As I was walking in the woods today, I did get a big surprise. I was accosted by a perfect stranger, the owner (or guardian, I didn’t wait to find out) of two rather large and threatening looking bulldogs. Certainly Callie wasn’t overly excited by their presence so after exchanging the obligatory meteorological pleasantries I moved swiftly on. At which point I pondered on why he was a ‘perfect’ stranger. Who was I to judge? I hadn’t checked his hands for stigmata, but he didn’t look like someone who’d spent hours attached to a cross. ‘Complete’ then? Was I any better qualified to assess his wholeness? ‘Total’ perhaps? That’s better, but does ‘stranger’ need qualifying at all? Is it not like ‘unique’? Either we’ve met before, in which case he’s not a stranger, or we haven’t and he is. I’m sure Bertrand Russell would be proud of me!
We heard last week from an ’eminent’ (apparently) research scientist, who was proud to announce that they had proved categorically that it’s impossible to lead a healthy life if you’re obese. No shit Sherlock! How much did that earth-shattering research cost I wonder? Just out of curiosity I’ve been conducting a totally unscientific survey whilst cruising the highways and byways of this sceptred isle, totting up the very rough ratio of overweight people to those with an athletic build. Do try it, you may be taken aback by the numbers. Typically I reckon it’s something like 6 to 1, but that will obviously vary considerably according to one’s environment. I know I’ve plugged it before, but if you haven’t yet read Eat to Beat Disease by Dr William Li, you really should. It could and probably will change your life. By following his ideas I have lost over two stone in about three months, totally effortlessly and very pleasurably, without any calorie counting or other traditional weight loss methods. As a result I am back playing tennis three times a week (tennis elbow permitting), hockey training games and even cricket. I played for Eastbourne Cricket Club’s 3rd XI on Saturday (they were desperately short) and kept wicket for forty overs, for the first time in about thirty years. I was only slightly stiff yesterday! It was a great game which we won by one wicket in a thrilling finish, in which I played my part, producing life-giving doses of oxytocin; all because of Dr Li.
Experts like to talk about the dangers of this or that pandemic, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimers etc etc. The biggest epidemic facing our world today is without doubt obesity and our dreadful nutrition that causes it.
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