[CH] Bumblebee Tuna, etc!
Doug Irvine (dougandmarie@shaw.ca)
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:33:41 -0700
After watching all this stuff for the last coupla days, the elder
chile-head has just gotta jump in here. First off, it is my belief that
the trouble with the American(including Canuck)populace is that we have
large populations of GLUTTONS! Marie and I are inveterate people
watchers, and we are both struck by the way people eat in restaurants
when we infrequently attend one. Usually Thai, as it happens. We watch
people of both sex(all of them fat!)gobble down food as if it were the
last food they were ever going to see. The shame of this was brought
home to us this past Sunday at 2 AM when a favorite niece died of a
massive heart attack. She was diabetic(as I also am)but she was grossly
overweight. Which I am not, weighing in at 150lbs at 5'10". Marie who
has born our 7 kids is the same weight at 5'7" and so is not all that
overweight. She is 78 I am 82, both healthy and we both eat a lot of
chili peppers, ingesting them in one form or another each and every day
of our lives. However, I do believe that the way we eat, and the foods
we consume are responsible for our health and age. A few years ago Marie
developed atrial fibrilation, which entailed an ablation procedure,
resulting in 32 holes being burned in her heart. Our cardiologist was
very pleased with the outcome, and pronounced the procedure a success. I
am diabetic, due to an inherited trait, but unlike my late niece,
decided to deal with the problem intelligently, and chose my food intake
accordingly. As I do the cooking, and Marie does the baking, we manage
to have a well balance diet, very little fat, very little sugar, lots of
veggies, a moderate amount of meat, pork, chicken, seafood. Hardly any
beef. Thus we do not get the growth hormones fed to the cattle to make
them larger which in turn is ingested by the folks eating that beef.
So, quit blaming the poor tuna and whatever else, and lay the onus on
the folks who feed themselves with ever increasing amounts of food.
Soapbox mode off.....Cheers, Old Doug on Vancouver Island BC