Well, I'm angry too.
What the hell is the Wall Street Journal doing running such a story? I thought they did investment type news.
But people who enjoy their food are under fire. Rush had that story a couple of days ago about some folks in Sweden who have spent thousands of dollars creating a plate that sits on a scale. If the food disappears from the plate too fast, a voice tells the eater to stop eating.
How stupid is that?
Wall Street Journal story, "Countdown to a Food Coma." This is a story about what happens to you after you eat, what happens to your body after you eat a big meal for Thanksgiving. "Countdown to a Food Coma," is the title. "What Happens to Your Body After a Big Meal; Clues to Future Health?"
"You have seconds on turkey and thirds on stuffing. The top button is unfastened to make room for the pumpkin pie." When that happens, they say, "It is time to step away from the table. This post-meal recovery period is being studied by scientists who are increasingly finding that what happens in the body after eating a big meal doesn't just bring on sleepiness, commonly known as food coma. It can also increase the risk of later health problems." This is getting absurd. Stop the studies. Here we are, two days before Thanksgiving, and even the Wall Street Journal has to run a story about how what you eat, and how much you eat, may kill you on Thanksgiving.
"Everybody absorbs fats, sugars and other nutrients differently. These variations can provide clues about a person's risk for common medical conditions, including heart disease, stroke and diabetes." We're talking about turkey and dressing, the traditional Thanksgiving meal, and the Wall Street Journal has a story on how you might be killed by it. "Even in healthy people, cells that line the blood vessels temporarily function less efficiently after a person eats a high-fat meal. Researchers also are studying strategies for reducing risks in the period immediately after a meal." Who is paying for this? Why are they doing this? Whoever they are, they need to be stopped. Who cares? Has anybody ever seen on a death certificate, "He died because of what he ate on Thanksgiving as a teenager." Who are they trying to kid?
"Researchers also are studying strategies for reducing risks in the period immediately after a meal, known as the postprandial phase." Now, I, as a man of culture, understand postprandial to mean that's when you have the cigar. The postprandial wine or port and cigar, postprandial, after eating. "While going for a walk after eating might help digestion, for example, recent studies suggest that exercising 12 or more hours before the meal can prevent one of the most damaging effects -- a post-meal spike in a type of fat called triglycerides." Who knew? "One of the biggest tasks for the body after eating is to deal with fats in the blood. Cholesterol, particularly LDL, or 'bad' cholesterol, infiltrates the walls of the arteries and forms plaques, which can block blood flow or eventually rupture, leading to heart attack and stroke." All of this simply by being an American. All of this engaging in the traditional Thanksgiving meal.
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