"never once did our so-called health officials suggest laying off the Lays or going for a stroll."
Not only did they never suggest it, they ENCOURAGED people to stay home, watch tv, and order take out. They CLOSED the parks. Our government is pure evil.
Yes, I was flabbergasted & furious that “they” DELIBERATELY withheld or banned cheap treatments & vitamins, fresh air, sunshine, exercise & community in favor of mandated poisons (jabs, remesdivir), masks that were filthy & forced re-breathing spent CO2 & lockdowns. But gyms, parks, playgrounds, churches, pools & other sports facilities etc closed but liquor stores open so that we could numb our senses & depression in solitary confinement.
So very true. But every tyrant has to behave this way. If it makes sense, that doesn’t give them a chance to be so happy watching others doing ridiculous things like a religious ritual. Sick people
Thankfully, I live in Texas. We continued happy hour gatherings and never bought the mask bs. Covid was a scam. Also, obesity is real. We have lots of good farmers and ranchers here.
Yes, in the land of lies truth ALWAYS hurts those who love those lies. I was never fat but I did notice that I was gaining weight when I was drinking soda. I'm 5'2" so 20 pounds extra on a small frame makes one resemble a mini tank. I saw the results in the mirror and in in my digestive system. I broke it. Literally. Then I let them yank various organs to "correct" the health problem. What an imbecile.
After allowing them to plunder my organs I became even more ill. Then, I went on a deep dive into the medical cartel and chronic illness.
I found out through Elizabeth Labozetta that in her hometown ( I think Ohio ) they ( the AMA ) implemented an experiment to test drive their new laparoscopic equipment. In order to have victims---I mean patients they were allowed to dump a chemical in the public water to bring about an epidemic of digestive disorders. They were able to test this new procedure of ripping out gall bladders in great numbers on unwitting Americans. They could now rip out our organ without cutting us open and get that vic-I mean patient back to work in three days instead of two weeks down time. Never mind that this procedure allows for nicked bile ducts leading to sepsis and other internal injuries. It made the medical community....and the creator of this torture device ......profits they probably never dreamed of.
Then I found out about Brominated Vegetable oil ( a solvent used in Anti-Freeze ) as one of the ingredients in Mountain Dew ( I never drank that poison, or, my children, thank GOD! ) ....and mothers who drank that toxin while pregnant giving birth to babies with their intestines on the outside of their bodies. This corrosive substance literally ate through the navel area allowing the intestines to bubble up through that hole. But......you will NEVER hear one doctor say one word about this.
Then, in 2005 I took my son to the dermatologist for his skin problems ( of course it had everything to do with these plastic foods ) so he took blood work. He called me in the following day and said this, "Ms. Santos, your son has the triglycerides of an 80 year old man, he is on his way to a heart attack." That was it. I went home cleared out the freezer of hot pockets, the fridge and cabinets. Not a box, can or bag was left of anything processed. Nothing. We drank only water, ate bread I made from organic flour, meats, milk and vegetables from local farmers. No chips, no "snacks". Just REAL food. He lost 25 pounds in 2 months and from that point forward he maintained a healthy weight from a non-processed diet. For the past 7 years he has worked out at the gym 5 days a week.
I have too many stories to tell of obese neighbors whom I have tried to help with their weight and they are reluctant to take any advice from a 5'2" 110 pound woman. I even told off the doctor of my 15 year old neighbor who was morbidly obese. I asked him why he did not tell his mother that eating processed foods are causing his obesity and he said, "There is no science to prove that." I was gobsmacked that this idiot needed to see a piece of paper to tell him what his eyes can see! I challenged him right then and there and told him he was derelict in his duty as a doctor to tell the truth. I think he left town the following month.
I have tried to warn mothers shopping with children in grocery stores as they pick up that jar, box or bag of MSG/High Fructose Corn Syrup/Bromide/ Polysorbate 80 that these chemical additives cause diabetes, obesity, and other organ damage but they look at me as if I had just assaulted them.
I once thought of printing up hundreds of flyers on the causes of organ damage and handing them out in front of WalMart but knew that they would just escort me off of the property. I told everyone I could about the damages of ALL things in a can, bag, jar of box but they just stare at me blankly. They cannot see that they are 75 to 100 pounds overweight and that they now need wheelchairs and airplane seats reconfigured to accommodate their burgeoning girth.
I could see when I looked in the mirror that I was 20 pounds overweight and did not accommodate that extra weight by buying a whole new wardrobe. I did something about that weight because I hate lies. They kill Love.
I believe that this epidemic is profoundly linked to the social climate of lies and lying to one's self. Intricately intertwined with false hopes and beliefs that serve no GOOD for anyone except those in power.
The truth only hurts those who cannot or will not deal with it. Accepting things at face value and then doing something constructive about it is called maturity. Something deeply lacking in our Western cultures.
Everything about this comment: WOW. I hadn't heard of the AMA scandal OR the Mountain Dew debauchery (but not surprised). Thanks for sharing and congrats on taking back your own and your son's health. :)
And to think that is just the "tip of the iceberg' of what is truly in our food and how wicked the medical cartel is. Devastating are the lies that we live.
I'd love to read more about that scandal of the laporoscopic surgery scam - unfortunately I can't find anything except how wonderful the procedure is (of course). Do you have any links? I think I'm just not putting the right search terms in.
All information that goes against INGSOC is scrubbed.....permanently. This research was done by a citizen journalist who had been severely injured during this procedure. She posted on the Internet her findings. I think I printed that research and it is somewhere in my personal files. ( I kind of knew where all of this was going back in 2006 ).
So, it would not even be on the 'Wayback Machine' site.
Not Bromelain! Surely! The alternative health industry is wild about it. Although when I first read the word a few years ago, I assumed it was the name of a character in Lord of the Rings.
Thank you, Tim, for pointing out my error! I meant 'Bromide'......as in potassium bromide found in bread. I, personally, take Bromelain with good results. Potassium bromide, however, is deadly if taken over long periods of time.
Jenna McCarthy; sensational article. I really like the following ( and I quote)
"The solution to this epidemic is actually remarkably simple—it’s just not easy. We have to quit buying their hype—and their garbage, manufactured frankenfoods. We need to feed our bodies wholesome foods and support local farmers and markets that prioritize quality over profit. We have to break our addiction to convenience and our dependence on ultra-processed food. Yes, organic meats and vegetables are costlier than a box of Hamburger Helper and some cheap ground beef, and cooking from scratch takes more time than swinging through the Chick-fil-A drive-thru (although maybe not right after high school lets out in Texas). But would you rather spend your time and money on healthy nourishment now or on decades of medical care you could have avoided?
“Those who have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find the time for illness.” — Edward Stanley"
Brilliant ffffffffffffffffing brilliant...
Want to bet most people will never ever follow this advice; choice is painful for most people, so they blissfully go on their merry, set in stone , way. Sad, UGH
I followed it! I started on March 6, 2022. I gave up ALL processed food, all sugar (even evil replacements like maltodextrin, which is a 138 on the glycemic index whereas sugar is only a 65! Both are bad but they use these other ingredients to be able to say “sugar free”,) prepackaged meals, snacks foods, most restaurant foods because the ingredients back in their kitchen are all the processed crap I was now avoiding. I lost 55 lbs so far, am no longer taking any of the 13+ prescriptions I relied on for over twenty years, and at 59 I am healthier than I’ve been since my 30s and have the ALL DAY energy of my 20s.
The only health problems I have now were caused by prescription meds from years ago (omeprazole) and it left me with severe, advanced osteoporosis of a level only seen in someone thirty years older than me. So I work out a lot now and occasionally will suffer an injury that knocks me out of my routine for a bit, like I have a cast on my arm right now for a rather nasty tennis elbow and I pulled/damaged something in my side/ribs doing my leg press a couple weeks ago. But I won’t be derailed by these injuries. When you’ve been so sick for as many years as I was and then suddenly have the health of thirty years prior, nothing will stop me now. And it was the food that cured me. And now I take specific supplements to compliment my personal health and diet.
