Seared Tuna Sashimi

Ingredients:

- 1 lb. of sushi grade tuna (can buy at any reputable fish monger)

- 2 fennel pods each

- 2 sprigs of tarragon

- 1 tab of ground coriander

- 1 bunch of baby arugula

- lemon vinaigrette (see below)

Preparation:

1. Thinly slice the fennel, perpendicular to the grain. Stopping once you start to see the core of the vegetable.

2. Thinly slice the baby arugula and mix with the fennel. Toss with the lemon vinaigrette.

3. Season the tuna with salt on both sides of the fish.

4. Sear the fish on high heat with canola oil on one side of the fish. Let a nice golden brown crust form.

5. Pull out of the pan and liberally sprinkle with the coriander powder.

6. For presentation, put four equal portions of the fennel salad in the middle of the plate. Thinly slice the fish and place on top of the salad.

Recipe Donated by Logan - An American Restaurant, Ann Arbor MI

found in the book "The Age of Globesity"

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Health Help Project

One day my dad called me on the phone and explained to me that he felt he needed to do something to help the families of political prisoners in Cuba. The living conditions for most Cubans had deteriorated greatly since the lethal talons of communism gripped the island, and many were in great need of the basic necessities of life. But the family members of political prisoners are in the worst situation possible in the whole of the communist island. They are no longer entitled to medical care from the government, and employment is next to impossible for them.

They are the disenfranchised and forgotten members of our extended human family, caught in a relentless limbo. Their principle breadwinner has been locked up for political reasons and is therefore incapable of caring for them. “We must do something,” said Dad. He wanted to begin sending them medicines. I was working for Pfizer Corporation at the time, and so I approached the company about donating medicines.

My dad, my brothers, and I incorporated a non-profit organization named Health Help Project, and we began to send medicines to Cuba. We wanted our organization to be run and operated with 100% volunteer workers and no paid staff. All of us had been so disgusted by some of the organizations whose staff members made extravagant salaries, eating up much of the donated proceeds that ought to have been given to the needy. We wanted every penny that was donated to our organization to be sent to the poor.

Soon, we were getting donations of all kinds of medical equipment and supplies from hospitals all over the place. Most of these were things that we could not send to Cuba, because the government officials would confiscate them for their own use. So we began to establish contacts with other non-profit organizations inside poverty-stricken countries, in order to bypass their local politicians, who, for the most part, historically, would rob most of the stuff and sell it in the black market.We had no fancy advertising campaigns and no Madison Avenue promoters. Word spread from one volunteer to another, and before we knew it we were sending millions of dollars of medical supplies and equipment to clinics every year and outfitting hospitals and clinics in the rural areas of these poverty stricken nations. Soon we were sending equipment to 17 different countries and even bringing in children to have operations performed here in America. It is truly amazing to see how God has engineered all of this on a shoestring budget, and the labor of love of many wonderful volunteers.

Our family is grateful to God for the many blessings He has given us, and we simply wanted to give back to those who were less fortunate, a little of what He has freely given to us. This is my second epiphany. I have come to understand that these disenfranchised members of our human family are the people facing obstacles, which they cannot veer from. They have received a torpedo to the broadside, and there are no lifeboats left for them. They are swimming in the deep dark waters of life without hope that anything will ever be different.
We can provide for them vital help to safely navigate the lethal waters to safe harbor with only a little sacrifice, effort, and time to help them persevere; to help them become self-reliant. Sadly, most of us living in comfort do not want to be bothered by the suffering of others. We are reticent to engage ourselves in anything that would require any sacrifice of us. It has been my experience that those who have never really experienced suffering rarely care about those who do. But if we care enough to take the scale from our eyes and learn to be a little selfless, we can change the future for others, one life at a time.


What works for our immediate family also works for our extended family. Modern science has empirically evidenced the fact that a single matriarch engendered all of humanity. Whether the reader believes that an Almighty Creator created mankind, or that mankind is the product of the evolutionary process, the fact remains we are all descended from a single ancestral mother.

Studies of mitochondrial DNA have conclusively shown that the differences between us are so minute as to be practically negligible. If this is true, then we are truly one family. We are all brothers and sisters who are trapped in this spinning rock and struggling to survive. How, then, can we not help one another? Strangers are after all only family members that we have yet to meet and know.

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The choices that we make are what define us

Most people facing problems of obesity, drug dependency, or any other seemingly insurmountable medical situation, do not establish a system of personal accountability. They, like all the rest of us, are predisposed to avoid accountability. We have become hyper-individualists with thick walls around us to guard from any authority structures or potential interference with our unrestrained ego.

The day of my graduation my family drove up from Miami to Gainesville, Florida for the ceremony. 

Afterwards, my mother was crying as she pulled me to her and kissed me. But then she surprised me completely when she began to apologize profusely. With tears in her eyes and an occasional sob, she said, “I am so sorry that we failed you guys as parents to provide the financial support for your education. I feel so guilty!” I was dumbstruck. Dad also has had great difficulty dealing with the guilt that our family fortune was lost during his watch. But these are the torpedoes to our broadside that we have no power to avoid.

