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| Victor Davis Hanson: Virtual Virtue |
| 2017-09-06 |
| h/t Instapundit It is not healthy for a society to live two lives that are antithetical, as America has been doing in recent decades. Disillusionment with government and popular culture arises at anger over two entirely different realities. One truth is politically correct and voiced on the news and by the government. It is often abstract and theoretical. And the other truth is empirical, hushed and accepted informally by ordinary people from what they see and hear on the ground. Public orthodoxy signals virtue, private heterodoxy ensures ostracism. So Americans increasingly make the necessary adjustments, modeling their lives in some part as those once did in totalitarian societies of the 20th century. The reality they live is the stuff of the shadows; the falsity they are told and repeat is public and amplified. Cynicism and eventual anger at the schizophrenia are always the harvests of such bipolarity. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 As long as the USDA and all of those PETA sympathizers continue to advocate high carb, low fat, low protein diets (all the better to protect cows and chickens from mean old people that want to eat them) we are going to continue to have obesity and Type II diabetes. High carb diets cause the formation of insulin and high blood sugar which is converted to fat. Insulin is the enemy, continuous production of high levels of insulin to process carbs only leads to diabetes. The government is killing us. Cut out most carbs, eat more protein, put down the Gameboy and go for a walk. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-09-06 15:39 |
| #3 I have a native American friend, 73 yo lady with type II DM. She is not obese. She walks 5 miles a day, every day. She walked the 5 miles of the Mackinac Bridge on Monday in 74 minutes. Her Type II DM is fully under control, and her good outcome is extremely rare. It's possible, although very unlikely, for others to do this. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-09-06 15:18 |
| #2 Native Americans are also extremely susceptible to getting Type II DM as they age past 25 or so, and that limit seems to be falling. Go to a nearby powwow & check out the young people in powwow regalia who now resemble Michelin Tire Man. I did read of a single study of an isolated Mexican population, very thin & fit, little or no Type II DM there. This population is genetically close to both Hispanic & native American types. Researchers offered a subset of the village free food for several months, matched them to a subset who didn't get free food. The free food consisted of a typical US type diet, which was trucked in over bad roads. The free eaters health rapidly declined (just took a few weeks) as they rapidly gained weight, cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure all rose rapidly compared to controls. Matched set stayed healthy. Study terminated early. Of course, it got no publicity or notice. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-09-06 15:13 |
| #1 Currently, one in three of all those hospitalized in California for any cause is found to suffer from diabetes, a frightening statistic, at least in part fueled by record numbers of those vulnerable within the burgeoning Hispanic resident population—who, for a variety of reasons, are especially susceptible to the disease. Something to do with genetically related dietary changes? Perhaps we should not go there. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-06 13:47 |