Obesity is actually a side effect of many of these diseases, not a cause. That’s another lie we’ve been sold. Usually bad health due to food causes metabolic disfunction and throws our insulin resistance out of whack. The chemicals in food and the destruction of the nutrients due to how it’s grown and processed destroys/interrupts how our body should function at a cellular level. THAT’s what leads to obesity.
As for the food: it really isn’t more expensive than what my grocery bills used to be buying all the prepackaged foods. While organic is better, for those who can’t afford that it’s STILL 100x healthier to change how you eat and buy the non-organic options for starters. Remove ALL sugar (use only stevia/monk fruit/allulose/erythritol,) most boxed/premade foods and over-processed grains, all fast food, any restaurant food that you can’t control how it’s prepared, most breads unless you home make them or find a quality authentic sourdough with starter, and stick to ANY whole foods you can afford organic or not, like meats, seafoods, eggs/dairy, veggies, some fruits, and only unrefined staples.
Learn to cook again from scratch using healthy ingredients. It is a time investment that pays off in spades. It took me about a year of mistakes, frustrations, and let-downs with stupid recipes I found online and some wasted ingredients to finally have several binders full of wonderful recipes we love for all food categories. Many I got from trusted sites I found, and others I invented myself as my skills increased. It. Was. Worth. It. I just made the most heavenly comfort food last night with Italian sausage links and cauliflower rice, garlic, home grown and homemade sundried tomatoes, and pepper strips that the men in my house gobbled down greedily and literally finger-licked the pan almost dry. Three years ago they would have laughed in your face if you told them they would one day love what I made. Both of them are healthy, muscular, and more fit than ever before after supporting me and my diet the past 2-1/2 years.
The only bad chemicals I’m exposed to now come from how an animal is raised or how produce is grown/treated. Compared to what I was exposed to before, it’s tons better now. Our grocery bills are not higher than before, but 80% of the bill is definitely now for meats and seafoods alone. (Because I chose a Keto diet.) But when you cut out the high cost of prepackaged foods and eating out, you find it’s more than enough to pay for the remaining produce and whole grains you still need, as well as the more expensive meats. I’ll admit my meat consumption has gone down this year due to high inflation, but I find less expensive options, like I eat more cans of tuna now and I eat more eggs as egg salad and deviled eggs, and I do more with ground meats than I did before too. Once inflation comes down I’ll be back to my multiple steaks and roasts per week plus more salmon and shellfish.
I did what I did without organic versions. Once finances make it possible we will try to move to organic. But nobody should give up at the starting gate if they can’t do organic. There’s a LOT of good health to be had just by removing processed/premade and staying away from fast food and sugar.
Wow, Juju! Thank you so much for sharing this. Sorry about your injury but I am blown away by your grit and determination. And your energy! You always have the most thoughtful contributions to the comments.😊
That's for people who are reading this and commenting on this thread; lots of people never read past the big "All-Natural" in the logo. Just the other day a friend told me she'd been using some cake mix or sth that's been fortified with Acheta Protein... And after months of using she finally looked it up.
And truthfully, the food doesn't even HAVE to be organic.
A low carb doc whose name escapes me tells the story of a homeless man who reversed his Type 2 diabetes eating eggs and ground beef hamburgers from his local urban non-organic grocery store.
Organic is great if you can! And necessary for folks who are more sensitive to glyphosate and so on. And not *always* absolutely necessary.
We downloaded the app Yuka - you can scan foods and it tells you how many additives and sugar/salt is in it (more details than reading the label). It's been eye opening for us to see stuff we thought was good, but really isn't. We're slowly weeding out the pantry and replacing stuff with better stuff. I wont toss the foods we have - I paid for them and I'm not going to waste it. But I wont replace it with the same products. It's quite the learning curve.
I use Yuka the entire time I am in the store. It is not always spot on, for example I cook with tons of coconut milk and even the really clean brands get a “poor“ rating because of the high fat content. Well, it’s healthy fat, and I use one can in a pot of curry that will serve 10 people so I’m not worried. That said it’s a great app and I love that it offers alternatives!
The high fat is NOT unhealthy. They are still lying about that. It’s only a problem when combined with the unhealthy sugars and high carbs, which would still be unhealthy without the fat. My fat consumption has been through the roof for 2-1/2 years and I lost 55lbs and look fantastic now, and my lipid panels are the healthiest they have been in over 12 years, so … it’s not the fat.
Congratulations, Juju! I lost 50 pounds in 2006 and I have kept it off since. I have a protein heavy diet with vegetables and fruit. I never ever eat fast food or pizza. I stay away from starchy foods and very, very rarely eat bread. On occasion, I will go on a sugary binge, and I always feel like crap until I can reign it back in. Lol. I am in my late 50s and I am not on any meds and have no medical issues at all.
I know how hard it is to lose weight and keep it off so I just wanted to say well done!
And I’ve mastered some heavenly low carb sweet deserts that my family loves if you’re ever interested - just DM me. I haven’t touched real sugar in all this time but have enjoyed a lot of sweet treats. I only sweeten things with erythritol, allulose, stevia, or monk fruit. I even found a heavenly replacement for that famous pretzel jello salad that tastes BETTER than the original and the crust stays crunchy for a few days in the fridge, not getting soggy like the pretzel version did.
It is the cheap processed fats that are the issue. When you realise what they do to extract the oils from seeds you realise what the problem is.
Remember the fuss about "trans fats"? To create trans fats they heated lipids to very high temperatures. To extract the oil they heat the seed to very high temperatures then use chemicals.
Cold pressed oils are fine and this includes olive oil. You need to read the label and remember cold pressed/mechanicsl mesns costs more so in proccessed foods it won't be whether labelled organic or not.
Yes! We switched entirely to butter, tallow, bacon fat - and coconut oil, avocado oil, and olive oil. The latter three we use sparingly for dressings or baking, but when cooking in a skillet it’s always bacon fat, butter, or tallow.
I try to get the majority of my fat naturally from my meats and fish.
The whole saturated fat "bad" is a scam too. Fats are a chain of carbon with hydrogen attached. All saturated means is every carbon atom has a hydrogen atom attached. It's solid at room temperature and it's more stable - that's why it's better to cook at high temperatures. The other types of fat may be "good" but they are also more unstable - the free hydrogen molecules are open to oxygen - oxidized fat isn't healthy. I use bacon fat, coconut oil, ghee and butter to cook. I also use avocado oil for cooking and EVOO for salad dressings. It's the industrial seed oils (vegetable) oils that we need to avoid.
I render fat from the 1/4 cow I buy which is 100% grass fed and finished. I highly recommend it. Ask the butcher to save it for you. Perfect to cook with and lasts and lasts. I freeze the extra in mason jars. We go through it fast. Sometimes I'll cook with coconut oil, avocado oil and EVOO. I make my own beauty products with the tallow as well. The more we can teach ourselves to do the more we can avoid buying the crap that is being mass produced by people who do not care about you! Love sharing with like minded people. Thanks Jenny!
My husband is working on rendering fat and I am OBSESSED with tallow on my skin. I bought a tallow deodorant at my farmer's market yesterday--it smells amazing (who knew?). A super cute young gal started the company (www.motherfocare.com if anyone's curious--she'll ship anywhere!) What else do you make with it???
Tallow for roasting/frying beef and pork fat for roasting /stir-frying veg, that's the absolute bee's knees!
(The easiest way to render tallow is by chopping it up and leaving it in a low slow oven in the baking tray, and just pouring it off from time to time as it renders.)
We buy from a group that supplies grass fed/finished beef, pasture raised chickens and heritage pigs. I'm not sure if they have the fat available but I'm definitely going to see if I can find someone to buy it from. There's a non-woke Canadian company that sells the tallow face cream (F-balm) https://thetallowedtruth.com Great ideas! Thanks for sharing Patti.
