My comedian friend Tim Slagle and I used to produce a radio show (for a brief time) called The Slage-Naughton Report, which mostly poked fun of politicians. One thing we learned is that when you exaggerate the antics of politicians for comic effect, pretty soon the reality catches up and you’re not exaggerating anymore.
So while this scene is meant to be sarcastic, don’t be surprised if it’s close to reality in the future:
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I love the little wine glass and wine dropper. Classic.
I love the little wine glass and wine dropper. Classic.
One can now see where the contra-chauviniste notion of “political correctness” is heading:
Now “politicians’ statements” acquire an ex-cathedral flavour reminiscent of the Caesaropapism of Byzantium.
Humour, irony and ridicule are the only counter-ploys.
Above all else, pols HATE being the butt of jokes.
As e e cummings wrote:
a politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man
Slainte
He seems to be the only customer in that restaurant. Why am I not surprised???
Yup, everyone else stayed home so they could eat what they like.
One can now see where the contra-chauviniste notion of “political correctness” is heading:
Now “politicians’ statements” acquire an ex-cathedral flavour reminiscent of the Caesaropapism of Byzantium.
Humour, irony and ridicule are the only counter-ploys.
Above all else, pols HATE being the butt of jokes.
As e e cummings wrote:
a politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man
Slainte
How depressing
He seems to be the only customer in that restaurant. Why am I not surprised???
Yup, everyone else stayed home so they could eat what they like.
They are *not* going to stop him from eating bread, gotta get rid of the grains, somehow. OTOH, if factory beef takes so much corn and soybeans why isn’t the government pushing it? Strange.
Wow! I can see this happening. Especially, the whole ordering your food based on your calorie allowence. It’ll be a new form of money. This is rather scary.
Not too far off topic…if you’re looking for a place to eat out with a nice low carb offering…CRACKER BARREL.
Yup, we’ve been there and discovered the low-carb menu.
How depressing
They are *not* going to stop him from eating bread, gotta get rid of the grains, somehow. OTOH, if factory beef takes so much corn and soybeans why isn’t the government pushing it? Strange.
Great but you forgot the GEDAPO (Gehimdiätspolizei, secret diet police) although I think the Reichsdiät is bipartisan. (Apologies to German friends but it is a standard. American is always so administrative — Nutritional Security Authority? )
But what about this concern that I posted on my Facebook page:
Is anybody aware that there is a large group who, with support of the federal government, are recommending that kids, starting from birth, drink a beverage that is 40 % sugar. And the sugar is a disaccharide, like sucrose, with not just glucose but also a chemical modified form of glucose, the 4-epimer of glucose, that must be metabolically converted before it can be used for energy. In addition, when kids withdraw from this drink they are likely to go into ketosis. Is nobody concerned about this?
And the drink is … ?
Classic!!
Don’t you love how politicians attack the symptoms rather then the cause? Its the equivalent of bailing water with a coffee cup on a sinking ship rather then fixing the hole in the hull.
Good analogy. What makes politicians feel good about themselves is DOING SOMETHING! The results are our problem.
Wow! I can see this happening. Especially, the whole ordering your food based on your calorie allowence. It’ll be a new form of money. This is rather scary.
Not too far off topic…if you’re looking for a place to eat out with a nice low carb offering…CRACKER BARREL.
Yup, we’ve been there and discovered the low-carb menu.
Great but you forgot the GEDAPO (Gehimdiätspolizei, secret diet police) although I think the Reichsdiät is bipartisan. (Apologies to German friends but it is a standard. American is always so administrative — Nutritional Security Authority? )
But what about this concern that I posted on my Facebook page:
Is anybody aware that there is a large group who, with support of the federal government, are recommending that kids, starting from birth, drink a beverage that is 40 % sugar. And the sugar is a disaccharide, like sucrose, with not just glucose but also a chemical modified form of glucose, the 4-epimer of glucose, that must be metabolically converted before it can be used for energy. In addition, when kids withdraw from this drink they are likely to go into ketosis. Is nobody concerned about this?
And the drink is … ?
Classic!!
Don’t you love how politicians attack the symptoms rather then the cause? Its the equivalent of bailing water with a coffee cup on a sinking ship rather then fixing the hole in the hull.
Good analogy. What makes politicians feel good about themselves is DOING SOMETHING! The results are our problem.
