DRAFT and NOTES
[Oct. 14, 1998]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Call me Ectomorph. My Popu used to say that I was “Tin. Tin like a tootpick.” He serenaded me at meals, “Eat totala, eat!” The other three grandparents weren’t much better. Each engaged in the same battle cry of their ancestors, “EAT!” These 19h Century Europeans knew the value of fat. They were intolerant of me, a skinny kid who, transported to the Russia of their youth, might not survive the winter. “If only he were chubbier, he’d be alive today.” Of course the Bronx of the 1950’s was a harbinger of the 1960’s urban strife and poverty, but famine was never a real issue. So I grew up with guilt imposed by ancestral fears. Sounds more like Catholicism than my native Judaism.
Now at age 44 I’m still a mutant, at least by our cultural norms. Traveling through America, I sometimes feel like Gulliver in the land of giants. Last summer my daughter (she’s skinny too) and I visited Augusta, Maine. The local population is, well, how should I say it? Obese. The back of a pick up truck is a perfect fit for the average woman, 4x4. Now unlike us skinny people, these folks aren’t malevolent or misanthropic. So I know they meant no harm when they lifted their faces out of bacon cheeseburgers to think, “Two Jews out of the concentration camps.” But this was genuine concern, not anti-Semitism. I’m sure they honestly believe that a six-foot man weighing 145 pounds needs hospitalization. In fact, it’s a frequently held belief that being overweight is healthy because if you go to the hospital and lose weight, you’ll survive. Of course, being overweight guarantees your trip to the hospital, if you’re lucky.
The self-help industry focuses attention on making fat people feel good about them selves. Where does that leave me? Well, the Surgeon General’s height and weight charts now offer some solace, some justification for my existence. Back in the 1960’s I was off the charts. But since then, the charts have been adjusted several times so I now have the government’s blessing of normalcy. Paradoxically, while everyone grew fatter, the charts grew slender so more of the population is now off the charts.
Food today: Malnutrition at 5,000 calories a day
We eat an enormous amount of calories, but you just can’t tell a fat person that he’s malnourished. In fact, they might point to a skinny, but otherwise healthy, African as an example of a malnourished person. But over 50% of America’s population suffers from malnutrition according to the government studies based on the government’s own Recommended Dietary Allowances which are less than ideal. Interestingly, the 50% of these malnourished people population considered “overweight” constitutes most of the 50% who are malnourished. Say what? You heard me. Obesity is not caused by high-nutrition foods, but rather by junk foods which contain virtually no nutritional value.
“Denial” More than a River in Egypt
Ever notice the self-help departments in your local bookstore? Row after row, mile after mile of books, as if the classical Greeks didn’t cover this subject over two thousand years ago. They say that women represent 90% of the self-help market. Does this mean that men are near perfect or that women are simply made to feel inadequate, or both? Unlike the skimpy selection of books focused on men, women get to choose from a wide array of crazy titles. For example, in the subcategory, “feeling good about yourself,” you see books about fat people. Not diet books--there’s plenty of them too--but I’m talking about books designed to give aide and comfort to the obese.
You’d think that people who derive great comfort from food don’t need literary comfort as well. Not true! Writers tell their readers “it’s OK to be overweight.” “Fat is where it’s at!” And speaking of that river in Egypt, retailers like The Forgotten Woman further comfort the obese by selling “plus” sizes because “it’s OK to be overweight.” Size 16 “plus” sure sounds better than a size 32.
Just as stores devalue sizes by one-half for fat inflation, governments similarly devalue their currencies when faced with economic inflation. Both are psychologically comforting. Say a person gains two sizes pre-devaluation--that sounds bad. But post-devaluation, nothing to be embarrassed about for they’ve gained just one size—that sounds good. In the future, our system of weights and measures will reflect our burgeoning obesity. Starting with the metric “kilo” which equals 2.2 pounds in the early 21st century, I predict that by the end of the 21st Century, assuming our unlimited food supply continues unabated, we will revert to the ancient Irish measurement of “stones” which equal 14 pounds. Gaining a stone sure sounds better than putting on 14 pounds. Besides, what are a few stones among friends?
