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Roberta Stack's avatar

I love this! Big AG and the cereal companies must be freaking out. This has been a long time coming. Between this new food pyramid the adjustment to the childhood vax schedule, I’m giddy. These changes give me hope. So much of what I’ve been saying for years is finally coming to fruition. RFK Jr. has been a blessing. And DJT is giving him full rein.

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Hubs’s brother sent him this:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTOezpfiek3/?igsh=OXZyNG5tcHd0cjd3

Said brother used to call Bobby a nut job. I’m thinking his views have changed. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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MaryAnn's avatar

I have a ‘clean eating’ friend who is also an advocate for every jab, every time. And hates this admin. She refuses to see the contradiction. This new guidance will send her spinning. Meanwhile, at 44, she has had a hysterectomy, recurring melanoma, and is on psych meds and weed.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

In the comments in C&C this morning… I think Tri Torch.

The Sarcastic Teacher

“If there are any idiots in the room, will they please stand up,” said the sarcastic teacher.

After a long silence, one freshman rose to his feet.

“Now then mister, why do you consider yourself an idiot?” inquired the teacher with a sneer.

“Well, actually I don’t,” said the student, “but I hate to see you standing up there all by yourself.”

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KatWarrior's avatar

Is there a medication for “stupid?” Or, better still, one for TDS? Oh yeah, NO!

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nancylee's avatar

well there is death

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

OMG, I have one of those friends too. She eats seed oils because real fat makes you fat, egg whites because yolks aren’t safe, zero red meat because it’s inflammatory (what does that even mean), and lots of carbs in the form of pasta made from glyphosated wheat. I’m waiting for an apology. Oh, she gets every single jab she can.

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Warrior Mom's avatar

carbs/sugar are the most inflammatory things you can eat. its drives me crazy when these people with their decades-outdated info think they are 'doing it right'. :( sad.

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Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

I've followed the new inverted pyramid for 10 years now...

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

She sounds like she is in “perfect shape”, kind of like the people who shop in my local Whole Foods out in Southern Commifornia who are still wearing masks! 🤔😉

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SadieJay's avatar

I saw that on X. This is all great. God wins and we wrestle until the end....eating butter and beef!

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Amen, SadieJay

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Janet's avatar

I don’t have insta but did open and listen. WONDERFUL!!!!!!! I’m going to try and send this around.

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Anna Lafferty's avatar

LOL!

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

That’s a good one!

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KatWarrior's avatar

hahahaha!

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Buh bye Kellog. Buh bye Post. Let the breakfast proxy wars finally come to an end.

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Jennifer McDermott's avatar

And it’s so perfect RFK, jr is just focusing on health. If he had been the president, he would’ve been distracted and quite honestly I don’t know who could do a better job?

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KatWarrior's avatar

My great awakening happened in September 2021. I was forced to don a fecking face diaper in my doctor’s office. While I was seething and citing all the studies on how face diapers basically make one sick and suffocate. She had at least two face diapers on!

She is out of shape and has fat in places no 35 year old should ever have. This uninformed miscreant was attempting to coerce me into taking the poison shot. I told her to basically shove that poison where the sun don’t shine.

I walked out of that office without the face diaper and absolutely no poison shots. She was seething mad that I had the audacity to do my own research!

I never returned, needless to say. Taking advice from a fat miscreant trained only to push allopathic drugs is a recipe for disaster.

That was the most liberating experience!

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Heather B's avatar

My doctor office wrote "uncooperative patient" at the top of my chart. Under that it says "patient refuses all vaccines" "patient refuses mammograms" "patient refuses pap smears" "patient refuses interventions without consent" Guess that covers it!

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Juju's avatar
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My chart literally states the following: “patient believes all doctors are scammers, all prescriptions are poison, and swears she healed herself with diet”. No joke, the last allopathic doctor I saw wrote that. 🤣 They flatter me! I’m officially the Elaine Benes of Chicagoland’s conglomerate Northwestern Medicine. Lmaooo

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Heather B's avatar

😂 Kindred spirits! In 2022 I broke my ankle, foot, and knee and they wanted me to sign for a blood transfusion. Would not do it because they could not guarantee unvaxxed blood. They were horrified. 😂 That is what persuaded me to put the "refuses interventions without consent" part in the chart. I also refuse the prescriptions which is what sent them over the edge to put uncooperative patient at the top. No statins, no boniva, none of that crap. They really don't know what to do with me. 😂

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Three days ago I refused 2 antibiotics that had more deadly side effects than I thought were possible, one being a burst aorta. Doc told me I would end up dead or with a colostomy if I didn’t take them. The next day I started taking DSMO and chlorine hydroxide and today am healthy and done with diverticulitis. I’m also told I am a difficult patient.

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Heather B's avatar

wow, great news! I refuse antibiotics too. Golden Seal herb takes care of most infections. I have friends who are doctors and get it about Pharma brainwashing them in med school and thru cute pharma reps. They have told me horror stories. I used to write for some of them.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I have not heard about golden seal, but today will def get some!!!

