Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does.

He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realise through that sin his true perfection.

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March 11, 2004 Got milk for gout?

Red meat and seafood are out. But milk and other dairy foods are in when it comes to preventing the painful foot ailment gout, according to a report released today in the New England Journal of Medicine. "This is the first evidence that dairy products can be strongly protective" against the condition," said Dr. Hyon Choi of Massachusetts General Hospital, chief author of the study. They also found that vegetables once thought to contribute to gout - beans, peas, mushrooms, spinach and cauliflower - do not appear to be a factor in the disease. "This study confirmed some of the suspicions about some foods and exonerated others, such as purine-rich vegetables, and it discovered some protective factors that had never been shown before," Choi told Reuters. Known as the "disease of kings and king of disease," gout is a form of arthritis caused when uric acid crystallizes in the joints, usually in the feet and ankles. It has plagued royalty, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin and Leonardo da Vinci. Today, it affects about 5 million adults in the United States alone.

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The advice to avoid meat and consume milk products isn't new. Philosopher John Locke recommended it in the 17th century, said Richard Johnson of the University of Florida and Bruce Rideout of the Zoological Society of San Diego, in an editorial in the Journal.
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But it took the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, an ongoing evaluation of 47,150 male dentists, osteopaths, optometrists, pharmacists, veterinarians, and podiatrists, to confirm and quantify Locke's advice. The Choi team found that eating an extra portion of meat each day - particularly beef, pork and lamb - increased the risk of developing gout by 21 per cent. An extra helping of seafood each week upped the risk by 7 per cent, but the danger was highest among men who were not overweight. Drinking one to five glasses of low-fat milk reduced the risk by 43 per cent, Choi said. An attack of gout can cause swelling, stiffness, redness and severe pain. Frequent bouts of the condition can cause permanent joint damage. The study used questionnaires to assess the eating habits of the professionals. - Reuters

Master morality was the morality of the powerful or the ruling class. It emphasized strong individualism, a hostility toward herd-mentality, living for this

life and not the next and a strong sense of honor that had little room for forgiveness. It also emphasized health, fitness and self-improvement and had little regard for the lower born. As a "morality of consequences" Nietzsche meant that everything the master class did, there were consequences, they were men of action. Intentions counted for little among those practicing master-morality, results were all that mattered. While the elite generally followed master-morality, not everyone who followed it was rich and/or powerful, and certainly some members of the elite followed slave-morality. Slave-morality, the morality of the slaves and the underclass on the other hand emphasized collectivization, herd-mentality, and forgiveness. Slave-morality was the morality of the weak and humble. They tended to focus more on one's intentions since they tended to lack influence. If they were wronged for instance, they thought it would be better to forgive than to seek revenge since they were often without the ability to get revenge on others, especially if they were wronged by those who were stronger. Slave-morality often meant seeking justice and reward in the next life than this one. Slave-morality is often connected to resentment for injustices done to the weak. Christianity in large part is a child of slave-morality. The ancient pre-Christian pagan Greeks and Romans however had a master-morality, at least the upper class did, and they worshiped their gods differently than how the poor worshiped. Our modern morality system is a mixture of slave-morality and master-morality, and hence full of many contradictions. Nietzsche preferred master-morality since it was the morality of the strong and healthy, while slave-morality was the morality of the weak and sick. I'm not sure if I got this all right but I hope this helps.