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.
I find those that cook are the more intellectual and grounded people that make better decisions throughout their lives. Those that don’t cook, I find retarded, stupid, and often make the poor choices.
I know many wealthy people that eat out nearly every meal, BUT they can also cook and have cooked for themselves too.
Been on Synthyroid 25 yrs, no diabetes, but I watch my weight. And for a 68 yr old am with in 4 lbs of that crap gov’t weight/height body mass FAKE piece of crap. That does not take bone/muscle mass into consideration.
A skinny 130 lb 5’11” man entering the Military will add 20-30 lbs of MUSCLE MASS in Basic Training.
LOL.
I can think of some exceptions, but I can’t argue to much.
I love to cook My problem is I love to cook rather elaborate meals. Not the best thing for Tuesday supper.
Only problem with Thyroid meds is the generic is 30% LESS HORMONE than the name brand with a ton of side effects. My Endo won’t script for the generic for that reason.
bullshit ...
Dyazide is not composed of two generics. There is a history of generic manufacturers fraudulently trying to convey their products were equal in the past. It is not the same as the example I was using in my commentary.
I can only assume that to "overeat" means taking in 10 calories more than you burned off that day. Correct?
So if you don't take in the extra 10 calories, you won't gain the weight. Correct?
I would posit that if you ate the extra chip and did 10 "extra" calories of work that day, you would also not gain weight.
Well, yeah, if you can exactly match your calorie consumption with your calorie expenditure, your weight will be stable indefinitely.
IF you can do that.
How many calories did you burn in the last 24 hours?
How many calories did you consume in the last 24 hours?
And find a copyeditor.
Probably both
I kid you not. Use a cap full of Pepto Bismol Max strength. Google it.
It cleans out your innards while solving the ulcer and tingling stomach and backaches. Your face will clear up too. Takes about a week. Just 1 cap, anymore and you will be using the bathroom more. Also rinse out your month and brush the teeth after using Pepto Bismol.
Stop drinking anything with aspartame to as it eats away over time and I think makes your memory worse. (I forget). I use to drink lots of diet Sunkist after I gave up drinking lots of Coke.
I was on thyroid meds several years ago but after a initial positive response they did nothing for me. I stopped the coke and started cooking my own food and not heating up a can of something in the microwave. I also did not need the meds anymore. Just more iron and at least 2,000IU of Vitamin D3 (I use 10,000). I now more more energy.
Avoid msg and high fructose sugar and that aspartame.
This just in: a guy in Iowa invented a carburetor that gets 100 mpg, but the evil oil companies bought it from him and hid it on a shelf in a big warehouse somewhere......
Back in the 1970’s it was big oil. Today it’s big pharma. Zzzzzzzzzzzz
Yes, everyone on the hundreds of thousands of highly-educated employees of pharma companies are in on the fix!
Its the statins that are to lower cholesterol that now have warnings about developing diabetes. Many I know have gotten it.
read about how people who have taken certain antibiotics have developed severe nerve damage.
A couple of nights ago I had to stop at walmart. The woman in front of me had a cartload of junk food. Totally. $200 on WIC. Her son was autistic. I was hoping it was for a big party, but when she used wic....
Son was beautiful and I ached for him.
Dr. Sidney Valentine Haas. Look him up.
He was curing patients of Celiac. The orthodox view was the result of a very myopic.study...atypical of special interests of bias.
How was it cured 70 years ago?
today they would call it the Atkins Diet
I’ve reacted to enough of them that they are on my reaction list. Copro/Keflex are horrible, Zoysin zapped my vision, it is gut specific. Ditto Anti-virals, my list is long enough I Box the docs in, and they don’t like it, plus I’m down right Scot’s stubborn.
Except for the Pepto I do the rest, I take more bone vit/mins than Endo recommends, and have improved my OP scores without the dangerous drugs. Fixed a lot of the Gastropresis slow digestion pain with 70 B of Probiotics, and natural digestive enzymes.
Right now what can be handled by Left handed is all I can manage lots of sandwiches, blew the Right thumb base joint, tore the ligaments, been in a cast 4 weeks now, Monday I see if I get another 1 or go PT. Noticed the lack of energy as a result, not that you can do much with your dominate hand in a full cast that immobilize’s your thumb. Still can’t drive yet. Women are more prone to it as our bones are not as dense as a man’s.
You miss the point, many people are not on food stamps, so they take what they can get at those food pantries, etc. There are millions of people who do without rather than take government help.
Do you grocery shop, yourself? If you have 2 or 3 children, and lunches to make etc....Do you look at costs on grocery shelves or just assume a .49 cent can of green beans can be replaced with fresh ones at .48 cents? Not going to happen.
Yes, if they get food stamps, the choice is theirs. Or have a job, where they have choice.
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