Notie Posting #4

            It’s me again, Nostradamus. 

I’ve had a helluva a headache all this week with the sawing, pounding and yelling about the construction project here at the old Papal Palace in Avignon, France.  The project supervisor from Rome --  Cardinal Aceité Balsamico-Basilico – wants me to vacate Pope Clement VI’s bedroom and go to a hovel of an office off the main kitchen.  I guess he wants to live in Pope Clement’s bedroom and install a 62-inch HD-plasma screen so he can watch some of Dan Brown’s movies like Angels & Demons  or the DaVinci Code.  For my money, he ought to put up a picture of the Code of ECCE and never take his eyes off it.  He needs to lose about a hundred pounds.

                                                

 O well… c’est la guerre!

     

As I said in my last post, I want to give you a little more background on my investigation into our over-eating addiction and set the stage for introducing some of the characters in the story:  Planet Satiety, The Globulate Trilogy.  You can check it out at:  http://www.planetsatiety.com/

            The following will help get you up-to-speed:

  Here’s the picture I see in the future beginning in 2031.

Our newly formed Planetary Administration comes up with a plan to end global hunger. I know it’s hard to believe today, but in those days nearly one fourth of the population of our planet will be living on the ragged edge of starvation and malnutrition. The first Planetary Administrator will create a mega-food corporation called Globulate that’ll be given the task of feeding the hungry. It’ll take two years of hard work, but they’ll succeeded. In the beginning, Globulate will require maximum productivity from everyone just to keep up with the overwhelming demand for food. As the years pass, Globulate will change from savior of the hungry to the Dictator of maximum consumption.This brings me to a principal character in all of this… Dr. Maximus Wheatley. Born in Gaborone, Botswana, raised by his mother, a teacher and native Botswanan, and his English father, an engineer and also a teacher, Max thrives. His family arranges for him to come America, where with scholarship assistance, he’s able to earn a Bachelors Degree in Bioscience from the University of Notre Dame. Armed with this degree and great optimism, he lands his first important job: a Research assistant with the mighty Globulate at the ripe old age of 22.

I foresee Max Wheatley telling this story: (pic of Max)

“One year later I weighed 375-pounds. At Globulate, I was admired and destined for greatness. Having taken several important minor subjects at Notre Dame, I was a versatile and able employee who had already attained one promotion in my first year and was in line to be elevated to middle management. Not only that, but no one could consume the SLABDOGS like me! I could pound down 3 or 4 at one sitting and had won our local eating contest twice. Two months before my 24th birthday, I had a heart attack.”

“It was the best thing that ever happened to me! In the hospital I met a young man named Rex Freshward. He was being treated for exposure and a broken arm. When I had my heart attack, I had fallen and broken my leg. The same doctor set both our broken bones. That night we shared a room in the hospital. As we got to know one another, it was clear how opposite our lives were despite the fact that we were the same age. We had one thing in common: food. He and his father created a mega-franchise food corporation called Quality Food Quickly to challenge Globulate.”

“At first I was totally scandalized! Challenge Globulate? Who would dare? Then my doctor came into our room and told me that I would die at a very young age if I didn’t start controlling my food intake and lose a lot of weight. When the doctor left, Rex looked at me and said, ‘I can help you live to a ripe old age, if you wish. Unless you want to die young.’ That day he taught me the Code of ECCE and also told me exactly what QFQ as an organization was trying to do to help people”.

(pic of Rex Freshward next to pic of the Code of ECCE)
In the Prologue of Planet Satiety, the following scenario is described.

           

Note: To me, this begins to hint at my personal predictions

 about how we can work toward saving our planet in peril:

Accordingly – about the year 2032…

“The next day, when his father came to pick him up, Rex Freshward looked at me as he was leaving. ‘Come with us, if you want to live.’

I made the smartest decision of my life. I went with the man who would become the best friend I would ever have!

At QFQ Rex showed me the reality of the world around me. The incidence of debilitating disease was increasing daily. Nearly two-thirds of our population suffered and was being treated for diabetes, heart disease, stroke, arthritis and eating-related cancer.

At that time, 80% of our global population was overweight. Two thirds of that number were considered to be obese. Nearly 10% of the population weighed over 500 pounds! The most devastating statistic was that our children were dying at an unprecedented rate. What caused this modern holocaust of our families and children? Overeating! There was no other reason. And I had been blindly going down that very same road.

I turned my talents towards helping the Freshward family put QFQ on the map. I knew that with each customer who walked through QFQ doors… that was one more person on the road toward better eating habits and better health.”

In my next posting, I’ll introduce you to Sir Rex Freshward and some of the other characters and how they fit into this saga.

A little later, you might want to tune into my talk show: Nostradamus Vobiscum on Radio Slabcast. If so, just go to the Planet Satiety web site –

http://www.planetsatiety.com/

Ciao from Avignon! Nostradamus


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