Our genetic destiny is now; the evolutionary process has begun. You may have noticed that virtually everyone you know weighs more today than he or she ever did before. And what’s with the canes? It’s like a fad or something, everybody seems to have a cane and I don’t mean the ones with a silver fox head handle and a sword inside. Most these people have nothing wrong with them, other than placing excessive weight on their legs and feet. The glorious human body is turning into a carnivorous plankton eater with little use for its limbs. By the 31st Century, people will weigh themselves at truck stops. In future millennia, humans will lose the use of their limbs and like the whales before them, reenter the sea as manatee-type marine mammals. In the meantime, I’m buy stock in medical device companies that make canes and prosthesis. Swim anyone?
Where does this leave the chronically thin? The same place evolution left the dodo bird, in a genetic dung heap. But we must fight for our rights. We must insist on “minus” sizes for women who are self conscious about their genetically inferior diminutive frames. I propose a new chain of stores called The Un-forgotten Woman that would cater exclusively to the slender set. All sizes would be inflated by 100% instead of deflated by 50%, so a size 2 becomes a size four, and so on. This way, those skinny minis won’t feel like Gulliver in the land of giants. Face it, a size two sounds better than a size zero. And what kind of size is this anyway, this “zero?” Like if you’re a zero, do you really exist? And if not, why do you need clothes, anyway?
Whatever problems thin women have for lack of physical stature are dwarfed compared to the plight of skinny men who society views narrowly; skinny is effeminate while heavy is macho. Did you say flabby breasted men are macho? U-bet. There are so many men with C and D cups that our culture, especially men, had to rewrite basic biology, which originally assigned soft curves to the distaff side. Apparently, our unlimited food supply has corrupted both the male body and our perception of masculinity.
Enter the Tall and Big Man’s Shop. Unlike The Forgotten Woman “fatties,” large he-men have less guilt and more self-esteeem. Just think of some guy’s reaction if the salesperson tried fitting him into 24 “plus.” “What’s this namby- pamby shit, I’m a 48, Goddamnit!!!” But where does this leave skinny guys? The good news is that we are spared the insult of being the nothing-size “zero” (only women can be nothings, thus bolstering the fragile male ego). Now the bad news: American sizes are cut from forms designed by Omar the Tent Maker so finding “slim” sizes is next to impossible. Even Levi’s jeans, last bastion of the thin man, recently discontinued their slim-cut “512” line for men. But clothing retailers are not to blame. After all, they might get skinny women into stores specializing in petite sizes, but no red-blooded American male would patronize the “Short and Small Man’s Shop.” Not even a tough sounding moniker like “Vinnie’s Petite Shop” would help.
Of all the “It’s OK to…” books, none tells the reader, “it’s OK to be thin.” In fact, the ranks of the thin shrink each year. According to our government, which is known to inflate the good and understate the bad, over one-half of the adult population is significantly overweight. Clearly, the “I’m Fat, You’re Fat” industry caters to the mass market. But what of the poor ectomorph? Skinny people have feelings too. Not all of us always feel good about being viewed as sickly by an obese world. We can’t derive the same comfort from food as our obese brethren. We need self-help too.
A Brief History of Food--Darwin’s Second Big Mac
Biologically speaking food, like aggression, is necessary for procreation, thus placing it on the top of the body’s “things to do” list. Men who want sex from women and women who want love from men both know the rule, food first. OK, so I’m a little sexist, I know it could be the other way around.
The hunger instinct is controlled by ten billion neurons located in the “guts.” These neurons, similar to the gray matter in the brain, actually perceive and communicate information. In fact, the “guts” have a genetic wisdom not found in that mush between your ears. When people have “gut feelings” these cells communicate primitive fears to the brain. The expression “listen to your guts” simply means that your guts can best perceive certain information, like danger for example.
