I thoroughly respect and understand Wooo's attempts to conceal her identity. There are a lot of jerks who would LOVE to make her life difficult. Sidereal too -- her professional future could be made a no-go before it has a chance to really start -- she hasn't minced words when it comes to the malfeasance of her field! I still hope that "outing" Lifextension isn't going to be a problem for her!
Me -- I LOVE being in the position I am! I can say what I think about assholes and their professional associations in any field I want! What can anybody do? I don't depend on any business or organization for my livelihood or any benefits. Damaged reputation? BULLSHIT. :-D
I just read the short AND the long versions of the report by the Dieticians for Professional Integrity about the annual RDs' conference. Seems like there's a ban on photography on the "floor" where all the sponsors display! Wonder why that could be -- you think they may not be proud of the propaganda they're spreading? Maybe they think it looks bad that Coca Cola and Frito-Lay are providing informational materials to dieticians and YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL PRINCIPAL on what a healthy diet is?
Do you suppose there MIGHT be some bribery and malfeasance at play, when the AUTHORITIES tell you that it's fine to eat all the starch you want, so long as you take the stairs instead of the elevator at the mall? Perhaps the cheap, synthetic vitamins added to the sugar-based cereals and pastries aren't REALLY part of a NUTRITIOUS breakfast???
We can't allow these doubts!!! It's better if Mom doesn't know that her guidance about what she should feed her kids, so that they can grow up healthy and be "the best they can be", comes straight out of the advertising department of Monsanto....
I left what I consider a scathing comment, naming a name which the (short) web article was too cautious to add. It will be interesting to see if it passes the moderator.
There's dirty work at the crossroads, babies! I consider it my duty and privilege to pour contempt and scorn for the duplicitous and absolutely CRIMINAL companies, associations, and -- yes -- INDIVIDUALS who are making big money by fucking you over. Being old and retired is a goddam LUXURY.
Feel free to vent here! :-D I LOVE it!
I got slightly disappointed that you didn't give more details about you angry remark. Sometimes I hold myself from saying things which could be perceived as too unfriendly, even when it is somebody like that low life Charles Grashow, I wanted to say during the discussion on Hyperlipid that he told he was taken statine, thanks God somebody else did it. I felt being bitchy enough from rattling on Jane.
ReplyDeletei'll have to try and find where that was.... :-) you should go ahead and tell people what you think of them ... IF that will make you feel good! some people feel guilty if they express themselves, but if it's honest and not spiteful, I think it's legitimate!
Deleteok-- this is the site: http://smallbites.andybellatti.com/dietitians-for-professional-integritys-new-report-the-food-ties-that-bind-2/ and this is what I said: "Go ahead — tell your readers that MICHAEL SPECTER was the jerk who played devil’s advocate when it comes to the LIES coming from the manufactured-food world! Let me repeat that again — have to make sure that your (necessary) self-protection attempts don’t conceal the duplicity and underhandedness of this jerk:
MICHAEL SPECTER — defending GMOs
MICHAEL SPECTER — painting cautiousness as wimpy
MICHAEL SPECTER — insulting, playing with strawmen and LYING
There … that should make the record a little more complete."
...my comment is still awaiting moderation! i'm thinking there's a good chance it will never get published.
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DeleteI just have so low expectations from the official diet advice, that I wouldn't know where to start talking about my frustration. Personally, I am very concerned about things used in a meat production and annoyed to no end finding garagenon everywhere. I keep pestering Organic Valley about it. They keep sending me assurances that they work hard to re-formulate their heavy cream in order to find an adequate substitute for caragenon and don't answer why they have to spoil a grassfed cream with anything. Tess, btw, I found out that there is a caragenan-free manufacturing heavy cream 40% fat which is used in businesses (for example Starbucks and bakeries), sold in half-gallon containers. There are rumors it is also available in Costco.
the only cream I find at Costco is Horizon brand, which is not very pristine. there's a local dairy here (Oberweis) from which I like to buy my cream -- it's in glass bottles and is not ULTRA-pasteurized, and doesn't seem to have additives that trouble me. :-)
Deletei'm not as good as I could be, about buying pastured meat. sometimes, convenience trumps quality with us! if we can ever get our freezer empty enough, we plan to buy sides of beef, pork, and lamb, but so far haven't progressed much....
