On 11/02/2011 02:22 PM, Vaj wrote: > On Nov 2, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > >> Interesting article on Steve Jobs dietary quirks (not too unlike some >> quirks people have here) and comments by nutritional experts: >> http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/02/8598251-the-strange-eating-habits-of-steve-jobs > > Yeah, Jobs (whose strange health habits were fairly well known) reminds me a > lot of TM Org and other New Ages faddists: weird diets, odd supplementation > regimes, unusual approaches to disease and avoidance of modern mainstream > healthcare. Often these are taken to obsessive and excessive levels: worrying > about the latest-greatest supplements or dosing up on Indian or Chinese herbs > to the point of heavy-metal overload.
"Modern mainstream healthcare" isn't very good when it comes to diet. Too many doctors want a "one diet fits all" approach and that won't work. And how many times have you heard as I have from air head nationalists "eat plenty of fruits and vegetables." Vegetables yes but fruits can cause blood sugar imbalances and need to be addressed with care. Doctors are lucky if they get one semester on nutrition. Probably the biggest influence on the body is what you eat daily. The ancients had a good handle on it be it Ayurveda or Chinese medicine. It's really nothing much more than biochemistry but as one former med student told me many med students find biochemistry challenging and have difficulty passing the course. Perhaps we should limit medicine to those with actually have a talent for it rather than those whose parents were doctors. > Jobs clearly signed his own death certificate with the strange idea that he > could force a rare form of pancreatic CA into remission through diet. > Occasionally you'll see someone who gets lucky with such an approach, but > almost invariably these types just suddenly disappear. Gone. I haven't checked into it yet but I heard a claim that he lived 8 years beyond diagnosis when 1 to 2 years is the average so some things he did might have helped. > The only good news in this case is now I may eventually get Flash on my > iPad…but otherwise what a waste of a life, all based on holding strange > untenable beliefs. You mean like I have on my Android tablet. :-D ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
