Bumped his head and he went to bed and he didn't get up in the morning...

Wed Feb 11 00:19:35 2004

Bleached flour, animal fat, sugar and salt!  ALL your basic food groups!

"Wayne Johnson" <cadaobh@shentel.net> wrote:

>Well, I must admit that I have been having some misgivings about my
>breakfast favorite: (cow) brains and eggs.  Hmmm. Mmmm.  Add a little
>Tabasco sauce and is that a treat or what?
>
>Now that our much beloved Governmint has dropped the mad cow thing....as in
>too much of a "downer" for many, I reckon.....we can all relax and go back
>to Arby's and Burger King to eat our merry little hearts out until our much
>beloved Prezident is put back in the ole White House.  One way or another.
>Hey, is that a new Franchise possibility?  White House Burgers?  Sort of
>like White Castle Burgers.  (aka gut bombs) in the Midwest?  White bread,
>pork fat and sugar!  Whoooeeee, finger-lickin' Republican goodness!
>
>Of course, no double Whopper with extra bacon and cheese is really filling
>unless consumed with an extra large helping of french fries and maybe some
>scrumcious onion rings.  All washed down with a Super-sized chocolate malt.
>Oh, and a glass of orange juice for Vitamin C.  (Oh, Vitamin Plenty where
>are you when we need you?  Et tu, Dick. )
>
>Meanwhile, I was ever so pleased to hear that this person in N.C. has
>compiled a compleat compendium of *all* the what, 1300 plus, programs from
>"Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons!"  It's on the press, as I type.
>
>Where did I put my Jimmy Dean Fudgy Pork Sausage-ettes?
>
>Bubba
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Frances Morey" <frances_morey@excite.com>
>To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>; <austin-ghetto-list@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:52 PM
>Subject: Bumped his head and he went to bed and he didn't get up in the
>morning...
>
>
>>
>> Dear Loved Ones,
>> Atkins practiced what he preached, I fear. Don't pay any attention to his
>fradulent fad diet of eating all the fat and protein you want.
>> You do lose weight because that regimin doesn't support life, but you also
>lose organ function, have arterials clog up, and way too early
>> develop arthritis and diabetes.
>> In the long haul the lost weight comes back--I wouldn't gaurantee as much
>for the systems stressed by this nutritional assualt--the joints, organs and
>the arteries, all pretty central to health.
>> Celebrate pasta, bread, and any dessert that conforms to the American
>> Heart Assn. guidline of no more than 30% calories coming from fat. If you
>read my book you already know how to figure that using the information right
>there on the nutritional package label.
>> It's not often I get to crow, tol' ya' so, but when it is this appropo I
>can not resist a cockle doodle do or two.
>> Bon ap-petite,
>> Frances Morey
>>
>> Updated: 11:22 AM EST
>> Report Says Diet Doctor Atkins Was Obese
>> At 258 Pounds, 6-Foot-Tall Diet Guru Qualified as Obese
>>
>>
>>
>> AP file
>> Dr. Robert Atkins died last April at age 72.
>>
>> NEW YORK (Feb. 10) - Dr. Robert Atkins, whose popular diet stresses
>protein-rich meat and cheese over carbohydrates, weighed 258 pounds at his
>death and had a history of heart disease, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
>>
>> Atkins died last April at age 72 after being injured in a fall on an icy
>street.
>>
>> Before his death, he had suffered a heart attack, congestive heart failure
>and hypertension, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a report by the
>city medical examiner.
>>
>> At 258 pounds, the 6-foot-tall Atkins would have qualified as obese,
>according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's body-mass
>index calculator.
>>
>>
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>>
>> Diet is one potential factor in heart disease, but infections also can
>contribute to it.
>>
>> Stuart Trager, chairman of the Atkins Physicians Council in New York, told
>the Journal that Atkins' heart disease stemmed from cardiomyopathy, a
>condition thought to result from a viral infection.
>>
>> Atkins' weight was due to bloating associated with his condition, and he
>had been much slimmer during most of his life, Trager said.
>>
>> The medical examiner's report was given to the Journal by the Physicians
>Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that advocates vegetarianism.
>The medical examiner's office told the Journal that the report had been sent
>to the group in error.
>>
>> There was no immediate response Tuesday to a call seeking additional
>comment from the medical examiner's office.
>>
>> The diet guru's widow, Veronica Atkins, was outraged that the report had
>been made public.
>>
>> "I have been assured by my husband's physicians that my husband's health
>problems late in life were completely unrelated to his diet or any diet,"
>she told the Journal.
>>
>> Last month, Veronica Atkins demanded an apology from Mayor Michael
>Bloomberg after Bloomberg called her late husband "fat."
>>
>> In April 2002, Atkins issued a statement saying he was recovering from
>cardiac arrest related to a heart infection he had suffered from "for a few
>years." He said it was "in no way related to diet."
>>
>>
>> 02/10/04 09:15 EST
>>
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