...they'll kill you!

This paraphrase comes courtesy of an acquantaince of my mom, George, whom we ran into yesterday at the checkout line at Basha's supermarket here in Sedona. George was explaining to my mom that in 1970 the US government commissioned a 30 million dollar food study. George: 30 million dollars in 1970 is like 1 billion dollars today (it's really only about 150 million).

In this study, the government discovered that cooked food is respsonsible for every disease that we have today (he said "every disease"). The government, fearing the destruction of the restaurant industry, shelved the report. However, according to George, the study was recently leaked by a government insider to the folks who are fighting the FDA over the issue of supplements and whether or not they should be regulated. Aha. A conspiracy.

I know this is just the sort of thing that keeps left-wing wackos up at night, that the government is hiding information that would protect us and keep us healthy. And maybe some of it is true, but so what? The truth is, obesity is responsbile for many (not all) of the health problems we face in this country and if George would just amend his hypothesis to "fried food" instead of "cooked food", people like me (people of reason) might not dismiss him out of hand. Then again, we're talking about Sedona here.

Thus enedth today's lesson. Excuse me while I go cook a turkey burger for lunch.