"I don't have the attention span to meditate"

Wisdom Quarterly (INTERVIEW with Fat Joe) no relation to Fat Mike

• Joe, do you or could you meditate?

"What? I have ADHD. At least I think I do. My mom's doctor gave me speed [the chemical pharmaceutical Ritalin], so I do now anyway."

[Still drinking soda, eating fast food (excitotoxins and cancer-forming carbs, adulterated fats, sugars), watching TV (commercials)...]

"There's no way I can meditate. I can't pay attention. I've been sitting here playing Call of Duty: Black Ops for like 12 hours.

"If I try to meditate, I'll fall asleep. So, like, forget it. My phone keeps going off, texts, uh... What was I saying?

"I'm so fat and losing my hair. I look like Da' Buddha, or who's that guy at the Chinese take-out, Hotei Budai? You know, you rub his belly. Anyway. What, like, you sit down, like, on the floor on a cushion? Dude. No way! Maybe after some primo bud..."

• But, Joe, how are you able to pay attention to those videogames for 12 hours?

"What d'ya mean?"

• If you have Attention DEFICIT and Hyperactive Disorder, where are you getting all this attention?

"Oh-oh, I see! Hmm, huh, yeah. Medication? This game's exciting! Isn't meditation, like, BORING? Just sitting there staring at your belly button. What is meditation? I can't do it! I don't have the attention span to meditate."

Fact Find Tour Inside Joe's Head


Short Attention Span Theatre "Leaving Jesusland" (NOFX)

• Beer and the Science of Partying
• Adventures in Hyperactive Meditation (borntoexplore.org)
• Zen Buddhism and ADHD: Meditation not medication
• VIDEO: Excitotoxins The Taste That Kills
• PDF: Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
  
• TaoJoe.com: Path of Least Resistance

Meditation as treatment for ADHD (ABC News)

Sugar Shock: It's a "Drug"! (video)

Wisdom Quarterly, Nutrition by Natalie, Psychetruth
(weheartit.com)

How much sugar do we consume? Americans might be surprised just how much sugar there is in everyday drinks and foods. I reveal the shocking truth about how much sugar we are eating.

Sugar is a highly processed chemical

Common things like soft drinks, Starbucks, McDonald's, fast foods, alcohol -- they are all FULL of addictive sugar.

Let's look closely at how much sugar there is in "healthy" orange juice, blueberry muffins, Pop Tarts, Lucky Charms, BBQ sauce, Coca Cola, Gatorade, frappuccino mocha coffee, chocolate cake desserts, and more.

Top 10 Worst Foods

There is a relationship between sugar/high fructose corn syrup to hunger, weight gain, obesity, low energy, inflammation, digestive troubles, depression, exhaustion, brittle bones, bad teeth, diabetes, cancer, and bad health. This is an eye-opener even for people not on a diet.

• The Reclassification of Sugar as a Drug
• VIDEO: Sugar: Pure, White, and Deadly
  

Sugar: a Class A drug?

BodyMindSuccess.com
We know the effects of sugar are not good. But to what degree do we know? I thought I had a pretty good understanding, but after watching this video and the series of videos listed below, it has become clear that there is much more I didn’t know. For example, sugar is the Number One addiction -- above cocaine and other addictive drugs. Sugar contributes to weight gain, sure, but “sugar” is disguised in many forms. Sugar affects many things (cancer, low sugar, diabetes, insulin insensitivity, inflammatory conditions, hunger, vision, insomnia, malnutrition, aging...). More

• Is sugar really that bad for you?
• Increased metabolism and weight loss
• Future well being depends on leaving past behind
• VIDEO: Sugar The Bitter Truth (short version)
• VIDEO: Corn (and beet) syrup as bad as cane sugar
  
• VIDEO: Lustig yells at Gary Taubes about fructose
  
• Myspace.com/psychtruth
• Youtube.com/psychetruth
• Livevideo.com/psychetruth

"Sugar: The Bitter Truth" (video)

UCSF Mini Med School for the Public [7/2009] [Health & Medicine] [Show ID: 16717]

