Yup. We know so much more now about nutrition now than we did before, and I appreciate Grant's occasional nod in this direction in the Reader. Personally, I wish every American would read Dr. Joel Fuhrman's "Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease" (1995; http://tinyurl.com/y7keadu). But I gotta say that one of the reasons to ride is to enjoy the chocolate cake. :-)
On Apr 18, 7:51 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: > > > On Apr 18, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Shaun Meehan wrote: > > > It's interesting. I've seen a couple of shows about people who got so > >> large that they were literally disabled. > > > I've known a number of them professionally, in their 30s and living in a > > nursing home due to the health complications of ultra-morbid obesity. And > > probably not going to make it to 50. > > > It makes Scott Cutshall's story all the more impressive to me. > > > This person's mother was clearly out of touch with the situation and was > > quite literally feeding him to death. > > > Ghastly, really and truly ghastly -- there is a kind of sinister > > grotesqueness to this sort of affliction or obsession, in my serious opinion > akin to insanity or demonic possession. It reminds me of that old movie, > "Seven" with Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. One says this with all sympathy > for the victims and with the thought that, "There but for the grace of God > ...". And yet the carnal sins are less bad than the "spiritual" sins of > which we need look no further than to our great and good to see represented > -- hatred, cruelty, pride, greed. The carnal sins are just uglier on the > outside. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
