Dr. Jordan Rubin has shaken up a lot of people in Toledo. I've been swamped with comments regarding my article on Rubin's new diet program, kicking off in Toledo this week. The good doc basically advises people not to eat highly processed foods and foods laden with chemicals such as dyes and hormones, but instead try to eat whole, organic foods.
Rubin looked to the Bible for advice on food and health. I know a couple of people who tested this diet program last year. Jim Mahaney lost 78 pounds and Judy lost 33.
Whether people are going to follow this diet, it sure has made them think -- myself included -- about our diets. I'm reading labels in the grocery store more closely and trying to avoid all the chemicals.
You can read my article about Dr. Rubin here.
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Every once in a while I get an email from someone who insists that Fr. Gerald Robinson is innocent, that his trial was a "miscarriage of justice," and that news coverage of the case was biased and slanted (I posted one such comment on my previous blog, 2007 Review -- Addendum).
Their attacks are always nebulous and nasty, but the reality is that the people who make such claims are totally ignorant of the evidence in this case, and don't want to know the evidence.
They made up their minds long ago that this little old priest -- whom they invariably know -- was innocent, and that the big bad cold case investigators and the prosecutors office were out to get him and of course the media distorted the coverage and slanted their reports -- to sell papers, books, whatever.
Reason and fact and logic have nothing to do with these people's viewpoints. It's all blind emotion and unfettered loyalty. Nevermind that a jury of Robinson's peers sat through a three week trial with dozens of witnesses and scores of evidence before reaching a unanimous decision that the priest was guilty of the murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl.
I don't mind a reasonable debate -- in fact, I encourage it. But vague vitriol and empty assertions tainted by hatred do not merit the dignity of a response.
Toledo, Ohio
Jan. 10, 2008