Tess, I agree with you that we can say what we want without much problem. I remain incognito for entirely different reasons and I don't have much to say to ignorant wise-asses. Just reading comments on some of the videos by Lustig, Noakes and Fallon you get some youngster saying they are all fat and if they would just eat less and move more they wouldn't be fat. This drives me nuts but I can't fix all the ignorance in the world and I chuckle to myself that they will soon be old and fat themselves no matter how little they eat and how much they exercise.
ReplyDeleteWhat bothers me more is the hostility I've seen in the low-carb/paleo sphere. I no longer frequent certain blogs just to save my sanity.
As for cream, I buy 18% here because they don't add anything to it yet. It's only a matter of time though.
the young and never-overweight frequently haven't got a clue, but "live and learn" isn't a classic saying for nothing! :-)
Deleteyes, the hostility is often puzzling! some people can't stand the possibility that they're wrong....
In store in my area we have only half and half or heavy cream with caragenan, no light cream. Trader Joe would be open on my city at the end of the year, may be they are going to have more options.
ReplyDeleteSaying the obvious ..... sorry ! But I guess it it is our choice what we want to say, who we want to say it to, where we say it etc etc.
ReplyDeleteDoes age make us more mellow, or more keen to vent our thoughts and frustrations? Certainly if you are at retirement age then perhaps you are not so concerned. I do feel for many HCP's who may wish to say more but have to safeguard their position - again it must come down to what YOU as the individual is happy to say, and happy to live with whatever consequences. Who said life and choices were ever easy?
All the best Jan
I've gotten a lot more fierce with age, I think. we want so much to be liked when we're young, we often go with the crowd and bite our tongues ... but there comes a time when being yourself and speaking out against the wrongs of this world sometimes takes over. :-) at least, that's how it's felt for me!
DeleteJan is so middle of the road, surprise surprise I am not. I know where you are coming from Tess. Some of these people make me want to puke. I agree with Galina re the “low life Charles Grashow”. He had his tongue so far up Evies arse, she could clean her teeth with it. When the Carbsaner blog started up, the gruesome Grashow was over there like a rat up a pipe rubbishing Carbsane. When Carol pulled the plug on the blog, he snivelled back to Evie. A disloyal son of a bitch if ever there was one. Having said that, Carbsane is the most spiteful, moronic pratt on the internet as far as I am concerned.
ReplyDeleteJeez do I hate treachery and disloyalty. Thank you to you women, that have been very loyal to us.
“Feel free to vent here” I have
Eddie
That treachery behavior of Charles toward Evelyn was absolutely disgusting. I am grateful to her for taking him back which keeps him from other places most of the time. I had been discussing diets with people on a Carbsane blog for a while, she was always civil to me, but we had too much of differences of opinions.
DeleteLooking at Charles illustrates very good the unwritten chapter from the book "Your brain on Statine" - short-tempered prick with low comprehension abilities reading tones of medical research he can't understand, but he can clip and paste. Sometimes it feels for me that he is loosing his ability to understand couple sentences put up together. When I told him on Hyperlipid blog that not reversible neuromuscular damage and a memory loss in a nearest future would be worse than atherosclerosis in an old age anyway, he answered "Name a drag without side-effects", like he had to take some drag to feel like he took care of himself.
Sorry, Hurf, I am in worrier mood since recently,I couldn't resist Tess invitation to vent out a little bit more. I am still half-regret that I finally told Jane what I though about her sense of logic. The regret part is about being unwise to chase such person regardless of what she had to say.
I never have read CS (a couple of sentences, when I first heard of her, convinced me that I could learn nothing there), but I gathered from context and other blogs' comment sections what was going on with Charles.... Yes, like some others in the blogosphere, he obviously has "problems" -- very possibly diet-induced!
DeleteSo many try to offer good information to these "sufferers" but it usually doesn't work. :-( Like Jane -- she obviously has good intentions, but she has tunnel-vision, and generalizes too much. "Always" and "never" rarely work! The best we can do, I think, is describe our starting point and what has worked for US -- but if I've learned anything this last couple of years, is that no matter how similar we SEEM, our solutions are often very different.
I'm thankful for the motley group of friends we've gathered in the cybersphere! You all are lovely people!
I agree with Jan and Eddie about Charles. Now he's trashing the Swedish Diet Doctor.
ReplyDeleteI remain incognito due to my name being the only one in the world that is spelled the way mine is. If I were a Betty Adams or an Eddie Jones it would be harder to find me.
lol -- I enjoy the pseudonyms a lot of people have chosen, and I am always curious about the back-story....
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