Posted on 07/20/2017 5:44:40 AM PDT by Wolfie
Jail Them All
There is no greater scam in the world today than the blatant and outrageous lies told to everyone from school age onward over the last 40+ years when it comes to diet, exercise, health and various risk factors associated with same.
The root of the scam goes back even further, but it really became evident with the so-called "food pyramid" which emphasized refined starches (breads and "white vegetables") and claimed that fats were bad for you and should be limited.
Then, the scam evolved. Only saturated fats were bad, so it was claimed. The rest weren't so bad. And of course what we all heard was to eat more "natural", meaning vegetables -- mostly.
We were also told that weight was all about calorie balance. In .vs. out, thus the exhortation to exercise -- to increase the "out" and to restrict calories, in order to decrease the "in."
This may sound easy and is demonstrably, if you can stuff someone in a lab, it might actually appear to work.
But it doesn't work.
It doesn't work because it's all a lie and the people who ran it knew it was a lie -- at least for people with any sort of metabolic derangement. You see, before there was insulin if you became diabetic you had two choices: Stop eating carbohydrates or die from the effects of the disease -- and probably quite quickly too.
Then we developed some drugs. And when we did, suddenly we allegedly "forgot" that metabolic derangement could be very effectively treated without a single dose of pharmaceuticals. We were told to believe that taking the drug made it all ok.
But it didn't. We knew this early on because the number of people with Type II diabetes, heart disease and obesity continued to increase. The doctors all claimed this was because "nobody took their advice", but that belies the point: Either the advice was wrong or it was impossible, psychologically, physiologically or both, to comply with.
It doesn't matter which of the two possibilities is true, by the way. A "mandate" to do something that most people will fail at due to either physiological or psychological factors is no mandate at all unless there is no alternative that doesn't have the same problem.
Of course the facts are that there is an alternative -- the same one we knew about 100 years ago.
And now, here comes the evidence -- that not only was the advice wrong the people pushing it knew it was wrong because they tampered with the data.
"For instance, there are 44 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of drug or dietary interventions to lower LDL-C in the primary and secondary prevention literature, which show no benefit on mortality[8]. Most of these trials did not reduce CVD events and several reported substantial harm. Yet, these studies have not received much publicity. Furthermore, the ACCELERATE trial, a recent well-conducted double-blind randomised controlled trial, demonstrated no discernible reduction in CVD events or mortality, despite a 130% increase in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and a 37% drop in LDL-C. The result dumbfounded many experts, sparking renewed scepticism about the veracity of the cholesterol hypothesis[8]."
In other words the drugs do reduce cholesterol but don't reduce either heart attacks or rates of death!
That is, they don't work to produce the claimed outcome -- better health.
What's worse is that even when you look at trials the drug industry sponsored for "secondary prevention" (in other words, you already had a heart attack before starting Statins) showed that the median life expectancy increase was....... four days.
Now tell me folks -- would you agree to take a drug after a heart attack if (1) you knew it would cost you some amount of money -- any amount of money -- and (2) that the expected improvement in your survival time was four days if you took it every day for several years?
No, you would not -- and you know it.
Yet not only the drug industry but your doctor have made billions of dollars selling you these drugs without telling you that the expected improvement in your life is four whole ****ing days.
Knowingly failing to disclose a material fact that would have changed your decision had you known it for the purpose of making a profit at your expense has a name: FRAUD. It is not a mistake, it is a crime.
The paper says:
"There is an ethical and moral imperative that the true benefits and potential harms of these drugs are discussed to protect patients from unnecessary anxiety, manipulation, and iatrogenic complications."
Actually there is a legal requirement to disclose these facts, not just a moral and ethical imperative. It is a criminal event (fraud) to fail to disclose material facts that you are aware of, that disadvantage the person who you withhold the information from and from which you profit.
There is of course a moral and ethical requirement here as well but this is a matter of law, and black-letter law at that. It is not a close argument, it is not a split decision. It is black letter, especially when the underlying claim is that taking a particular drug will reduce your risk of a life-ending event and that claim is knowingly false.
Then paper then goes on to talk about another aspect of this, and includes the 20% of obese people who are allegedly "metabolically healthy." Hmmm.... maybe. But do we know or are we guessing? Remember that as a matter of routine most people are not screened for actual insulin resistance. Indeed I'm aware of no physician that does so nor any practice that claims it's something that should be done. Yes, your A1c will be tested if there is a reason to suspect trouble and you might also be asked to take an OGTT but while failing either certainly means you're metabolically compromised to in that you're symptomatic for diabetes passing either or both does not mean your insulin levels are normal!
So how many people really are "metabolically healthy and obese"? We don't know, but I bet it's not 20% -- especially if you're obese for decades.
Then the paper goes on to make another point, which I've repeatedly brought up -- Omega 3:6 balance. It's impossible to have a decent Omega 3:6 balance if you eat vegetable oils in any material quantity.
So where does this leave us?
Or, if you want more detail on the food side, you can try this.
But while you're at it, cut the **** America. This scam is pervasive, it's international and it is killing people by the millions along with asset-stripping the population to the tune of a few hundred billion a year in the United States alone.
The referenced paper makes clear that this is not function of a mistake it's an intentional lie and that makes it a fraud.
It further is a major contributing factor to the health cost explosion and thus the detonation of State and Federal finances, which if we do not stop it will destroy the country.
Either we as a people demand that this crap stop and everyone involved be both asset-stripped to their underwear and thrown in prison or it literally does not matter what else we do from a finance, budget and government perspective. And that's no bull.
