tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361390634992334684.post3348523592052563720..comments2023-08-24T05:03:54.971-07:00Comments on Wifezilla's Way: Wheat Politics & George BurnsLindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16267677938891113110noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361390634992334684.post-20617107084324831492012-02-15T14:46:06.705-08:002012-02-15T14:46:06.705-08:00One thing about smoking cigars is that you don'...One thing about smoking cigars is that you don't usually inhale. It's not like smoking a pipe. The point is to taste the smoke, not to breathe it. You'll still inhale some on an incidental basis because it's in the air all around you, but not like you would if you were suckin' it in straight from the cigar.<br /><br />Sometimes you see smoke come out the nose of a cigar-smoker, but they do that on purpose so they can experience the scent in a different way. People who smoke "little cigars" are more likely to inhale the smoke but the type George Burns had, not usually.<br /><br />So I'm not surprised he didn't get sick from his habit. I would have expected him to get mouth cancer before he got lung cancer. And even most smokers don't get it, although they do increase their risk exponentially.<br /><br />With whiskey, if your diet is pretty good otherwise, you've got some wiggle room. It's pretty much pure alcohol and if you aren't eating totally carb-heavy, it's not as hard on your body. I think Burns was drinking his straight. Also, he was a centenarian when he died, and every time I read about some centenarian being asked about their eating habits, they rattle off a list of animal foods that "health-conscious" people today try to avoid. Animal foods are known (by those honest researchers who pay attention) as foods with protective properties.<br /><br />Had he been eating your standard low-cal, low-fat, high-wheat, high-soy diet that your average health nut (or worse, vegan) gets up to these days, he'd have been lucky to see 80 and he probably would have had cancer too.<br /><br />He may have had genetic momentum if his parents and grandparents lived genuinely healthy lives. That may have helped. But I don't think he was all that unique a case. It's just that so FEW of us are genuinely healthy now that we don't know what it looks like anymore, so we're startled when it pops up somewhere. It's like thinking wisdom teeth are vestigal. Actually, they're not, but most of us are so developmentally deformed in the jaws that we don't have room for them anymore. A few generations of eating RIGHT and producing children on a proper diet (see also Weston Price's work, not necessarily WAPF) would probably fix most of that.<br /><br />As for people who think they feel good on wheat? We already know gluten intolerance is a hidden condition in most people who have it. Just because they think they're OK doesn't mean they are. Well, the nice thing about being an adult is you can rise and fall on your own choices. Either they'll figure it out or they won't. Let's hope it's not the hard way.<br /><br />I mean... people feel pretty good on cocaine and heroin at first, too. But just wait.Dana Seilhanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11749354913843954242noreply@blogger.com