“Mom,” I said, “what are you talking about? What you gave us is more valuable than all the money in the world! You and Dad taught us to never give up, no matter how hard things got, no matter how dark things turned. No matter how many times we fall, you taught us to simply stand up again, dust ourselves off, and keep on plugging. You taught us that if we worked hard enough we could accomplish whatever goals we set for ourselves. You gave us hope in the midst of darkness. You taught us to be accountable to one another and that is what made us overcome our own personal obstacles. Dad taught us, not just with words, but also with his life, to stand against evil, no matter the cost. To fight for your family and your nation’s freedom, even against insurmountable odds. You both showed us the meaning of love by the way you sacrificed for us. You taught us by your example the meaning of a family. You gave us exactly what we needed to survive in this world. You are no failure, you are the best parents that anyone could ever want, and my brothers and I, are, of all people, the most fortunate in the world to have had you as our parents!”

Later on, I pondered what I might have become if things had been different. When on that fateful day, in April of 1961, my paradise was lost and my dad was taken from my family, we received a torpedo broadside that we had no power to avoid. But we persevered, and what was meant for evil, God had turned for good.

Some obstacles we can avoid, but those we cannot we must endure in hope and never give up. We must establish a group around us that we can be accountable to and day-by-day deal with the problem. In the blink of an eye all of our worldly goods can be taken from us, but our possessions do not define us. We may learn that we have cancer. We may have a heart attack. We may learn that we are now diabetics. How do we overcome such torpedoes in our lives?

I have learned that the obstacles are not what define us. The choices that we make are what define us. This was my first epiphany.

The impact of globesity will inevitably spell financial ruin for our nation

 The first and most powerful impact that this trend will produce is a dramatic rise in the incidence of diabetes in our population. There are two types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is typically detected during childhood and is seen in people who are genetically predisposed to the disease. Type 2 diabetes is not necessarily genetically linked. It usually has a late onset in adulthood and is directly linked to diet and obesity. Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes have disastrous effects upon our organs and create the same malevolent and disastrous health problems.

A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) co-authored by Jing Wang, MPH, and Edward W. Gregg, PhD, has concluded that every year since 1990 the incidence of type II diabetes has increased by 5% in America. In other words, today there are 90% more people suffering from the lethal and debilitating disease than in 1990, and the trend is not diminishing.

The American Diabetes Association highlights these CDC findings in Diabetes News. Linda S. Geiss, MA, Chief of Diabetes Surveillance, Diabetes Program, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stated, “The growth in diabetes prevalence and incidence accelerated in the early 1990’s and this acceleration remains unabated…It is likely tied to the growth in obesity in this country, and if we are going to stem the growing burden of diabetes, we must improve our prevention efforts.”


Today 23.6 million Americans, or 7.8% of the population, have diabetes. Even more alarming, 54 million Americans have pre-diabetes, an abnormally high level of elevated blood sugar, which is a pre-cursor to diabetes. Worse yet, some 6 million Americans do not even know that they have pre-diabetes because the disease has not yet become symptomatic enough. This means that almost one third of all Americans are now either diabetics or pre-diabetics, and many of them do not know it.

The medical costs directly attributed to diabetes are a staggering 116 billion dollars per year. If we compute the associated costs of wages not earned and the lack of productivity due to absenteeism, the total cost to the economy is 174 billion dollars. If diabetes did not exist, in just a few years’ time the savings would totally pay for our entire national debt. If this trend continues unchecked, it will be the perfect storm that shall surely sink our economy, not to mention the personal tragedies and heartaches that the disease will bring to millions of families. It is a burgeoning disaster of the first magnitude that can no longer be ignored.

Excerpt from the book "The Age of Globesity: Entering the Perfect Storm"

There are several factors that have contributed in synchrony to our present course. At the beginning of the twentieth century we entered into a new era in our nation, an era that was earmarked by shifts in our culture that were unprecedented in scope and magnitude throughout human history. The increasing amount and availability of food for the average person in our nation has truly transformed us into the “Land of Bounty.”

The industrial revolution in the previous century had begun the process of the mechanization of farming methods. The motorized tractor, the use of commercial fertilizers, the ability to irrigate vast fields with motorized pumps, the use of modern pesticides, the development of modern farming techniques all combined to create a miraculous growth in the productivity of agricultural land. The fact that fewer people needed to work the land to provide food for the community allowed many more to migrate to the city and find other forms of employment. Although the conditions at first were dismal for city laborers, through collective bargaining our nation developed a middle class that had not been equaled by any other nation in the world before us.

None can ignore that the average person today works fewer hours than ever before in human history and has more “stuff” to show for his labor. For this same reason, more people than in any other nation ever before have access to more food than is required to survive. That is, the vast majority of our people in this nation have access to an overabundance of food. This economic boom has also given rise to an unprecedented access to cutting edge technology for the common man, which in times past was available only to the very wealthy class. Most homes now have two cars and a television set in every room. The washing machine and dryer have provided for the homemaker the opportunity to have much more leisure time than in times past. The strenuous nature of the work that was necessary to survive two hundred years ago has been replaced by modern conveniences, which allow us unprecedented levels of leisure time at our disposal.

Computers and television have made a huge impact on our culture. In the latter part of the twentieth century we entered the age of visual communication. We quickly traversed the line from auditory communication to visual communication with the inventions of the moving picture show, television, personal computers, satellites and the Internet. Through these marvels of technology we are literally connected with the entire planet from our personal homes. We have access to information at our fingertips that could not, in times past, be cataloged in the largest libraries of 99% of the cities in the world.

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