Sally Field and Osteoporosis

I was watching a television ad inside a building today with Sally Field talking about osteoporosis. She said "I thought that calcium, vitamin D, and exercise were all I needed to save me from osteoporosis, but I got it anyway so now I'm taking Boniva!" I had to chuckle despite her pain (Schadenfreude, you gotta love it). I'll bet you a buffalo nickel that the source of her calcium she was getting was from milk, and I'll bet you the farm that she doesn't know that drinking milk introduces animal protein into your body, which is acidic, and the best way the body can neutralize this is by using calcium, which it draws from its bones. It's no surprise, then, that the countries with the highest rates of osteoporosis also have the highest rates of milk consumption. If you haven't read the China Study, read it. I've stated that I will buy a copy for any of my friends and have it shipped to their door if they would agree to give it an honest read. (this only applies to friends of course, no strangers!)

I really hope some day to have enough money that I can do my open-source research into this subject on my ranch in Austin. We'll have hundreds of college students, old folks, teenagers--you name it--gathered on my huge plot of land in the hills outside the lakes down there, and they'll be allowed to stay there for three months for free (possibly even be paid). The rules are that you must follow the dietary programs prescribed, any workout prescribed if applicable, then additional variables like alcohol consumption and smoking will also be observed. We'll monitor their health throughout the experiments based upon their prescribed variables and see how much people change over 90 days. We'll most likely film it, produce documentaries, etc. It will almost be like LOST!

Then my entourage will also arrange to put up advertising in places like Austin and elsewhere that basically says "milk sucks" or "animal protein-based diets cause cancer and heart disease". I'll have enough money at that point, so why the hell not? I figure once I have enough money I'll give back a lot of it to the world in the best ways I can imagine.