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Do you mean “chlorine dioxide”?

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Yes. Sorry about that, and thanks for pointing it out! 🤣

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Heather B's avatar

That too. But no, there is an herb called Golden Seal that has antibiotic properties and I use it first before going to MMS if needed.

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SadieJay's avatar

That is the thing...My cholesterol was at 207 and I was FAT. Dr. tried to put me on statins, as usual. Started eating clean (see new food pyramid) and lost 60 lbs and my cholesterol shot up to 350. And the Dr. never mentioned statins again. Yes, the blood thing is troubling, as I have thought for a few years now. My daughter compiled a list of acceptable donors if one of us needs it. This is where an advocate comes in, because nothing ensures that you will be home at with your doc if something happens. The hospital system are absolute GHOULS. Kindred spirits indeed.

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Heather B's avatar

My husband is 0- so he could donate to me but they said they didn't have time to process his blood. So I told them just do their best, as I was not getting a transfusion and I'd rather die on the table than slowly over time from vaxxed blood. This caused a melt down. 😂 How dare I refuse???

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SadieJay's avatar

They hate it when you know your own mind. Just like TSA hates it when you decline their photos before flying. I LIVE to inconvenience the system. Glad to see you are the same! :-)

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SadieJay's avatar

Lol....that episode was the best. You crack my ass up. I told my doc in 2021, after she put away her chart, off the record...that I do not believe in the vaccine and would never take it.

At my last wellness visit, I declined to have blood drawn, pap, mamo and all the things. Told her I had never been healthier in my life. $117 bucks for that visit because I don't have insurance, just a Sharing plan with CHM. And...I have been eating clean for 6 years and lost 60 lbs. Empty calories are just gross.

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Alice in Wonderland's avatar

The part that makes me maddest about those people is that they have to do it with such a reprehensible attitude ~ what, they are allergic to the verb "decline?" They make the master/slave dynamic only too clear by characterising the interaction, not as an offer that is declined, but as a command that is refused. The phrase "Doctor's orders!" (often said with a saccharine smile) now makes me feel literally ill.

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Heather B's avatar

totally agree. I just want to live my life, not be a medical slave.

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Tonya's avatar

"Refuses interventions without consent"? What dies that even mean? Are they in the habit of forcing interventions on people who don't consent?

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Heather B's avatar

yes, if you are hospitalized they can and do sometimes force interventions

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Hey that sounds like my medical record with my PCP! 😉🥰

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KatWarrior's avatar

No one in my immediate family was ever overweight and we ate a lot of saturated fat. We were all active in our daily lives.

I thought a store bought cookie was a treat. Mum wouldn’t allow that crap in our house!

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PEL's avatar
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I was recently at a medical office to get an X-ray. There were five young women behind the counter. All dressed in black. All obese. Not just fat. Incredibly fat. It was an alarming sight!! A medical practice???

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

That is apparent in my PCP group practice as well. I think the labor supply in these jobs is in short supply. There’s a lot on ‘rookies’ working in these healthcare practices, that don’t know crap about medical care or health, and they certainly cannot draw blood!

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Momcat's avatar

Last year, my first dr's appointment was in May, & I was shocked when I walked in the office---- for the first time in years, all the office workers were non-hispanic, I was able to understand everything I was told, & the wait was half what it had been before. Then I saw the dr's asst & same thing - non-hispanic, able to understand everything, very proficient in what she did. Then I went to another dr's office and it was the same thing! Thank you, President Trump!!!

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KatWarrior's avatar

Jenna, you “should” write a piece on terrain vs germ theory. Try telling anyone that you cannot “catch” a cold! Try it!

It’s a blast. Eyes roll and then the inevitable comments about how I have taken this “research” stuff way too far.

It’s a very interesting and enlightening discussion if you’re open to seeing that things do not work as you once thought!

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KatWarrior's avatar

Sasha Latypova has written some very good articles on terrain theory. It took me a long time to really process and understand that germ theory is likely absolute nonsense.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

You should read or listen to Sam Bailey & Mark Bailey, Dr. Tom Cowan, Dr. Andrew Kaufman or Adam & Josh Bigelsen of the Bigelsen Academy about what they have to say about terrain vs. germ theory. They are far more of an ‘authority’ on terrain theory than Ms. Latypova.

The Bigelsen Brothers on what the blood reveals about your health.

https://www.youtube.com/live/InQ-ilC4hwo?si=yl4izaaoZ7i4vg_B

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Romgrp's avatar

The book Virus Mania by Cowan, Kaufman and Baileys was an enlightenment for me.

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Tonya's avatar

A friend apologized to me that her kids had gotten sick a few days after they had left her house to go to their dad's, and I was visiting her for a few days. (Never in the house with the not-as-yet sick kids, mind you.) I told her I wasn't worried; they can't make me sick, and she laughed and acted as if I had just claimed I had a superpower.