Hilarious and so true
Hilarious and so true
Except that the next logical step is to track what you buy at the grocery store and restrict that. Made even easier with the elimination of cash transactions of course.
Really, it’s for your own good.
Don’t give them ideas.
Reply to RDFeinman. Dr. Feinman is a Ph.D professor of biochemistry at
SUNY.
The “drink”. of course, is infant formula. Dr. Feinman did not include the statistic that, according to the gov’t., as of 2000, soy-based formula made up 12 % of the purchase price of all commercial infant formula, a frightening fact all by its self.
Except that the next logical step is to track what you buy at the grocery store and restrict that. Made even easier with the elimination of cash transactions of course.
Really, it’s for your own good.
Don’t give them ideas.
Reply to RDFeinman. Dr. Feinman is a Ph.D professor of biochemistry at
SUNY.
The “drink”. of course, is infant formula. Dr. Feinman did not include the statistic that, according to the gov’t., as of 2000, soy-based formula made up 12 % of the purchase price of all commercial infant formula, a frightening fact all by its self.
I suspect the mystery beverage mentioned by Dr. Feinman is breast milk. I am surprised that the sugar content is that high though.
Unrelately, a locally sourced organic boutique grocery store just opened a block from my house. I could not be more pleased. The owner was there today to greet people and apparently she is open to suggestions about what to stock. All their meat is from a local beyond organic farm and I may see if she can get her hands on some delicious lard for me.
I hope the locals support her.
Hi, I know this is off topic, BUT I have seen you respond to other commenters, so I am hoping to get some clarification on things in your Fat Head movie (I’m not looking for an internet fight either, but if other commenters have pertinent information, please feel free to post it). And just to start off with, I’m not a vegetarian, though I do love vegetables. I also love steaks. :
Some of the things in the movie weren’t that clear to me, and I tried poking around to see if these things had been covered already, but I didn’t find them. First, there was the part where it showed the study that compared diets of other countries and their cases of heart disease. That part was confusing, because it showed all different diets with varying levels of disease that apparently didn’t correspond to anything. One of the specific countries mentioned was Japan, and they do eat a lot of grains and soy, and they have lower numbers of people with heart disease and diabetes. I’m not saying this “OMG DISPROVES EVERYTHING”, but I am just wondering if there’s any speculation or explanation as to why. They’re basically eating the diet that we are told all the time is healthy, and it seems to be true for them. So why not us?
Um, the other thing, was that the movie seemed to say that all cholesterol in your body is good. You need it to function. SO I got the impression that even the “bad” cholesterol wasn’t really bad without inflammation. But at the end, you bad cholesterol was lower after your fast food diet. Why would you want it to be lower if cholesterol is a non-issue?
Those were some questions the movie raised for me. As an average person, I don’t understand every facet of nutrition, so maybe that is where I got lost, I don’t know. Also, blame Netflix for me being so late to discussing the movie. haha.
I once looked up carbohydrate consumption in Japan. Bottom line is that they eat rice, but still consume fewer carbohydrates per day on average than Americans. We eat rice, pasta, cereal, bread, ice cream, french fries, sodas, Little Debbie Snack Cakes, donuts, etc. They also consume far less sugar. If I have a choice between rice and HFCS, I’m taking the rice every time.
Dr. Eades brought up an interesting point about the Japanese in his speech at the Ancestral Health Symposium. The rate of smoking is higher in Japan, but rates of heart disease and cancer are lower — but no one would point to them as proof that smoking must prevent heart disease and cancer. Bottom line is they may, for reasons we haven’t identified, be more resistant to those diseases.
Cholesterol itself isn’t dangerous, but we want our bodies to produce less of the small, dense LDL. Adopting a diet higher in natural fats and devoid of sugar and refined starch raised my HDL and lowered my LDL, which means if I was producing small LDL before, I probably 1) produced less of it and 2) switched the pattern to more of the large, fluffy variety.
Mostly I included that sequence to demonstrate that eating more saturated fat didn’t raise my cholesterol, which is what the supposed experts believe it would do.
I gotta love this one:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/10/concern-as-spike-in-type-1-diabetes-is-seen-in-us-youth/
So they can’t explain away why there’s a rise in diabetes among children, huh? Maybe it’s the crappy food our government has insisted we eat the last 40 years?
Nah….
I blame the wheat.
I suspect the mystery beverage mentioned by Dr. Feinman is breast milk. I am surprised that the sugar content is that high though.
