Seth on Fat
Seth has some good thoughts on animal fat:
for best health I need much more animal fat than I usually get — is plausible:
1. As Spector said, butchers cut the fat off meat. The odds that our Stone-Age ancestors, living when food was sometimes scarce, did the same thing: Zero. Perhaps our meat is unnaturally low in fat. If for a long time in our evolutionary past we ate a lot of animal fat it makes sense that our bodies would be shaped to work best with that much fat.
2. Many video games, which boys enjoy, resemble hunting. I think this reflects an evolutionary past in which men hunted. If so, for a long time humans ate meat. That they ate a lot of meat is suggested by the fact that when big game went extinct (probably due to hunting) human health got worse.
3. American culture demonizes animal fat. The conclusion that animal fat is bad rests on epidemiology. Once something becomes heavily recommended or discouraged, a big problem for epidemiologists arises: the people who follow the advice are likely to be different (e.g., more disciplined, better off) than those that don’t (the healthy-user bias). As I blogged yesterday, an example is vaccine effectiveness: Those who get vaccinated are different than those who don’t.
4. Fat tastes good. Which implies we need it. We like whipped cream, butter on toast, milk in tea, and so on. Butter vastly improves toast even with my nose clipped. Long ago, when this fat-pleasure connection evolved, dietary fat was mostly animal fat and fish oil.
October 31st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Is Seth Macfarlane a filipino and why does Family Guy always talk about the philippines and filipinos?
I wanted to know if Seth is filipino, mexican, chinese, or something. What is he? And I also noticed that the show "Family Guy" talks about filipinos alot of times. Like "He’s filipino" or "You came from manila, you ate (a filipino food that i forgot what it was), you had sex with 2 filipino girls and a filipino man" I mean, seriously!!! Always! Even on the Family Guy news!
October 31st, 2009 at 8:40 pm
He really does not look like that ethnicity so you might be wrong…He is only 25% so its not that much. Maybe he just knows how to take a joke unlike some people. If you can’t laugh at yourself then you have no sense of humour.
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October 31st, 2009 at 8:42 pm
MacFarlane was born on October 26, 1973, in Kent, Connecticut. His mother, Ann Perry Sager, and father, Ronald Milfton MacFarlane, reside in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and are of English, Scottish, Welsh and at least 25% Filipino descent, partly by way of Canada. I suppose that means one of his grandparents was either born in the Philippines or his great-grand parents were.
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October 31st, 2009 at 8:44 pm
phillipinos make me sad… so so sad
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October 31st, 2009 at 8:46 pm
i think they always say stuff about filipino hookers to joke about quagmire goin to massive lengthes to have sex.
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October 31st, 2009 at 8:48 pm
i’m pretty sure he is white.
they are easy??
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October 31st, 2009 at 8:50 pm
McFarlane is not Filipino, that info about him being 25 percent was added to his wikipedia page for a little while by a vandal and has since been removed.
Seth obviously lives in LA and there are a lot of Filipinos here which is probably why he’s more likely to mention them, but he mentions every ethnic group in the show and takes a jab at them from time to time- that’s what makes the show funny.
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October 31st, 2009 at 8:52 pm
He looks totally white to me. Even the Guy that voices Cleaveland is white.
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October 31st, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Seth MacFarlane is Irish, dumbass!! He may not look it ‘cuz he’s probably mixed with something else (Italian maybe?) but I think he’s mostly Irish…Family Guy RULES!!!
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His last name, duh…And I’m Irish too so I should know.