sub-cuties, and startling implications

[Frances Morey]

Blacky,
I just bought The China Study, by T. Collin Campbell who signed my copy at Barnes and Nobel when he was in town for a lecture. I am about a third of the way through it and already he has me trying to eat foods of low protein and low fat. Almost all of their diet is from plant sources.
He is Professor Emeritus in Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and is beyond career pressures to tow the industry line. 
 
Based on twenty five years of research in co-operation with Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, this book is a clear well written summation. One of the conclusions that he thought astonishing was that in many counties in China there has been not ONE death from Coronary Heart Disease in anyone under 64 years of age. Here it is a leading cause of death. 
 
The food theChinese in those counties eat gives them 5% protein and virtually none of their foods from animal sources. There is poverty, sure, but it beats the hell out of bad habits and the disease and disabilities that come with them. I would chalk it up as wisdom. 
 
Where is the American Academy of Preventive Medicine? Oh no, can't have that. Cutting down on illness would amount to a terrorism attack against free enterprise medicine. Better to keep 'em stupid and consuming the food of three people at every meal, per person!
Frances

blacky at cbn.net.id wrote:
> According to Astrology, people with Venus in good places and with good
> aspects have attractive exteriors, what we know as the most lovely
> neotony.
> Usually means good hair too. Thus the Venus people are well-liked and
> doors
> are opened for them.
>
> On the converse, those with Venus in bad or weak places or with bad
> aspects
> are unattractive and not popular either.
>
> We have no choice in the matter, but nature seems to distribute both types
> as well as those in between in good balance.
>
> Those well-aspected Venus types are often sorry as hell, get by on their
> looks. Most of the junkies I have known have had strong Venus in their
> charts. Heroin is a Venus drug. As years advance they often gain weight
> and
> keep it. So don't go slash your wrists if you don't have Venus in the best
> place, it all evens out in the long run.
>
> The New Yorker's annual "style" issue came out recently. I like to look at
> all the models in these issues, some remarkable faces. Good article on
> perfume and how it is made. One of the ultimate Venus tonics.
>
> Sniffing in NM, eau de compost,
> G
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Eisenstadt" 
> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
> 
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 7:20 PM
> Subject: Re: I always knew they were different
>
>
>> I have a new theory: it's the skin or rather the appearance
>> of the skin, its color and its hairlessness and the effect
>> of the subcutaneous layer of fat on the skin's appearance.

Over the years I studied and worked and raced motorcycles and soaked corks
in Japan I was often amazed at the fundamental shift in physiognomy of the
(irrestibly attractive) Japanese face.

>From sleek and bony to thick and chubby, in short. The younger Japanese
are stouter, taller, hairier and have a thick layer of subcutaneous fat.
Mostly comes from the radically altered (junky) diet, I suspect: lots and
lots of meat and dairy products.

It's the Chinese now who retain their physical beauty into their 40s and
even their 50s. Poverty is wonderful in some ways, ha.

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