In addition to fear, the guts also control other base instincts like hunger. Now remember, your guts are interested in short-term survival, or put another way, what must the body do to survive long enough to reproduce itself? The “eat and screw”scenario. Enter “famine genes.” One of nature’s finest inventions, the famine gene is designed to keep the body alive for the immediate future. It really doesn’t concern itself with fat deposits on the coronary arteries, cancer statistics, or any other long-term degenerative condition. Its motto is “eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you may die.” A self fulfilling prophecy if you let it.
The famine gene assumes that each meal will be your last. For example, you fill your stomach, but do your guts don’t communicate this to your brain until you are totally engorged with food. The guts have a long-term memory of famine, so they’re not about to tell your brain to stop making your body eat. The guts also want foods that will last the longest, that is, those with lots of calories, like fat.
Cardiac Cuisine—Don’t Trust Your Doctor
Several years ago my mother suffered a non-fatal heart attack. She spent a week at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital in Boston. These large hospitals hire licensed nutritionists, usually with Master of Science degrees in nutrition from major universities. I visited my mother in the coronary care unit, just as her “breakfast” arrived. If I hadn’t seen it myself, I would have never believed it: a cheese omelet with half-cooked bacon swimming in grease. If this were a half-baked (or half cooked) attempt to assure repeat business, I could understand that. But rather it was a classic case of our food culture influencing science. I believe that the $60,000 a year nutritionist is merely a product of his or her American culture and just doesn’t know any better. Obviously, any rural Chinese peasant could do a much better job for the same reason the American does such a poor job—the difference in their respective food cultures.
AMA and JAMA Japanese diet no breast cancer but American women shouldn’t change their diet. Skull and crossbones on fried foods, assumption that food is basically good for us and smoking is bad.
2. Restaurant Madness
You don’t see many thin short-order cooks, do you? Have you noticed that Americans are fatter than ever and we eat out more than ever? Over half American adults are overweight according to the government and over half the meals eaten in the United States are served outside the home. If you think this is a coincidence, I’ve got some swampland you might be interested in. Carefully look over a restaurant menu. Can’t you see a plot is afoot to destroy the health of America. While people were worried about a Russian conspiracy to fluoridate our water, no one bothered to look into our own kitchens where the real enemy lurks.
Restaurateurs and chefs are not kind to thin people, or fat people who want to be thin. Everyone in the industry knows that the more fat, sugar and salt added, the happier the customer. So foods are prepared swimming in fat or under heaps of sugar and salt. I honestly believe that if you deep-fried dog droppings then rolled them in confectionery sugar, you’d have a tasty treat, at least by American standards.
The “all you can eat” buffet, or “obese at the trough” is a modern-day version of the Roman vomitorium. But unlike the Roman stomach, our American stomachs can hold more calories in one meal than a small African village can hold in a whole day. I don’t know about you, but I always feel ripped off at these “all you can eat” things because I refuse to eat more than my body needs.
I play the “buffet game” at the Boston Marriot which has a sushi bar just outside a traditional American-style restaurant and trough, uh, buffet. Outside the restaurant, deserts are exhibited for passersby to view. So I sit at the sushi bar and know instinctively the culinary tastes of prospective patrons. Denizens of café obese are generally overweight, have a puffy, sickly pallor about their faces, often walk or waddle with a cane, and generally look like cardiac ward patients. But the sushi crowd is thin, walks with bounce and looks young for its years. Have you ever seen a fat sushi chef?
Never, ever, ever go to a restaurant when you are hungry. Two things are bound to happen. First, service is especially slow courtesy of food industry sadism. Second, you are bound to eat the wrong things—like an alcoholic who needs a drink—you will engorge on fats and junk.
Breakfasts to Die For
Coronary Grand Slam
Denny’s appears to have made coronary, I mean culinary history with its “Grand Slam.” For $1.99 you get three eggs, bacon, sausage and home fries. About 1,200 calories for $2.00 or about six calories per penny. Now I don’t think that in the history of the world, you could go to a restaurant and buy calories this cheaply. Unfortunately, over half of them are saturated fat.
