Comments on: You Are What You Eat… Kinda

By: Pelikan

Pelikan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:33:55 +0000

I don’t care for superstition and magic, even if it is for a good cause. Most people CAN be educated. Knowledge is important. Mumbo-jumbo is dangerous.

By: びっくり

びっくり — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:07:32 +0000

So, not only were there no pictures of mammaries, they also didn’t mention what grapefruits supposedly do for them. Is there a health benefit there? Or did they just know that mentioning the word mammary would get the attention of 49% of the population?

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:34:17 +0000

Erasmus’ comment got me thinking in a circular way (only slightly dangerous):

Walnuts look like brains. So brains look like walnuts. Are we nuts?

By: Erasmus

Erasmus — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:21:47 +0000

It is true that walnuts look a bit like brains. But it strikes me that brains look exactly like brains.

One wonders why the eat the food that looks like the organ crowd doesn’t eat the food that REALLY looks like the organ?

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:38:24 +0000

I just want the picture (of all the veggies) to use as wallpaper. Anybody have any idea how I can do that? I tried to “clip” it, but I keep getting the whole video clip, rather than just the picture.
As someone who struggles to eat enough veggies, I could use the visual aid…I don’t care if it was “silly” or not.

By: MizFit

MizFit — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:18:04 +0000

and sometimes poetic and nothing more is just fine.

By: yawn

yawn — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:09:21 +0000

There is nothing new about this. It’s based on the “Doctrine of Signatures” — quite an old concept. It is poetic, but nothing more.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:54:36 +0000

Honestly, I thought it was kind of nice. The message was to eat more fruits and vegetables.

In med-school people are taught nothing about nutrition and a lot of what they are taught is laughable. Compared to the silly drug ads that we see on a regular basis, I thought this was refreshing.

By: Migraineur

Migraineur — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:42:48 +0000

My reaction:

1. Shut off the sound after approximately 15 seconds. (The only Enya song I can stand is “Caribbean Blue,” which has an actual rhythm. It’s a waltz.)

2. Laughed out loud about the grapefruits and mammaries. Anybody remember the 70s TV show “Alice”? There was one episode where Mel referred to Flo’s breasts as tomatoes. She said, “They’re not tomatoes, they’re grapefruits. One squeeze and you get it right in the eye.” (Clearly this line made an impression on me – I’m still quoting it 30 years later.)

Seriously, though, didn’t our culture move beyond sympathetic magic sometime around the Enlightenment? I’ve got my problems with the way science (and medicine) is done today, but whenever I see something like this, I want to call my doctor up and thank her for actually, you know, spending 8 years getting educated.

And Aaron, your comment about the Tic Tacs is hilarious!

By: JNCod

JNCod — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:56:46 +0000

That is hilarious! People have a knack at drawing connections between things. That is sort of what we are built to do – sort of what makes us human. Unfortunately, sometimes it doesn’t work so well… Ha! Thanks for lightening up my day!