Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Our real food issue is NOT food safety....

...nor is it "cancer causing" foods nor is it "food allergy" nor "gluten sensitivity" nor lack of vitamins....
...it is TOO MUCH FOOD!!!
Food is our national addiction. Billboards, books, Internet, TV shows, "celebrity chefs", on and on. The most symbolic act of love and acceptance and bribery and anything else one human wants to do to another is almost always "celebrated" with food.
No wonder we are getting fatter and fatter!
People with BMIs in the blue area will die earlier than matched controls in the green or yellow; people in the purple area have other problems but also, interestingly, have longevity issues (tho' causality may go either way).
I have the secret , magic, fool-proof diet: eat less, exercise more. At the bottom of every single fad diet is the same truth, no matter how cloaked in pseudoscience it may be. Before we get riled up about GMOs, additives, and gluten, we need to get riled up about calories. Less is more (health)!

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