Last year I stayed at a Marriot. Two types of buffet breakfasts were available: “Healthy Start” (fresh fruit, low fat yogurt and cereal) and the “All American” (eggs, sausage, bacon, cheese). Marriot, the world’s largest caterer, comes out and admits it, American food is not healthy, but its customers paid no attention. The “All American” breakfast, clocked in patriotic fervor, was five times more popular.
Another scrumptious dish of irony was served up by American Airlines. Their standard breakfast is all-American, a greasy cheese omelet with a side of pig meat and buttered toast. So I’m reading the “American Way,” the airline’s in-house magazine, and see that “defibrillators” --the electro shock devices used for heart attacks--are being placed in the company’s planes. I peer over the top of the page to see my neighbor’s food, the standard American Airlines breakfast fare. The two sides of the equation fit perfectly: create a problem, fix it, then bask in the glory of your success.
Breakfast Bravado, How to Order
Breakfast is strictly no-nonsense. Don’t expect your waitress to be sympathetic to your “special” diet. Your request for basic healthy food will hit her like a ton of bricks, she’ll look at your like you’re off your rocker for challenging the food culture’s breakfast status quo. Ordering a dry bagel is tantamount to burning the American flag, so be careful, but don’t get deterred. Tell yourself that “thin is in, there’s nothing to be embarrassed about.”
Certain requests are out of the question like for low fat pancakes. Obviously, no customer can control how much fat goes into the batter or on the frying surface, but you can order your pancakes “dry,” with out butter. Or can you? Omnipresent pads of butter will grace the same plate, usually half-melted by the time you are served. If you complain, the waitress will say, “but we put it on the side.” Toast presents a similar problem. No self-respecting short-order chef would allow toast out of his kitchen with smearing it with butter. So never order just “toast.” You must say “dry with nothing on it, no butter on the side.” Like with the pancakes, the omnipresent butter pads are placed on top of or next to the toast, thus melting fat over your otherwise healthy food.
Meat and eggs satiate the food culture’s insatiable appetite for protein. Of course most Americans get twice the protein that their body needs and the extra grams just a strain on the liver. Breakfast meats are poison. They contain mostly saturated fat, have no fiber, are dosed with sodium nitrate (a known carcinogen) and are cooked on greasy surfaces. Bon appetite! You like eggs? Try ordering egg whites only. Here’s where the help really gets searly, but some eateries will do this for you.
Personally, I’d go for the “fresh fruit” (fresh out of a number ten can) perhaps dripping in corn syrup and residue lead from the lead seal. The red dye number five on those cherries is especially tasty. Whole wheat or rye toast to complement your low-cal treat. You might even opted for some low fat cottage cheese or yogurt on your fruit salad, provided the cows haven’t been grazing near Chernobyl.
Mid-Morning Snack
The skinny eater is always hungry. Without 1200 calorie “Grand Slams,” we need five meals a day. In fact, the he-man’s “three squares a day” is outmoded rubbish since it requires enormous fat-laden meals to make between-meal snacks necessary. An apple or banana works for me, along with a bagel. Don’t expect to find exotic, hard-to-find fruits like apples and bananas at fast food restaurants; they simply lack the extensive expertise and training necessary to handle these most delicate of foods. Besides, it would violate their unwritten code of doom, “nothing healthy shall be served in this establishment.”
Convenience stores like Seven-Eleven and Circle K actually carry apples and even bagels in some areas. Just don’t eat anything that is manufactured or processed by a major food manufacturer, like Hostess Cakes or Drakes. Their foods are high in fat, contain no fiber, are sugar-laden and are filled with massive amounts of empty calories. Likewise, potato chips have nothing to do with potatoes; they merely use the potato as a fat delivery system much like tobacco is used as a nicotine delivery system. They should be renamed “fat chips.” In fact, if the food companies could make fat with a harder consistency, they would skip the potato altogether.