I watched a documentary on Woodstock and the first thing that struck me is that there were virtually no obese people. To the contrary everyone looked skinny. I grew up around that time and I certainly did not have a great diet, coke and French fries at the drug store, but no one was heavy. In my all girl high school there were 2 girls who were obese, and they would just be considered heavy today. We have to stop eating food- like substances. I’m a label reader and I was looking for a clean-ish frozen pizza and now there’s a yeast in it that’s grown on mold. Not even real yeast. And recently I have found propylene glycol in cake mixes. It wasn’t there before, why add radiator fluid to cake mixes. And many, many chemicals don’t have to even be labeled just..’ cuz. It’s really challenging to have a decent diet these days. I try to eat organic when I can, but I avoid any grain that’s not organic. They spray glysophate on grains to dessicate them right before harvesting to increase the yield. I’m trying to up my gardening game and figure out what I can forage. Our food system is kind of nuts.
Yes, we drank cola in the 70's and ate desserts and no one was fat. I believe it was in the 1990's they changed from real sugar in cola products to HFCS. A study by Canadian doctors showed that High Fructose Corn Syrup caused Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Syndrome in mice; basically cirrhosis of the Liver. You can find the research on Weston A. Price Foundation website. https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/modern-foods/the-double-danger-of-high-fructose-corn-syrup/#gsc.tab=0
For anyone else: don’t be afraid to toss food. I went ALL IN because I needed immediate help with my health. I took everything out of my pantry and freezers that were bad for me. I divided into boxes the food that wasn’t necessarily evil (like a box of pasta) but was off limits for my chosen diet, and that box I donated to a food pantry. The other box had items like high sugar snacks and sweets, processed and packaged foods with terrible ingredients that I didn’t have the heart to hurt someone else with. The value of that box in 2022 dollars was about $180. Maybe it would cost $320 today? Still that’s less than the cost of a single doctor appointment and an unnecessary prescription or two. Throwing it away didn’t phase me at all. Tossing it was just a medical appointment in my mind to better my health, and save money over future appointments that would never be necessary now. And they weren’t. I’ve only had to see a doctor twice for injuries at the gym. 🤣 Best money I ever threw out!!!!
Great idea. Don't give your crap to a food bank. And definitely don't eat it! I've volunteers at a food bank and although the one close to us gets fresh produce and introduce hydroponics 905 of what goes out their door isn't food and it isn't nutritious.
Exactly. It's not a choice between expensive organics and cheap processed food. Organic is better, but cheap whole foods are far better than processed foods -- Including the expensive "healthy" ones in the health food store.
One thing you didn't go into here is the Ozempic scam. I predict that is going to the the next big scandal (not that the MSM will cover it, obvs). I am still in shock that so many people (especially straight after the Vaxx hustle) signed up to this nonsense. It is a lifetime prescription to an expensive drug that gives you limited weigh loss (with damaging and common side effects including...DEPRESSION) and about whose long term effects nobody knows a single thing. The whole thing is one massive con - it is literally amazing that people fall for it. My optimism for humanity is waning to say the least.
I actually have written about Ozempic many times, and the link to the “skinny serum” with horrific side effects refers to it as well. I agree, that will be our next vaccine disaster…
My apologies - it does indeed. Quick one; one of the dads on my son's soccer team works for Novo Nordisk and last year was telling me about the much-upgraded annual offsite he had just been to. Apparently they flew Rihanna in for the gala dinner!
Broadcast free tv now features pro-Ozempic commercials vying for viewers' attention with attorneys advertising their services to sue for Ozempic-related injuries.
Yes, it's Red Queen taking on White Queen in Looking-glass Land.
Not to mention their latest scam (which started with statins) was to find a medical reason to start kids on the drug so they become life-long consumers. Kids are placed on Ozempic and will be burdened the rest of their lives by it.
I think it's *because* they are fresh out of the Vaxx hustle. It's like people who keep giving their money to scammers, "oh but this time it will work!" and looking for magic solutions; but in addition to that it really looks like some people quite literally got dumber after getting vaxxed. And some of the side effects from Ozempic are pretty obvious if you just look at the celebs who got the shot.
Absolutely no pushback on the f-word from me, Jenna! Overweight and obesity co-relates with so many negative physical and mental health issues, it’s past time to take the word out of the locked lexicon. But as RFKJ and the Means siblings have repeatedly said, the issues doesn’t derive exclusively from laziness of moral failure; the corrupt processed food industry supported by insane government subsidies are fundamental causes. Apparently, when a Coke executive was once asked why they use high-fructose corn syrup ( a proven pro-diabetes sugar), he replied “The government makes it so cheap, it only good business sense.” ( paraphrasing..)
So don’t hold back, Jenny! You are part of a longtime needed wave of closet-cleaning that has reached quietly reached crisis proportions. When the issue becomes part of the exposure of plummeting American health in a presidential campaign, everyone needs to wake up!
I was raised (along with my three siblings) by a stay-at-home mother who cooked and baked from scratch. As an adult, whenever I have considered my nutrition options, there has been an ever present question in the forefront of my mind. Would my grandparents have consumed that or my mother served that?
I still get infuriated watching DeBlasio stuff his face with fries and a burger all while telling people that they too can have the meal if they only get the jab. 🤬
These people are pure EVIL and prey on the weak and vulnerable stupid people.
My son's 1st grade class just finished a unit on the body that included telling them to make healthy food choices: fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and healthy proteins. That's not at all what they're serving at school. Today's menu is a processed chicken burger on a very white bun served with a side of processed (shaped) "fries". The sodium content is more than children should eat in a DAY. They do have fruit and vegetable options but the kids have to go out of their way to get them.
When my son was in elementary/middle school, he told me that the fruit they were required to take with their lunches every day was tossed by EVERY boy at his lunch table.
That's a social issue. My kid likes most fruits and vegetables and eats them without problem at home. But I'm seeing how he's now developing a taste for processed foods thanks to the school. We don't eat those at home.
Sounds easy but the government in our state provides lunch for free for all and when I pack him lunch he doesn't eat it. He likes the camaraderie of the lunch line. I hate that he gets to make these decisions himself at 6.
Ummmm........he has parents.That means he does not get to make the choices. His health is so important ( physical, mental and Spiritual ) that I would actually remove him and home school. I wish I had done this but realized too late who rules over us. INGSOC has my sons' hearts and minds. Now I suffer the consequences. I wish the best for you and your family.
I would love to home school him but for many reasons it's not possible. He's in a good charter school and the lunch is the only quibble. We can teach him good nutrition at home.
Not to mention the fruit usually offered has a very high sugar content with very little fiber, and are not the healthiest offerings for fruit. Fructose is one of the worst sugars to bulk up on.
Thanks for this post. I'm currently in the Nutritional Therapy Program so I'm pretty passionate about the topic.
A lot of this also started with Ancel Keys who cherry picked his data - there we about 14 other countries in his 7 Countries Study he conveniently left out. He made fat the bad guy rather than glucose. He also mislabeled the Mediterranean diet. He was on the Isle of Crete, observing how they ate but failed to mention if was Lent and they were still feeling the effects of the war so there was a lack of meat which was typical in their diet. Ever country in the Mediterranean eats a different way and the vast majority of them eat meat - lamb, goat, beef, chicken - not just fish.
Beyond the problem with ultra processed foods (most "whole grain" breads included) is our pyramid based on carbs. While fructose is the worst for our body, basically anything carb based is going to raise your insulin levels. With recommendations to eat this way, several times a day, we've virtually bathed in sugar/insulin all day (and night).
The reasons for suggesting organic and pasture raised over Big Food/Farm is the effects on our bodies. While the additives and chemicals are approved (although not in most EU countries) no-one studies the combination of these additives and chemicals. (Pretty sure it's not good.) In addition, none of what they feed the animals - chickens, pigs, cows, etc. is their normal diet. (Not to mention the antibiotics, pain killers and growth hormones added to their "food"). All this alters the nutritional value of the food, AND it's a shitty life for the animal.