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SadieJay's avatar

100% agree!! Gosh, I saved that article about that. I don't know where it is now. Everyone around us was sick not too long ago, but we didn't "catch" it and I am sure it was because our terrain was hostile to foreign invaders. As it should be.

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SH's avatar

Just an FYI for everyone -

A shocking whistleblower from within the hospital system has come forward with a grave warning: the term “vaccine” is quietly disappearing from medical consent forms — replaced with the broad and deceptive category of “Biologics” or “Biogenics.”

Under this new classification, patients could be injected with vaccines and other biological products without their explicit consent — even while unconscious under anesthesia.

According to the insider, new hospital and surgical consent forms now refer to a category called Biologics/Biogenics — a vague umbrella term that includes a wide range of substances and medical treatments containing living organisms or their byproducts.

What does that include? The U.S. FDA’s own list of approved Biologics/Biogenics covers:

Vaccines

Gene therapy

Monoclonal antibodies

Whole blood and blood plasma

Blood platelets and red blood cells

Stem cells and T-cells

Growth factors

Allergenics and antitoxins

Recombinant proteins

Hormone replacement therapies (HRT)

Immunotherapies

Botox

In short, signing a consent form authorizing “Biologics/Biogenics” may give medical staff the legal right to inject or infuse you with any of these products — at their discretion.

https://diamondz.substack.com/p/hospitals-have-quietly-reclassified?

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The Great Resist's avatar

I had that same doctor in 2021! And that same face-diapered, poison-shot-pushing conversation. I was done with her after that. I just don’t have a doctor now.

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Juju's avatar
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Me neither. Trying desperately to find one because I broke a couple ribs and also need my calcium checked but I haven’t a clue where to go. It’s not easy finding a TRUE doctor near me not captured by the big hospitals

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HappySlacker's avatar

If a calcium test comes in 'low' , there's a good chance it's meaningless anyway, or you be rx'd some toxic drug. The opacity of your teeth can tell a lot. Taking cod liver oil (some is good; more is NOT necessarily better), natural sources of vitamin K2 -- butter from grass fed cows, high fat cheeses (Brie, whole milk -- ideally clean raw, sour cream w/o additives), liver, also drinking (home made) meat stocks & broths, should provide you with the nutrients your body needs to put calcium to use. Avoid PPIs (they sabotage mineral absorption), sugar (including artificial sweeteners), vegetable oils; eat real food, and see how you feel.

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Copernicus's avatar

Functional med MD or DC? Not a guarantee but may be what you want.

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Janet's avatar

Mine was 2011 when I read Wheat Belly by Dr. Davis. Started my journey.

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KatWarrior's avatar

Way ahead of me, Janet! I thank God for parents who were real farmers. We ate real food and had a huge home garden. We ate exactly what is being (finally) advocated now. Lots of meat, vegetables, eggs, whole milk, butter, etc!

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Juju's avatar
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Growing up we regularly had a Xlarge chest freezer full of half a cow and a whole pig, plus dozens of our own raised chickens. And the accompanying buckets of lard

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Dena's avatar

Same. I read the Grainbrain by Dr. Perlmutter around the same time. I really got tired of my doc warning me I was going to have a heart attack if I didn’t take a statin to lower my cholesterol. I changed & improved my diet & it dropped 30 points on its own. Still higher than the experts like but I’m good! Btw, that same doc freaked out during Covid hysteria & wore a cloth mask, a m95 & the darth vader shield all at once - then retired shortly after.

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Jean V's avatar

I happened upon a Reader's Digest article that was an interview of Gary Taubes about the book Why We Get Fat at the beauty salon. That sent me down the rabbit hole and on to Fat Head, etc. That truly changed my life. This is a really good development! I did read an article by Nina Teicholz that pointed out that saturated fats were limited to 10% of calories, so that will be a problem in the institutional settings that are bound by the guidelines.

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Edward Flynn's avatar

Like Heather B, my close encounter with the C19 injection was in Sep ‘21. The 17th was the last workday before my shot#1 “deadline.” A curious word they chose. NO exemptions … the strictest policy of ALL high tech companies. I asked GROK. I was a long time CHD member, so was already aware of the existing data. Co-workers were scared so they did not listen. Two weeks after I left the company as a refusenik, a colleague was dead the day before his shot#2 deadline. He’d was only 46yo but part of the age stratum that contributed 2X excess deaths in Q3’21.

Having left my job we attended CHD and Kennedy Campaign events. While working on the house … all the stuff old houses do were waiting patiently for me … I listened to podcasts. Megan Kelly episode 321 featured Dr. Cate Shanahan (no relation to Bobby’s running mate) who explained EXACTLY why seed oils are a problem. And exactly why two years busting a$$ 5 days a week (5am before work!) at a fancy gym … that got locked down and I can no longer afford today … was not taking the excess weight off. I was over the BMI line and HATED it.