Finally, the mid-morning snack will keep your guts happy so they don’t go into panic mode and take over your body. You know what I’m talking about, especially you guys. During the pangs of hunger you eat large quantities of the worst foods.
Lunch
Salad with Buffalo Jizz.
“No cholesterol” means you are about to eat something that is not good for you, like French fries or potato chips.
Cravings come from dietary deficiency.
Supermarket Shopping—Food Industry Economics
I was a wholesale food distributor for about a year, selling bakery ingredients. Now if I sound a little bitter here, it’s because I lost over $100,000 in this ill-fated business. Like most people, I naively assumed that food quality was important to the companies who manufacture, distribute and retail America’s food supply. But the industry is amoral—it will stop at nothing to make a buck, even at the expense of your health. Say a multinational food processor could add ten cents to its billion dollar bottom line by substituting a known carcinogen for a healthy ingredient. This may pose an ethical problem for you, but rest assured, the only issue for this company would be “What are the chances of getting caught? And don’t rely on your government to protect the food supply. Beyond protecting its own image by stopping outbreaks of food poisoning, its sole concern is to protect the status quo of the agribusiness.
The agribusiness is largely responsible for selecting the product choices available to the consumer. These amoral food manufacturers, processors and distributors offer supermarkets incentives for shelf space from “slotting fees” to special promotions, like “one on tens” where the market gets some free inventory. So it is no wonder that outside of the produce department, most supermarket foods are unhealthy. In fact, the worse a product is for you, the better chance it has of getting shelf space. That’s because foods with the most “value added,” i.e., processing, packaging and marketing have the highest markup, and thus can afford the “slotting fees” and other promotions. When I say “value added,” I mean in the strict economic sense. For example, brand name products tend to be highly processed, cost more than store brands, and get more shelf space.
Let’s put these high-margin products to the test, starting with manufacturer’s coupons. Take a look at the coupons in your local flier. Notice how all these foods are nicely packaged and heavily processed, usually with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (a known coronary killer), sugar (linked to diabetes) and chemicals (linked to cancer). It’s this “value added” that enriches the food companies at the expense of your health. Now take a quick tour of your supermarket to see what I’m talking about. Notice the entire isle devoted to soda, which has high markups and no nutritional value. In fact, the sugar combined with phosphorous inhibits calcium absorption. The entire isle devoted to cold cereal demonstrates the same thing.
Food is like pharmaceuticals, the money is in brand names, not generics. The packaging makes us comfortable. I mean, these are standard products from some of America’s biggest conglomerates so how can you go wrong? Who want’s natural, bulk products anyway? You can’t find a worm in Wonder Bread.—who wants bulk anyway. Brainwashed and fulfill the manifest destiny of the white man: rape the earth and leave it for dead.
Pablem-seeking consumers.
Let’s put these theories to the test. I took a cassette recording with me to the Stop and Shop Supermarket in Watertown, Massachusetts on _____________. The following is a transcript of that tape:
[[[Supermarket tour]]]
Fats, “Edible” Oils and the Big Bad Wolf
You’ve heard it. “Fat is a necessary part of your diet.” “A little fat is good for you.” There is enough truth here to warrant explanation. The walls of your cells (cell membranes) are made from dietary fat and you would die on a truly fat-free diet. Similarly, you would die without water. But water, like fat, can be unhealthy too, especially if you drown in it or it’s contaminated. The cells of our western bodies are quite literally drowning in contaminated fat.
Fat Quantity
Dietary fat is digested and sent via lipoproteins to your body’s cells, which use these fats to construct cell membranes. Just think of road construction. Gravel (fat) is transported via dump truck to the construction site (cells). The dump truck is your “LDL” or low density lipoprotein, also known as “bad cholesterol.” Now what makes these LDL’s bad is that the dump trucks are overzealous. They carry more than the construction job needs, and dump gravel where it doesn’t belong, like your coronary arteries. Enter the clean-up bulldozers, or “HDL,” the so-called good cholesterol. They scoop up excess fat and transport it to the liver for proper disposal.
