Jimmy Moore interviewed coconut expert Dr. Bruce Fife, who pointed out that coconut oil actually has fewer calories per gram than other oils.

http://www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com/shownotes/1208/dr-bruce-fife-says-go-cuckoo-for-coconuts-episode-305/

I usually skip the popcorn and just eat the coconut oil. YUUUMMMMM!!! The CPSI and the government should just stay out of our business.

Isn’t CSPI an arm of PETA?

Cut from same cloth, but I don’t think they’re officially affiliated.

That’s criminal.

I once asked a guy sitting behind me to please not talk during the movie. He actually glared at me and said, “You can’t tell me when I can talk and when I can’t! Who do you think you are?” (Amazing. He’s talking out loud at a movie theater, I ask him to stop, and he actually believes I’m the jerk in this situation. Talk about clueless.)

Oh gosh, Tom! I stopped going to the movie theatres two years ago for the same reason: Too many patrons talking. Also, I got tired of being the ONLY person who would ask the talkers to “Please stop talking.” I am sure that I was not the only person disturbed by the conversations; yet I saw that I was the only one who had the guts to ask those engaged in their conversation to be quiet. (Note: One of the “funny” things I discovered in those days of politely asking folks to “shut the f**k up!” in the theatres, is that most of those whom I had to ask were old people–sixty-plus years old. I always thought persons of that age would know how to sit for two hours in silence.)

Yeah, I just don’t get it. I even saw in a news article some years ago that a major theater chain commissioned a study to find out why fewer people are going to theaters. Number one reason: other people talking. As far as I can tell, that knowledge didn’t change anything. My brother managed a theater way back in the days when theaters had ushers. Talking wasn’t tolerated.

I rarely see movies at a theater these days. People who buy popcorn and chew with their mouths open are one reason. People who talk with their mouths open are another.

I once asked a guy sitting behind me to please not talk during the movie. He actually glared at me and said, “You can’t tell me when I can talk and when I can’t! Who do you think you are?” (Amazing. He’s talking out loud at a movie theater, I ask him to stop, and he actually believes I’m the jerk in this situation. Talk about clueless.)

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/canola.asp

There may be something harmful (other than erucic acid, which was removed) in canola oil, but there’s no scientific evidence of it yet.

That’s right; we can’t extrapolate too much from rat studies. In the Weston A. Price article, they were careful to say as much. My biggest beef with canola oil is that it’s pushing the oils that can actually benefit us out of the food supply — not to mention food fried in the stuff is bland and tasteless.

The abstract to this article mentions the beneficial effects of the ketogenic (Atkin’s-like) diet for a broad range of brain disorders from brain injury to AD, to stroke to Parkinson’s to epilepsy and then ends with this sentence…
“As the underlying mechanisms become better understood, it will be possible to develop alternative strategies that produce similar or even improved therapeutic effects without the need for exposure to an unpalatable and unhealthy, high-fat diet.” ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Jacobson’s brain is quite literally degrading. He’s not getting enough fat. Maybe the opioid like additive properties of wheat gluten have altered his thought processes and he eats grains to the exclusion of HEALTHY, SATURATED, BRAIN PROTECTIVE ANIMAL FAT. He makes the statements he does because he’s just a shill for Big corn, Big wheat and Big soy. He can wish that a vegan diet is best all he wants. But Mother nature will never bow to a mental midget like Jacobson.

Before, I commented that I’d calculated the surface area in the human body of the fatty membrane coverings to our 100 trillion cells. I found it to be about 2 football fields. I made the egregious mistake of not including the additional acreage of the axons’ membranes. Axons are the important stick-out pieces of each one of our 100 billion nerve cells. Axons are the business end of the nerve cells, and their fatty membranes are vital to cognition and function. They cover 4 football fields. An additional 4 to what I already figured.
Membrane surface area of 100 billion neurons = 25,000 m2, the size of four football fields (Bear, M.F., Connors, B.W. and Pradiso, M.A., Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 2nd edition, Baltimore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2001, p. 97). So that’s something like 6 football fields of critical membrane surface area that’s made of FAT. And the combined length of the axons is about 100,000 MILES!!!!!
Oy Vey. So eat fat and keep feeding your kids fat.

I’m even more of a fat head than I thought. Time to go give the girls some Kerrygold.

Or do what I do: sneak in some almonds.

“…(CSPI) found a medium popcorn and soft drink contained 1160 calories…”

Followed immediately by:

“”Who expects about 1500 calories and three days’ worth of heart-stopping fat in a popcorn and soda combo?…” said CSPI senior nutritionist Jayne Hurley.

Since when is 1150 “about” 1500 calories? They are the better part of a quarter pounder different!

Don’t say “Quarter Pounder.” Jacobson will have a heart attack. Actually, go ahead.

Now you’re talkin’.