We toured the grocery store and mentally black-labeled everything in the center aisles.

In 4 months I lost 40 pounds, below college weight, now steady for 3 years. It wasn’t even hard to do. Just diet, habits, reduced stress. Not ZERO stress, but much lower.

BTW I briefly met JennY McCarthy at a campaign event. She looked great (of course). That’s who I thought you were, momentarily.

You have a black belt in gentle sarcasm mixed with optimism. Not unlike Jeff Childers. Nicely done!

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KatWarrior's avatar

I cannot express my joy and gratitude for your comment, Edward. That really felt like the kindest and most accurate description of me. Thank you from my soul. It made my day, Edward.

You have been reading my stuff/comments for a while. That’s amazing!

Thinking I was Jenna McCarthy made me smile. She is the frigging coolest dudette ever! I cannot hold a candle to Jenna.

Your comment almost made me cry, but because I am such a hardcore shite! It was something to hear your interpretation. If I may be so bold and ask you exactly how you lost all the weight?

I think a lot of the chronic weight gain and illness is directly related to our mental state. We don’t feel good about ourselves and the processed foods are so fecking addictive.

Thank you, Edward. Congratulations on the healthy life!

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

What Dr. Suneel Dhand has to say about RFK Jr. MAHA new U.S Food Pyramid:

https://youtu.be/EjU17mOQWKw?si=5Gr1hcAvPRrmXHIg

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

His logic is literally absurd… Of course average Americans don’t go looking for governmental nutrition guidance, but they set precedents for everything! I only watched about five minutes but I couldn’t take anymore😂

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

That’s interesting that you won’t even listen to what he has to say. The first stuff out of his mouth you didn’t agree with, nor with the legitimacy of what he had to say, so it had zero legitimacy for you. Humm.

But seriously what makes you think this “inversion of the food pyramid” is even going to make a dent in people’s health and to children’s overall health? You need a serious ‘buy in’ on it for it to be at all successful. So you put better food in the schools, prisons, and public institutions, then what?

All the people who are hip, hip, hooraying about this great MAHA moment are people who already know how to eat this way. How are you going to get the millions of lower income and poor people to buy into purchasing and eating higher quality food, that as we all know, costs more than what they are likely purchasing at their local Walmart, supermarket, convenience store, bodega, or tienda in their neighborhood?

And the thing that I feel is the true “elephant in the room”, that isn’t being discussed by RFK Jr. or the MAHA crowd (or even DJT) is WHY 40% plus children in the USA suffer from some chronic disease or illness in the first place? And why do so many adults as well, suffer from a chronic disease or conditions? The food, and the quality of the food they are eating is but a fraction of the cause of their health problems.

In the case of the children I believe it can be directly linked to the Childhood Vaccine Schedule and the excessive amounts of vaccinations that children are being given, in multiple doses from birth to age five. These children are “vaxx damaged” and no one wants to recognize that, at least publicly.

Why are there so many autistic children, children “on the spectrum” or the new word…”neurodivergent”, since the 1986 Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was put into place by President Reagan, that protected Big Pharma from liability if their vaccines caused children harm?

The poor health issue with Americans has absolutely nothing to do with the types of food they are consuming, whether it is high quality food or poor quality food. Sure consuming high fructose corn syrup drinks and eating snack foods doesn’t help a child when they are chronically ill, that’s for sure. People like you and I understand this but there a millions of Americans who do not even have the faintest idea about it and it’s ill effects on the body. And with this “inversion of the food pyramid” what can and or what will it really do to change health outcomes for Americans, in both adults and children?

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Tonya's avatar

"The poor health issue with Americans has absolutely nothing to do with the types of food they are consuming, whether it is high quality food or poor quality food."

Really?

Also, IF the government is going to give ANY guidance about diet (and I don't think it should at all, along with a host of other things it does that it shouldn't do), but IF it does, how is better (not perfect) advice a BAD thing?

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

I literally had to read that sentence five times, too (and then do some deep breathing exercises before responding).

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

I listened to half of it. I think that's more than fair. I don't need to hear about "the MAHA people in their bubble" more than three times to get his point.

I get the skepticism. But this feels a little like your kid just told you that he washed your car and your reply is, “Cool but what about the giant dent in the bumper?”

I had to read your comment three times to be sure I actually saw this sentence: “The poor health issue with Americans has absolutely nothing to do with the types of food they are consuming.” Really? Food isn’t a side variable—it’s a constant, daily biological input. Saying it doesn’t matter is like saying air quality doesn’t affect lungs. As deeply, passionately anti-vaccine as I am, I still believe this: a world fed genuinely healthy food and vaccinated would be healthier as a whole than one fed pure garbage and given zero vaccines. No one serious is claiming food is the only/single cause of chronic disease. But it’s the one we control most easily and have been getting spectacularly wrong.