Unrelately, a locally sourced organic boutique grocery store just opened a block from my house. I could not be more pleased. The owner was there today to greet people and apparently she is open to suggestions about what to stock. All their meat is from a local beyond organic farm and I may see if she can get her hands on some delicious lard for me.
I hope the locals support her.
Hi, I know this is off topic, BUT I have seen you respond to other commenters, so I am hoping to get some clarification on things in your Fat Head movie (I’m not looking for an internet fight either, but if other commenters have pertinent information, please feel free to post it). And just to start off with, I’m not a vegetarian, though I do love vegetables. I also love steaks. :\
Some of the things in the movie weren’t that clear to me, and I tried poking around to see if these things had been covered already, but I didn’t find them. First, there was the part where it showed the study that compared diets of other countries and their cases of heart disease. That part was confusing, because it showed all different diets with varying levels of disease that apparently didn’t correspond to anything. One of the specific countries mentioned was Japan, and they do eat a lot of grains and soy, and they have lower numbers of people with heart disease and diabetes. I’m not saying this “OMG DISPROVES EVERYTHING”, but I am just wondering if there’s any speculation or explanation as to why. They’re basically eating the diet that we are told all the time is healthy, and it seems to be true for them. So why not us?
Um, the other thing, was that the movie seemed to say that all cholesterol in your body is good. You need it to function. SO I got the impression that even the “bad” cholesterol wasn’t really bad without inflammation. But at the end, you bad cholesterol was lower after your fast food diet. Why would you want it to be lower if cholesterol is a non-issue?
Those were some questions the movie raised for me. As an average person, I don’t understand every facet of nutrition, so maybe that is where I got lost, I don’t know. Also, blame Netflix for me being so late to discussing the movie. haha.
I once looked up carbohydrate consumption in Japan. Bottom line is that they eat rice, but still consume fewer carbohydrates per day on average than Americans. We eat rice, pasta, cereal, bread, ice cream, french fries, sodas, Little Debbie Snack Cakes, donuts, etc. They also consume far less sugar. If I have a choice between rice and HFCS, I’m taking the rice every time.
Dr. Eades brought up an interesting point about the Japanese in his speech at the Ancestral Health Symposium. The rate of smoking is higher in Japan, but rates of heart disease and cancer are lower — but no one would point to them as proof that smoking must prevent heart disease and cancer. Bottom line is they may, for reasons we haven’t identified, be more resistant to those diseases.
Cholesterol itself isn’t dangerous, but we want our bodies to produce less of the small, dense LDL. Adopting a diet higher in natural fats and devoid of sugar and refined starch raised my HDL and lowered my LDL, which means if I was producing small LDL before, I probably 1) produced less of it and 2) switched the pattern to more of the large, fluffy variety.
Mostly I included that sequence to demonstrate that eating more saturated fat didn’t raise my cholesterol, which is what the supposed experts believe it would do.
I gotta love this one:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/10/concern-as-spike-in-type-1-diabetes-is-seen-in-us-youth/
So they can’t explain away why there’s a rise in diabetes among children, huh? Maybe it’s the crappy food our government has insisted we eat the last 40 years?
Nah….
I blame the wheat.
“And the drink is … ?”
…Breast milk. (The chemically “modified form of glucose, the 4-epimer of glucose” is galactose.) The group pushing it might be the National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy (NABA).
And the drink is … ?
Tom, you’re disappointing, the drink is milk, which contains lactose, the disaccharide formed of 1 glucose and 1 galactose molecule.
That was my suspicion, but I wasn’t sure.
No problem, Richard. For further use: it needs to be “Geheime Diätpolizei”
“And the drink is … ?”
…Breast milk. (The chemically “modified form of glucose, the 4-epimer of glucose” is galactose.) The group pushing it might be the National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy (NABA).
And the drink is … ?
Tom, you’re disappointing, the drink is milk, which contains lactose, the disaccharide formed of 1 glucose and 1 galactose molecule.
That was my suspicion, but I wasn’t sure.
No problem, Richard. For further use: it needs to be “Geheime Diätpolizei”
Richard,
“the sugar is a disaccharide, like sucrose, with not just glucose but also a chemical modified form of glucose, the 4-epimer of glucose, that must be metabolically converted before it can be used for energy.”