[Illustration]
The body has a tendency to overproduce LDL’s and under produce HDL’s because of genetic factors, lack of exercise, poor diet, and Murphy’s law. You can’t change your genes, heavy aerobics is, well… just too much work, and Murphy’s Law is fate, so let’s focus on diet. Certain foods like beef and other animal fats tend to elevate LDL’s proving the old cow adage, “what goes around comes around.” But you probably know this already. What you might not know is that certain vegetable oils may be even worse for you than animal fat and these vegetable fats are often hidden in your food. The insidious enemy is partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, or trans fats found in most processed foods (even in Gator Aide, for example) and similarly found in all deep-fried foods like French fries and fried chicken.
People believe that frying in vegetable oil is supposed to be healthy, or at least healthier than frying in animal fat. I was at a fancy seafood restaurant with my daughter in Boston. She ordered scallops and I inquired if they were fried. The waitress responded with a smile, “yes, but we only use vegetable oil.” When you see the term “cholesterol-free,” be afraid, be very afraid. All this claim means is that the product contains no animal or diary, but neither does hemlock. Not only does partially hydrogenated vegetable oil increase your LDL’s, it actually reduces your HDL’s, thus destroying your all-important good-to-bad cholesterol ratio. In other words, it increases the number of overzealous dump trucks and reduces the number of clean-up bulldozers.
[Illustration of Surgeon General’s Warning Label on Products]
Consumption of trans fats from processed and fried foods has reached epidemic proportions and it’s only gotten worse since the mid-1970s when Americans first consumed over half their calories from processed foods. Today, over two-thirds of the average American’s diet comes from processed food. This equates to ingesting half of our calories from fat when experts say that 20 to 30% should be the maximum
A special note for guys. You might be a macho he-man who doesn’t care about death or you might feel social pressure against eating healthy foods “like a woman.” If you’re a construction worker, you know what I’m talking about—but you’re not, are you? No self respecting construction worker would read this book. But for those of you on macho he-man diets, arterial sclerosis is not confined to the heart. Your penis, that’s right, I said penis, can similarly malfunction (not function) from arterial sclerosis. Now guys, if you’re not interested in penile function, then biologically speaking you don’t deserve to live.
[Illustration of tough-guy construction workers eating veggies out of their lunch boxes or before (fat) and after (skinny) pics of same guys pass the crudete]
Fat Quality
Increasing the quality of fats you consume is just as important is reducing the quantity. Eskimos are a good example of a people who consume an enormous amount of dietary fat (mostly from fish oil) who don’t have a high incidence of heart disease. Well-constructed human cells encourage long and healthy life while poorly constructed cells cause cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and just about every other health problem known to mankind. The higher the quality of fat you ingest, the longer you will live disease-free. These fats include fish oil, flaxseed oil, olive oil, and canola oil.
Instinctively, your body is a master builder seeking only the highest quality fats for cell reproduction, and in particular cell membranes (walls), which are constructed, entirely from digested fats. If these high-quality materials are not available, your body settles for next best, and so on until it scrapes the bottom of the fat barrel, i.e., animal products. However, through hydrogenation of otherwise healthy vegetable oils, food processors have developed products such as shortening and margarine that fool the body into thinking that they are of high-quality too. In fact, the food industry has fooled our brains as well. On a recent trip to a luncheonette in Augusta, Maine, I saw a big, hand-written sign saying, “Margarine available instead of butter.” So why does this matter? When these partially hydrogenated vegetable oils masquerade as healthy fats, your body uses them instead of those healthy fats, thus depriving you of the construction materials necessary for healthy cells. Furthermore, these saturated fats will clog your coronary arteries.
Your poorly constructed cells invite disease. Just think of the cell membrane as the exterior or roof of a house. Shoddy roofing or siding will expose the house to the elements allowing in rain, wind and whatever else nature throws at it, including the Big Bad Wolf.
