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There's a new book - Grain Brain. It's all the rage. Apparently within 4 weeks, they can "keep your brain healthy, vibrant, and sharp while dramatically reducing your risk for debilitating neurological diseases as well as relieving more common, everyday conditions - without drugs."

Hey - Dr. Oz endorses it. It's good enough for me. I hope that wine is on the diet, though, or I won't buy it and let it sit on my shelf unread (like all the other healthy living books I own).

I like all these healthy books, I keep them filed under "How to Start a Stupid Food and Diet Mythology and Make Big Bucks"

A woman I know is really pushing "Isagenix," which is a multi-level marketing company that makes self-professed "health" shakes.

The company funded a study that, amazingly enough, found that its products ARE healthy.

As an anorexo-dyslexic mother of 7 autistic children, a third of whom are gluten-intolerant, and half of whom have peanut allergies, I am concerned about gluten in vaccines, and how magnetic fields from power lines are affecting my childrens' ADHD and dyslexia: Should I take them off carbs entirely?

From what I've seen, the most fervent adherents of any fad diet or supplement are the people who are too lazy to exercise. So instead, they want the "magic bullet" of a mystical diet/supplement to keep them healthy or cure their health problems. Moving your body and eating a balanced diet will do more for you than any of the ridiculous and often expensive diets, cleanses, or supplements.
Exercise!

(singing)
She's got Celiac, Celiac for sure!
And she's dieting like she's never dieted before...

In related news, Whole Foods stock just dropped 60%.

(I kid: If the anti-gluten folks were susceptible to evidence, this might actually happen, but Whole Foods is safe.)

We are all gluten-sensitive. We all have peanut allergies and ADHD. We are all dyslexic. We have all been victimized by EMF from power lines and cell towers. We all were abused as children (satanic ritual abuse - repressed).

And everyone has AIDS!

You can pick the people who will have most of these imaginary conditions before they even get them: think "Oprah viewers" and you're pretty close.

An otherwise sane friend of mine had Epstein-Barr and CFS, then joined the anti-carb hysteria, and is now living the gluten-free cleanse lifestyle and loving it.

One thing, though: If you hear the word "Morgellons", run and don't look back! There are real cases of most of the conditions I mocked above, but Morgellons is a whole nother zone of delusion.

elliemae says

There's a new book - Grain Brain. It's all the rage. Apparently within 4 weeks, they can "keep your brain healthy, vibrant, and sharp while dramatically reducing your risk for debilitating neurological diseases as well as relieving more common, everyday conditions - without drugs."

Does it involve a "cleanse"?

(I won't join a fad diet unless it has a "cleanse" in it.)

Iosef V HydroCabron says

As an anorexo-dyslexic mother of 7 autistic children, a third of whom are gluten-intolerant, and half of whom have peanut allergies, I am concerned about gluten in vaccines, and how magnetic fields from power lines are affecting my childrens' ADHD and dyslexia: Should I take them off carbs entirely?

Sounds like a pleading for a class action lawsuit. "And somebody needs to pay! It's all THEIR fault."

Iosef V HydroCabron says

One thing, though: If you hear the word "Morgellons", run and don't look back! There are real cases of most of the conditions I mocked above, but Morgellons is a whole nother zone of delusion.

Yeah, I had to google that one. Must be akin to cutting taken to a paranoid extreme.

You gotta admit, it sure sounds spooky.

"Beware, the Morgellon is lean and athirst! Ia! Cthulu Fatghn!"