atw: Re: OT. Shameless self-promotion, or how to handle brain fatigue

  • From: Bill Parker <renew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:20:33 +0800

Christine
With a background in biochemistry and bacteriology ( and to a degree the public 
health) I tend to view books of this ilk with a degree of caution.  His data on 
the cancer/casein work with rats was compelling and I delved into his reviewed 
papers. Difficult and challenging conclusions for a society devoted to milk and 
milk products.

The China Study itself may be open to other interpretations an opinions - one 
thing to work on a bunch of lab. rats, quite another to get a diverse nation as 
China to get involved a study as major as his was.  Nevertheless, the evidence 
does support what we might all suspect - eating processed foods is not half as 
good as eating the raw materials.

I agree absolutely with the watchfulness on toxins - merely because it's 
"natural" does not mean safe.  Many of the Solanaceae plants are deadly ( the 
nightshade)  Campbell was of course involved in the aflatoxin work in the early 
days.

Off to get a junk of broccoli...

Bill


On 05/08/2011, at 12:10 PM, Christine Kent wrote:

> Looks like good information Bill.
>  
> Not completely compatible with my book however, in that I have SOME recipes 
> that use milk and cheese. The jury is still out as to whether the issues 
> caused by milk are actually caused by the way it is processed rather than the 
> milk itself. 
>  
> I have made the whole book gluten free though, as the only way to render 
> wheat toxins inert is to ferment it for at least 24 hours, and none of my 
> recipes is for 24 hour bread.
>  
> I do recommend in the book that people follow whatever diet they have decided 
> to adopt and use my book to ADD value to that diet and perhaps get a little 
> bit of the pleasure of food back. 
>  
> I have watched my mother and my sister die, trying to follow restrictive 
> diets.  I watched my sister’s lip curl up as she tried to eat her sprouts – 
> which it turns out really do contain a very harmful toxin – so the reaction 
> of her face muscles was telling the truth.
>  
> This book is not like that.  It brings pleasure back into eating, and is for 
> people who want to stay healthy as well as for people who want to get well.
>  
> Hey, Bill, we can look at this as being on-topic.  As technical writers our 
> brains get very tired.  I have seen quite a few individuals, over my years in 
> the business, “hit the wall” and not be able to work any more.  Consider a 
> discussion of food as a necessary OH & S conversation for overworked brains. 
> I list brain foods in the book.
>  
> Christine
>  
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> Subject: atw: Re: OT. Shameless self-promotion
>  
> Well, here I go OT indeed.  I might need banning as well. Before I bought any 
> more cook books I recommend Tom Campbell's treatise "The China Study" and 
> look at the casein data.   Nuttin' to do with words as they should be writ 
> proper!
>  
> Bill
> On 05/08/2011, at 11:42 AM, Christine Kent wrote:
> 
> 
> In case Neil bans me, here is my totally unrelated and totally shameless 
> self-promotion.
>  
> For those who expressed an interest previously, my superfoods cookbook is now 
> available again, after all sorts of technical issues related to Lulu 
> printers, not to my documents or Word.
>  
> http://www.christine-margaret.com/
>  
> Actually we can make it example of what can be achieved using Word as a 
> desktop publishing tool. This book looks gorgeous printed.
>  
> We can also extol the virtues of the capacity now for Word to post direct to 
> a blog. The posts on the blog are posted using Word’s blog posting feature, 
> for any who are unaware of that possibility.
>  
> Is that TW related enough Neil, or are you going to ban me?
>  
> Regards, Christine
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>  
>

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