Shifting back to whole foods is important - food deserts and food swamps are going to be wicked problem to solve. All the things that epidemiological/observational studies like The China Study and Framingham Heart Study should be taken with a grain of salt as these observational studies (just like the mask "studies") are based on people, many months later, reporting what they ate. There may be correlation but no causation. That can only be proven with RCT.
Making the bulk of what you eat based on whole foods - veggies, meat, fish, eggs, saturated fat like coconut oil, tallow, butter etc. and "flipping the pyramid" so that carbs represent the smallest amount of what you eat is much healthier not only for your body but your brain and mind as well.
Agree one hundred percent with flipping the pyramid, although it's really hard to do RCTs with food--especially when you KNOW one diet is health-promoting and the other is deadly. It's called equipoise (the unethical withholding of a known therapeutic). Not sure what the answer is, although long term observational data is certainly import and and telling.
You're right it's difficult but when you see how they ask people to record what they eat the information isn't really useful - people forget, respond how they think they should, etc. Case studies are probably the best we have right now. I recommend watching some of Dr. Aseem Malholtra's videos: Cereal Killers, Run on Fat and just released, First Do No Pharm.
Some food RCTs I’ve read also do such biasly stupid things. For instance: for the most part erythritol is a safe sugar substitute and is only a 1 on the glycemic index, and unlike other sugar alcohols that stress the digestive track, erythritol exits the body through the urine in under 24 hours, avoiding the digestive system. But the sugar industry can’t have that, so an RCT was done to try to discredit Erythritol. It was given to subjects in … wait for it … soft drinks, cookies, and other snacks. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ God forbid they see the other variables of chemicals and ingredients in those foods. What they found is that it raised an erythritol marker in the bloodstream that “could” be a cause for heart disease. Again, 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️. Erythritol is also made naturally in the body. They made no attempt to discern which kind, natural or exogenous, was increased. They did state that an elevation on that marker was just a correlation. But of course the media ran with the desired industry narrative, “Study finds erythritol a potential cause of heart disease!”
Looking closer, I found the doctor and author of the study was significantly compromised. Not only did he receive “funding”, but he had a patent pending for a new medical instrument that would measure this particular “marker”. Well - how do you guarantee sales? Create a fear of that marker and then a need to measure it regularly. SMH. They ALL follow the same playbook now. RCTs used to be so trustworthy but most in the last few decades are now compromised and purposefully sabotaged for financial gain.
Same with Ivermectin where they didn't give the correct dose, started the medication later than recommended (and later than the pharm drug) and stopped before the protocol timelines. Then declared that Ivermectin didn't help!
It gives me hope to hear someone studying nutrition is talking like you. ❤️ I’ve lost friends who are nutritionists because I contradict EVERYTHING their schooling taught them. They were taught to be devoted to the policies and teachings of an industry that infiltrated the universities and medical societies. They can’t fathom all they learned was wrong. I feel bad for them, but they have the power to utilize their academic skills and learn the truth - just as you have. Hope!!
My husband's family are from Northern Spain and I can attest to their healthy diet and normal body weight. Now, though, I see that they are spreading like that proverbial chestnut tree as we have done here in America. When his parents brought spices over for us in 2016 I noted MSG in some of the mixes. I tossed them.
Wow, so is it that this crap was not being used over there before and now their food producers have flipped the switch without drawing attention to it?
You are 1000% right about all of it. I grew up in the 70s and being fat was an anomaly. There was always just that one fat kid in elementary school. Everyone else was downright skinny. We had long phys ed time outside even when it was cold and snowy. Kids are pampered and lazy now. How to fix it? No clue really but your suggestion to buy good food and cook it yourself is a great start. How did we get here .... slowly. Convenience was peddled in the 50s and women loved it. Companies got addicted to the profits and marketing exploded. Liberals were preachy and conservatives were silenced. Every panel had just one typically and that was not enough "voice" to counter their ridiculousness. The 60s was cultural suicide and the massive corruption took hold in just about everything. The consumerism made everyone long for more and more money and things. Now here we are. I say people need to get out of cities, buy some land, grow some food and tell the government to F off!!!!!
My (working) mom was a victim of the convenience food movement--lots of shake-and-bake dinners and plastic wrapped (OMG) American "cheese" in my house. You can unlearn all of that, but it takes time and effort.
I think we had shake and bake stuff once a week. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if my now-90 year old mother still uses it (wait - is it even still sold??).
Thank you for saying what desperately needs to be said! I have a dear fat friend who 5 years ago was diagnosed with diabetes type 2, new for her amongst other existing maladies. I thought it would be her wake up call. It was for a time, around me at least. She seemed to be making changes..then enter covid. Of course being high risk the shot was a no brainer…and our friendship went the way of many as we couldn't find much to share at that time. Well now we are rekindling the friendship, her health issues have worsened and she is fatter than ever. There. I said it. I would love to share this with her, tho she has firmly showed no interest in learning a new way. Shes “poor” and “can’t afford” it. Sigh…
I once saw a documentary where a nutritionist said something like "if it has a food label don't eat it. It isn't food".
I know it's a bit hyperbolic but I can't help thinking there's more than a nutrigrain bar of truth in it.
Something, clearly, has gone very badly wrong. Not just foodwise but everythingwise it seems.
Autism, diabetes, ADHD, serious food allergies, boys wanting to cut their todgers off and girls wanting have todgers attached . . . and all the rest.
It's almost Biblical in scale.
I've suffered from male pattern blobness all my life, oscillating between being super fit and mr Blobby's ugly twin. If I am a victim it's only of my own stupidity. And yet it does seem harder to resist the rubbish these days. But even with all the devilish temptation and the allure of that synthetic food it's still my responsibility not to shovel the shit in.
The problem is, as you allude to, is that even when you might think you're eating healthy, you're not. I wonder why Gates & Co are so interested in farmland?
In the '90s during the Clinton Administration, the director of the FDA, Dr. Kessler, dared to speak the truth about the manipulation of foods, similarly to the chemical additives in tobacco, to create food cravings, compulsive over-eating, and addiction. Back then, we still had a news media that would, well, report the news. I think Kessler was on Sixties Minutes, and many other news programs. In recent years, I've seen no mention of this truth-teller. Clearly his message was buried.
Excellent topic! I was floored by the Casey & Calley interview with Tucker. A must see for all! I’ve struggled with body image my entire life. I’m 61 now and have made peace with my shape. My hubby and I have dumped sugar and processed garbage food. We eat Carnivore/ keto diet and take walks. I’ve never felt better. Take care of your health now- no one else is going too. A functional medicine doctor is the best choice. No thanks to conventional medicine.
"never once did our so-called health officials suggest laying off the Lays or going for a stroll."
Not only did they never suggest it, they ENCOURAGED people to stay home, watch tv, and order take out. They CLOSED the parks. Our government is pure evil.
Facts.
Yes, I was flabbergasted & furious that “they” DELIBERATELY withheld or banned cheap treatments & vitamins, fresh air, sunshine, exercise & community in favor of mandated poisons (jabs, remesdivir), masks that were filthy & forced re-breathing spent CO2 & lockdowns. But gyms, parks, playgrounds, churches, pools & other sports facilities etc closed but liquor stores open so that we could numb our senses & depression in solitary confinement.
Pools really shocked me - they're full of cholorine! Chlorine kills stuff!
Not one single thing they forced on us made any sense & they KNEW it. Went against every “pandemic policy” of the past 100 years.
So very true. But every tyrant has to behave this way. If it makes sense, that doesn’t give them a chance to be so happy watching others doing ridiculous things like a religious ritual. Sick people
Thankfully, I live in Texas. We continued happy hour gatherings and never bought the mask bs. Covid was a scam. Also, obesity is real. We have lots of good farmers and ranchers here.
