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

[Frances Morey]

Thank you for your kind words about my oeuvre, Byron.
Best,
Frances

On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 12:13 AM Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In accident victim autopsies it was discovered that 11 year old boys had
> the beginnings of fatty buildup in their arteries. Some newborn babies had
> arterial plaques soon after birth due to the mother's prenatal diet. Having
> eaten out for close to 20 years of plant based eating I considered writing
> a book, "Life Ain't Easy in the Green Lane" recounting the experiences I've
> encountered when ordering a plant based meal in Standard American Diet
> restaurants. It was too pathetic to recount the sad episodes so I decided
> to try to start a plant based food restaurant instead. Just renting a space
> for it has proven daunting. People don't believe it could be successful
> enough to pay the rent. I'm now convinced that it couldn't here in Corpus
> Christi where oil, natural gas and beef production are the core industries.
> Best,
> Franceds
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 12:00 AM Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> That earlier break out of BSE barely made a dent. in demand, or a ripple
>> to the supply. Now the cyberhacking of the meat plants is doing what
>> couldn't be done back then, slowing down the production of meat to the
>> grocery stores.
>> OMG, the scourge of meat preference has gone world wide.  I really pity
>> the children whose stomachs are being stapled! It turns my stomach just
>> watching people consume meat. The image of "bat gulpers" won't be easily
>> forgotten.
>> Best,
>> Frances
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 4:58 PM Byron Allen Black <
>> englishcorrection at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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