I don’t doubt it. A doctor in California told me to go on a lowfat diet and come back for a checkup later because my cholesterol was “elevated” at 203.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It’s healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I’ve worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.

Oh, I’ll accomodate them, I’ll rummage around for something to feed them, for a ‘vegetarian plate’, if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine.”
— Anthony Bourdain (from his book Kitchen Confidential)

Actually, it was he who got off the great quote about vegans — “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.”

Great quote. Glad to know the origin.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35058896/

I read that article elsewhere awhile back. Yes, it’s a bit of consolation to see it on MSN.

Did you see this? http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/US-Obama-Walking/2010/03/01/id/351254

Heaven help us if the pres starts taking a statin!

Mike

Nothing against the walking — exercise does seem to improve lipid profiles — but if the goal is to prevent heart disease, I’d say the Prez should focus on giving up cigarettes first.

Though I’m all for personal choice, sometimes I wish they didn’t have the low fat or fat free yogurt on the shelves. I really have to watch it to make sure I’m getting the full fat stuff.

I wouldn’t take the lowfat stuff off the market either, but it does crowd the good stuff off the shelves.

The more “stuff” you give the teachers, the more likely they will be to use it, especially since the film is already clean and kid-friendly – well, except for the funniest part, where you ask your wife to discuss your sex life. They could show the uncut film in sex ed, maybe. “Maintain your fertility, boys and girls, by eating low carb!”

Even in that scene, the most shocking word is “moron.” An educational package does strike me as a good idea. I’ll think on that … right now, I’m still working on a big ol’ software project.

Anthony Bourdain mentions on some of his shows he’s on Lipitor, usually right after showing some gorgeous cut of fatty meat in some exotic location he’s about to eat. He, along with most others, hasn’t made the connection that his public spurning of most veggies, along with eating copious amounts of meat (including piles of organ meat) are actually likely to “blame” for him being perpetually thin and healthy.

Okinawans eat a lot of pork. Something glossed over in the Okinawan Diet book that was the rage a few years ago. They eat some soy and fermented soy, some fish, and a lot of pork. Been that way for a long time. Again, no one seems to have made the connection that it’s because of more fat, not despite of it, that they had some surprising longevity numbers, at least in years past. They also substitute out some of the rice for sweet potatoes, which are slightly better as a carb.

That WAPF story about the woman whose health was ruined by soy and she ended up with mouth problems and cancerous nodules in her neck sounds strikingly similar to a dogmatic vegan I know who’s looking like he is on a slow slide into the grave. Won’t give up his “morals” for his health, and is hesitating over my offer of a free copy of The Vegetarian Myth, as he knows from talking to me it will strongly challenge the beliefs he doesn’t want to give up. He wants to believe so badly. Nothing but another religion, and a damaging one at that.

Sorry to hear about your friend. Someone on Jimmy Moore’s show described vegans as the Hezbollah of the nutrition world. Seems to fit.

As Mike Eades like to say, Jesus wept.

Good job steering in the right direction. I’d add Jimmy Moore and Dr. Mikes to that list..