At 08:39 PM 4/27/06 -0500, Robert Kesterson wrote:
 > I can eat anything I want and not get any ill effects -- doesn't mean 
it's a good idea. ;-)

Point taken.  I was unclear.  I used to be like that myself.  But that was 
before I dropped sugars, trans fats and processed foods.  Now I'm 
developing much more internal sensitivity, and my gut is a 
quickly-responsive litmus test for all sorts of stuff I used to consume 
without effect.  Obviously there are people who are much more sensitive 
than I am (Jeuxles may be one of them, for instance), but one can only 
speak from one own gut.  [ba-DUM-bum!]

On odd-numbered days I think trans fats produce some sort of "numbness" or 
insensitivity at the molecular level, which allows you to go on eating them 
for years without realizing the degree to which (microscopically at first) 
you are actually in pain.  On even days I just chalk it up to the crafty 
strategy of "long slow poisoning" by corporate profiteers.

Either way, let that loop run for a few decades in an environment of 
intellectual sloth, personal irresponsibility, attention deficit, 
psychological denial, mass-marketing and obsessive consumptiveness, and 
you've got the perfect, long-term, hands-clean, money-making, weapon of 
mass destruction.

- S.

[ I'm sorry, were we talking about coconuts? ]




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