Yes, in the land of lies truth ALWAYS hurts those who love those lies. I was never fat but I did notice that I was gaining weight when I was drinking soda. I'm 5'2" so 20 pounds extra on a small frame makes one resemble a mini tank. I saw the results in the mirror and in in my digestive system. I broke it. Literally. Then I let them yank various organs to "correct" the health problem. What an imbecile.
After allowing them to plunder my organs I became even more ill. Then, I went on a deep dive into the medical cartel and chronic illness.
I found out through Elizabeth Labozetta that in her hometown ( I think Ohio ) they ( the AMA ) implemented an experiment to test drive their new laparoscopic equipment. In order to have victims---I mean patients they were allowed to dump a chemical in the public water to bring about an epidemic of digestive disorders. They were able to test this new procedure of ripping out gall bladders in great numbers on unwitting Americans. They could now rip out our organ without cutting us open and get that vic-I mean patient back to work in three days instead of two weeks down time. Never mind that this procedure allows for nicked bile ducts leading to sepsis and other internal injuries. It made the medical community....and the creator of this torture device ......profits they probably never dreamed of.
Then I found out about Brominated Vegetable oil ( a solvent used in Anti-Freeze ) as one of the ingredients in Mountain Dew ( I never drank that poison, or, my children, thank GOD! ) ....and mothers who drank that toxin while pregnant giving birth to babies with their intestines on the outside of their bodies. This corrosive substance literally ate through the navel area allowing the intestines to bubble up through that hole. But......you will NEVER hear one doctor say one word about this.
Then, in 2005 I took my son to the dermatologist for his skin problems ( of course it had everything to do with these plastic foods ) so he took blood work. He called me in the following day and said this, "Ms. Santos, your son has the triglycerides of an 80 year old man, he is on his way to a heart attack." That was it. I went home cleared out the freezer of hot pockets, the fridge and cabinets. Not a box, can or bag was left of anything processed. Nothing. We drank only water, ate bread I made from organic flour, meats, milk and vegetables from local farmers. No chips, no "snacks". Just REAL food. He lost 25 pounds in 2 months and from that point forward he maintained a healthy weight from a non-processed diet. For the past 7 years he has worked out at the gym 5 days a week.
I have too many stories to tell of obese neighbors whom I have tried to help with their weight and they are reluctant to take any advice from a 5'2" 110 pound woman. I even told off the doctor of my 15 year old neighbor who was morbidly obese. I asked him why he did not tell his mother that eating processed foods are causing his obesity and he said, "There is no science to prove that." I was gobsmacked that this idiot needed to see a piece of paper to tell him what his eyes can see! I challenged him right then and there and told him he was derelict in his duty as a doctor to tell the truth. I think he left town the following month.
I have tried to warn mothers shopping with children in grocery stores as they pick up that jar, box or bag of MSG/High Fructose Corn Syrup/Bromide/ Polysorbate 80 that these chemical additives cause diabetes, obesity, and other organ damage but they look at me as if I had just assaulted them.
I once thought of printing up hundreds of flyers on the causes of organ damage and handing them out in front of WalMart but knew that they would just escort me off of the property. I told everyone I could about the damages of ALL things in a can, bag, jar of box but they just stare at me blankly. They cannot see that they are 75 to 100 pounds overweight and that they now need wheelchairs and airplane seats reconfigured to accommodate their burgeoning girth.
I could see when I looked in the mirror that I was 20 pounds overweight and did not accommodate that extra weight by buying a whole new wardrobe. I did something about that weight because I hate lies. They kill Love.
I believe that this epidemic is profoundly linked to the social climate of lies and lying to one's self. Intricately intertwined with false hopes and beliefs that serve no GOOD for anyone except those in power.
The truth only hurts those who cannot or will not deal with it. Accepting things at face value and then doing something constructive about it is called maturity. Something deeply lacking in our Western cultures.
Everything about this comment: WOW. I hadn't heard of the AMA scandal OR the Mountain Dew debauchery (but not surprised). Thanks for sharing and congrats on taking back your own and your son's health. :)
And to think that is just the "tip of the iceberg' of what is truly in our food and how wicked the medical cartel is. Devastating are the lies that we live.
You are a researcher...maybe see if the bromine wells in Arkansas have any relationship to, yahoo Mountain Dew. Hope not.
Intriguing! I must find out! Thank you.
Did some research and of course it is a by-product of that industry that they dump into the food supply, not unlike fluoride!
I did not find the "smoking gun" that pointed out the direct link but I don't need to; I know they hate us.
"I believe that this epidemic is profoundly linked to ... lying to one's self. "
Another finalist for "Observation of the Year" recognition!
I'd love to read more about that scandal of the laporoscopic surgery scam - unfortunately I can't find anything except how wonderful the procedure is (of course). Do you have any links? I think I'm just not putting the right search terms in.
All information that goes against INGSOC is scrubbed.....permanently. This research was done by a citizen journalist who had been severely injured during this procedure. She posted on the Internet her findings. I think I printed that research and it is somewhere in my personal files. ( I kind of knew where all of this was going back in 2006 ).
So, it would not even be on the 'Wayback Machine' site.
I figured as much. I even used Brave to search (rather than google) and got nothing. I'm not one bit surprised it's been scrubbed.
Not Bromelain! Surely! The alternative health industry is wild about it. Although when I first read the word a few years ago, I assumed it was the name of a character in Lord of the Rings.
https://www.verywellhealth.com/bromelain-what-should-you-know-about-it-88318
Thank you, Tim, for pointing out my error! I meant 'Bromide'......as in potassium bromide found in bread. I, personally, take Bromelain with good results. Potassium bromide, however, is deadly if taken over long periods of time.
Jenna McCarthy; sensational article. I really like the following ( and I quote)
"The solution to this epidemic is actually remarkably simple—it’s just not easy. We have to quit buying their hype—and their garbage, manufactured frankenfoods. We need to feed our bodies wholesome foods and support local farmers and markets that prioritize quality over profit. We have to break our addiction to convenience and our dependence on ultra-processed food. Yes, organic meats and vegetables are costlier than a box of Hamburger Helper and some cheap ground beef, and cooking from scratch takes more time than swinging through the Chick-fil-A drive-thru (although maybe not right after high school lets out in Texas). But would you rather spend your time and money on healthy nourishment now or on decades of medical care you could have avoided?
“Those who have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find the time for illness.” — Edward Stanley"
Brilliant ffffffffffffffffing brilliant...
Want to bet most people will never ever follow this advice; choice is painful for most people, so they blissfully go on their merry, set in stone , way. Sad, UGH
Respectfully.
I followed it! I started on March 6, 2022. I gave up ALL processed food, all sugar (even evil replacements like maltodextrin, which is a 138 on the glycemic index whereas sugar is only a 65! Both are bad but they use these other ingredients to be able to say “sugar free”,) prepackaged meals, snacks foods, most restaurant foods because the ingredients back in their kitchen are all the processed crap I was now avoiding. I lost 55 lbs so far, am no longer taking any of the 13+ prescriptions I relied on for over twenty years, and at 59 I am healthier than I’ve been since my 30s and have the ALL DAY energy of my 20s.
The only health problems I have now were caused by prescription meds from years ago (omeprazole) and it left me with severe, advanced osteoporosis of a level only seen in someone thirty years older than me. So I work out a lot now and occasionally will suffer an injury that knocks me out of my routine for a bit, like I have a cast on my arm right now for a rather nasty tennis elbow and I pulled/damaged something in my side/ribs doing my leg press a couple weeks ago. But I won’t be derailed by these injuries. When you’ve been so sick for as many years as I was and then suddenly have the health of thirty years prior, nothing will stop me now. And it was the food that cured me. And now I take specific supplements to compliment my personal health and diet.