You’re right that guidelines alone don’t magically change behavior. Buy-in matters. Access matters. Price matters. That’s exactly why this isn’t being framed as an “eat better” campaign—it’s aimed at the institutional level first: schools, SNAP, WIC, hospitals, prisons. That’s where defaults are set. Culture tends to follow defaults, not the other way around.

On cost: no one’s pretending everyone can afford steak for dinner every night. But federal guidance isn’t symbolic—it determines what gets reimbursed, subsidized, prioritized, and normalized. The government doesn’t just recommend food; it financially reinforces whatever it recommends.

As for vaccines, Kennedy JUST cut the childhood vaccine schedule down to a fraction of what it was. That doesn’t solve every chronic illness question, but it directly contradicts the idea that “no one wants to talk about it” or that nothing is changing on that front.

I guess I just don’t understand the “it’s never, ever enough” mentality. I’ll take any wins we can get.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

I find it’s that mentality of “go along to get along” thinking…the acceptance of the few crumbs of change, in this case, the minor changes in the vaccine schedule or the inversion of the food pyramid, that in the bigger picture what do they really amount to?

I am certainly not of the “it’s never, ever enough mentality”. Ok so they have done those things, now what? What about the 40% of children in the USA that suffer from some chronic disease, illness or condition? Who are in that situation as a result of the insane childhood vaccine schedule that has a child injected with over 74 plus injections filled with poisons and harmful poisons, in multiple doses from birth to age five. Then a few more as they head to middle school and high school.

Vaccinations that even RFK Jr. has noted were harmful when he was able to speak freely about the issue.

And that is what I find you not addressing here. And no I would not have said to the kid that had “just washed” my car, “cool what about the giant dent in the bumper.” I would have likely said that they “missed a few spots on the car” and have them clean it. I say it quite frequently to the car wash guys when they wash my car”.😉🤪

And a PS: I have never been a “go along to get along” kind of a gal. I’m done with the few “crumbs of victory” that get thrown at us by our government and the “powers that be”. I want the “whole enchilada”.

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Donna O's avatar

I use the same test with hair dressers. If their hair is over-processed, bad color or cut I move on.

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Kaycee's avatar

I voted Butter but with better PR, because bread is just a delivery mechanism for butter! HAHA

But seriously, I hope it is a huge hit to Big Agra!

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Janet's avatar

I don’t know about that. I actually opened a new package of Kerrygold butter last night and swiped my finger across it for a lick. I slept great. Hmmmm🤔. I’m the only one eating it in my house so…….

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John Wright's avatar

The advantage of living alone! {grin} Saves on washing dishes!

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Janet's avatar

I’m not alone, but hubby is still aligned with the statin crowd. More Kerrygold for me!

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John Wright's avatar

It saves money when the rest of your household won't eat the healthy (usually more expensive) food.

Do you have an Aldi store near you? Their "Irish Butter" seems to be the same thing as Kerrygold but at a lower price.

Hopefully your hubby is just "aligned" with the statin crowd and doesn't actually take statins!

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Warrior Mom's avatar

the Irish butter at Aldi's is the same stuff as far as I can tell. if you're cooking with Irish butter, its actually less expensive the conventional American, since there is no water in it to evaporate, hence you use less!

and their line of organic bread is nearly identical to Dave's Killer (at $2 cheaper ;) ;) )

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Tonya's avatar
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I know that it's not likely that someone aligned with the statin crowd will read something like this, but here it is anyhow. Maybe you will be able to share the info with him someday.

"The data gets worse when you look at who is actually swallowing these pills. Statins do not reduce death rates in women at all. Men over 70 see no benefit and may actually be harmed. The only group that sees a measurable, albeit tiny, benefit is men aged 30 to 69 who have already suffered a heart attack. That is a very small market. To grow the industry had to convince doctors to prescribe preventative measures to the worried well. They succeeded."

https://dgillespie.substack.com/p/the-anxiety-tax

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Can’t believe you’re still attached to someone that believes that statins are good for them.🤔

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Juju's avatar

Screw the swipe, I plunge a spoon into it and gobble it up 🤣🤣 I LOVE my butter, on everything.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Try Vital butter. It’s grass fed and made in the US.

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KatWarrior's avatar

I second that enthusiasm, Kaycee. There are certain things that I cannot (under any circumstances) live without. Butter and cheese, unpasteurized, of course!

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Real butter on my real multigrain homemade bread fresh from the oven is heaven. Prove me wrong.

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Warrior Mom's avatar

ever make beer bread? its divine!

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

I need to try!

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Meddling Kid's avatar

I think I’m in love with you now because I’ve always said that cake is just a delivery mechanism for frosting, which is essentially butter enhanced with sugar.

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Heather B's avatar

me too! I don't eat the cake, just the frosting. Works great as hubby doesn't eat the frosting, only the cake.

