Alway an agenda

Did I say recently, ‘Beware of women with hyphenated names, they are liberal, agenda-driven feminists?’ I stand corrected. Or sit here corrected - because a cardiologist Dr. Francisco Lopez-Jimenez had just rested my case that no hyphen is without a hidden meaning. Yes, I know that in the Hispanic tradition one uses both the mother’s and wife’s names for pedigree. Nevertheless.. A new study at the Mayo Clinic ‘proves’ that as many as 30 million Americans may fall into the ‘normal-weight obesity’ category (including I’m sure myself and everyone I know and see), unaware (blissfully) they may be at increased heart risk. To know, to look or measure it is apparently not to love your body anymore. The hyphenated Doctor and his study aim to panic, confuse and destroy your mind, so, wait a second, what’s the agenda? Since one can’t see the ‘body fat’ how can one rid one’s self of the ‘normal-weight obesity’? A healthy diet? Not quite. Restricting calories to lose weight? Not enough. EXERCISE, weight training and other resistance training will help build lean body mass. Just what we geriatrics need, right? No. The agenda of EXERCISE, a pure liberal agenda and propaganda. “Exercise is the intervention we should be targeting,” mimics a director of a physical activity and weight management research center. Wouldn’t you know? We begin with a hyphen and end up in the weight room. No thanks. I eat a varied diet and keep reasonably active. Period. Finally, the study concludes with a contradiction and qualification (just what I expected) that “there isn’t a professional consensus on an optimal level (of body fat). Now I feel so much better. Don’t you?

To help you, dear reader, feel better too about the uselessness and waste of money on ‘studies,’ a study shows that the percentages of children under 18 whose blood samples tested positive for antibodies to milk, peanuts, eggs and shrimp are 12%, 9%, 7% and 5% respectively. BUT since the tests only indicate the presence of antibodies and not an actual allergy, the percentage may be HIGH. A tiny, specialized minority of people react lethally to an allergen ( for me grass) and we know who can self-identify. But to the majority of people, I say don’t spectate at the liberals’ agenda-driven games; don’t play either. Let me translate the allergy findings and the study in the previous paragraph. It’s all a crock. A crock literally means a decrepit horse; colloquially it means not an expert study, just a game or agenda-driven sport played at the expense of a gullible public