Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 15, 2014

Cute ambulance…

That took a suddenly serious turn

Living off the fat of the land and still gets a free ride.

S.A.D., isn’t it?

Wait until he has trouble with the Obama-care scam…

Being IN the ambulance instead of chasing it.

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Here we go; proselytizing again…

Just when I’m getting ready for my traditional Saturday apple fritter and chocolate milk breakfast.

Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called “wheat germ, organic honey and tiger’s milk.”

Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.

Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or… hot fudge?

Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy… precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.

Dr. Melik: Incredible.

This worries me.

It turns out that we were all chemically addicted to food and drink long before corporations were a gleam in someone’s eye. Go figure.

just eat what you want, and then Die…so shut up!

Now that was surely more than a hint. A ride not wished.

The money trail’s actually a bit more complex than that. Most hospitals these days are privately owned, and in order to qualify for a favorable tax treatment (some form of pseudo-non-profit status) they have to provide free care to some number of patients who can’t pay (which in our system means patients without insurance). The hospitals pass the cost of this care (which is expensive, since most uninsured patients enter the system through the ER) on to their other, insured customers. So in the end, a portion of your health insurance premium goes to provide care to the uninsured. It is a very roundabout system, in which actual costs are obscured and money changes hands many, many times (and remember, in capitalism, every time money changes hands, somebody pockets a bit of it). Pretty much the most expensive way to provide medical care. But it appeals to the American Protestant Ethic, which seems to be, “I’ll spend any amount of money to remind the poor that (no matter what Jesus said) they are NOT blessed.”

The British are complicated people. That’s why the British are the rule and not the exception to it.

Had a friend who was taken to the hospital with breathing problems; she had a cigarette on the way because…"I knew they were going to make me quit". Americans.

say, is it just me, or has Wiley changed his lettering style?

People keep blaming fat based on the “study” done by Ancel Keys. Ancel Keys cherry picked the data to fit his hypothesis. He was – and is – wrong.

“But the truth was that he started out with 22 countries and just tossed out the ones that didn’t fit his hypothesis! When other researchers analyzed his data using all the original countries, the link between fat and heart disease totally vanished. Keys was a fraud,”

http://rawfoodsos.com/2011/12/22/the-truth-about-ancel-keys-weve-all-got-it-wrong/

Another fine article: http://www.startribune.com/opinion/120139854.html

Even heart surgeon are starting to speak up and say that cholesterol does not cause heart disease. Plaque in the arteries isn’t causing the damage – plaque is the response to damage to the arteries, much like a scab on a puncture wound.

The damage is caused by inflammation and the leading cause of the damage is our highly processed foods in the form of refined carbohydrates and added sugars.

“Typical American diet” is an oxymoron. There is no such thing. Like everything else our dietary habits are a melting pot of culture, ideology, and economic necessity. Before the events of Jan. of 2014, I was on the same course as Bob. I’d have sooner had a heart attack than what I went through.

.This reminds me of Red Green’s remark about how men have no motivation to eat right and exercise until they have a heart attack or a doctor holds up an X-ray and says, “Uh-oh!” Probably because it’s true.

Eat out, spend too much. Eat at home. Maybe the stool broke, or he hit the Dad.

What ever happened to EKERT? He was supposed 2B continued 2.

Read “Grain Brain” by Dr. David Perlmuter. It shows how eating affects our health

Hey!! I’ve been on the typical American diet my whole life. I’m 72 and fit and healthy. I still work a full time job and I love it!! My ancestors were on the American diet too and they all lived into their 90’s and 100’s. My father died when he was 92 years of age. I had a great-grandfather who lived to almost 105, and he was courting a 80 year old lady when he died!! So don’t give me that American diet crap.

“I wonder how many of those $15 Aspirin Tablets Bob will get…”-——————————————————I don’t know, but when I was in the hospital a year ago I found it would take a couple of hours to round up a regular Tylenol for my headache, but one with codeine would be available in less than a minute.

A French Fry is still a potato. Whether from russet, sweet or yam type of potato. It is how it is cooked and how it is seasoned and how much you eat that makes a difference.that aside – don’t want to lose any Non Sequitur characters. Even if they aren’t seen that often.

Eat what you want and die like a man.

It used to be don’t discuss politixx or relijjion. Add diet programs to that bunch. There are some people (meat eaters, vegetarians, vegans, raw-foodies and the rest of the mishmosh) who not only think their eat-ology is the TRUE one but have to spout it off to everyone else like some kind of fanatic. Moreover, I’ve been around long enough to see different food programs come into and go outta style. Hell, I s’pose in 200 years, like in the movie “Sleeper”, smoking could be considered healthy.

It used to be don’t discuss politixx or relijjion. Add diet programs to that bunch. There are some people (meat eaters, vegetarians, vegans, raw-foodies and the rest of the mishmosh) who not only think their eat-ology is the TRUE one but have to spout it off to everyone else like some kind of fanatic. Moreover, I’ve been around long enough to see different food programs come into and go outta style. Hell, I s’pose in 200 years, like in the movie “Sleeper”, smoking could be considered healthy.

Who is EKERT?