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Alice in Wonderland's avatar

My daughter eyed me askance at the table one day, and offered an adolescent suggestion, "Mom, how about a little bread with your butter?"

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Kaycee's avatar

HAHA!

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Vee's avatar

I'm not sure how I feel about this. It's encouraging yet infuriating. We can eat "real" food but will we be healthier? The vast majority of our food is GMO and covered in pesticides. FFS, glyphosate is still allowed to be used in the US and it was replaced with diquat which is significantly worse! Paraquat is another terrible one that is widely used on all the commercial fruits and vegetables we eat. We actually get sicker eating "real" foods because it is all poisoned. It's maddening!!

You know this is a big scam when we have to pay more money for "real real" food like organic and/or non-gmo. If the system wanted to actually promote health with "real real" food, then we would start with banning pesticides and frankenfoods created in labs.

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deborah7isheaven's avatar

I think it’s in the works. Gotta start somewhere!! Little by little it’s scratching back to sanity.

(Unless Jesus comes back first).

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Janet's avatar

Just roll with the “like” today, Vee. It’s a really good day. 😉💝

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Warrior Mom's avatar

I'm with you, Janet!! I'll take another 'win'! especially since at the end of the day, its really all about better information getting out there. you can lead a horse to water and all of that. people screaming about vaccines... 'this isn't enough, that isn't enough, day late and a dollar short'... wtf? nobody has a magic wand to fix a century of industry capture in a couple of months. I stopped vaxing my kids back in 2006 cuz I found out the truth. they still went to public school - its DOABLE! I've been putting in effort to feeding them better, as I became better educated. I will not beat up myself, nor anyone else cuz it 'didn't happen sooner'.

KNOW BETTER, DO BETTER cuz nobody is gonna do it for you, right?!

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John Wright's avatar

The list of problems to fix isn't exhausted yet. Still plenty more to be done.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

But if you’re eating only real food and bypassing the junk, you’ll ultimately spend less…not to mention what you’ll save on medical care in the long run…

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KatWarrior's avatar

It’s why I started our home garden. It’s a ton of work, but I love it and we get to eat what we grow.

I get all our meat, chicken, etc from non-gmo, pasture raised animals. Red meat is grass fed and finished.

Doing our best to avoid the pesticides, too. Hubs buys all the flours from glysophate free farmers and mills. He makes bread at least once a week.

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Meddling Kid's avatar

After those awful fashion commercials, I never thought I’d be agreeing with someone saying “real real”, but here I am.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Yesterday Kennedy also announced his work on soil regeneration. My comment of course was. ‘Don’t forget the chemtrails’.

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James's avatar

It would also help by closing the door on the aerial-spraying of climate change garbage, as everything on the planet is getting coated with a variety of chemicals - aluminum is the major dessicant being used, and I believe they are using some of the other chemicals for reaction to the microwave and electromagnetic-frequency waves like from HAARP to steer and control the storms and make them exponentially worse, like North Carolina.

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Janet's avatar
1dEdited

Will we see dolts cramming donuts down their gullets today on X or TikTok to spite the “not a doctor” Kennedy? Let’s see. Well, I can’t because I have neither one.

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

LOL probably!

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Neither do I Janet.

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Alice in Wonderland's avatar

I saw a great reel on Fb n which RFKJ responded to someone in one of his audiences somewhere by saying that he is the 27th U.S. Sec'y of Health, that only two of the previous 26 health secretaries were doctors, and that neither of those two was appointed by a democrat. Jus' sayin' ...

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Karen Bandy's avatar

I don’t either but tik tok has infiltrated facebook and instagram.

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Janet's avatar

There it is!!!! Bam, just like that. I’m actually stunned. This administration doesn’t leak. It’s out there now and the loonie left will HAVE to support ultraprocessed food and sick kids, or shut the duck up, like they support needles stuck into their kids by serial jab jockeys. Kick the “Lunchables “ out of the schools and all the other plastic food.

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John Wright's avatar

Oh, what is this world coming to? Now we have to eat real food??? Say it isn't so! {sarcasm}

How on earth am I supposed to survive? I don't have time to do anything more than pop some pizza rolls in the microwave and blow them up! Cook a real meal? With what time? I'm too busy scrolling Instagram! {more sarcasm}

It's disappointing that the video of JFK was posted a year ago and yet only has 1,000 likes. 🤦‍♂️

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Alice in Wonderland's avatar

That hilarious "flip the pyramid" video was in a 2014 "Southpark" without the RFKJ voice, which was recently added.

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Meddling Kid's avatar

I will take meatloaf made with 75/25 beef, made with plenty of whole egg, and topped with cheddar cheese and bbq sauce, with a side of premium ice cream, and a slice of watermelon to balance it out…

…for the WIN!

