MooPig 'Stuff No One Wants to Hear About' Department :: "Tell us the Truth, MothaFukkers"

Old-Age Stuff, OAS, #100
Mashed Articles by Pat Darnell  |  Feb 1, 2014  |  Bryan TX

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"Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, and lean protein, he [Dr. Dwight Lundell] recommends. (DAILY MAIL REPORTER. 29 January 2014. LINK)"

Many comebacks have roots in rags to riches, fat to thin, thin to fat, broken to healed ... MooPig editors know that you, dear reader, don't want to hear all that much about Old-Age Stuff. Because we all know there is no rebound from old-age to youthfulness as yet.

Our handy Pocket Reference on Old-Age tells us that older humans are "mostly harmless." Attrition has made its claim and that is the Crux of that Bizkit.

Possibly the most difficult thing to confess is that each of us find later in life that most, if not all of our lives' have been a fraud. Unless one makes things with his own hands, and makes a living doing those things, then most of his life is otherwise moot.

That brings us to Doctors. Apparently no one is looking out for the general good health of humans. Sure, there must be some altruistic good Samaritans in the world who are also in a position of authority, but modern Internet transparency shows that most authorities are just swank morons, holding onto their power with everything that is foul and immoral. We just really need some mothafukkers to step aside and quit gumming up our bidness.

At the referenced article:

• Dr. Dwight Lundell has dished the dirt on 'what really causes heart disease' - processed foods
• He admits prescribing cholesterol-lowering medications, and a low-fat, high-simple carbohydrate diet for two-and-a-half decades was misguided
• 'These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible,' he writes in an essay that has ignited the Internet
• He claims these foods actively destroy the walls of our blood vessels by causing chronic inflammation, which in turn causes heart disease
• The cardiac surgeon recommends only eating foods your grandmother, or great-grandmother, would recognize (DAILY MAIL REPORTER. 29 January 2014. LINK)

Heart surgeon confesses that processed food is slowly killing everyone and natural food is the answer | Mail Online: "Dr. Dwight Lundell has dished the dirt on 'what really causes heart disease' and he admits prescribing cholesterol-lowering medications, and a low-fat, high-simple carbohydrate diet for two-and-a-half decades was misguided. 'These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible,' he writes in an essay, that has been posted on some 250,000 Facebook pages since it appeared on a website called Tuned Body in December."

"The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated. (Dr. Dwight Lundell. Dec 8, 2013. LINK)

'via Blog this'

CONCLUSION
It is difficult to write a short-short essay on most topics concerning health and old-age. Each life is a mosaic of patterns and works that cannot be compartmentalized in a "blog post." But we try, and it usually comes with a cost: "Too Much Information," TMI.

We enjoy this article by Dr. Dwight Lundell, because of his clever way of describing the work of our human circulatory systems. In the comments of his article many dissenters harp on about how this article is not foot-noted, and it is missing publication evidence for his claims.

We don't let stuff like that stop us from being curious. We find Dr. Dwight Lundell to be humble and ahead of the curve of authoritarians of the day. So there. His health warnings might after all send us MooPigsters on a very different path, and our notice of a diet paradigm shift will improve our lives, and our quality of old-age-life will improve.

In all honesty, this is the best we at MooPig Wisdom can do concerning health and living, because to delve further would require finding primary research resources that are hidden behind pay-walls. Then we would have to solicit someone with advanced degrees to decipher those documents. Our operation is low budget, really no budget. We hope you dear reader have some input for us.

Dr. Dwight Lundell, it seems to me, has a valid point of view in that he has been cutting into human bodies and finding corroded arteries for 25 years [two and half decades]. That tells me more than a indecipherable medical paper that is hidden behind paywalls, and would take advanced degrees to read. Hands on, up in your face, advice is important.

Yes, there are skinny fat people and fat skinny people but there are few old fat people. I think I will take his "colloquial" advice to heart.


