Dissect & analyze your perceptions to minimize the imperfections infecting your thoughts (think right)

Dissect & analyze your expectations to minimize the imperfections infecting your feelings (feel right)

Dissect & analyze the gaps between your personal power & your wisdom to minimize the imperfections infecting your behavior (act right)

Strive to obtain & maintain a level of consciousness or awareness that is appropriate to each life experience (live right)

-Ed Thompson (ca 2001) >From: Keith Thomas <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Paleolithic Diet Symposium List <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Draft of my "Letter to the Editor" sent to Scientific American >Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:49:12 -0500 > >On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:18 Edward Thompson > > >Comments on the following draft ... are welcome. > > >Ed, I'm sure you enjoyed writing it! I hope the length doesn't - on its >own - rule it out. > > >A case in point would be > >the notable reduction in all-cause > >mortality (from fish oil > >supplementation) in the GISSI-Prevention > >Trial1, a trial involving over > >11,000 people with coronary heart disease. > >Perhaps one example of fish oil and one example from another, quite >different area, might have been more effective that two concerning fish >oil. > > >One is tempted to ask whether Mr. Leonard > >feels restraint or pressure (ie. is "under > Eduress") from the corporate interests of > >agribusiness, or if he is perhaps > >in cahoots with them to advance interests > >of his own. > >Good point. There are corporate interests that exert direct pressure >(these are well illustrated in the Enig and Fallon paper "The Oiling of >America". But the real problem is more pervasive - cultural hegemony >quietly rules out of question a serious approach to prevention rather than >treatment. > >I am dismayed when I see so often serious articles, even in the top end >popular media, about the perils from diabetes, obesity, sedentism etc. >The articles point to rapidly increasing incidence of pathologies and the >implications for individuals, health systems, insurance, paying for >retired baby-boomers etc. But the articles almost always end with a nudge >and a wink, to the effect that doing away with fries or exercising more >for the rest of our lives > is just too hard. It is as if we were on a >moving pathway to years of pain and disability, but that the ride is so >much fun today that we can't bear to get off or think about tomorrow. >What evolutionary survival trait, I ask myself, is now responsible for >this bizarre phenomenon? > >The option we resort to is that promised by big pharma. > >Perhaps Leonard's article is not the one in which the start should be made >to advocate Paleo lifestyle changes, such as those you advocated, but I'm >still waiting for a serious article that will do this AND succeed. > >Keith