[AGL] Two hours of life style therapy...

[Byron Allen Black]

I am saving your most eloquent post, dear Frances. Facts seem so obvious
you bump your head and skin your knee on it. But I can hear mothers wailing
"But my kids *like *meat. They *need *it!"

Precisely the same phenomenon can be seen in every "developing economy" in
Asia: plump people, obese kids. They are stapling the stomachs of
eight-year-olds in Japan.

It will probably take some grotesque horror like BSE to dissuade people
from eating flesh. But even Crony-19 hasn't slowed down the bat-gulpers in
China.

On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 at 22:58, Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is no mystery that the reason it took 30 years for doctors to recommend
> that their patients quit smoking was because the doctors themselves smoked.
> Thirty years and 3000 scientific studies found it to be unhealthy but
> that's how long it took for the government to declare it unhealthy and for
> doctors to stop recommending smoking as a health measure.
>
> Now it has to do with doctors themselves eating all the meat and dairy
> products of the Standard American Diet. Since Nixon asked Big Food, "What
> do we have to do to get food prices to stabilize to avoid losing
> elections?" the answer to that question was "Deregulation"! Since then
> deregulation and cutting taxes became the mantra of the Republican Party,
> and sometimes even the Democratic Party paid attention to the needs of the
> food producers. Yet the outcome for the last 40 years or so was that the
> obesity curve took off at a 45 degree angle since then and now Big Food
> Lobbyists are the most plentiful on K street.
>
> One reason that we can't make reducing meat industry subsidies a political
> issue is that the first primary is in Iowa, aka Corn Country. Most of the
> corn grown by the US agricultural industry is going to feed animals for
> people to eat cheaply. But it is hardly cheap for the society in terms of
> health care costs from the fact that meat products have overtaken all food
> products. This is an economic and health care disaster. Three quarters of
> the population is now obese/diabetic. Some 72% of the volunteers to the
> military are rejected due to their weight and ill health. Not even the
> military can afford to deliver health care to their soldiers given the
> Standard American Diet. This is Sputnik, a national security problem. But
> it is getting no traction in the political arena.
>
> Best,
> Frances
>
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 9:22 AM Byron Allen Black <
> englishcorrection at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah Frances,
>>
>> I was just thinking, the other day: how many seasoned medical
>> professionals will stand up to a wealthy, stubborn patient and tell them
>> "God damn it, Henry, if you keep eating meat and eggs and butter you will
>> be dead in six months. Hell, a year at the outside."
>>
>> No, at best he'll do some mealy-mouthed "Now Henry, you have had a
>> quadruple bypass and you're only sixty-two. Don't you think it might be a
>> little wiser for you to cut back a little on the fatty meat and cholesterol
>> foods?"
>>
>> (Or am I all out-of-date on this?)
>>
>> One of those brilliant doctors on YouTube was complaining that a heart
>> specialists' convention planned to be held in Georgia was to be sponsored
>> by ... a Cattlemen's Association!
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 31 May 2021 at 01:03, Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> https://youtu.be/BGcU9wy8_Dw
>>>
>>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
>>> Windows 10
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi, dear ones,
>>>
>>> I’m happy to devote two hours of this long Memorial Day weekend to this
>>> enlightening Rich Roll interview of Dec. 16, 2018. Lifestyle medicine is a
>>> somewhat recent development.
>>>
>>> Dr. Dean Ornish is a splendid repository of scientific evidence that
>>> lifestyle consideration must be paid attention for health reasons not--just
>>> of our individual survival but in broader quality of life terms for
>>> population success.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Frances
>>>
>>>
>>>
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