On 9/7/2013 5:42 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
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> Brian would do better to pay less attention to L-arginine peddlers and
> more attention to those who do clinical research such as Dr. Christopher
> Gardner mentioned below. He's quite believable when he admits that his
> 25 years of vegetarianism is contra-indicated by his own recent research.
He certainly looks healthy, and not like he needs to diet, anyway. And if he's
not insulin resistant (and I'm betting he
isn't), it's not a big deal for him.
I think the chagrin may be more for what he's advocated to those for whom it
may not be the best course.
Running in the circles I do, I know various degrees of
veggie-vegan-macrobiotic, etc., as well as many who are in
various stages of avoiding sugars, gluten, red meat, cows milk, etc. etc. in
various combinations.
Some Vs seem very healthy and happy, others I want to capture for a month and
feed something like a modified Atkins. I
think it would do marvelous things to their physical and mental health. It's
weird to be eating with a couple of vegans,
one happy and apparently healthy, the other semi cadaverous (to my eye),
sallow, etc. and chronically depressed - and
neither of them seems to notice a difference.
It strikes me that a great deal of obsession about what to and not to eat is
inherently political. Some seems spiritual,
but I think much of that is political, too, at bottom. (Does the term
psycho-political make sense here?) I have also
known people with serious celiac disease, obviously real allergies and/or other
unpleasant reactions to various foods.
I, for example, react quite differently to large quantities of alcohol than
others I've had occasion to be with when
they were seriously inebriated.
Dietary Moose
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