Re: Acceptable levels of carbs-fats

Chris Malcolm wrote:
Kurt <kurtwheeling1965@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris Malcolm wrote:
Kurt <kurtwheeling1965@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
W.M.McKee wrote:

For anyone with a wish for an early demise, it behooves you to find a
doc who advocates a high carb diet, and follow that advice.... be sure
to eat lots of carbs and always try for a low fat diet. Go for it! You
are gonna die, anyway.... so why not hasten the event?

And if you really want to checkout early and not pass GO or collect
your $200, be sure to base all your health choices on the bully pulpit
advice of a group of strangers on the Internet. :)

If a person is going to accept someone's advice uncritically and
follow it, then it would clearly be dangerous and stupid to accept the
advice of stangers. The safest thing to do would be to accept the
advice of accredited experts.

Nothing to say about W.M.'s initial absurd post? Hmmmm?

What absurd post? Can't see anything absurd in what you've quoted. I
do see a joke. Is that what you mean?

However, not everyone accepts advice uncritically. Some of us choose
between plumbers, electricians, architects, etc., based on our own
personal evaluation of which accredited technical expert is good and
which bad. Same goes for medical advice.

What baffles me is why you think people who want to find some expert
advice to follow uncritically would come here. That would be as silly
as asking people at your local bus stop to diagnose your health
problems.

Hey Professor, take a deep breath and try not to be so humor
challenged. I realize you have been knee deep in academia all your
life, but this is more of a conversational board.

This is *not* a board, it's a newsgroup. There are important
differences. I've been reading and posting to newsgroups since they
were invented, and I've noticed that people who argue in newsgroups
that there is some clique with unrepresentative opinions who are
giving a dangerously biassed view to hypothetical newbies are often
people who confuse newsgroups with boards.

There's nothing wrong with academic style postings to this
newsgroup. I like them, and would be rather pleased if I managed to
encourage more of them. YMMV.

Your posts always
seem to come off as a sterile one sided lecture.

I have no intention of trying to please or interest every reader. In
my experience there's enough diversity of opinion in people to make
that impossible. And what on earth would be the point of me making a
two sided posting? I'm an individual with a point of view. If you want
other points of view there are other people posting them.

And your constant use of words like "silly" and "stupid" only adds to
the condescending tone that permeates your postings. In other words,
lighten up.

You appear to be reacting to words I've used without paying attention
to the meaning of the sentences in which they appeared. If you check
back you'll discover that most of my recent uses of those words have
been in reference to the hypothetical newbies you claim are at risk of
uncritically taking the advice of some random newsgroup poster and
consequently damaging their health.

I do seriously think anyone who did that is so stupid they shouldn't
be allowed out without a minder. I do seriously think it's silly to
suggest that people posting to this newsgroup should moderate their
postings in order to avoid the risk of damaging the health of some
hypothetical very stupid person.

One more thing, are you making it a point to jump in and respond to
everything I write here as a tribute to Alan S.

A tribute? Has something happened to him? I'm sorry to disappoint you,
but I don't read all the posts here, not even all of yours.

Yeah, whatever. Stick with the Scottish haikus, Professor Dumbledore
....that's what you're best at.

Kurt

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