> Does anybody here doubt that chronic evasion enforced by tribal conformity
> can win for a long time against empirically based reason? Have the eating

> Does anybody here doubt that chronic evasion enforced by tribal conformity
> can win for a long time against empirically based reason? Have the eating
> habits of the average USA citizen reached rock bottom after obesity has
> finally (whew what a battle) become acknowledged as a chronic disease? No.
> Evasion continues. Preventable hypoglycemia, diabetes, heart disease and
> cancer continue to increase incapacitating and destroying the lives of
> younger and younger people as the appalling US diet plumbs new depths
> (only matched by electric music). Possibly the worst outcome of is that
> heath care in the US is inevitably predicted to steadily be less and less
> affordable as people chomp their way into an early junk food grave only
> because it correctly reflects this awful market reality.
>
> How can any intelligent member of the general public reconcile the billions
> spent on scientific research with the _continuing absurdity_ of the average
> American diet? What we see here can only be explained as limiting reason to
> what remains politically acceptable. A classic example is the popular Atkins
> diet which actually encouraged overweight (i.e. chronically ill) people to
> poison their system by entering ketosis forcing off a few kilos without
> removing the artery hardening risks known to be associated with excess ...

> Does anybody here doubt that chronic evasion enforced by tribal conformity
> can win for a long time against empirically based reason? Have the eating
> habits of the average USA citizen reached rock bottom after obesity has
> finally (whew what a battle) become acknowledged as a chronic disease? No.
> Evasion continues. Preventable hypoglycemia, diabetes, heart disease and
> cancer continue to increase incapacitating and destroying the lives of
> younger and younger people as the appalling US diet plumbs new depths
> (only matched by electric music). Possibly the worst outcome of is that
> heath care in the US is inevitably predicted to steadily be less and less
> affordable as people chomp their way into an early junk food grave only
> because it correctly reflects this awful market reality.
>
> How can any intelligent member of the general public reconcile the billions
> spent on scientific research with the _continuing absurdity_ of the average
> American diet? What we see here can only be explained as limiting reason to
> what remains politically acceptable. A classic example is the popular Atkins
> diet which actually encouraged overweight (i.e. chronically ill) people to
> poison their system by entering ketosis forcing off a few kilos without
> removing the artery hardening risks known to be associated with excess ...