Obesity is actually a side effect of many of these diseases, not a cause. That’s another lie we’ve been sold. Usually bad health due to food causes metabolic disfunction and throws our insulin resistance out of whack. The chemicals in food and the destruction of the nutrients due to how it’s grown and processed destroys/interrupts how our body should function at a cellular level. THAT’s what leads to obesity.
As for the food: it really isn’t more expensive than what my grocery bills used to be buying all the prepackaged foods. While organic is better, for those who can’t afford that it’s STILL 100x healthier to change how you eat and buy the non-organic options for starters. Remove ALL sugar (use only stevia/monk fruit/allulose/erythritol,) most boxed/premade foods and over-processed grains, all fast food, any restaurant food that you can’t control how it’s prepared, most breads unless you home make them or find a quality authentic sourdough with starter, and stick to ANY whole foods you can afford organic or not, like meats, seafoods, eggs/dairy, veggies, some fruits, and only unrefined staples.
Learn to cook again from scratch using healthy ingredients. It is a time investment that pays off in spades. It took me about a year of mistakes, frustrations, and let-downs with stupid recipes I found online and some wasted ingredients to finally have several binders full of wonderful recipes we love for all food categories. Many I got from trusted sites I found, and others I invented myself as my skills increased. It. Was. Worth. It. I just made the most heavenly comfort food last night with Italian sausage links and cauliflower rice, garlic, home grown and homemade sundried tomatoes, and pepper strips that the men in my house gobbled down greedily and literally finger-licked the pan almost dry. Three years ago they would have laughed in your face if you told them they would one day love what I made. Both of them are healthy, muscular, and more fit than ever before after supporting me and my diet the past 2-1/2 years.
The only bad chemicals I’m exposed to now come from how an animal is raised or how produce is grown/treated. Compared to what I was exposed to before, it’s tons better now. Our grocery bills are not higher than before, but 80% of the bill is definitely now for meats and seafoods alone. (Because I chose a Keto diet.) But when you cut out the high cost of prepackaged foods and eating out, you find it’s more than enough to pay for the remaining produce and whole grains you still need, as well as the more expensive meats. I’ll admit my meat consumption has gone down this year due to high inflation, but I find less expensive options, like I eat more cans of tuna now and I eat more eggs as egg salad and deviled eggs, and I do more with ground meats than I did before too. Once inflation comes down I’ll be back to my multiple steaks and roasts per week plus more salmon and shellfish.
I did what I did without organic versions. Once finances make it possible we will try to move to organic. But nobody should give up at the starting gate if they can’t do organic. There’s a LOT of good health to be had just by removing processed/premade and staying away from fast food and sugar.
Wow, Juju! Thank you so much for sharing this. Sorry about your injury but I am blown away by your grit and determination. And your energy! You always have the most thoughtful contributions to the comments.😊
Did you know they have at least 53 names for sugar to keep you baffled?
That's for people who are reading this and commenting on this thread; lots of people never read past the big "All-Natural" in the logo. Just the other day a friend told me she'd been using some cake mix or sth that's been fortified with Acheta Protein... And after months of using she finally looked it up.
Oh yeah, keto is very helpful and it's also great fun to cook. Your story is fantastically inspiring, thanks for sharing!
AMEN!
Hi Elise! Fun to see you here on Jenna's site!
People have become massively lazy!
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And truthfully, the food doesn't even HAVE to be organic.
A low carb doc whose name escapes me tells the story of a homeless man who reversed his Type 2 diabetes eating eggs and ground beef hamburgers from his local urban non-organic grocery store.
Organic is great if you can! And necessary for folks who are more sensitive to glyphosate and so on. And not *always* absolutely necessary.
Great post, Jenna.
We downloaded the app Yuka - you can scan foods and it tells you how many additives and sugar/salt is in it (more details than reading the label). It's been eye opening for us to see stuff we thought was good, but really isn't. We're slowly weeding out the pantry and replacing stuff with better stuff. I wont toss the foods we have - I paid for them and I'm not going to waste it. But I wont replace it with the same products. It's quite the learning curve.
I use Yuka the entire time I am in the store. It is not always spot on, for example I cook with tons of coconut milk and even the really clean brands get a “poor“ rating because of the high fat content. Well, it’s healthy fat, and I use one can in a pot of curry that will serve 10 people so I’m not worried. That said it’s a great app and I love that it offers alternatives!
The high fat is NOT unhealthy. They are still lying about that. It’s only a problem when combined with the unhealthy sugars and high carbs, which would still be unhealthy without the fat. My fat consumption has been through the roof for 2-1/2 years and I lost 55lbs and look fantastic now, and my lipid panels are the healthiest they have been in over 12 years, so … it’s not the fat.
Congratulations, Juju! I lost 50 pounds in 2006 and I have kept it off since. I have a protein heavy diet with vegetables and fruit. I never ever eat fast food or pizza. I stay away from starchy foods and very, very rarely eat bread. On occasion, I will go on a sugary binge, and I always feel like crap until I can reign it back in. Lol. I am in my late 50s and I am not on any meds and have no medical issues at all.
I know how hard it is to lose weight and keep it off so I just wanted to say well done!
Aw thanks. You too!
And I’ve mastered some heavenly low carb sweet deserts that my family loves if you’re ever interested - just DM me. I haven’t touched real sugar in all this time but have enjoyed a lot of sweet treats. I only sweeten things with erythritol, allulose, stevia, or monk fruit. I even found a heavenly replacement for that famous pretzel jello salad that tastes BETTER than the original and the crust stays crunchy for a few days in the fridge, not getting soggy like the pretzel version did.
It is the cheap processed fats that are the issue. When you realise what they do to extract the oils from seeds you realise what the problem is.
Remember the fuss about "trans fats"? To create trans fats they heated lipids to very high temperatures. To extract the oil they heat the seed to very high temperatures then use chemicals.
Cold pressed oils are fine and this includes olive oil. You need to read the label and remember cold pressed/mechanicsl mesns costs more so in proccessed foods it won't be whether labelled organic or not.
Yes! We switched entirely to butter, tallow, bacon fat - and coconut oil, avocado oil, and olive oil. The latter three we use sparingly for dressings or baking, but when cooking in a skillet it’s always bacon fat, butter, or tallow.
I try to get the majority of my fat naturally from my meats and fish.
The whole saturated fat "bad" is a scam too. Fats are a chain of carbon with hydrogen attached. All saturated means is every carbon atom has a hydrogen atom attached. It's solid at room temperature and it's more stable - that's why it's better to cook at high temperatures. The other types of fat may be "good" but they are also more unstable - the free hydrogen molecules are open to oxygen - oxidized fat isn't healthy. I use bacon fat, coconut oil, ghee and butter to cook. I also use avocado oil for cooking and EVOO for salad dressings. It's the industrial seed oils (vegetable) oils that we need to avoid.
I render fat from the 1/4 cow I buy which is 100% grass fed and finished. I highly recommend it. Ask the butcher to save it for you. Perfect to cook with and lasts and lasts. I freeze the extra in mason jars. We go through it fast. Sometimes I'll cook with coconut oil, avocado oil and EVOO. I make my own beauty products with the tallow as well. The more we can teach ourselves to do the more we can avoid buying the crap that is being mass produced by people who do not care about you! Love sharing with like minded people. Thanks Jenny!
My husband is working on rendering fat and I am OBSESSED with tallow on my skin. I bought a tallow deodorant at my farmer's market yesterday--it smells amazing (who knew?). A super cute young gal started the company (www.motherfocare.com if anyone's curious--she'll ship anywhere!) What else do you make with it???
Tallow for roasting/frying beef and pork fat for roasting /stir-frying veg, that's the absolute bee's knees!
(The easiest way to render tallow is by chopping it up and leaving it in a low slow oven in the baking tray, and just pouring it off from time to time as it renders.)
We buy from a group that supplies grass fed/finished beef, pasture raised chickens and heritage pigs. I'm not sure if they have the fat available but I'm definitely going to see if I can find someone to buy it from. There's a non-woke Canadian company that sells the tallow face cream (F-balm) https://thetallowedtruth.com Great ideas! Thanks for sharing Patti.
