Wednesday, April 20, 2005
"Nobody knows nothing."
William Goldman famously said it about Hollywood. It's rather more disturbing to learn it about the doctors you are paying to keep you alive, and all the authoritative national medical science foundations...
Should I make a list of all the medical wisdom that has been delivered upon me by experts with not a trace of uncertainty over the years, only to be totally reversed?
When I was a kid meat gave you protein that kept you strong and healthy -- bread, pasta and carbohydrates made you fat. But then carbohydrates kept you healthy while meat made you fat because it has fat in it, obviously. But now it's carbohydrates that are fattening again ...
Don't eat food with cholesterol in it, it'll clog your arteries and kill you, so no eggs, they're bad. Eat a healthy high-carbohydrate cereal breakfast ... No! -- your body sets its own cholesterol level, and eggs are good. Don't have 'em just for breakfast, snack on cold boiled ones too, to cut out those bad carbs at lunch!
Step up on this scale, look at your weight, and now look at these optimal weight tables. That f-a-t you are carrying around spells early death....
Maybe it's not too late, I can still catch up.
Get me a high-calorie beer, double order of fries, and a MonsterThickburger. Make that six high-calorie beers...
William Goldman famously said it about Hollywood. It's rather more disturbing to learn it about the doctors you are paying to keep you alive, and all the authoritative national medical science foundations...
Some Extra Heft May Be Helpful, New Study Says"I suffered on diets for twenty years for what? To die younger??"
People who are overweight but not obese have a lower risk of death than those of normal weight, federal researchers are reporting today...
The new study comes just 13 months after different researchers from the disease control centers published a paper warning that obesity and overweight were causing an extra 400,000 deaths a year and were poised to overtake smoking as the nation's leading preventable cause of premature death... [NY Times]
Should I make a list of all the medical wisdom that has been delivered upon me by experts with not a trace of uncertainty over the years, only to be totally reversed?
When I was a kid meat gave you protein that kept you strong and healthy -- bread, pasta and carbohydrates made you fat. But then carbohydrates kept you healthy while meat made you fat because it has fat in it, obviously. But now it's carbohydrates that are fattening again ...
Don't eat food with cholesterol in it, it'll clog your arteries and kill you, so no eggs, they're bad. Eat a healthy high-carbohydrate cereal breakfast ... No! -- your body sets its own cholesterol level, and eggs are good. Don't have 'em just for breakfast, snack on cold boiled ones too, to cut out those bad carbs at lunch!
Step up on this scale, look at your weight, and now look at these optimal weight tables. That f-a-t you are carrying around spells early death....
The take-home message from this study, it seems to me, is unambiguous," Dr. Glassner said. "What is officially deemed overweight these days is actually the optimal weight."Unambiguous? It took them only 70 years to notice something that is unambiguous? Arghhh!
Maybe it's not too late, I can still catch up.
Get me a high-calorie beer, double order of fries, and a MonsterThickburger. Make that six high-calorie beers...
