In China, Because China Is Gaining Wealth, Rice Consumption Is Way Down. Rice Is A Poor Person's Food, And They're Eating Less Of It. To Wait In Line At A Fast Food Chain Is Cool. And They Haven't Historically Had Weight Problems. So They Don't Have This Culture Of, "i Need To Lose Weight."
Since I First Went To India Twenty Some Years Ago, There's Been A Palpable Change. There's Now Pizza Everywhere, Meat Is Much More Popular Than It's Ever Been. Vegetarianism Is "that Quaint Thing Our Parents Did."
Medicine Is Often Conservative And Slow To Incorporate Something That Wasn't There Before And That We're Afraid People Are Going To Laugh At Us For. But, The Beauty Of Music Is - Well, A Couple Things. There Are No Side Effects That Are Harmful. Music Doesn't Do That. It Doesn't Have Any Negative Effects Whatsoever. So I Do Think It's Going To Come, But I Think It's A New Idea For People.
I Think Herd Mentality Is A Good Thing Overall. Because If Every Sheep Had To Figure Out The Velocity Of The Wolf And Their Personal Risk, That Would Take Forever.
People Do Lose Weight On An Atkins Diet. The Reason They Lose Weight Is Because Of Calorie Reduction. If A Person's Caloric Intake Has Not Fallen, If They Are Really Shoveling In The Steak, They Don't Lose Weight.
It's Much Better To Say, "if The Herd Is Running, I'm Running With Those Guys." And Humans Have Herd Mentality.
Dogs Have A Sense Of Smell Much Greater Than Ours And They're Much Faster Than We Are. We Have Fairly Dull Senses, Fairly Slow Locomotion. In Our Olympic Trials, We Celebrate Speeds That Would Be An Embarrassment To A Bird Or A Dog Or Another Animal.
I Thought - Being A Musician Doesn't Help Your Medical Credibility Really. Although I Started To Rethink That When I Learned That Albert Einstein Was Quite A Violinist And In Fact Would Perform A Lot With Symphonies. So If It's Good Enough For Albert, It's Good Enough For Me.
The Stone Age Gave Us Arrow Heads And Eventually Knives, And That Allowed Us To Kill Animals In Ways You Couldn't Before, And Once You Had Them You Were Able To Remove The Skin And Bones.
I'm Thinking Of People In Rural Japan And China, Where Mcdonald's Hasn't Yet Arrived. These Are The Thinnest, Healthiest, Longest-lived People With The Least Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease And Diabetes.
I Was Aware Of What Animals Go Through Because I Had Driven Animals To Slaughter And I'd Killed Animals. And I Was Aware That There Were Certain Ethical Issues, But They Weren't Preying On My Mind Very Heavily.
