As for the sanctimonious dieter on this thread . . . . one can only hope that “changing the world” will include some personal evolution, towards a more decent attitude.

One can hope.

Oh, please forgive my insolence in addressing you, a scientist. Or is that Scientologist? What “tear-jerker?” Speaking of a grandfather who died 36 years ago after 95 healthy years of smoking stogies, eating juicy red meat and watching Cubs games on TV as exercise? Oh, by the way, not to be picky; but I believe the word is anecdotal, not “antedotal.” But perhaps you were speaking of that which comes before (ante) a dowry (dotal). As for me, I’m counting on the fallout from Japan to irradiate the toxins in the Twinkies I eat.

To reiterate:

Your new regime seems to have made you a bigger sphincter than before.

But there’s a catch to that:

You need to quote a particular page and sentence of “The China Study” to refute what I am saying (any passage will do as long as it is deep within the book so I know you actually attempted to read it) before you tell me I am “full of it” on the following two statements:

Milk kills.
Meat kills.

P.S. to Johnny W. — I (like most scientists) do not care (or to be more blunt, GARA — Give A Rat’s ***) about “one-off, antedotal stories” like the “tear-jerker” you shared — we care about solidly peer-reviewed, statistically significant, and therefore undeniable studies involving tens-of-thousands of people in which actual blood work was performed to determine:

1) What was happening metabolically
2) What was causing it biochemically
3) How the control group was faring

Bill Clinton (unlike YOU) actually read this book, and he could not disagree with you M.O.R.E. — and he went on the record with his actions AND his words.

Smoke DAT.

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In the good (for you) news department, I have just been offered a fantastic opportunity to “change the world” (purposely oblique) and will be signing off for good, effective right now — so you won’t have “Truthclubber” to kick around any more…

Is there a diet fix that will make you more polite to hardworking journalists?

Mike Tyson must be reading your advice. He has gone from ear-chewing carnivore to vegan in Vegas.

In your honor, breakfast this morning consisted of Cheerios Honeynut cereal with low fat milk, a banana, red grapes, blueberries and strawberries. Happy? Now for that 18 ounce prime rib tonight! Personally, I’ve never smoked and rarely drink even a glass of wine. My maternal grandfather, on the other hand, smoked a few cigars daily, ate mostly red meat, enjoyed a Manhattan cocktail daily, and hardly exercised. I’ll feel lucky if I make it to 80. He lived to 95.

Your new regime seems to have made you a bigger sphincter than before.

Congratulations!

Just so you know:

Eating excessive amounts of fat causes Type II diabetes (and other debilitating diseases).

Smoking excessive amounts of tobacco causes cancer(s).

Drinking excessive amounts of alcohol causes all sorts of disease(s).

Denying (or excusing) excessive amounts of bad personal behavior causes dysfunction — at the personal, or cultural, or budgetary level — and I am NOT into enabling or covering up root causation of what has happened, unlike apparently you (and others).

Bill Clinton was wise enough to see that he, and he alone, was responsible, ONCE HE KNEW. for the consequences of what was happening to him.

He admitted as much in moving to a new dieting paradigm that will reverse much if not all of what nearly caused his premature death.

Apparently you are not that wise.