en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/626557 Comments by SmallFishOne http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/09/03/meryl-streep-somehow-mangages-get-over-disappointment-julia-child/#IDComment33017279 Julia Child was healthy until she died in her sleep at age 91. Heavyweight chef Paul Prudhomme is still alive and well at the age of 69 (despite a high cholesterol diet and being 350 pounds even after weight loss). Roly-poly Ben Franklin lived high on the hog until age 84 (when the average life span was 35-40 years). Winston Churchill lived to be 90 on a diet of high fat food and cigars. Damn, if only Food Police spokesperson Streep had been able to regulate their diets, they might have made "a connection between the high fat diet of a heavily laden cordon bleu-influenced cuisine and cholesterol levels." I wonder what nutritional advice Streep would have given slender mega-vegetarian Linda McCartney who died at 56, Gene Siskel (the skinny half of Siskel and Ebert) who died at 53, or super-slim magician-vegetarian Doug Henning who permanently disappeared at age 52? Not to mention her very thin first fiancee John Cazale who died at age 42. The Food Police would have you believe that high cholesterol is a virtual guarantee of early death. Ya think maybe other factors -- like genetics -- are more typically the culprits? The high cholesterol dogma is under challenge by well respected researchers -- not including Streep --and deserves an objective look. Bottom line: Why in the world do would anyone give any credence to anything these arrogant, self-important Hollywood twits have to say on any subject other than acting? Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:29:13 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/09/03/meryl-streep-somehow-mangages-get-over-disappointment-julia-child/#IDComment33017279