A new Word of Wisdom

[myboynoah]

Hey it happens and if this is the worst thing that you deal with today then count your blessings.

Dogonit, you are right!

[swampfrog]

mbn that's staley got cut. Someone posted it in another thread. I can't find it now but I know I saw it.

http://www.cougarstadium.com/showthr...=1#post1365940

[Katy Lied]

The documentary Becoming Warren Buffett starts with him teaching a class in Omaha and his presentation begins like an excellent lesson on the Word of Wisdom. I intend to use his approach in a class someday.

I'll only paraphrase it here:

Imagine that at the end this of class I were to present you with the car of your choice. You can pick whatever you want, the make, model, color, options, etc.; it's all yours. But of course, there's a catch, it will be the only car you'll ever own for the rest of your life. What will you do with it? I imagine you'll take very, very good care of it. Not only do you want it to last a very long time, you want it to be a point of pride, something others will admire.

It's the same way with your brain and your body. You only get one of them, and they will necessarily have to last your entire lifetime. Will you take care of them as you would your only car? Aren't they considerably more important than that car? etc.



Funny thing, though, after that class presentation the film shows Buffett pulling up to a McDonald's for his usual breakfast. He gets one of three things (one's an Egg McMuffin, the others I don't recall), ranging in price from around $2.67 to around $3.15; he jokes that what he chooses is a function of how the market's doing, and he washes it down with a Coke. So much for taking care of his body; I'll leave that part out of the lesson.

Ahhh. During the Superbowl (and subsequently), 23 And Me has been running a commercial with this quote in the background. So now I know it is from Buffett. The commercial ties the quote in with, "So wouldn't you want to know everything you could about your genetic makeup?"

[Eddie]

mbn that's staley got cut. Someone posted it in another thread. I can't find it now but I know I saw it.

Lebowski put it in Funk's beer thread. Great place for it - but it belongs here too.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Lebowski put it in Funk's beer thread. Great place for it - but it belongs here too.

Let's just put it everywhere!

[clackamascoug]

Let's just put it everywhere!

[MartyFunkhouser]

Let's just put it everywhere!

No matter how many times you post this you will never convince me to give up beer and you will never convince me that the WoW works as a "health code." SJBH

[Pelado]

No matter how many times you post this you will never convince me to give up beer and you will never convince me that the WoW works as a "health code." SJBH

Reminds me of something...

yea, ye have heard his voice from time to time; and he hath spoken unto you in a still small voice, but ye were past feeling, that ye could not feel his words

[Jeff Lebowski]

No matter how many times you post this you will never convince me to give up beer and you will never convince me that the WoW works as a "health code." SJBH

Funk, my concern about your drinking is motivated entirely out of love.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Funk, my concern about your drinking is motivated entirely out of love.

If I stop drinking, I'll have to take up being in love with Mary Jane, don't you play no games.

[Commando]

I don't look at the Word of Wisdom as a 'health code' either, despite requiring abstention from multiple known carcinogens. I mean, your health will be better for sure, but being a 'health code' is not its purpose, of course.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I don't look at the Word of Wisdom as a 'health code' either, despite requiring abstention from multiple known carcinogens. I mean, your health will be better for sure, but being a 'health code' is not its purpose, of course.

I agree. I don't know why funk pinned that on me.

[myboynoah]

A huge clinical trial collapses, and research on alcohol remains befuddling

Given the known dangers and catastrophic consequences of binge drinking, the questions surrounding moderate drinking are arguably esoteric, or at least not an urgent public health issue. Nelson, the Minnesota researcher, said he doesn’t think the drink-a-day riddle is “a worthwhile scientific question to pursue.”

The endpoint of such research might show a benefit, he said, but society doesn’t have a compelling need to get people who don’t drink to start drinking. It’s more important, he said, to persuade heavy drinkers to moderate.

“People like to drink, like to get buzzed, and people like to get drunk, too. But there are major risks associated with heavy drinking,” he said. His informed message to the public, delivered without any hint of moralizing, is a simple one: “Drinking is not good for you.”

[clackamascoug]

This is good stuff regarding the Word of Wisdom.

[Pelado]

This is good stuff regarding the Word of Wisdom.

Thanks, clack. Ties in pretty well with JL's summary of The Obesity Code in the book thread.