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Suicide by Steak
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by Barry Artiste | November 4, 2007 at 09:49 am
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Ah yes, Junk Science, the "National Enquirer" of the Science and Health World. As this story states, pretty much anything you do will kill you. For now we will stick to foods we eat. Now for sake of argument we will stick to wholesome Canadian grown food, inspected by CFIA.
Apparently Researchers of Junk Science who rely on fear mongering to get those too few publicly funded Research grants have come up with a few doozies. Doozies which have well served humans for a million years. Before the twentieth century we didn't seem to have a problem with food, but then the only research done was by the food industry researchers who have a vested interest in stated their foods wholesomeness. Count Chocula Cereal was Chockfull of Chocolately Yummy Goodness and fortified by endless list of vitamins and ingredients. Remember Puffed Wheat? Of course some my age do, Puffed Wheat was the dread of every kids, as the Value Village of breakfast cereals. Puffed Wheat was a pre cursor to Honey Coasted Puffed Wheat cereal with the Honey Bear as it's spokesmen, but then tragically Honey Bear was killed and eaten in the Cereal Wars by a Cereal Tiger called Tony. Now Beef in the last two decades has been getting a bad rap. Apparently it's okay to eat, but do not go over the alloted Junk Science limit of 500 grams a week of red meat or Cancer will come a "Callin for your Colon".
In ending it may be Junk Science that will surely be our demise. Junk Science much like Celebrities who lose a pound or two instantly become what seems to be World Authourities on Weight Loss and are urged to write a book about their secrets to weight loss. So until my Colon says Enough, I am a snacking on what I like, though in moderation. "Suicide by Steak" is a far better death, than living in fear what is going to kill me internally by Junk Science, who have been proven idiots a decade later by another group of Junk Science Researchers.
The question we should be asking is to what extent are we prepared to let study-induced disease fear affect the pleasure we take from food and drink. I'm not advocating gluttony and drunkenness, but this new study says we shouldn't even eat lunch meat.It does allow that seven 75-gram servings of red meat a week won't kill us outright but it also suggests that every 48 grams of red meat consumed each day beyond the 500-gram weekly allotment increases cancer risk by 15 per cent. Fifteen per cent, sounds like quite a bit, but you'd have to know what the risk was in the first place. Pretty small, I would expect.
It seems like scarcely a day goes by when we aren't getting new "scientific" health advice. The only certainty is that the latest study will contradict the one before it. For example, this week yet another study cast doubt on the cancer fighting ability of vitamin D. You'll remember that this vitamin's miracle effect was the last big cancer story.
Here's what I believe. We're all going to die eventually so we should enjoy our lives while we're living them. That doesn't mean a steady diet of cauliflower and broccoli. Give me suicide by steak any day.
Contact Randall Denley at 613-596-3756 or by e-mail, rdenley@thecitizen.canwest.com
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at 10:03 on November 4th, 2007
... just stay away from the red M&Ms. Evidently they're fatal to rats in quantities of over 100,000.
at 10:08 on November 4th, 2007
Tofu once the darling of the Junk Science set for decades, now is proven to not be the miracle food touoted by Junk Scientitians. Especially young girls as young as 7 years old who started developing at a rapid rate and experiencing development problems on a 13 year old should face. Darn straight those in the know who once said Tofu was great, fire out studies faster and faster in order to get more grants. Their is a timeline in reporting studies in order to get all the facts. The fact is, they don't wait for the effects to kick in, Clinical trails for drugs can take 5 to 7 years before a study, Junk Science publiched research papers can be as little as a couple of weeks of research it seems.