No, I am not joking. I was on a discussion with a professor and company on the Classical Sanskrit Diet and given my recent meeting with Nobel Laureate Prof. Brian Kobilka, the moniker 'Nobel Prize Winners don't get fat' emerged over the course of several conversations.
It is worth noting that the Classical Sanskrit Diet is not based on Classical Sanskrit. I don't expect anyone to learn Classical Sanskrit in order to go on this diet. The adjective 'Classical' is a modified for the noun 'Diet', not for 'Sanskrit'. The term is deliberately chosen to point out one of the problems with Sanskrit, namely, the fact that a lot of Sanskrit words have multiple meanings. The problem is a significant one because the plethora of meanings for even commonly used Sanskrit words makes it impossible to unambiguously parse even simple Sanskrit phrases. This problem exists even for phrases that people in India may commonly know about (such phrases as 'karmanye vaadhikaaraste') and even ones that have entered into government and corporate booklets (e.g. 'yogakshemam veahaamyaham'). For that reason, the discussion on the diet will be conducted not in Sanskrit but in English.
Now, for a comment on Nobel Prize winners. In face of the armies of Marketing people in the Twinkies Marketing
department and the scads of Marketing people in the McDonalds French
Fries Marketing department and the cohorts of Marketing people in the
Pizza Hut Cheese Pizza Marketing department, you would think that these
few - these solitary few - would have no chance. But these solitary few do well. They
emerge triumphant in face of considerable odds and remain defiantly non-obese. I believe that the reason that they are able to do well is that they are able to quickly quantitatively sift out the Market-ese (spewed out by Marketers in various Marketing departments) from the truth in making food choices and are, thus, able to maintain their weight.
Anyway, if Frenchpeople and Francophiles can take pride in the fact that
Frenchwomen don't put on weight, then why can't we as Americans
celebrate these people who not only don't get fat but also win the Nobel
Prize? Anyway, here is looking forward to more thoughts and ideas on diet. It will be over to Prof. Manikutty on this topic. He will joining us on this blog and will be making food- and nutrition- related posts.
P.S. Paul Krugman? Don't even get me started on Paul Krugman. Brad DeLong? Do not speak to me about Brad DeLong's diet.