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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Marie , you are right about figuring the taste of margarine ought to make 
anyone realize that it is bad for you (Of course, that would also apply to 
rutabagas, which are good for you).  Because of her heart condition, Mama's 
doctor had her using margarine, rather than butter, all the years I was 
growing up.  I was used to it, of course, but , I loved going to grannies or 
an aunts where they were using real butter.  It was a treat.

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--- On Fri, 11/28/08, Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Kuntsler , new commentary, super-inflation
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 11:10 AM
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:25 AM, bob ford
> <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I hope you are right that people will become riled
> enough to demand changes; but I sure don't know what
> could happen that is much worse than what is now
> happening......................bobford
> 
> Oh, you optimist! Things can always get worse.
> 
> As for the food thing -- what to eat that's good for
> you? -- eat the
> least processed food you can. I always was pretty sure that
> butter was
> better than margarine for several reasons, and now we find
> that
> hydrogenated fats are one of the worse things ever devised.
> No
> kidding...anyone with taste buds could have figured that
> out 50 years
> ago. In the last couple of years, I've lost much of the
> blubber
> accumulated by sitting on my butt in a sick building by not
> eating if
> I'm not really hungry and only eating real food (you
> know vegetables,
> beans, rice, a little meat, some whole grain bread). You
> really can't
> go wrong with that.
> 
> Smoking is not a terrific habit, but I'm wondering if
> the real problem
> with cigarettes are the hundreds of additives? I used to
> roll my own
> so I could have a cigarette after dinner, but I gave that
> up when Jim
> quit smoking. It wasn't a major penance. My grandfather
> smoked Camels
> more or less continuously for all the years I knew him. He
> rarely took
> the cigarette out of his mouth so the ash built up and
> sprinkled down
> his shirt. As a child I was quite mesmerized by wondering
> when the ash
> would fall off. He died of other causes when he was 93.
> 
> My other grandfather had no known bad habits, but died of
> stomach
> cancer when he was only 75, after an active life of farming
> and eating
> well.  He and his wife lived pretty much as James still
> does. His
> family was prone to cancer (his mother died of breast
> cancer and all
> of his sisters had it but were too mean to die -- and by
> the time they
> got it radiation treatment was available). All but one of
> his brothers
> died of stomach cancer, and that one lived into his 90s and
> his
> daughter is still going strong at 92 but she has to use a
> staff
> because she has the same balance problem that afflicted my
> mother
> (they're, of course, first cousins) and she'll be
> damned before she
> uses a walker (she has the best posture I've ever seen
> in a human
> being outside of the military).
> 
> Yeah, I think people can have a healthy mindset or a sick
> mindset, but
> it's not that simple. The brain is a lot more plastic
> than previously
> thought. Probably so is the body. I'm still not going
> to be standing
> in line to blame someone for getting cancer.
> 
> I'd like to read about the genetic differences that
> develop between
> twins raised apart. I wonder if those changes affect the
> germ cells?
> After all, we still live in a sea of radiation, and now a
> sea of
> chemicals. Of course, somatic changes are going to occur,
> but germ
> cells maybe less so (and they all get used up while
> they're relatively
> young except for persons like Strom Thurmond).
> 
> Just rambling,
> Marie
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