The Story of the Big Bad Wolf
[Illustration]
Pig One was slothful, a deadly sin matched only by his gluttony, so he built a house of straw--an all-American breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage and buttered toast, then, baloney, cheese, mayonnaise and fries for lunch, and a nice juicy steak for dinner. Wolf huffed and puffed and blew the house down, then ate Pig One who was a tasty treat after eating all that junk food.
Pig Two was somewhat less slothful, but lazy nevertheless and built his house of sticks—a diet of fried chicken and French-fries. These partially hydrogenated “cholesterol-free” oils fooled Pit Two into thinking that he was using the finast construction materials. But when Wolf huffed and puffed and puffed and huffed, he blew the house down and ate Pig Two.
[Illustrate Pig Two]
Pig Three heard about the demise of pigs One and Two. He became obsessive-compulsive and carefully built a house of bricks and stones—whole grains, fresh vegetables, fruits and omega 3 oils from fish, flaxseed and olive oil. Wolf huffed and puffed, and puffed and huffed, and nothing happened. He again huffed and puffed, and puffed and huffed, and nothing! He inhales one more time and drops dead of a coronary. Too bad for Wolf since Pig Three would have been a truly nutritious meal.
Let’s join the Wolf’s autopsy already in progress:
“The subject arrived at Lupus General Hospital DOA. He’s a mature male wolf of 170 pounds. The subject suffered Acute Myocaridial Infarct from advanced Arteriosclerosis and Subendocardial Fibrosis. The coronary arteries are rigid, suffer degeneration, and contain “free-radical” damage along the arterial walls. The valve cusps are thick and plastic-like and contain vegetation and thrombosis…. ”
OK, that’s enough, you get the picture. The Wolf died of a heart attack caused by his all-American unhealthy diet of Pig One and Pig Two: too much of the wrong kinds of fats and not enough of the right kind.
Fat-Deprived America
[Illustration of porker saying “What do you mean I’m not getting enough fat?”]
Here we are the fattest nation in history consuming half our calories from fat and we don’t get enough essential fatty acids. Like the Wolf, perhaps 80 percent of our population consumes an inadequate amount of these key building blocks for optimal cell growth. Instead, Americans consume non-essential, harmful fats like partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and the so-called healthy polyunsaturated oils which loose their nutritional benefits from over processing. Simply put, the food industry adulterates fats by subjecting them to processing which is downright dangerous and actually prevents the body from metabolizing good fats, i.e, essential fatty acids. So what is the consumer to do? The following section sets forth the good, the bad and the ugly of fats:
Add Essential Fatty Acids
Like with any diet, it is easier to add new foods, especially fatty ones, than eliminate old ones, so let’s start simple. Go to a health food store and purchase flax seed oil and use a table spoon full a day. Also, try to eat more fish, especially the fatty kind like sardines, mackerel, and tuna, but don’t eat fried fish or smother it in vegetable oil.
Also, use olive oil and canola oil.
Reduce Harmful Fats
Rule One: Treat partially hydrogenated vegetable oils for the poison that they are. Don’t eat them! Eliminate fried chicken and French fries. Also, check the label on processed foods. If you see “partially hydrogenated on the label, don’t buy it!
Rule Two: Reduce the amount of animal fat you consume. Try smaller portions of leaner meats, white meat turkey and white meat chicken. Breakfast and lunchmeats are high-fat and contain sodium nitrate, a known carcinogen. The Chinese place a few strips of lean meat on top of rice and vegetables making for a balanced meal. Forget about the 16 ounce steak with a couple of peas on the side.
Rule Three: Consume only fat-free or one-percent fat diary products.
Rule Four: Don’t buy mass-market vegetable oils.
Rule Five: Boycott your supermarket.
Types of Fats [ a chart would help]
[[need better explaination—see page 241 of Murray]]
All fats are either saturated (they carry hydrogen molecules) or unsaturated (they don’t carry hydrogen molecules). Animal fats are saturated, so they are solid at room temperature and at 98.6 degrees, the temperature inside of your coronary arteries. Unsaturated oils like corn oil and soy oil are also known as polyunsaturated oils, and remain liquid at room temperature.
