Karl Mac Mc Kinnon wrote:

>         My question is, do I tell the doctor, "I'm on a diet the FDA would
> throw a shit over - no grains or dairy," and if not, will the result,
> "shows high levels of ketone bodies in urine, indicative of diabetes or
> starvation" get me canned?

Since there is such envigorating discussions on the Bible/religious
underpinnings of diet you might simply suggest that your ketosis is the
function of a religious fast of which they become caught between a shit
and a fart if they ask you about it or not hire you as a result of it.

>         I know that NeanderThin isn't a quack diet because I'm a
> historian, and I have learned that high civilizations ride in on
> agriculture and war, and burn out the land and themselves with agriculture
> and war.

An academic argument which is of no interest to a physician whose
realities consist of a highly litigious society drriven by a hungrey law
profession.  I like your arguments, but one such as this unfortunately
falls on deaf ears when confronted with legal and economic pressures.

>Audette's complex simplicity is easy to see, but hard to grasp
> independantly.  What you can't get, you don't need.  Why drink milk?  Why
> eat bread?  Can't get it, don't need it!  Unfortunately, I fear that many
> doctors have no intuitive knowledge of the human body (like the one who
> told my anorexic brother to take some vitamen supliments with a bowl of
> ice cream).

I might disagree only partially.  Many doctors do have an intuitive
knowledge of the body.  Unfortunately, their training forces them to
override intuitive urges with intellectual mechanism. Perhaps the
evolutionary pressure to be studied here is the influence of contrived
legal realities on the phenotypic expression of the physicians' mind.
=8-)

Andrew
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