This disaccharide you speak of is called lactose! The 4-epimer of glucose is galactose, which is half of lactose (lactose being glucose-galactose). Yes it must be converted into glucose but studies show galactose is important for developement. Lactose is 40% of the energy of breastmilk, so it can’t be the problem! Most formulas are now made with ‘corn syrup solids’ and sugar, instead of lactose. This is the real problem, not lactose.
Also most infants are born being in ketosis. What’s so bad about ketosis anyway?!
Seriously dude, do your research before you scare-monger.
(He’s talking about formula, Tom)
Richard was being sarcastic.
Richard,
“the sugar is a disaccharide, like sucrose, with not just glucose but also a chemical modified form of glucose, the 4-epimer of glucose, that must be metabolically converted before it can be used for energy.”
This disaccharide you speak of is called lactose! The 4-epimer of glucose is galactose, which is half of lactose (lactose being glucose-galactose). Yes it must be converted into glucose but studies show galactose is important for developement. Lactose is 40% of the energy of breastmilk, so it can’t be the problem! Most formulas are now made with ‘corn syrup solids’ and sugar, instead of lactose. This is the real problem, not lactose.
Also most infants are born being in ketosis. What’s so bad about ketosis anyway?!
Seriously dude, do your research before you scare-monger.
(He’s talking about formula, Tom)
Richard was being sarcastic.
This is hilarious, and yet frightening at the same time!
This is hilarious, and yet frightening at the same time!
I am not surprised that diabetes 1 is on on the rise, because the disease is autoimmune in origin, when an immune system attacks B-cells (as far as I understand the mechanism of development of D1). With the increasing frequency of allergies in the population, why not the rise of D1? I think LC diet influences our immune status in at least both ways – it calms down existing immune pathology and prevents the development of new ones. I personally experienced disappearing of asthma symptoms after switching on a LC diet five years ago, and other allergies got much better, I also stopped getting seasonal flus and different infections. Very often autoimmune condition gets developed after immune system goes into an overdrive after fighting an infection. Such overdrive could be even deadly. According to what I read, the famous flu at the beginning of 20-th century killed so many people mostly because it caused extremely strong immune response with lungs got affected , and people couldn’t survive that, especially young people with stronger immunity. I think there are also other things to blame than wheat alone for the rise of allergies in the population. Excess of carbs and wrong ratio of O3/O6 are also part of the picture.
Nowadays, when I feel that it is likely I am about to get a flu, I do fasting for one day, and stay in a strict ketosis for next 3 – 4 days. It is how I am not getting sick any longer.
Could be any number or even a combination of factors, but I suspect the leaky gut problem caused by modern wheat is a big contributor.
I am not surprised that diabetes 1 is on on the rise, because the disease is autoimmune in origin, when an immune system attacks B-cells (as far as I understand the mechanism of development of D1). With the increasing frequency of allergies in the population, why not the rise of D1? I think LC diet influences our immune status in at least both ways – it calms down existing immune pathology and prevents the development of new ones. I personally experienced disappearing of asthma symptoms after switching on a LC diet five years ago, and other allergies got much better, I also stopped getting seasonal flus and different infections. Very often autoimmune condition gets developed after immune system goes into an overdrive after fighting an infection. Such overdrive could be even deadly. According to what I read, the famous flu at the beginning of 20-th century killed so many people mostly because it caused extremely strong immune response with lungs got affected , and people couldn’t survive that, especially young people with stronger immunity. I think there are also other things to blame than wheat alone for the rise of allergies in the population. Excess of carbs and wrong ratio of O3/O6 are also part of the picture.
Nowadays, when I feel that it is likely I am about to get a flu, I do fasting for one day, and stay in a strict ketosis for next 3 – 4 days. It is how I am not getting sick any longer.
Could be any number or even a combination of factors, but I suspect the leaky gut problem caused by modern wheat is a big contributor.
I think the .gov would likely gauge calorie restrictions based on BMI rather than weight, but anything’s possible. BMI is such a bad measurement. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I think the .gov would likely gauge calorie restrictions based on BMI rather than weight, but anything’s possible. BMI is such a bad measurement. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
At least yanking the bread off the table was a good move! lol
At least yanking the bread off the table was a good move! lol
That was really funny. The glass of wine was hilarious! There is a good chance of this happening very soon.
That was really funny. The glass of wine was hilarious! There is a good chance of this happening very soon.