Karl might want to stick to financial matters.
Insulin is bad. Got it.
With exception to the cited study, I equally-berate those responsible for this paradigm, but my excoriation is both more broad and excoriating.
He is almost 100% spot-on, without regard for a serious omission of why this got him all excited.
Sadly, most people don’t give a damn. This includes most here at FR.
One example, Celiac patients are told there’s no cure, yet it was being cured 70 years ago...
More that insulin is masking the issue.
Saves lives. But we have more diabetes than ever before.
The statin comments are similar. They do help some, but they are not the magic bullet that many thought they were.
How was it cured 70 years ago?
The new research in "gut flora", may be causing some diabetes in some patients. Antibiotics are good, to a point, but over use is destroying our bodies natural ability to fight infection.
Why is that? He happens to be correct in his analysis...look around you....then look at pictures of people in the 1st half of the 1900s. Oh, and look at our medical system too...
Statin drugs attack the bones, and so any benefit is lost in side effects. I won’t take them, and tell others to use diet as a way to control cholesterol. There are natural spices and ways to eat that will help more than statins.
The epidemic of diabetes lies more in diet than heredity, although we learn from growing up with family foods and eating habits. After 35+ years of saying how dangerous Dr. Atkins diet wad, and low fat the solution, CARDIOLOGIST, those with success, now say that low fat destroys the heart. I agree.
Ever notice how EVERYTHING has sugar in it! How to you stop diabetes if all processed foods have sugar in them? Poor people do not have option of always buying fresh, and expensive foods not tainted with sugar. There are other ways to preserve food without sugar!
Also, we need to have doctors in med school learn the basics on parasites, pets, and children. Because without getting those cleanses regularly once or twice a year, there will be diseases and physical issues, that are complicated by more pills without addressing the root cause!
I have a Physician/neighbor/friend that sold me on this idea years ago.
Cholesterol is a protective substance that is produced by the body in excess due to any of a number of different underlying causes.
Limiting the body’s production of cholesterol has no health benefits whatsoever and is actually counter productive.
The statin producers and their co-dependent physician accomplices are the real criminals.
So where does this leave us?
In Dead Man Ally.
I feel the same way about hand sanitizers.
My cousin is a director of a large pharma company. Listening to him talk, in a positive vein, about his business, I always come away with the difference between him and the corner drug dealer: His firm pushes legal drugs. See, a drug dealer may sell you heroin which you use because it makes you feel good. It is illegal and not FDA controlled. My cousin’s firm sells/pushes drugs they say are good for you and are controlled (as in by patent).
Recently he was telling me his firm just lost the rights to a drug which has gone generic which will cost billions in revenues. I asked, based on experience, why not just make a drug that combines two, rename it, get a new patent and go forward. He laughed and said they used to do that but lost a court case on making such marketing ploys.
Seems I used to take one of these marketing ploys. My doc said he was told a “new drug” would allow me to take two drugs but in one capsul. Of course, the two by themselves had generics, the one capsule had the two generics being marketed as a propriety drug. I wonder if one of the drug sales reps in the short skirts who used to visit the doctors office representing drug companies suggested the single tablet concept to boost sales. Of course they did!
(1) there is a strong association of cell phone use with brain cancer
(2) there is a strong association between breast cancer and previous abortions
(3) there is a strong association between breast cancer and alcohol consumption
(4) there is a strong association between breast cancer and use of birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy
(5) many cases of breast cancer are unnecessarily aggressively treated with chemo, surgery and radiation ... severely degrading the quality of life for the patient, without life prolonging benefit.
What did he write that’s wrong?
I have lived my whole life eating what my body told me it wanted. And it’s mostly fresh fruits and vegetables and meats.
I’ve eaten real butter my whole life, whole milk, REAL cheese (not cheese-like substances) and avoided things in a box or, to a lesser extent, a can.
And I am healthier than any one else in my family.
Here’s my advice.
When you shop, go to the fresh meat and fresh produce aisles and dairy.
There is nothing else you want to eat in any other aisle.
THROW AWAY anything in your house that is not fresh fruit, vegetables, or meat. Frozen veggies are OK but of course not preferred.
And - most of all - stop eating wheat in all forms. Bread, noodles, etc. Eat whole grain rice (brown rice) instead. I also take vitamins- ask me for a list if you’re interested. Don’t bother buying expensive ‘gluten-free’ crap- it tastes like crap.
In a month you’ll see a huge difference.
If this seems hard- or expensive- It’s not- because as your system cleans out, you will find you are less hungry- some days I have to remind myself to eat something.
If you want an easy way to remember-
1) scrambled eggs for breakfast (with onions, green peppers, ham, cheese, whatever)
2) steak or chicken salad for lunch/dinner. Not JUST a salad, the protein makes all the difference
3) pepperoni and cheese, or yogurt, or meat slices for snacks.
Use honey wherever possible instead of sugar.
Read up on natural antibiotic foods- sauerkraut and minced garlic is an amazing antibiotic.
It is true that anyone put on thyroid medication will develop diabetics.
There are all kinds of cause and affects going on in medicine.
Yup. They had limited diets and worked hard, i.e. exercised a lot.
"We were also told that weight was all about calorie balance. In .vs. out, thus the exhortation to exercise -- to increase the "out" and to restrict calories, in order to decrease the "in."
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It doesn't work because it's all a lie and the people who ran it knew it was a lie..."
For starters.
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