On Fri, 17 May 2002 11:14:59 -0600, Jana Eagle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I found this article frustratingly dismissive.  Gursche didn't even
>seem to consider the possibility that eating a grains and legumes-
>based diet could cause health problems.  I'd like to encourage
>Canadians to write to the Editor and share their experience with
>following a paleo diet.  I wish that people who ran a health magazine
>were interested in things that truly made people healthy, not just in
>creating a culture that supports the purchase of dietary supplements.

The nature of the individual is that it is one separate entity.

For example, if an individual cuts another person, it feels no physical
pain, but if it cuts itself, it feels physical pain.

Due to this, the individual gives precedence to ITSELF.

Thus, expect FIRST that individuals will do whatever benefits
THEMSELVES.

Then, you can be surprised (and also somewhat suspicious), when someone
does something apparently altruistic.

In the modern era, survival largely means one's JOB.

Thus, above all, expect individuals to first and foremost do whatever it
takes to keep their jobs.   (A great example of this is the people at
Arthur Anderson who shredded the Enron documents.)

Health food stores cater primarily to urban women, who in our society,
are more unhealthy than men, since they are much more likely to have
dieted, which means to cut their fat intake, and thus eat food that is
almost entirely non-paleo (as opposed to the average guy, who at least
eats a fair amount of protein, and is more likely to be in a
non-sedentary job).

Urban women have lived their lives far from any actual animal, so their
only experience of animals are cute stuffed teddy bears, and cute
talking cartoon animals.   That, combined with their natural nurturing
instincts, make them find vegetarianism appealing.   (Someone who had
actually raised chickens would have no problems with cutting their
stupid and vicious necks.)

All of these factors, combined together, make it unlikely that any
health store will toss out the tons of grains on its shelves, and
replace them with butcher sections and books on how to hunt "small
defenseless animals".


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Cheers,

Ken
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