[ExI] Gout and meat adaptations

[Harvey Newstrom]

"spike" <spike66 at att.net> wrote,
> That being said, I will make this observation.  When I was a teenager
> I was eating to maximize athletic performance (cross country) and to
>  some extent to spare as many beasts as practical.

Good for you!  That's probably why you are as young as you are.

> My intuition from that was that it matters less what one eats than how
> much one eats.  I figured at the time to just hold to moderation and
> balance, keep the total calories such that I look like...
> well... like we do.  {8^D  Seems to have worked.  The rest of my family
> all have diabetes, I don't.  I don't push my luck: I can easily imagine
developing it.

Despite "Good Calories, Bad Calories", you are right again.  This is what
all the studies show.  Calories are calories.  It doesn't matter the source.


> I can still do several pull ups at age 50, and I can still run like the
wind.
> Well, rather I should say, run like the breeze.  On a really calm day.
> Perhaps like a still and sultry, overcast day.  Ummm...  I can still do
pull ups.    

I'm close to 50.  I use my Soloflex machine regularly.  I try to eat right.
And I follow all the latest scientific studies on health.  It's not really
that difficult.  And it's not really as complex or as conflicted as people
make out.  Although the media likes to tout the underdog, present "both"
sides of every issue, and make a controversy out of everything, there really
is a consistent understanding of most things in science.

We know what we know.  We know what we don't know.  And we know how our
understanding has changed over the years as we grow to learn more.  I would
say that most "controversies" have 99% of the scientists on one side, and 1%
of fringe conspiracy theorists on the other.  As real science progresses,
real scientists constantly update their position with new data.  It really
is not the rollercoaster ride of back-and-forth opinions as portrayed in the
media.

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Harvey Newstrom <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
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