Exactly - I noticed that too. I was scanning peanuts. it said high salt. Um yeah. They're peanuts. :D
I watched a documentary on Woodstock and the first thing that struck me is that there were virtually no obese people. To the contrary everyone looked skinny. I grew up around that time and I certainly did not have a great diet, coke and French fries at the drug store, but no one was heavy. In my all girl high school there were 2 girls who were obese, and they would just be considered heavy today. We have to stop eating food- like substances. I’m a label reader and I was looking for a clean-ish frozen pizza and now there’s a yeast in it that’s grown on mold. Not even real yeast. And recently I have found propylene glycol in cake mixes. It wasn’t there before, why add radiator fluid to cake mixes. And many, many chemicals don’t have to even be labeled just..’ cuz. It’s really challenging to have a decent diet these days. I try to eat organic when I can, but I avoid any grain that’s not organic. They spray glysophate on grains to dessicate them right before harvesting to increase the yield. I’m trying to up my gardening game and figure out what I can forage. Our food system is kind of nuts.
They do that with organic as well I read.
Yes, we drank cola in the 70's and ate desserts and no one was fat. I believe it was in the 1990's they changed from real sugar in cola products to HFCS. A study by Canadian doctors showed that High Fructose Corn Syrup caused Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Syndrome in mice; basically cirrhosis of the Liver. You can find the research on Weston A. Price Foundation website. https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/modern-foods/the-double-danger-of-high-fructose-corn-syrup/#gsc.tab=0
For anyone else: don’t be afraid to toss food. I went ALL IN because I needed immediate help with my health. I took everything out of my pantry and freezers that were bad for me. I divided into boxes the food that wasn’t necessarily evil (like a box of pasta) but was off limits for my chosen diet, and that box I donated to a food pantry. The other box had items like high sugar snacks and sweets, processed and packaged foods with terrible ingredients that I didn’t have the heart to hurt someone else with. The value of that box in 2022 dollars was about $180. Maybe it would cost $320 today? Still that’s less than the cost of a single doctor appointment and an unnecessary prescription or two. Throwing it away didn’t phase me at all. Tossing it was just a medical appointment in my mind to better my health, and save money over future appointments that would never be necessary now. And they weren’t. I’ve only had to see a doctor twice for injuries at the gym. 🤣 Best money I ever threw out!!!!
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Great idea. Don't give your crap to a food bank. And definitely don't eat it! I've volunteers at a food bank and although the one close to us gets fresh produce and introduce hydroponics 905 of what goes out their door isn't food and it isn't nutritious.
Exactly. It's not a choice between expensive organics and cheap processed food. Organic is better, but cheap whole foods are far better than processed foods -- Including the expensive "healthy" ones in the health food store.
One thing you didn't go into here is the Ozempic scam. I predict that is going to the the next big scandal (not that the MSM will cover it, obvs). I am still in shock that so many people (especially straight after the Vaxx hustle) signed up to this nonsense. It is a lifetime prescription to an expensive drug that gives you limited weigh loss (with damaging and common side effects including...DEPRESSION) and about whose long term effects nobody knows a single thing. The whole thing is one massive con - it is literally amazing that people fall for it. My optimism for humanity is waning to say the least.
I actually have written about Ozempic many times, and the link to the “skinny serum” with horrific side effects refers to it as well. I agree, that will be our next vaccine disaster…
My apologies - it does indeed. Quick one; one of the dads on my son's soccer team works for Novo Nordisk and last year was telling me about the much-upgraded annual offsite he had just been to. Apparently they flew Rihanna in for the gala dinner!
Yeah, Pharma is hardly hurting these days…
Broadcast free tv now features pro-Ozempic commercials vying for viewers' attention with attorneys advertising their services to sue for Ozempic-related injuries.
Yes, it's Red Queen taking on White Queen in Looking-glass Land.
Not to mention their latest scam (which started with statins) was to find a medical reason to start kids on the drug so they become life-long consumers. Kids are placed on Ozempic and will be burdened the rest of their lives by it.
I think it's *because* they are fresh out of the Vaxx hustle. It's like people who keep giving their money to scammers, "oh but this time it will work!" and looking for magic solutions; but in addition to that it really looks like some people quite literally got dumber after getting vaxxed. And some of the side effects from Ozempic are pretty obvious if you just look at the celebs who got the shot.
Absolutely no pushback on the f-word from me, Jenna! Overweight and obesity co-relates with so many negative physical and mental health issues, it’s past time to take the word out of the locked lexicon. But as RFKJ and the Means siblings have repeatedly said, the issues doesn’t derive exclusively from laziness of moral failure; the corrupt processed food industry supported by insane government subsidies are fundamental causes. Apparently, when a Coke executive was once asked why they use high-fructose corn syrup ( a proven pro-diabetes sugar), he replied “The government makes it so cheap, it only good business sense.” ( paraphrasing..)
So don’t hold back, Jenny! You are part of a longtime needed wave of closet-cleaning that has reached quietly reached crisis proportions. When the issue becomes part of the exposure of plummeting American health in a presidential campaign, everyone needs to wake up!
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I was raised (along with my three siblings) by a stay-at-home mother who cooked and baked from scratch. As an adult, whenever I have considered my nutrition options, there has been an ever present question in the forefront of my mind. Would my grandparents have consumed that or my mother served that?
Same here! The older generations were harder to fool, I think, and they are still helping us with their wisdom.
I still get infuriated watching DeBlasio stuff his face with fries and a burger all while telling people that they too can have the meal if they only get the jab. 🤬
These people are pure EVIL and prey on the weak and vulnerable stupid people.
Despicable!
My son's 1st grade class just finished a unit on the body that included telling them to make healthy food choices: fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and healthy proteins. That's not at all what they're serving at school. Today's menu is a processed chicken burger on a very white bun served with a side of processed (shaped) "fries". The sodium content is more than children should eat in a DAY. They do have fruit and vegetable options but the kids have to go out of their way to get them.
When my son was in elementary/middle school, he told me that the fruit they were required to take with their lunches every day was tossed by EVERY boy at his lunch table.
That's a social issue. My kid likes most fruits and vegetables and eats them without problem at home. But I'm seeing how he's now developing a taste for processed foods thanks to the school. We don't eat those at home.
Opt out of the lunch program & pack his lunch yourself? It's what I did.
Sounds easy but the government in our state provides lunch for free for all and when I pack him lunch he doesn't eat it. He likes the camaraderie of the lunch line. I hate that he gets to make these decisions himself at 6.
Ummmm........he has parents.That means he does not get to make the choices. His health is so important ( physical, mental and Spiritual ) that I would actually remove him and home school. I wish I had done this but realized too late who rules over us. INGSOC has my sons' hearts and minds. Now I suffer the consequences. I wish the best for you and your family.
I would love to home school him but for many reasons it's not possible. He's in a good charter school and the lunch is the only quibble. We can teach him good nutrition at home.
Not to mention the fruit usually offered has a very high sugar content with very little fiber, and are not the healthiest offerings for fruit. Fructose is one of the worst sugars to bulk up on.
Thanks for this post. I'm currently in the Nutritional Therapy Program so I'm pretty passionate about the topic.
A lot of this also started with Ancel Keys who cherry picked his data - there we about 14 other countries in his 7 Countries Study he conveniently left out. He made fat the bad guy rather than glucose. He also mislabeled the Mediterranean diet. He was on the Isle of Crete, observing how they ate but failed to mention if was Lent and they were still feeling the effects of the war so there was a lack of meat which was typical in their diet. Ever country in the Mediterranean eats a different way and the vast majority of them eat meat - lamb, goat, beef, chicken - not just fish.
Beyond the problem with ultra processed foods (most "whole grain" breads included) is our pyramid based on carbs. While fructose is the worst for our body, basically anything carb based is going to raise your insulin levels. With recommendations to eat this way, several times a day, we've virtually bathed in sugar/insulin all day (and night).
