in older people is somewhat valid (though less and less so–at the rate we’re going diabetes will be a disease of twentysomethings and we’ll be seeing a lot more older people without their feet), but diabetes is also associated with *accelerated* aging, so someone who might have gone gray in their sixties is doing it in their forties instead.

My dad has been slow to gray for most of his adult life despite having jet-black hair which statistically begins graying in one’s teens for most white folks with that hair color. So he’s always had at least a few strands. But up until the early 2000s his hair was still mostly black. Then I went to stay with him for a while at the beginning of 2006 and I swear, in five years it looked like he had aged ten to twenty. He looked more brittle and he had a LOT more gray. I saw him once more in 2007 and haven’t seen him since, but he had an episode of blood loss last year and my brother tells me he’s even worse since then. He was born in 1951. He’s not *that* old. He was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in late 2005.

So there you go, I know what anecdotal evidence is worth but anyway. And yeah, Grecian formula would have done him about as much good as the anemic salad veggies and margarine his doctor told him to eat.

I have noticed that people who don’t get the point after seeing the movie are not too bright. Would you believe that a couple of people that my mom showed the movie to concluded that you must have been paid by McDonalds to make the movie as a promotion.

As a side note, the DVD I sent to my stepson ran for an hour and then had problems. Amazon is sending a replacement, so it is not a problem. It may just be a fluke.

That’s the second time I’ve heard about a faulty DVD, so I’m going to alert the distributors. All the ones I’ve played have been fine, but the printing plant may be having quality-control issues.

My accountant probably wishes McDonald’s had paid me, but other than granting me permission to shoot in their restaurants (which took some doing), they had diddly to do with it. If they’d paid for this thing, they’d probably be handing out copies with Happy Meals right about now.

And as for the foie gras can of worms, I never expected this sort of response, but there’s been some good posts come from it.

Don’t worry, the experts will come with an ad-hoc theory to cover themselves. Well, uh, it’s not saturated animal fat you see, so, uh … we’ll get back to you on that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABeWlY0KFv8

The ducks appear to be very well treated. I imagine that this question applies to all animal products. Some animal farms treat their animals very well indeed; others, not so much. Choose sources wisely, and everyone (including the animals) benefit greatly.

And as for foie gras, I’m sure they don’t make it violent for kicks for the above reasons (and they are probably even more anxious to make a point of no unnecessary mistreatment given the stigma associated with it). I have nothing against farmers or eaters of foie gras and have no problem with them continuing with it. I just don’t like foie gras that much and given the procedures of it’s production, would much prefer a marbled steak (which is achieved by similar means). Someone who actually likes foie gras would obviously be much more interested in keeping it available.

http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/uncategorized/foie-gras-cest-moi/
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/opinion/29iht-eddownes.html?_r=1

Just because something *can* be done cruelly doesn’t mean it is. Almost everything we do with our treatment of animals can be done cruelly. Very little of it actually is.

http://everydogsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/tied-up-in-nots.html

http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=629014

“Lower IQ Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Deaths
Public health messages should be simplified, study finds”

Apparently everyone is dying from heart disease because they’re too stupid to understand the solution.

Yes, it takes a highly intelligent person to understand “Eat a low-fat diet.” That must be it.

Good grief, they’ll never admit they were just plain wrong about this. Lower IQ people are generally poorer, and poorer people consume more cheap carbohydrates. But they’ll never look at that possibility.