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2548066/Heart-surgeon-confesses-processed-food-slowly-killing-natural-food-answer.html
http://www.tunedbody.com/heart-surgeon-declares-really-causes-heart-illness/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2547944/Are-YOU-hooked-caffeine-Experts-warn-against-growing-dependence-tea-coffee-Coke.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2547543/Multiple-sclerosis-triggered-FOOD.html

MooPig's Radio History Nano-second :: "KPFT, Houston, was Bombed"

Bombing of KPFT in 1970
Picked up by Pat Darnell | Sep 30, 2012 | Bryan TX

[Picture LINK] " ...In the quiet, early morning hours of a Tuesday, [in 1970], a deejay was spinning Arlo Guthrie‘s Alice’s Restaurant in a radio station studio on the northwestern edge of downtown Houston. On the southwestern edge of the city, under the cover of darkness, a bomber had placed dynamite on the roof of the station’s transmitter.... "

KPFT Targeted: Bullet Pierces Studio Window of Pacifica’s Houston Station: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2007 :: " ... Station manager Duane Bradley said the shooting might have been political. If so, it would not be the first politically motivated attack on KPFT. More than 35 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan blew up the station’s transmitters twice within the Houston station’s first year on the air. ..." (Democracy Now. Aug 15, 2007. HERE)

In October 1970, five months after the first bombing, KPFT’s transmitter was bombed for a second time just as the station was broadcasting folk legend Arlo Guthrie’s song "Alice’s Restaurant."

'via Blog this'

I remember this happening in 1970. It barely made the news back then. No one gave a whoot whether commercial free radio existed or not, that is people who sit in governing type offices, didn't care.

But the shadow government of KKK must have cared a lot if Pacifica KPFT Houston broadcasted.  Because they put dynamite on the roof of the radio's station's transmitter and blew it up.

I was fifteen. I used to listen to Pacifica late night when they would play full albums of great bands... it was so cool to have FM radio, and cruise in your Momma's Chevy Chevette SS, on a star spangled night with the top down... yes I was a spoiled brat. It was my time of experiential elitism that probably rivaled Mitt Robmoney's upbringing.

And like authoritarians of that decade, many would today remove my freedoms if they could, just to block my 'inalienable rights' to listen to commercial free radio, dammit.


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http://www.democracynow.org/2007/8/15/kpft_targeted_bullet_pierces_studio_window
http://blog.chron.com/40yearsafter/2010/10/kpft-stunned-but-not-silenced/

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MooPig Opens its New "Land O' Questions Storefront"

In recognition of critical thinking, logic and anti-logic, and the rather disembodied way many feel, MooPig has lent some space to QUESTIONS:

These are the rules for the Store:

1) You can rent space for your argument, on a month to month, week to week, or even hour to hour, paid in advance.

2) Content is to include, but not limited to the following guides:

"Asking questions is a powerful human activity, and because of the power of questions, they can sometimes be experienced as rude or invasive by those who receive them. If you decide to ask someone one or more of the deep questions proposed in the above article, it would help your dialogue if you would begin with the kind of conversational openers described...

QUESTIONS FOR I AND THOU
Whom do I love? By whom am I loved? Am I more loved or loving? How intimate are we? How close is close enough? What are we doing together? Do we help each other broaden and deepen the reach of our caring, to become more compassionate? What clandestine emotions fear, anger, resentment, guilt, shame, sorrow, desire for revenge - keep us from being authentic with each other? When do our vows and promises become a prison from which I and thou must escape to preserve the integrity of our separate beings? Can we renew our passion and commitment? When is it time to say goodbye?

PROBING THE COMMONWEALTH
Who is included within the "we," the community, the polis that encompasses and defines my being? Who is my neighbor? For whom, beyond the circle of my family, do I care? Who are my enemies? To what extremes would I go to defend my country? Can I be just, loving, merciful, and be loyal to my profession, my corporation, my country? If we were to measure our success by Gross National Happiness (the national standard of Bhutan) how would our economic, political, educational, and religious institutions change? What would have to happen to convince sovereign nations to wage peace rather than expending their wealth and creativity in producing more deadly and genocidal weapons?

Think of the crises every Adam and Eve must negotiate as composed of three interlocking circles: identity crises, love crises, social crises.

CROSS EXAMINING THE SELF
What is happening to me? What comes next for me? What is the source and meaning of my restlessness, dissatisfaction, longing, anxiety? What do I really desire? What have I not brought forth that is within me? What have I contributed to life? What are my gifts? My vocation? What ought I to do? Who says? What does my dream-self know that "I" don't? What story, myth, values, authorities, institutions inform my life? What is my ultimate concern? How faithful am I to my best vision of myself? At whose expense has my wealth, security, and happiness been purchased?" (2000)

But we all know why you really want to rent some MooPig space... don't we?

Reference

Keen, S. (2000) Apology for Wonder, Fire in the Belly, To Love and Be Loved, and Faces of the Enemy: Reflections of the Hostile Imagination.

http://www.newconversations.net/library/keen_on_questions.htm