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Spike in autoimmune diseases blamed on fast food: scientists
New York Post ^ | January 10, 2022 | Hannah Sparks

Posted on 01/10/2022 5:40:31 PM PST by Trillian

Disorders of the immune system are on the rise everywhere thanks to the global popularity of the so-called Western diet.

Autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis have spiked in recent decades, according to scientists James Lee and Carola Vineusa at London’s Francis Crick Institute.

Lee and Vineusa have devoted their study to investigating the cause of such illness, which they believe can be blamed on the recent pervasiveness of fast foods, which “lack certain important ingredients.”

“Numbers of autoimmune cases began to increase about 40 years ago in the West,” Lee told the Guardian’s Observer in a new interview. “However, we are now seeing some emerge in countries that never had such diseases before.”

Lee pointed to cases in Asia and the Middle East, which has seen the biggest recent upswing in [inflammatory bowel disease] — which has felt the boom of the fast food industry during that time.

“Before that they had hardly seen the disease,” he said.

Vineusa said there’s no stopping the “global spread of fast food franchises.”

“So instead, we are trying to understand the fundamental genetic mechanisms that underpin autoimmune diseases and make some people susceptible but others not.”

Autoimmune diseases arise out of the immune system’s inability to differentiate invading organisms from local tissues, prompting immune defenses to attack healthy cells, too. Inflammation due to repeated immune response can cause long-term damage to the affected organs and tissues.

Today, an estimated 24 million Americans — nearly 7% of the population — suffer from one of this group of illnesses, according to the US National Institutes of Health. Their studies have shown an increase in the prevalence of autoimmune disease biomarkers in those aged 12 and up, from 22 million Americans between 1988 to 1991, to

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KEYWORDS: andsoitbegins; autoimmune; covidvaccines; fastfood; goketo; lowcarb; nih; sad; uhhuh; vaccinecoverup
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To: Trillian

> Disorders of the immune system are on the rise everywhere thanks to the global popularity of the so-called Western diet.

And here I thought it was thanks to the global popularity of not dying in childhood from malnutrition, smallpox, cholera, typhoid fever, yellow fever, Dengue fever, malaria, plague, etc., etc., and all those other terrible things the West has done to the happy people in the Third World by inflicting sanitation, nutrition, and medication on them. Now people are living long enough to develop autoimmune disorders.


21 posted on 01/10/2022 6:26:35 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (If black lives matter, why do black people keep shooting each other? )
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

And the morons shall keep their head up their asses and believe this.


22 posted on 01/10/2022 6:27:54 PM PST by RBW in PA
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To: Trillian

It’s the vax.


23 posted on 01/10/2022 6:33:57 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Trillian

I thought it was global warming, or anything but the mRNA injections.


24 posted on 01/10/2022 6:46:12 PM PST by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
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To: Trillian
Ya see people wolfing down bags full of fast food slop, then put on masks to protect themselves.


25 posted on 01/10/2022 6:46:53 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Trillian

Makes me suspicious. Most people who have autoimmune conditions are women who constantly complain about men - and you don’t see these type of women at McDonald’s very often.


26 posted on 01/10/2022 6:51:31 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: BobL
Most people who have autoimmune conditions are women who constantly complain about men

The common term is, beetches.

27 posted on 01/10/2022 7:02:38 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Trillian

They’re all idiots. The cause of the surplus disease is eating and laying around like pigs.

Eat less, do more.


28 posted on 01/10/2022 7:30:18 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Trillian

Horse manure! More propaganda.


29 posted on 01/10/2022 8:00:41 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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To: KarlInOhio

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4025001/posts


30 posted on 01/10/2022 9:55:22 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Trillian

“Autoimmune diseases arise out of the immune system’s inability to differentiate invading organisms from local tissues”

And that is a problem for the immune system that attempts to distinguish between

a) the human cell host (”local tissue”) that is prompted by a “vaccine” (such as Moderna mRNA) to produce a SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein at the host cell surface; and

b) that SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein at said host cell surface.

COVID-19 is [mostly?] an immune system response (typically inflammation prompted by certain cytokines) upon discovery and reacting to the presence of a SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein, whether that Spike Protein is part of the actual SARS-CoV-2 virus-body/nucleocapsid(sp?) or part of a human body’s host cell. IMHO.


31 posted on 01/10/2022 10:14:56 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

No. But that’s an interesting attempt at an explanation albeit that’s not what happens.


32 posted on 01/10/2022 10:19:13 PM PST by Pelham (Q is short for quack )
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To: reasonisfaith

Western diet = vaccines = giraffes

Giving the whole “lets link unrelated items” thing a boost. Logic favored by Salvador Dali.


33 posted on 01/10/2022 10:24:43 PM PST by Pelham (Q is short for quack )
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To: Fresh Wind

Does that include franchises for take-out Wuhan Bat Burgers and Soup?


34 posted on 01/10/2022 10:53:01 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Trillian

Ping


35 posted on 01/11/2022 5:44:30 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Trillian

I got my GB from a flu shot 22 years ago. Still have the chronic form. Don’t tell me about fast food.


36 posted on 01/11/2022 5:47:04 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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