Some unsaturated fats like olive oil are basically unsaturated except for a very small amount of hydrogen. These oils are called monosaturated. Polyunsaturated fats may appear better for you, but they easily become toxic when exposed to heat, light or oxygen. They create “free radicals” in your body that are linked to cancer and heart disease.
Partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, i.e., shortening and margarine are the backbone of the processed food and restaurant industries since so many of their products depend on these oils. Simply put, hydrogenation takes a perfectly good natural product like polyunsaturated vegetable oil and injects it with hydrogen molecules, in order to give the product that satisfying “fat” feel on your tongue and longer shelf life in the grocery store. We sacrifice our health in the name of convenience. Just don’t be surprised if your trip to the hospital and resulting incapacity is similarly inconvenient.
Your New Fat Diet
Fat and the 10% solution. [Get book from library] Mouse study, etc.
One part food, three parts poison
PHVO, transfats, sugar, salt, Gatoraide has PHVO
Of Fiber, Fecal Impactment and other Scatological Musings
When John Wayne died from lung cancer his bowls were filled with something like fifty pounds feces. He died a true American in many ways. Fat bloated fiberless diets have turned county coroners’ offices and mortuaries into septic pumping stations while proctologists are overwhelmed with anal fissures and hemorrhoid cases.
Not eating your veggies causes that bloated feeling, constipation, the need for medication and surgery, painful bowl movements, hemorrhoids, colorectal cancer (especially if you eat lots of meat). You’ve probably joked about the embarrassment of getting into to a car accident and going to the hospital in old, dirty underwear. I’d be more concerned about greatest indignity of all: “shitting the bed” (literally) and leaving my beloved family a feces-laden corpse.
Obese Ergonomics
Remember those old bench-style car seats that were popular until the 1970’s? Well, the greatest product improvement for skinny consumers was Detroit’s adoption of European-style bucket seats. But why design a mass-market product for the skinny minority. They didn’t. Turning benches to buckets was yet another accommodation for the obese. You see, these seats are well designed for bad backs. Like legs and feet, the spine was designed for hunting and gathering, and not eating.
Vegetarianism
Finish your meat because it’s more expensive the veggies.
He-man can’t metabolize animal fat. Intestines, fangs, claws, misconception of omnivore, destroy the economy, what is an omnivore, 50 steps removed, What do we know about cows (horns) and steers’ utters, oops that not an utter.
Now deep fried rat ok if you are in Leningrad during its siege in 1944-45.
Longevity and Digesting Mortality
Mouse story, max cal. In lifetime. Corollary in humans 60 years v. 90 years.
90 year olds low appetite when young and walk. Nature and unlimited food supply—most animals kill themselves. Your mortal future, Cancer, heart disease (describe how we die) Impaired penis from arterial sclerosis.
Vacuous Foods
The most important nutrients come from foods not eaten: fruits vegetables and whole grains. Lifecycle of wheat, rice, etc. [Use Colloidal mineral tape.] 1937 Capitalism overfeeds and communism underfeeds. Bleach the flour, softener, etc [Use grain book]
Kid’s Foods
“It’s got pieces.” Either lumps in your food or someday, lumps in your breast.
Ignore Diet Books and your Doctor’s Advice
Obese cardiologists, OK to have 30% fat—dummying down of dieting and fat dummies. Food pyramid fraud. A little fat is good for you. 10% solution.
Filet= flay. Water bottle culture.
Neurotic Eaters’ Diary: A day in the life of.
I am my inner child.
Cartoons
Cows serving cows humans in a Bovine Fast Food Palace
Food pyramid like house.
Food label’s we’d like to see
“Fruit” only 10%
Pigs roast humans on spit, apple in mouth
Deer in car, human on roof
Human hand ashtray ala apes, with ape smokers.
NOTES
Ruby Tuesdays has transfats in mustard Heinz Easy Pour.
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