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.
Good for you! Seriously! Weight is a major factor in most medical issues.
My BIL also had Type 2 diabetes. He was reasonably in good shape but at 60 he needed to get in better shape with a better diet. He did and his diabetes went away.
They don’t cook.
That is why it isn’t available. Most people can’t, or won’t cook. As you slide down the economic scale, fewer and fewer people have the time or resources to cook.
“fewer and fewer people have the time or resources to cook.”
Nonsense!
Smart people who have little money do nothing but cook and not eat out or eat expensive packaged foods. My parents did it as did all my friends parents.
Poor people are not poor because they work so much they have no time to cook. They are poor because they make poor choices including wasting money on eating out and packaged foods.
Common sense, which this nation is lacking.
Friend, I know people who CAN’T cook. (as in they literally don’t know how to boil water). I know a few on the lower end of the economic spectrum who live in a place without a stove. They have a microwave.
My sister lives in Chicago, and they cook (a lot) but most of their friends do not. They don’t take the time. They get home at 6PM, and if you want to do anything else taking 45 minutes for a meal is “to long”. They have friends that don’t even own a freezer and only keep drinks in their fridge. This isn’t uncommon.
And yes it is about choices. But the reason you can’t find fresh food in many poor areas is it will spoil before it is sold. The people there either have no idea of what to do with it or would rather eat fried whatever.
“Friend, I know people who CAN’T cook. “
You’re making my point. Poor choices, including accepting ignorance.
I was told that only horrid nasty OP drugs could reverse the -4 OP, well I can’t take any med that has A-Fib attached to it and all OP drugs are Flagged for it, already had 2 ER trips because of them. I use only bone Vits/Minerals, and after 4 yrs, have dropped the OP score to -3. With improvement in all but 2 areas, which were the worst.
He phrased that badly.
The point he was making is that you can’t intentionally control your weight by calorie-counting.
Regular readers of his will already know that.
He has pointed-out elsewhere that if you overeat by ten calories (one potato chip) per day, you’ll gain a pound over the course of a year; ten pounds per decade.
If you knock-off the carbs, you’ll stop eating when you’ve had enough to eat, and, if you’re overweight, you’ll lose weight without being hungry.
Unemployed people on welfare don’t have time to cook?
Good. That first doc was nothing but a Big Pharma whore. Pushing expensive drugs with a nasty list of side effects. Only downside is that I’ve got to buy new clothes, as my old outfits are more or less hanging off me. Good problem to have, I think.
They won’t cook.
Read “Life at the Bottom” about the welfare class in England. It is very similar here. Or read “Hillbilly elegy”.
They don’t know how to cook, or won’t cook.
They in themselves are killers. They do not prevent heart attacks. Blood thinners are another crock if you have plaque in your arteries, they do not dissolve them. Try K2 Complex it forces the shed calcium i.e. plaque to stay in your bones, where as baby aspirin just thins the blood. K2 Complex also is a blood thinner as is D3. All vitamins your body actually need and uses efficiently.
Then say “They’re too lazy to cook”, not “They don’t have time to cook”.
Cooking isn’t hard. That’s just lazy
Forty seconds...
That is why you take at least 70 Billion in Probiotics per day 2 hrs after any antibiotic. They don’t know good vs bad bacteria so destroy it all. Forget yogurt use pills. You will prevent Thrush Mouth and vaginal yeast infections common with antibiotics and anti-virals.
“t is true that anyone put on thyroid medication will develop diabetics.
There are all kinds of cause and affects going on in medicine.”
Not true friend. My aunt was on thyroid medicine her whole life and lived to be 102 without becoming diabetic.
I was honestly agreeing with you.
But the point is that the drugs were developed because most people will not follow this program. I know better, but still go out for Taco’s on occasion.
He is right though. We cut out sweets when our kids were born (more to get them to eat the good stuff than any other reason). My girls don’t want to eat a lot of cookies and hate pop. They as for veggies (and now swordfish). I didn’t think this was to odd till I realize all of their peers have stacks of snacks and goodies all over the house.
We also like to cook (Alton Brown is my hero!). Again, I didn’t think that was odd till others commented to us about all the “wasted” time we spend canning and cooking.
If my doc tried to push Ivanka on me, I just might have to listen.
My water pill is a 2 stage drug Dyazide, 1 side protects from kidney damage the HCTZ stops fluid retention around heart.
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