re barbecued foods and health risk mark mcwiggins markmc halcyon com reminds us mm also don t forget that it s better for your health mm to enjoy your steak than to resent your sprouts yes i call this notion psychological health food and in fact have determined that the four food groups are ice cream pizza barbecue and chocolate ideally every meal should contain something from at least two of these four groups food does serve functions other than nutrition and one of them is keeping the organism happy and thus aiding its immune system and i didn t spend a million bucks commissioning a study that told me to redraw my silly little pyramid in different colors and with a friendlier typeface either ref consumer reports back page one of the best things ever to turn up there rich young young serum kodak com writes of one of six impossible things ry to consume unrealistically large quantities of barbecued meat at a time donald mackie donald mackie med umich edu confesses dm i have to confess that this is one of my few unfulfilled ambitions dm no matter how much i eat it still seems realistic yeah i want to try one of those oz steaks cooked over applewood at wally s wolf lodge inn in coeur d alene that seems quite unrealistic unrealistically small and a few slabs of ribs from the east texas smoker rip again in louisville is not at all unrealistic either what say we have a rec food cooking dinner at the moonlite bar b que inn in owensboro it s all you can eat including lamb ribs mutton for about we could invite julie kangas as guest of honor and see if the moonlite s very hot sauce is too hot for her it is too hot for me and i don t say that very often and she could bring ice cream with crushed dried chiltepins for dessert and we could see if there is such a thing as an unrealistically large quantity of barbecue the owner of the moonlite estimates that the owensboro restaurants serve a hundred thousand pounds of meat a week in the summer and forty thousand in the winter in a town of or so two pounds per person per week again sure sounds unrealistic to me thats just too meager to be healthy kiran now a two pound slab of ribs a day that s realistic fuzzy pink niven s law never waste calories potato chips candy whipped cream or hot fudge sundae consumption may involve you your dietician your wardrobe and other factors but fuzzy pink s law implies don t eat soggy potato chips or cheap candy or fake whipped cream or an inferior hot fudge sundae larry niven niven s laws n space
