Do all this and you'll live a long and happy life. Oh yeah, get plenty of sleep, too.

: Ernie's Rules for Proper Nutrition are derived from college coursework in nutrition, 10 years of communication with doctors, nurses, and others knowlegeable on the subject, and 49 years of personal eating experience.

History of sugar use

by Chip Eastham, "The Sou'wester", April 27, 1973

The Sou'wester was alarmed this week to find hard evidence
of artificial stimulants in food served at the Refectory.
Such charges may seem incredible, but the evidence is
incontrivertible. In the kitchen area, large sacks of the
stimulant, some weighing over ten lbs., were found. Small
packages of the drug were found at either end of the dining hall.
This reporter stopped some students as they grabbed these small 
packages, and asked them why they wanted the drug.

"Well, I like to mix in my tea." said one haggard looking male,
referring to a common black market practice of cutting marijuanna 
with it.

One aparrently pretty girl, who grabbed several packages, more
than I thought she could possibly use, claimed it was
"just force of habit." Such is the toil artificial stimulants
take on their users.

The molecular structure of the drug is compared by chemists to
two cycloheade molecules linked together by an oxygen atom.
The body, unable to tell one end from the other, becomes excited
and comfused.

Although much is not known, scientists speculate that inrestion 
of the drug stimulates the pancreas to pruduce insulin. After the
drug is fully metabolized, large amounts of insulin remain, 
produciming gllycemia. This produces a craving in the addict for 
more of the drug.

It is a tragedy that the effects of this drug are not more widely
publicized. History records that the original inhabitants of North
America suffered metabolic disorders as a result of addiction to 
this drug when the white man introduced it.

Ghetto dwellers feed largely upon foods which have been liberally
adulterated with this stimulant. Perhaps a desire to escape the
tedium of their day to day existence turns them to drugs for a feeling 
of security and euphoria. Why else would they spinkle it even on their 
breakfast cereal? Not to mention mixing it with other stimulants like
caffeine in their hot drinks.

Although the drug is easy yo synthesize, it has been used for many 
centuries in organic forms. A derivative of the drug, ethanol, and the
drug itself are the active ingredients in the intoxicating beverages 
made from grapes. Civilized peoples have long enjoyed the drug in
an orange flavored drink, much the same way in which methadone is 
given to herion addicts on maintenance programs.

The drug is the principal product of a communist country just 90 miles
from our shore. It is not known if the substance produced there is
the same as the substance found in the refectory. Chemists tell us 
there is no way to tell the difference. 

Although the drug was originally sold only in drugstores, called
apothecaries, it has now been legalized for sale in ghetto grocery 
stores.

The world is a ghetto.

Chip Eastham, 1973

Food Politics

"In her new book, Nestle puts much of the blame for the nation's weight problem on the food industry. The book already is generating controversy even though it doesn't arrive in bookstores until next month."--USA Today

"If it hasn't yet occurred to you that there are striking and ominous parallels between the tobacco and food industries--Big Tobacco, meet Big Fat--it might be time to pick up a copy of Food Politics."--San Francisco Bay Guardian

"[A] fascinating new book. . . . [A]nyone who cares about what they put in their body ought to read it carefully and think long and hard about the choices. Your life just might depend on it."--Newsday, 3/10

"Nestle details how the food industry influences nutrition and health and she casts light on manipulations inherent in selling food, unhealthy or not. Must reading."--Newsday, 2/19

"Nestle has thoroughly and carefully documented the food industry's unholy influence over public health policy. Many people's lives and livelihoods are at stake in the conflict Nestle illuminates, and it will take scientific knowledge, political wisdom and leadership, enlightened and ethical corporate management, and consumer education to produce a positive outcome."--Booklist

"Nestle's controversial new book dishes up many of the industry's dirtiest secrets: how multinational companies spend billions to convince us that unhealthy foods are good for us and lobby the government to sway dietary regulations and subsidies in their favor."--feature story in the Village Voice, 3/26

"In this readable, if dense, and thought-provoking narrative, Nestle demonstrates how lobbying, public relations, political maneuvering and advertising by the food industry work against public health goals and have helped create a population that's eating itself sick. Most important, she makes clear the need for better nutritional education among consumers. 'Voting with [our] forks' for a healthier society, Nestle shows us, is within our power."--Los Angeles Times, 4/2

"Dr. Nestle examines what she sees as the industry's manipulation of America's eating habits while enumerating many conflicts of interest among nutritional authorities. Combining the scientific background of a researcher and the skills of a teacher, she has made a complex subject easy to understand."--New York Times food section interview with author, 5/15