No biggy.  The pic was for shock effect, anyway.  It is still fairly close to what visceral fat in the extreme looks like.  Note that the other pics show both someone's photoshopped pics and the originals.

The pic is making the rounds as a suggestion for the surgeon general to use as a graphic pic on wheat-bearing products, similar to what they do on cigarette packs.

The visceral fat problem is still there.  Wheat causes it.  Very unhealthy.

Serowbot wrote on 12/23/11 at 17:56:37:


have you seen the graphics on cigarette packs these days?

OMG.. If that is actual from wheat, I am never eating wheat products
again.. Well ok after dinner today that is..  
I did use some wheat mixed with other grains bread for my dressing.
Oh I am not going off the wagon for long. I have too much to gain
by staying on track.. Train jumped the tracks for a couple days, then
back to the gym and Zumba..
I can't nor will I even attempt to speak for all, all I do know again is
what I have eliminated as well as changed in my life to account for
the changes in my body.
I am not complaining at all.  I enjoy the smaller clothes and feeling
much better than I did 56 lbs ago... kim

This post is not intended to be vulgar or gross.

There is a doc who flies from my airport, and he's a urologist.

He was chatting Sat. morning in our lobby, as a bunch of us usually do.  He told of two morbidly obese people who came into his office in the past month.

One was a woman who had a suspected infection of the urethra.  She was so fat and has so many folds of fat that he could not find her girl thingy.  He couldn't confirm his suspicion of the infection, but gave her antibiotics anyhow as a protective measure.

A man came in, complaining that his thingy was shrinking.  The guy was so fat that folds of fat were simply surrounding his thingy amd hiding it.

And we don't think that we have an epidemic of obesity?

I read Prof. Linus Pauling's book on Vitamin C.



Never mind the title "How to live longer..." etc., what Prof. Pauling claimed is that the FDA DRD (daily recommended dose) of Vitamin C is about 200 times LESS than what we actually need.

He based this claim on two factors:
1) most mammals are capable of synthesizing (creating) Vitamin C within their own system, namely in the liver; humans are not capable of this.
2) those mammals which DO produce their own Vitamin C, produce it in proportion to their own body mass, in amounts which, in a "normal, healthy human" would mean about 1200 mg/day.

The FDA DRD is 60 mg.

Why so low ?

The same, apparently, with other vitamins such as B1, B2 and B12, not to mention Vitamin A (produced in the liver).

Mediterranean Europeans happen to eat regularly liver and kidney from beef, pork or lamb as a normal part of their diet,
but in Northern Europe (hence, in North America) liver and kidneys are often considered "offal" and as such "dirty"   "poor man's meat"   if not "dog food"  

Prof. Pauling was a Nobel Prize for Chemistry AND a Nobel Prize for Peace (for his campaigning to end nuclear test blasting).



Incidentally, in the early 1970's he foresaw the 1975-76 epidemic of swine flu, and saw right.
He also identified the 1918-1919 "Spanish Flu" which wreaked havoc in both Europe and USA as swine flu.
Pfizer and the WHO insisted we take a vaccine for swine and bird flu the last few years, I simply had Vitamin C and never even had the "normal" flu...

I consider HIM to be a good point of reference.
AND
He's American, from Oregon.

See also "Orthomolecular Medicine" and "Megavitamins".

Maurizio -

Organ meat such as liver or kidney has long been a part of the American diet, especially calf's liver and chicken livers.

Unfortunately, since they are loaded with cholesterol, I now have to avoid them.  But I sure wish I could have a plate of sauteed chicken livers, onions, and that great Asian yellow gravy - yummy.

Many Americans now avoid organ meat for the same reason I do.

Gyro -

Back about 12 years or so ago, I went on the Cleveland Clinic "Protein Sparing Fast" to lose about 30 pounds.  It's a no carb diet plan developed at that hospital.  It is basically a fast, but calls for eating protein and green veggies to spare loss of muscle tissue.  I ate lots of meat, fish, and some chicken, altho I really don't like chicken very much in any dish.

Weight came off.  All was good in the world, as I resumed what that plan calls "maintenace eating", which adds some complex carbos, just enough to maintain one's new weight.  I still ate lots of meat.

In 2004 I had an onset of chest pain while at the EAA Oshkosh show - what a place for a pilot to realize that he now has cardiac problems.  When I got back home, I had two stents put in my LAD artery.  My cholesterol level on the operating table was 280.

Sorry, but livers in mammals and most other animals are the factories that make cholesterol; eat it and you are eating a huge quantity.

Since 2004 I've been on a low cholesterol diet, and with the aid of a small dose of Lipitor, I'm down to total cholesterol of around 130.

And since 2004, my cardiac condition is not only stable, but has improved, and I'm back to flying, thankfully.

I agree that dietary intake of cholesterol makes up for only about 15% of what causes high cholesterol, but when you have a liver like mine that makes way too much to begin with, every little bit of careful diet planning helps the total.