We have an "epidemic" of obesity. It can't be that our genetics have changed in three decades to account for it. It can't be that we're suddenly lazy, for there is now an epidemic of obese six-month olds. We exercise more, and yet we're fat. We eat in moderation, and yet we're fat. Why? It's what we eat. The food industry has changed it, and the government has gone along. For instance, they have filled soda with salt. But we do not taste that salt. They cover it with sugar (14 teaspoons worth). The average American is now secretly being fed 141 pounds of sugar, which has been denatured and made into a toxin on purpose. Our leptin (the satiety hormone) systems have been disrupted. We have been deprived of good fats (unadulterated, raw, and unprocessed) and been stuffed with carbohydrates, in liquid form and as fluffy starch. It all adds up to a compelling talk: "Sugar: The Bitter Truth."

(UC Television) Robert H. Lustig, MD, University of California San Francisco Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin.

• Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill (Udo Erasmus)
  
• Why We Get Fat And What To Do About It (Gary Taubes)
• Normal regulation of blood glucose (insulin vs. glucagon)
  
• UprisingRadio.org (May 11, 2011)
  
• Ian Masters (May 10, 2011)
  
• UC Television (uctv.tv)
  

Why are we obese? It's not overeating!

Wisdom Quarterly (reconstructed and reposted after Blogspot meltdown)
"Big Fat Happy Buddha" is not a buddha at all. He is Hotei, a Japanese Zen "Santa Claus" (amuletjewel.com).

He sits at the doorway of almost every Chinese restaurant in America. Fat Buddha, Fat Happy Buddha, or Laughing Buddha is known as Hotei in Japan and Pu-Tai in China. He's good luck, representing the ideals of health, wealth, happiness, prosperity, and longevity. He demonstrates the Buddhist notions of the good life attainable in this world.

Laughing Buddha is modeled on a real historical figure: There was once an obese wandering Zen Buddhist monk. His big white belly was often uncovered as he wandered about carrying a sack of candy, which he was known to hand out to children on the street.

Some said he was an incarnation of Maitreya Buddha, which would make him a bodhisattva (a buddha-to-be) not a buddha. For centuries, Buddhist notions of happiness have been based on self-mastery, a happy demeanor, purposeful endeavor, a deep commitment to the welfare of others, and enlightened awareness.

As a result, today his durable hemp sack is interpreted as filled with gold, happiness, health, and other aspects of abundance. It almost makes obesity alluring. Of course, it's just figurative. Santa's jolly disposition is well loved but terrible for the Claus family.

The Inanity of [saying it's] Overeating
Gary Taubes' new book is called Why Do We Get Fat: What To Do About It. The book concentrates more on the why because once we understand why we get fat, the what to do about it part is pretty obvious.

The problem is that the conventional wisdom on why we get fat is almost incomprehensibly naïve and wrong-headed. It's bad science about obesity and weight regulation.

His goals in writing the book, as explained in the author’s letter, are to push the issue on the nonsensical notion that we get fat because of overeating and sedentary behavior.

He distills and extends some of the arguments from his previous book, Good Calories, Bad Calories, into a book that can easily be read on an airplane on any flight covering more than one time zone.

In his blog he asks questions and provides answers. Over the past decade, he has read more than a century’s worth of literature on obesity and nutrition and chronic disease. And it has consistently amazed him that researchers, learned commentators, un-learned commentators, physicians, and public health authorities accept some of the common but misguided ideas about important these subjects.

Many seem to give no conscious thought whatsoever or fail to ask the kinds of questions that a reasonable junior high school student might ask if given the opportunity.

So what does he mean overeating is a nonsensical explanation for why we get fat? Reading Jonah Lehrer’s latest column in the Wall Street Journal “The Real Culprit in Overeating”... More

• REVIEW: Taubes' book is an eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from an acclaimed science writer. His previous New York Times' bestseller argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates -- not fats, and not simply excess calories -- has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. Michael Pollan heralded it as “a vitally important book, destined to change the way we think about food.” More