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Cappy,
To your point about lies making more money than truth:
In college (BS in Nutritional Science) one assignment was to write a proposal and do a presentation for a diet book. The specifications were that it didn't have to be backed by science, but it had to be at least plausible in terms of working.
Most of my classmates did very bland takes on a soup-and-salad theme.
I, meanwhile, presented the "4-elements diet." I made up some mumbo jumbo about how every food falls into one of 4 categories: earth, fire, wind, or water. I cited the theory of the 4 humors from Hippocrates' time, and the elemental "chi" eastern medicine concepts to give it some superficial gravitas.
My case was that, if you eat too many of one element, and not enough of the others, you develop an imbalance in your body that leads to weight gain. I arbitrarily put all high starch/high sugar foods in the earth category, and fresh fruits/veggies, fish, meats, nuts, etc. went in the other elemental categories.
Boom, to cure obesity, eat fewer starches/sugars, and more healthy meats, non-starchy veggies, and drink water instead of sweetened drinks. "Balance out the elements in your body."
My professor said that if I wrote that book I'd be a bestseller and get featured on Oprah.
Sometimes being an honest guy is a curse.
Aug 9, 2018, 10:38:57 PM
Posted to Episode #263 of The Clarey Podcast