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Let's kick off this post with a quote from a 2001 review paper ( 1 ): Increased variety in the food supply may contribute to the development and maintenance of obesity.  Thirty-nine studies examining dietary variety, energy intake, and body composition are reviewed. Animal and human studies show that food consumption increases when there is more variety in a meal or diet and that greater dietary variety is associated with increased body weight and fat. This may seem counterintuitive, since variety in the diet is generally seen as a good thing.  In some ways, it is a good thing, however in this post we'll see that it can have a downside. Read more »

Having first read More UFOs Over Warminster (1979) several years ago, what first caught my attention when I recently again studied the book was a recognition of the similarity of one of the photographs (below) featured therein with a photo taken by Daniel Fry shown in a previous blog article .  The photos also correspond with characteristics of the UFO seen in the 1965 Gordon Faulkner photo selected for the cover of The Warminster Mystery .  All claims that the photo is a hoax have been repudiated by Faulkner. Detail of photo showing UFO. "In 1966 this UFO was photographed lurking over the rooftops (Austin Reed)" M ore UFOs Over Warminster continued to offer Arthur Shuttlewood's analysis of experiences that he compared to providing "pieces from a giant jigsaw puzzle of alien brand."  He reminded in the first chapter that in addition to the aerial phenomena, his fellow hillside observers were "aware of unseen 'presences' at ground level."  ...

In More UFOs Over Warminster (1979) by Arthur Shuttlewood, an incident is chronicled that shows a correlation with occurrences r eported by American 'flying saucer contactee' Orfeo Angelucci in his 1955 book The Secret of the Saucers .  Shu tt lewood described his companion during the incident, Chris Trubridge, in UFO Magi c in Motion (1979) as a "violinist music-teacher" resident of Warminster.  Shuttlewood wrote: It is doubtful whether Chris Trubridge or I will ever forget a certain Thursday evening in June 1977, and the astonishing series of incidents on the Warminster UFO front that we were privileged to witness at close range.  Suffice to state that the overall experience made a lasting impression on us because it was so unexpected that it took ou r shocked senses several weeks to recover from the sheer loveliness of it all. It was 9.25 pm when we walked together up Elm Hill en route to a proposed sky-watch session from Cradle Hill.  The sky was a ...

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Michael Moss is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist who has made a career writing about the US food system.  In his latest book, Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us , he attempts to explain how the processed food industry has been so successful at increasing its control over US "stomach share".  Although the book doesn't focus on the obesity epidemic, the relevance is obvious.   Salt, Sugar, Fat is required reading for anyone who wants to understand why obesity is becoming more common in the US and throughout the world. Read more »

  This photo from The Flying Saucerers shows a "glowing air chariot" seen at Starr Hill, Warminster in August, 1975 .  ( Photo: Chris Waller ) Arthur Shuttlewood suggested in The Flying Saucerers (1976) that the phenomena he had witnessed in the vicinity of Warminster posed "a mystery not to be fully revealed until man has solved the equally baffling mystery of knowing and understanding himself and his fellow creatures throughout the universe . . . More and more, intelligent people are discussing links with other dimensions and planes of existence, psychic elements and forces of cosmic energy . . ." In addition to reflecting about some of the various circumstances m otivating him to make these comments, he considered in his fourth book such abstruse topics as parallel universes, inner Earth inhabitants, and hum ans having been "seeded" upon Earth from outer space .  Shuttlewood re minded , "Yet nothing rises above nature, so we may forget the word s...

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Arthur Shuttlewood presented in his fourth book The Flying Saucerers (1976) extracts from Bryce Bond's account of his visit to Warminster,  England in August 1972.  Bond is among a diverse throng of curious Warminster sojourners whom Shuttlewood wrote about in his books.  The photograph and caption below are from Bond's 1986 book Higher Techniques to Inner Perfection .  "Bryce Bond and his co-host Linda Pelerin reach millions weekly in the metropolitan area with their Dimensions in Parapsychology TV program." T his is how Shuttlewood introduced the following excerpts of Br yce Bond's report as featured in the tenth chapter o f The Flying Saucerers : "Here are extracts from his account which appeared in a newsletter of Contact International (U.S.A.): 26 August 1972."  "Warminster at this time of night, even for a Saturday, was somewhat deserted.  Only a few people ambled along the narrow streets.  I felt that I had eyes on me all the way.  It...