calorie fuel

CALORIE FUEL

I throw around a lot of figures on calories.  One pound of wheat is 1500 a day, which is the minimum you need just sustaining the body, for instance.  These figures are not just what I pull out of my ass but what I can find from every source I’ve encountered.  Yet, these figures are only partially correct.  They come with proviso’s.  I just can’t stop a discussion every time to modify what I’m using as generalized figures, because it takes far too much explanation.  I’ve touched on these before, but a minion commented and inspired this longer article.   

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Calorie guidelines are akin to the old food pyramid most of us grew up with.  It is a rough guide that was influenced by GroupThink and wishful thinking and corporate influence.  It is useful but you should NOT use it as a binding rigidly correct document.  We should first start out with the problem of calories themselves.  They are a recent, as far as a definition of food energy ( heat energy by the same name was about 60-70 years previous ).  And like a lot of theories that were later regarded as pure D fact, they got little debate.

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Someone comes up with a theory, like evolution and petroleum formation, and it kind of slides in under the radar and isn’t really questioned but rather accepted.  Then, fought ferociously as if it had received normal rigorously tested consideration.  I know Darwin himself didn’t hatch his work whole but was influenced, and there has been recent questions, but seriously, look up the biotic source of petroleum theory some time.  Almost no scrutiny ( this is not to say I embrace abiotic oil.  I don’t.  Like evolution, it is TOO easy of a theory and needs questioning ). 

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Science isn’t always as sciencey as we are preached to.  Wild ass guesses, ego driven mistakes, career security lies, all play a role.  A lot of times-not always, which is why it is a superior system-theory is given equal status as proof, called science.  A lot of times, we don’t question what should be, because science SOMETIMES acts exactly like a faith based thought process.  Gore Warming is the obvious example, but that is because Political Correctness prostitutes make it so easy to find the faults.  Note I’m not discounting the theory.  I’m saying the theory is proven by many through religious faith. 

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The whole study of nutrition is more quackery than science.  The great thing about the heyday of science ONLY made possible by extreme energy surplus and having nothing to do with a sudden spike in intelligence ( simply, we had the surplus to let millions sit idle and think and experiment ) was that in the pursuit of money, the most arcane minutia was explored to ridiculous lengths.  Well, good AND bad.  We have all this data, hopefully not lost in the coming Digital Library Of Alexandria Fire, but a lot of it is suspect.

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Remember how I keep telling you that human nature demands-not just allows, but demands-that we self-justify terrible behavior ( two examples-we love our kids, which is why we must beat on them sometimes. We love one human, so we must kill another one.  True, but only through self-justification can we resolve these hypocritical programs )?  How many millions of scientists over the millions of experiments through decades of work, how many were less than perfectly rigid in their testing?  Remember, you can use that brain to sit around all day and work really hard thinking.

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Or, you can use that enlarged head with a withering body to go dig ditches or plow a field.  Which activity do you think most people are going to choose?  Also recall, it is human nature to be as lazy as possible.  Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if we actually have more junk science than the real thing.  People are NOT as smart as they think they are.  They are lazy.  They are vain.  Through self-justification they lie to themselves and believe it.  And they are influenced by faith. In some cases, by God and by some cases by the god of politics or Mammon. 

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I’m not claiming that those who studied nutrition are all Charlton’s,  but I’m wondering how much we think we know is correct.  As I’ve said before, the ex-wife ( the BTN, the Better Than Nothing, the one right before the current NOL ), never ate that many calories. She drank as many as she could, and ate a few hundred solid ones.  Which were usually sugar or processed starches.  By all conventional wisdom, she should have died Oh So Many years ago.  You all have a similar story, I’m sure.  Is conventional nutritional wisdom all that wise?

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How much tobacco or alcohol research is colored by the moralistic beliefs of those doing the tests?  How many times have you heard of “proof” that most likely came from profiting a corporation?  One week, eggs will kill you.  The next week, hatcheries probably funded research that proved the opposite.  In the Fifties, the schools taught that all diets must be heavy in animal protein.  Two decades later, whole grains took their place ( after meat became too expensive ).  In both cases the government was guiding consumer behavior more than good nutrition.  How much of milks benefits are for dairy profits rather than “calcium” or “strong bones”?

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How long did the government hide the truth about The Wonder Of The Atom?  The same government that once institutionalized racism but is now institutionalizing racism ONLY against Whites, these people we trust with advice on eating?  Between testing to profit and testing to faith, how much testing to actual friggin nutrition has been going on?  And how much has embracing superstition and hubris allowed us to lie to each other and ourselves?  You know that almost all food calorie research was done by Nazi’s and by American Fascists, don’t you?

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How divorced from ideological fervor were these tests?  With that we continue tomorrow.

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