“Beauty May be Skin Deep, But Ugly Goes Clear to the Bone” Red Foxx

 ”Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.” -

 Redd Foxx

Everybody needs a hobby. My critics often suggest that I am a prime example, and I do have a hobby. Each day, I spend an hour or more reading scientific journal abstracts. In that way, I often discover treasures; pearls of wisdom. This morning, I found an interesting study published in the February 7, 2012 issue of the journal Proceedings of Biological Science. There is good science, bad science, and goofy science. This one belongs to the third category.

 TITLE: Bad to the bone: facial structure predicts unethical behaviour. AUTHORS Haselhuhn MP, Wong EM. AFFILIATION: University of Wisconsin ***ABSTRACT*** BACKGROUND:

 ”Researchers spanning many scientific domains, including primatology, evolutionary biology and psychology, have sought to establish an evolutionary basis for morality.” FINDINGS: “We show that genetically determined physical traits can serve as reliable predictors of unethical behavior…” “Specifically, we identify a key physical attribute, the facial width-to-height ratio, which predicts unethical behavior in men. Across two studies, we demonstrate that men with wider faces (relative to facial height) are more likely to explicitly deceive their counterparts in a negotiation, and are more willing to cheat in order to increase their financial gain.”

CONCLUSION: “Importantly, we provide evidence that the link between facial metrics and unethical behavior is mediated by a psychological sense of power. Our results demonstrate that static physical attributes can indeed serve as reliable cues of immoral action, and provide additional support for the view that evolutionary forces shape ethical judgement and behavior.” * * * * *

I have extrapolated data from this study and applied same to the solitary target most Americans place faith in, and have identified the face least deserving of our trust:

 http://tinyurl.com/6tbxb4f Speaking of politics

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..Based upon the above parameters, the face we should least want to occupy the oval office:

                                                                              Tribolium castaneum

http://tinyurl.com/8ycqajw   

Robert Cohen

 http://www.notmilk.com

Detox From Milk: Seven Days

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Detox From Milk: Seven Days

Happy day #14 of the New Year! Many Americans
have already broken their first New Year’s
resolution. It does not have to be a down
ride for the next 352 days. For those who
want so much to break the chemical addiction
to milk opiates (casomorphins), let’s start
all over, ok? Can you keep the most important
pledge of your life for just seven days at a time?

Here is a resolution that all humans should make
for 2012: No Drinking Milk From Other Mammals.
Not from pigs or horses or cows or dogs or
or aardvarks. If you feel that you really need
milk as part of your diet, then obtain your
supply from human breast milk. You will find
that commodity for sale, and while you are
drinking that human milk, consult Hebrews 5:13.

Detox From Milk Hormones in Just Seven Days

That is your challenge and goal, for during that
seven day period of abstaining from all milk and
dairy, one gallon of mucus will be expelled from
your kidneys, spleen, pancreas, and other internal
organs.

If you still eat cheese, ice cream, milk chocolate,
and yogurt, your one-week experience will be as if
an internal fog has been dispersed from inside of you.

Most people successfully weaning themselves from all
milk and dairy products immediately observe dramatic
physical and emotional changes. Better sleep, more
energy, fewer mood swings, more sexual energy. Just
seven days to a new you.

Take the challenge. Your body will thank you. So will
those who care most about you.

If you are daring enough, or doubting enough to think
that your new feelings are mere coincidence, host a
pizza party with ice cream for dessert after your
seven day milk-fast. Remember the good and bad
feelings, for in 15 hours after your dairy feast,
the famine of bad feelings will return.

During 2012, just say “Notmilk!” each time you are
exposed to an obscene “Got Milk?” ad.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Surprising Changes in Per Capita American Food Consumption

 

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Surprising Changes in Per Capita American Food Consumption

“It is not government’s job to mandate responsibility on
our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to
make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our
children. It is up to us to do what is best for our
health and our children’s health.
- Michael Crapo (U.S. Senator from Idaho)

What’s happened to meat and dairy consumption
during the 2-decade period between 1990 and 2010?

According to the United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA):

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/FoodConsumption/

Per capita consumption of red meat dropped from
119.4 pounds to 111.7 pounds.