The reasons for suggesting organic and pasture raised over Big Food/Farm is the effects on our bodies. While the additives and chemicals are approved (although not in most EU countries) no-one studies the combination of these additives and chemicals. (Pretty sure it's not good.) In addition, none of what they feed the animals - chickens, pigs, cows, etc. is their normal diet. (Not to mention the antibiotics, pain killers and growth hormones added to their "food"). All this alters the nutritional value of the food, AND it's a shitty life for the animal.
Shifting back to whole foods is important - food deserts and food swamps are going to be wicked problem to solve. All the things that epidemiological/observational studies like The China Study and Framingham Heart Study should be taken with a grain of salt as these observational studies (just like the mask "studies") are based on people, many months later, reporting what they ate. There may be correlation but no causation. That can only be proven with RCT.
Making the bulk of what you eat based on whole foods - veggies, meat, fish, eggs, saturated fat like coconut oil, tallow, butter etc. and "flipping the pyramid" so that carbs represent the smallest amount of what you eat is much healthier not only for your body but your brain and mind as well.
Agree one hundred percent with flipping the pyramid, although it's really hard to do RCTs with food--especially when you KNOW one diet is health-promoting and the other is deadly. It's called equipoise (the unethical withholding of a known therapeutic). Not sure what the answer is, although long term observational data is certainly import and and telling.
You're right it's difficult but when you see how they ask people to record what they eat the information isn't really useful - people forget, respond how they think they should, etc. Case studies are probably the best we have right now. I recommend watching some of Dr. Aseem Malholtra's videos: Cereal Killers, Run on Fat and just released, First Do No Pharm.
Some food RCTs I’ve read also do such biasly stupid things. For instance: for the most part erythritol is a safe sugar substitute and is only a 1 on the glycemic index, and unlike other sugar alcohols that stress the digestive track, erythritol exits the body through the urine in under 24 hours, avoiding the digestive system. But the sugar industry can’t have that, so an RCT was done to try to discredit Erythritol. It was given to subjects in … wait for it … soft drinks, cookies, and other snacks. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ God forbid they see the other variables of chemicals and ingredients in those foods. What they found is that it raised an erythritol marker in the bloodstream that “could” be a cause for heart disease. Again, 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️. Erythritol is also made naturally in the body. They made no attempt to discern which kind, natural or exogenous, was increased. They did state that an elevation on that marker was just a correlation. But of course the media ran with the desired industry narrative, “Study finds erythritol a potential cause of heart disease!”
Looking closer, I found the doctor and author of the study was significantly compromised. Not only did he receive “funding”, but he had a patent pending for a new medical instrument that would measure this particular “marker”. Well - how do you guarantee sales? Create a fear of that marker and then a need to measure it regularly. SMH. They ALL follow the same playbook now. RCTs used to be so trustworthy but most in the last few decades are now compromised and purposefully sabotaged for financial gain.
Same with Ivermectin where they didn't give the correct dose, started the medication later than recommended (and later than the pharm drug) and stopped before the protocol timelines. Then declared that Ivermectin didn't help!
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2023/03/popular-sweetener-erythritol-found-truvia-linked-heart-risk-new-study
It gives me hope to hear someone studying nutrition is talking like you. ❤️ I’ve lost friends who are nutritionists because I contradict EVERYTHING their schooling taught them. They were taught to be devoted to the policies and teachings of an industry that infiltrated the universities and medical societies. They can’t fathom all they learned was wrong. I feel bad for them, but they have the power to utilize their academic skills and learn the truth - just as you have. Hope!!
My husband's family are from Northern Spain and I can attest to their healthy diet and normal body weight. Now, though, I see that they are spreading like that proverbial chestnut tree as we have done here in America. When his parents brought spices over for us in 2016 I noted MSG in some of the mixes. I tossed them.
Wow, so is it that this crap was not being used over there before and now their food producers have flipped the switch without drawing attention to it?
Not judging anyone else, but personally I found the SELAP [1] diet to be most effective..
[1] (Stop Eating Like A Pig)
LOL but I wanted this piece to place at least SOME of the blame on the "experts" and "scientists" who bend over backwards to make this so difficult.
Got it. You're talking about the similarly named SLEAP [1] diet..
[1] Stop Listening [to] Experts And Pharma
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You are 1000% right about all of it. I grew up in the 70s and being fat was an anomaly. There was always just that one fat kid in elementary school. Everyone else was downright skinny. We had long phys ed time outside even when it was cold and snowy. Kids are pampered and lazy now. How to fix it? No clue really but your suggestion to buy good food and cook it yourself is a great start. How did we get here .... slowly. Convenience was peddled in the 50s and women loved it. Companies got addicted to the profits and marketing exploded. Liberals were preachy and conservatives were silenced. Every panel had just one typically and that was not enough "voice" to counter their ridiculousness. The 60s was cultural suicide and the massive corruption took hold in just about everything. The consumerism made everyone long for more and more money and things. Now here we are. I say people need to get out of cities, buy some land, grow some food and tell the government to F off!!!!!
My (working) mom was a victim of the convenience food movement--lots of shake-and-bake dinners and plastic wrapped (OMG) American "cheese" in my house. You can unlearn all of that, but it takes time and effort.
Remember Hamburger Helper? Ugh!
I think we had shake and bake stuff once a week. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if my now-90 year old mother still uses it (wait - is it even still sold??).
Too exhausting. Today you can buy "breaded" this-or-that without all that tiresome labor.
Thank you for saying what desperately needs to be said! I have a dear fat friend who 5 years ago was diagnosed with diabetes type 2, new for her amongst other existing maladies. I thought it would be her wake up call. It was for a time, around me at least. She seemed to be making changes..then enter covid. Of course being high risk the shot was a no brainer…and our friendship went the way of many as we couldn't find much to share at that time. Well now we are rekindling the friendship, her health issues have worsened and she is fatter than ever. There. I said it. I would love to share this with her, tho she has firmly showed no interest in learning a new way. Shes “poor” and “can’t afford” it. Sigh…
I once saw a documentary where a nutritionist said something like "if it has a food label don't eat it. It isn't food".
I know it's a bit hyperbolic but I can't help thinking there's more than a nutrigrain bar of truth in it.
Something, clearly, has gone very badly wrong. Not just foodwise but everythingwise it seems.
Autism, diabetes, ADHD, serious food allergies, boys wanting to cut their todgers off and girls wanting have todgers attached . . . and all the rest.
It's almost Biblical in scale.
I've suffered from male pattern blobness all my life, oscillating between being super fit and mr Blobby's ugly twin. If I am a victim it's only of my own stupidity. And yet it does seem harder to resist the rubbish these days. But even with all the devilish temptation and the allure of that synthetic food it's still my responsibility not to shovel the shit in.
The problem is, as you allude to, is that even when you might think you're eating healthy, you're not. I wonder why Gates & Co are so interested in farmland?
Taking responsibility for your own shortcomings is something of a rara avis these days. I salute you.
In the '90s during the Clinton Administration, the director of the FDA, Dr. Kessler, dared to speak the truth about the manipulation of foods, similarly to the chemical additives in tobacco, to create food cravings, compulsive over-eating, and addiction. Back then, we still had a news media that would, well, report the news. I think Kessler was on Sixties Minutes, and many other news programs. In recent years, I've seen no mention of this truth-teller. Clearly his message was buried.
Excellent topic! I was floored by the Casey & Calley interview with Tucker. A must see for all! I’ve struggled with body image my entire life. I’m 61 now and have made peace with my shape. My hubby and I have dumped sugar and processed garbage food. We eat Carnivore/ keto diet and take walks. I’ve never felt better. Take care of your health now- no one else is going too. A functional medicine doctor is the best choice. No thanks to conventional medicine.
It changed us. We're in the process of getting rid of the crap in our pantry thanks to that interview.