"Anyway, Michelle Obama's on this big obesity kick, right? Gotta eat healthy stuff, gotta eat the garbage that she grows in the garden, nothing but fruits and vegetables. You can't go out and grab a burger like her husband does every chance he gets. I mean here comes some foreign leader, the last one was Dmitry Medvedev, and where does he take him? To a burger joint in Virginia. That's because he doesn't get to eat that stuff at home, and he is the president of the United States. So he's having to eat all this so-called healthy stuff and Michelle Obama wants to spend $400 million to combat food deserts. She's all upset that the only food available to poor urban people are convenience stores, the 7-Elevens."
"Garbage"? "So called healthy stuff"? Did you hear that, farmers of America? Children are better off eating Twinkies, rather than your veggie "garbage".
Gee, you'd think that if Rush had evidence that vegetables were "garbage" food, he could have explained the science of why it's garbage. But, oh well, I guess we'll just have to take Rush's "talent on loan from God-duh!" word for it. And, just so you know, "God-duh!" is Mr. Limbaugh's pronunciation of God, not mine. That's a cut-n-paste directly from his website.
Now pay very close attention to what the science challenged Mr. Limbaugh does with this story. Normally, Rush exhibits a great disdain for scientists. Scientists, after all, don't believe in the Creation theory of the Bible and, according to Rush, they're all conspiring on that whole "man-made global climate change" hoax. But, low and behold, a single scientist does a little not-so-scientific, single participant experiment, with all sorts of non-scientific, uncontrolled variables, and all of a sudden, Rush has his Galileo to support his "the conventional wisdom on diet and exercise is all wrong" nonsense. And keep in mind that Mr. Limbaugh isn't making his assertions from a "scientific paper". He's making his assertions based on a CNN article, titled, "Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds", about a pseudo scientific, one person, lame brained "experiment".
Say's the Maha Einstein: "Before his Twinkie diet, he tried to eat a healthy diet that included whole grains, dietary fiber, berries and bananas, vegetables --" basically he ate cardboard "-- and occasional treats like pizza. 'There seems to be a disconnect between eating healthy and being healthy,' Haub said. 'It may not be the same. I was eating healthier, but I wasn't healthy. I was eating too much.' He maintained the same level of moderate physical activity as before going on the diet." He didn't exercise any more than usual. "To avoid setting a bad example for his kids, Haub ate vegetables in front of his family." But that was just to fake 'em out. So there you have it. Every six months or so we're gonna get a story like this, and it's just gonna confirm what I, old El Rushbo, have always said. It is incredible. And Snerdley, what makes it even more incredible is that I have known this instinctively all along. It is what you eat. It's the content. It's not all the health food garbage. It's calories in versus calories out, pure and simple. It's not health foods; it's not exercise, pure and simple. You gotta figure out how many calories at your body size and age that you can eat every day without gaining weight and then subtract from that, even if it's booze. If you go over the limit of calories, the whole thing's blown."
Can you believe that people, called "Dittoheads", really exist, and, that they are actually convinced that Rush Limbaugh is intelligent? Yo Dittoheads! That "experiment" wasn't remotely scientific. The results are exactly what should be expected. Weight loss has always been about calories consumed vs. calories burned. This is not a new discovery. The professor was eating vegetables and exercising during the experiment. Without those factors "controlled", this silly, moronic experiment, tells humankind nothing. Zip, nada, zilch.
I could have saved Professor Haub a lot of trouble. Professor Haub, if you eat 1800 calories of Twinkies a day - 700 calories less than the 2500 calorie RDA's for an adult male - you will lose weight. It's not rocket science! Also, exercise reduces LDL, and increases HDL. Again, not rocket science. The only thing about this pseudo-scientific experiment, that is the remotely interesting, is that Professor Haub's triglycerides went down so significantly. However, that merely indicates that lowering your body fat plays a bigger role in lowering triglycerides than reducing carbohydrates. This goofball experiment was a train wreck from the get go.
Want some icing on this "Rush Limbaugh, and his Dittoheads, are nutrition and exercise morons" cake? A caller, to this same November 8th Limbaugh show, claiming to be a fitness trainer, informs Rush that "there's no such thing as cardiovascular exercise". Shockingly, when you hear the transcript, the caller was not joking about his assertion.
Limbaugh responds, "Yeah. Well, that makes all the sense in the world to me. I don't doubt any of it. I have known some professional athletes, particularly NFL players, who smoke three packs of cigarettes a day, who were among the best at their positions."
Hear that, children of America? The Maha Twinkie, Rush Limbaugh, has spoken. Don't "eat your veggies" if you want to avoid obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. Instead, eat Twinkies, avoid exercise, and, if all that doesn't work, you might want to consider smoking three packs of cigarettes a day. Camels maybe?
Good grief. What an evil moron. Good luck getting through that eye of the needle, Rush.
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