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Janet's avatar

I make shepherds pie with grass fed beef and REAL homemade mashed potatoes. I also drink good orange juice. 😱😱😱. We’ve been lied to about that also. Lustig is a quack.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

I use Jerusalem artichoke or celery root as a potato substitute…or mashed cauliflower. But every once in a while I break down and make the real deal and oh boy is it heavenly…

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Janet's avatar

I have to admit I go to Thanksgiving for the mashed potatoes with a pile of butter melting on top. Gravy? Turkey? Meh. My nephew brings venison barbecue sometimes or brisket he makes. Holy moly. Sadly, he’s on Ozempic the last year and admits he doesn’t get the same joy from cooking or eating.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Ozembic ruins everything. Now that I make my own bread w imported flour, I can enjoy STUFFING again! Life is good.

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J. Lincoln's avatar

What source/kind of imported flour? Presently I am using King Arthur unbleached bread flour.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

After a little research on flours, I found this on American flours. But I prefer Italian flour ;).

If you want American flours that behave more like Italian 00 flour, look for unbleached, finely milled, moderate-protein flours. The closest widely available option is King Arthur 00 Pizza Flour, which is specifically designed to mimic Italian 00 for pizza and pasta. Other good choices include Caputo 00 (imported but sold in U.S. stores) and Polselli Organic 00.

Why These Flours May Be Easier to Tolerate

• No bleaching agents: Unlike many American all-purpose flours, these are unbleached.

• No bromate or additives: Italian imports and King Arthur avoid potassium bromate, which is still legal in U.S. flours.

• Glyphosate-free options: Organic Italian brands (Polselli, Molino Grassi) emphasize pesticide-free wheat.

• Protein balance: Moderate protein (~11–12%) creates elastic dough without the heavy chew of U.S. bread flour.

If you want to replicate Italian 00 flour with American options:

• Use King Arthur 00 Pizza Flour for pizza and pasta.

• For baking bread, blend King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose with a small portion of bread flour to soften gluten strength.

• For sensitive digestion, choose organic, unbleached flours—they’re closest to Italian milling standards.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Posellis Classica for white bread, and Antimo Caputo for whole wheat bread 💗

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Add mushrooms and cumin, and a little V-8 juice, yummy!

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Erin Montgomery's avatar

Love your satire And snark! Same can be said about the old CDC/FDA and Agriculture boards- stacking them with big corporate yes men.

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Dr Dan's avatar

My wife loves to use the term "allopathetic" when she wants to insult the "training" I received in my MD medical school. You all have permission to use the term (with some royalties sent directly to her).

Great post today, Jenna. I'm sending it to my mentee who is in his fourth year of an allopathic medical school.

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

Brilliant! I will definitely be stealing that. ;)

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Copernicus's avatar

A pediatrician friend of mine who has converted the heterodox positions on many things (including vaxxes) recently me they feel they were gypped in med school and residency. Didn't learn basic, essential, obvious-once-said-out-loud stuff.

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HappySlacker's avatar

Relatedly, there is philanthropath, the sociopath who uses his excessive money.

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andrew adach's avatar

Just two comments, well ,let me just squeeze right in here .At 78 I will often get up and scramble 4 or 5 eggs just to help me get back to sleep. Oh shit now there is six.

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Meddling Kid's avatar

Add some cheddar crumbles to that (and try some rosemary in it to help stave off dementia).

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Janet's avatar

I actually must have the odd piece of bacon once in a while. But Kerrygold is my main additive.

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Meddling Kid's avatar

I accept your terms. Toss some bacon into the meatloaf and we’ll make it into a bunless bbq bacon cheeseburger.

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Janet's avatar
1dEdited

Meeting of the minds. I did a roast with carrots and onions in a new cast iron Dutch oven last week. I thought my husband was going to keel over in joy and admiration. Lol.

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Warrior Mom's avatar

BBQ bacon burger made out of bison!! and make my cheese smoked gouda :)

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Tim Pallies's avatar

In the "totally random and anecdotal" category, the last time I visited Ireland I ate and drank like a viking, and came home after 10 nights--11 pounds lighter.

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Occam's avatar

Crazy to think that healthy eating eventually devolved into "Ketchup is a fruit"

The American corporate food ecosystem is perhaps the most obvious reflection of a nation that has completely lost its soul.

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Occam's avatar

I'd also add that most of those who critize RFK for his work couldn't do a single pushup.

Perhaps we should make any criticism of his policies be accompanied by a video of the author doing an actual pushup.

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Janet's avatar

I kind of remember Jenna did show something like that once or at least a shot of Kennedy’s bod.

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Tonya's avatar

Jamie Oliver had a television program around 2010 called Food Revolution. In one episode, he worked on improving a school lunch program by using fresh, made-from-scratch entrees. The head of the cafeteria said his entree didn't have enough vegetables, so she added French fries to that lunch line. You know, to comply with the federal guidelines.

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Occam's avatar

I remember that actually.

Didn't his whole effort get subsumed by the bureaucracy and die on the vine?