Per capita consumption of chicken increased from
60.6 pounds to 80.0 pounds.

Per capita consumption of liquid milk dropped from
233.3 pounds to 203.4 pounds.

Per capita consumption of cheese rose from
38 pounds to 43.6 pounds.

Bad publicity and real science about milk most
certainly contributed to the decline, but consumers
have been scared into eating additional cheese by
those people who market and promote dairy products
by using calcium scare tactics.

What a mistake! I should have simultaneously become the
UnCheeseman at the same time I became the NotMilkman.

More Bad News For the Animal Rights Movement (& Chickens)

Clearly, the animal rights movement is not waging
a very effective campaign. After first becoming involved
in the AR movement in 1995, I’ve noted how AR groups
have focused upon the plight of abused chickens.

From 1995 until 2000, activists and lobbyists have
increased their altruistic efforts in creating greater
public awareness of the horrible nature in which
chickens live and die. How they are de-beaked. How they
are confined. How they are killed without first being
stunned. By promoting compassionate slaughter laws,
AR organizations have relieved the guilt of chicken
eaters, who now enjoy eating more chicken by supposedly
doing so compassionately.

While red meat consumption has declined by 6.54 percent,
chicken consumption has increased by 32.3 percent!
Overall, the consumption of red meat and chicken
resulted in a combined increase over the past 20
years from 180 pounds per person to 191.7 pounds
per person. That represents a 6.5 percent increase.

Since ten pounds of milk are required to produce one
pound of hard cheese, the dairy “influence” has increased
from 613.3 pounds of liquid milk plus the milk required to
produce the cheese to a whopping 639.4 pounds per person
which represents an actual 4.25 percent increase.

As for the animal rights movement, ask yourself why it is
that total meat and chicken consumption and total dairy
and cheese consumption have increased during the past
20 years? Are the dollars altruistic people donate to
animal rights groups being wasted by huge AR salaries
and groups that make animal welfare their priority?
Larger cages and easier ways for animals to die show
results which A.R. groups distort. The proof is in the
Yorkshire pudding…

(Note: Yorkshire pudding is made with milk, eggs,
and fat drippings from the roasted beast.)

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Autism & Dairy Consumption: A New, Dangerous, Connection

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Autism and Dairy Consumption: A New Connection

“Autism is the fastest growing developmental
disability in our nation.”
- Mary Bono

Notmilk has previously reported a dairy link to autism,
blaming a naturally occurring opiate in dairy products,
casomorphin (also found in organic milk and raw milk)
to attention deficit order and autism. See:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/2640

I have been away from my home base for about 14 days,
and before I left, four readers responded to a Notmilk
column by asking:

“If ADHD and pesticides are linked, have there been
recent peer-reviewed publications linking pesticides
in milk to autism?” The 10/19 column:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/4156

I had not heard of one, but I investigated the issue.

Here is what was found:

The August, 2011 issue of the journal of Occupational
and Behavioral Medicine included a study in which
behavioral impairment in children was correlated
to levels of excreted pesticide residues in their urine.

Researchers at the University of Florida (Xu, et. al.)
determined that groups of children with low and high
trichlorophenol levels and high trichlorophenol had a
higher level of behavioral impairment than children
who tested for levels below the limits of detection.

Trichlorophenol pesticides are presently not regulated by
the Food and Drug Admistation. You can buy one metric ton
for about $1,000 plus shipping directly to your door.

“Indeed, the largest contributors to daily intake of
chlorinated insecticides are dairy products, meat,
fish, and poultry.”
- Living Downstream, by Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.

Consider: It’s in the milk and 40% of our diet is dairy.
Consider: 10 Lbs. of milk are needed to make 1 Lb. of cheese.
Consider: 12 Lbs. of milk are needed to make 1 Lb. of ice cream.
Consider: 21 Lbs. of milk are needed to make 1 Lb. of butter.

Do you ever get a “brain fog?” If you continue to
consume dairy, do you doubt that dairy affects adults
in the same manner it might affect children, or do you
imagine that age offers one an immunity from opiates
and pesticides?

Children sometimes get autism.
Adults sometimes get “duh” moments.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com