Mechanics of Metabolism Maintenance: Cars, Keys, and Karelia

If you keep up at all with matters of diet and health, you have no doubt noticed the thriving cottage industry in revisionist dietary history, from big fat lies, to big fat surprises, to sugar conspiracies. A consideration of cars, Keys, and Karelia will lend some much needed perspective. Imagine a world where, for whatever bizarre reason, cars exist, but nobody knows how to take care of them. Along comes a mechanic who, after years of observing cars around the world, propounds the following, give or take the customary "yea, verily's" and/or "thou shalts!" -- change the oil at intervals; change the filters at intervals; lubricate the moving parts at intervals; rotate and align the tires at intervals; etc. The mechanic is taken as rather Messianic by all concerned, and so populations heed the advice -- more or less. One population, it turns out, has an enormous cache of low-fat peanut butter -- again, for whatever bizarre reason. Clearly, this is a strange world. Their inclination is to make all possible use of this commodity for the customary, pecuniary motivations. This group interprets the advice to "change oil at intervals" to mean: swap it out for peanut butter. They, thus, dutifully ram peanut butter into the engines of their cars. Predictably, these cars tend not to run very well. Just as predictably, this population blames not their own mercenary nincompoopery, but the message, and the messenger. The mechanic, they decide, was no Messiah -- but is, rather, a paria...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news