"The only test of the utility of Knowledge, is its promoting the happiness of mankind." — Dr. STARK on Diet, p. 90.
If it hurts the child in obvious fashion, how is overfeeding not child abuse? If 30 percent of children are obese and have a six-fold increase in lifetime mortality, then that is clear harm. Since parents today have no idea what food is or how to eat, it may be unreasonable to expect that they can feed a dependent let alone themselves. In this case, a little bit of extreme response may be needed to correct the overall problem of poor food education and poor diet.
Turns out real men do eat meat, they just can't get it up because their prostate is shot. The 'association' of meat and dairy products with increased risk of prostate cancer has long been noted and is now the subject of a British study. When the Dairy Board is squealing about soy milk having 'phytoestrogens' in it, they really trying to distract you from the genuine animal hormone IGF-1 present in meat and milk.
The whole problem with the meat diet is that what you eat is too close to what you are, and your body responds to the food as if it is internal. So you pick up hormone effects and immune responses where none would even be suspected.
A new study by the University of Texas indicates that prion mutations, and cross-species transmission, may be easier and more widespread than ever before. For the first time, rapid-onset spongiform encephalopathy diseases have been created in the laboratory. Claudio Soto, a research scientist, has created totally new strains of wasting diseases.
This raises the specter that any natural reservoir of prion disease - in cattle, sheep, deer, moose, elk and other hoofed ungulates - can serve to infect a wider population in another species. The time is long past to consider that any form of brain wasting disease - not just the feared CJD - but other diseases, such as the current epidemic of dementia, as possible prion infection. Onset of symptoms may take decades, and by that time, the realization that a mad cow (or mad-moose) epidemic is taking place will come as a sudden wave of the utmost human tragedy.
Seed Saver's has a webinar series coming up here. The teaser looks great, I can't wait for the real thing.
Lunchmeat is risky business - better cook it along with your lettuce, jalapenos, and spinach. http://goo.gl/Cch35
Meat makes you sick, literally, according to the top 5 causes of lost income and quality of life years (QALYs):
From http://goo.gl/1kfgD, the Emerging Pathogens Institute of the University of Florida. But seriously, you get toxoplasmosis from pork? Who knew?
Think that an economic recovery means more jobs? Just the opposite- businesses are getting better at doing more with fewer and fewer workers.
http://goo.gl/12uAs