Never go to work against the nanny technocrat machine - won't end well for you.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Thank GOD! The free breakfast program at our school, for example, included TWO chocolate muffins (grains), white or CHOCOLATE milk (protein), and a piece of fruit. Students were then sent to class all sugared up. Even kids who had already eaten at home had SECOND BREAKFAST, because CHOCOLATE MUFFINS. when I spoke to the director of operations, he cited the school nutrition guidelines…we were basically stuck until we hired a kitchen manager. At long last, we did, and started serving eggs with potatoes, breakfast burritos, etc. still to many carbs, but at least less sugar. Sadly, not all schools have kitchens and have to depend on prepackaged food.

This is GREAT NEWS for students, families, and the poor teachers who have to deal with sugar highs and crashes every single day.

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Janet's avatar

Potatoes are healthy. Quite nutritious. cook them in coconut oil, tallow or butter. We are being sold a lie about carbs too. Natural carbs are necessary. We do need to change the grains and wheat the USA uses. They are bad and adulterated . because the healthy carbs are always paired and included with crap food in the mind f—-k we get continually, all carbs have been promoted as unhealthy and unnecessary. Not science proven.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

These potatoes are processed tater tots or hash browns…and bcs of the SNA, breakfasts are still carb heavy. Now that guidelines have changed, hopefully this will change, too. I’m a long time fan of the potato!

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Tonya's avatar

I had a diabetic student in my class in the 1990s. Sometimes the main entree for breakfast was a Jumbo Donut! The cafeteria provided him with a less sugary option, but usually just a bowl of cereal.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Just awful.

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Teresa Parmenter's avatar

Growing up my father only allowed real butter at Thanksgiving. He loved his margarine. When I moved out I went back to butter and haven’t stopped since - that was 50 years ago. I’m a meat, butter, and eggs type of woman. Thank you very much

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Teresa Parmenter's avatar

Yes, Crisco was a staple in our kitchen. My Mom being a child of the depression also saved bacon grease.

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Patti F's avatar

I save bacon grease. Cook an egg in it - it's divine.

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Janet's avatar

I still do. My hubby uses it to finish his fried potatoes with a glob because it makes them crispy.

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Teresa Parmenter's avatar

Yummy! Will try that for us too! I love crispy fried potatoes once in awhile

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KBB's avatar

Crisco! Geez, I hadn't thought about that in years. It was a staple in my house growing up, too. ('50s) Is it even still for sale, or has it been rightly outlawed? What was it, anyway??? It looked like axle grease, only whiter.

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Teresa Parmenter's avatar

It’s still being sold at least at Safeway in Honolulu

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J. Lincoln's avatar

Skip the Crisco and go with lard or beef tallow.

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Janet's avatar
1dEdited

Me too. We had margarine as kids in the 50s and 60s. My dad started making butter because we had COWS. Lol. Crisco is made from cotton processing trash. Ouch.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

We always had a tub of Gold n Soft margarine in our fridge. Yuk! I bet it’s taken 50 years to get that crap out of my system.

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Anna Lafferty's avatar

Thanks, Jenna. This is a bit of stream of consciousness as food is so primal and basic to health. I barely shop in regular grocery stores anymore because I've changed my eating so much - my mother was an RN and we had healthy meals when we were young and that continued more or less under the nutrition that she understood which was based on the right model. But as TV dinners and "fancy" cereals and fast food developed, the norm started to change. Once I was on my own and stopped having my mother to better control what I ate simply by cooking good food for us, I started eating all the addicting foods. I progressed to eating what I thought was healthy over the years but fell for the B.S. Now in my 70's, I'm relearning how to eat well and take care of myself in other ways. I'm actually enjoying the exploration and grateful I can afford good food. This is a great start! I think it's going to take some time for the masses to join the party though. I'm not always able to give up some old habits yet, but I am healthier than I've been in a long time - no longer malnourished. I have to figure out how to get what I need from my doctor but also not cave to the pressure of what they're still teaching these medical folks in school. I'd like to find a way to dialogue with the doctors that respects what they understand and somehow build a bridge to what I've been learning. Continuing to read The War on Ivermectin and so glad I am getting the birds' eye view of what went on during the Pandemic. I was just trying to get through that time with a mother in her 90's and with all the isolation that came with the situation. Here's to a healthy 2026!

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Janet's avatar

Docs don’t even tell me I need statins anymore, the few times I darken their doors. I told one NOPE but when I got home Walgreens had already called thst my Rx was ready. I never picked it up.

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Anna Lafferty's avatar

I've just switched docs and I'm going to politely listen next time and then explain to him that I don't plan on taking a statin again ever and that how he can help me is to determine more nutritional and lifestyle changes that can help me be heart healthy. In the meantime, I'm discovering those on my own, of course!

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Chiadrum's avatar

My niece just got accepted to Tufts. Google says 95k a year with books and room and board. The family is so excited. Nearly 400k in debt to learn the opposite of Science and how evil White people are. Money well spent

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