THE "THIS IS 2005" APPROACH | 2005-01-05
If you want to know the latest Yuppie line, look at AOL.
Right now their line is that low carbohydrate "fad" is yesterday. The 2005 fad, they say, has something to do with spaghetti.
I use Atkins because it works. But it is a nightmare for the whole multibillion-dollar "science" of nutrition. All their endless and detailed instructions on a "balanced" diet are thrown right out the window.
As I pointed out before, a statistically significant number of men have had to live live on nothing but fat meat for months in the Arctic. They got isolated and 1) you can't grow a vegetable garden in the Arctic in January, even a little one, and 2) there are no skinny animals in the Arctic.
They lived on FAT, solid cholestrol meat.
And the official survival courses have pointed out for at least four decades that nobody came out of this months-long solid cholestrol diet less healthy than he went in.
Nobody.
So now we begin the endless procession. Every month somebody will tell us that low carbohydrates is Yesterday's Thing, A Fad.
I remember when vitamin pills were Yesterday's Thing, a Fad. All the MDs swore that for deeply scientific reasons a pill containing vitamin D was nothing like a Balanced Diet.
Actually enriched bread and a vitamin pill beat the hell out of a Balanced Diet. How do I know?
Because I have spent a lot of time outside the Enriched Bread Circuit. You know, those Glorious Third World places where there are no artificial ingredients.
You can die in places like that. One person living in a place like that wrote me he had bleeding gums. I wrote him it was probably scruvy. I said, "these things happen." He took vitamin C and his bleeding gums stopped bleeding.
So do you want to live in the real world or do you want the latest Yuppie thing?
Me, I'm getting a little tired of saying, "that's dumb" to incurable adolescents.
"Race doesn't exist" and "Quakers are saints" and all the rest of it. Am I the only sane one left standing?