Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
The atomized and empty consumerist Status Quo is the "monster Id" behind the American diet.
I know it may appear unduly harsh to discuss America's self-destructive dietary "monster Id" right before the Thanksgiving day feasting, but when is it more appropriate?
There are a great many disconnects between reality and what Americans believe out of convenience ("no snowflake feels responsible for the avalanche") or propaganda, but perhaps none is more visible than the disconnect between what we're collectively doing to our health with the food we consume.
The Chinese have an apt saying" "Disease comes through the mouth," meaning disease comes from what we eat.
Here's a chart which depicts how U.S. healthcare costs are rising geometrically, far outstripping our economic competitors:
The nation cannot afford the present sickcare costs of 20% of GDP; how can it afford tripling what is spent on sickcare? Simple answer: it cannot.
The obesity epidemic can be viewed visually via this slideshow map of the U.S.:
Clearly, obesity has exploded into a pandemic in just a single generation.
Interestingly, all the usual explanations--the rise of fast foods, women joining the workforce and thus the decline of the home-cooked meal and the decline of physical labor jobs--fail to explain the dramatic increase for the reason that all these conditions were already present in 1985.
Women had already joined the workforce en masse, fast-food outlets were already on every corner and jobs requiring hard physical labor had already dwindled to a small percentage of our post-industrial, service-dominated economy.
So what is different between 1985 and the present? At least one factor is the increased consumption of sugary beverages: soda, specialty coffees, iced teas, and "juices," both the fake variety (colored sugar water with 10% actual fruit juice) and 100% juice.
This is another part of the disconnect: it is no accident that consumption of fast food, sugar-water beverages, snacks, chips and convenience packaged foods has exploded: all these "foods" have been carefully engineered to "taste good" by triggering our naturally selected desire for what is rare in Nature: salt, sugar and fat.
Please view this documentary on the science of sugar consumption:
The essay traces out the devolution of China's once-universal if basic healthcare system for all into a U.S.-type system of full coverage for Elites and a more brutal one for everyone else: if you don't have the cash to pay for care, you die.
China has the largest population of diabetics and pre-diabetics in the world. China's diabetes rate has skyrocketed to 11% of the adult population, slightly higher than that of the U.S., while its rates of other non-communicable "lifestyle" diseases such as heart disease have also soared to U.S. levels.
China Diabetes Triples (via Joel M.)
"Beijing doctor Li Guangwei sees China’s struggle with 90 million diabetes sufferers daily."
The problem is global, as the American diet of fast-food, sodas, salty-fatty-sugary snacks and prepared "convenience food" spreads throughout the world:
Next time you're in a fast food outlet or a supermarket, try to find something you can eat that won't harm you. It will be a challenge, I guarantee you.
- chips: out, too much fat, too much salt
- fries: out, too much fat, too much salt
- sausage: out, too much fat, too much salt
- fast food in general: out, too much fat, too much salt
- salted nuts: out, too much salt
- canned goods: out, too much salt
- most cereals: out, too much salt
- bottled salad dressings: out, too much salt
- sports drinks: out, too much salt
- pre-packaged salads: out, too much salt in the dressing
- frozen meals: out, too much salt
- packaged snacks: out, too much salt
- packaged noodles: out, too much salt
I have written extensively on health, fitness, diet and diabesity over the years:
All the individual is aware of is a hunger, a need for something more. The fact that obese people often eat when they are not physically hungry offers a clue to what is going on. Indeed, they are hungry -- they just aren't hungry for food. They are hungry for connection.Food is the most tangible, direct confirmation of our connection to a living universe that loves us. On a primal biological level, the act of eating tells us, "I exist" and "I am loved." Indeed, food is the most basic expression of love, a token of intimacy, of bringing an outsider into the realm of self. That is why it is customary in most countries to offer food to a guest, and why it is rude to refuse it. To feed another is, in this sense, an intimate act, an opening of the sacred boundaries of self.
When, as today, this intimate act has become a subject of commerce, and food a commodity, the entire food system reeks of obscenity.
This identifies something causally profound that is never addressed in "research" into the diabesity epidemic because it requires questioning the entire atomized and empty consumerist Status Quo. The emptiness of American consumerism does not lend itself to quantification like measuring leptin levels. But it is the "monster Id" behind the Thanatos American diet.
The last part of the disconnect is the broken link between our worship of convenience and self-destruction. Wanting a pill to fix all our problems, wanting to drive everywhere, eliminating physical fitness from our schools, addictive sedentary digital games, the profitability of managing chronic "lifestyle" diseases--it's all connected:
Is this another example of you being a rational person?
Thank you for making it so easy to prove my point.
A lot of sea salt is evaporated Fukusima water. You get trace minerals in salt that's mined underground in Utah absent the pollution.
Willy that may be true, to some extent; I don't know the science on it.
However the Sea Weed Guy in Maine sells super-healthy seaweed for soups etc. with all the good nutrients and no risk from the Japan nuke source, though there may be other risks .. waking up in the morning has risk
Fukushima was sark. Given the sickly state of the oceans, I prefer an underground source. The thot of cruise ships dumping sewage, not to mention everything else, does not leave me with taste buds for evaporated sea water.
Fat isn't bad, eating too much of it while eating too little by way of fruits/veggies/grains is.
The Eskimo may not have diabetes or cancer like we do, but they sure get diseases and die sooner than we do.
But you can get away with eating a lot of garbage - if you are physically active. Most Americans are fairly inactive, which is why excess sugar gets stored as fat. Fat, stress, and smoking are why Obamacare will do nothing but destroy the very fabric of the cosmos in 20 years.
Depends of the type of fat. Hydrogenated fats and most modern vegetable oils are toxic, to be avoided entirely. Some "saturated fats" can be consumed in as much quantity as appetite allows within the framework of an otherwise healthy diet...one without so much carbohydrate in it.
VonManstein I agree on the Fat issue, and let's face it Sea Salt is fine...and on Fats yes it is the Good Fat v. Bad Fat distinction that needs to be made...here's my favorite pro-Fat diatribe, from Dr. Ron Schmid:
http://www.drrons.com/dr-rons-superfats-super-fun-diet.htm
of course, some folks really are vegetarians not carnivores, but even so they must figure out a way to get the nutritional benefits of good fat or they will be malnourished..
A couple of teenwsy winsy bit minor mistakes there:
Your understanding of Chemistry is hilarious: chemically different substances have completelly different effects and properties, which is why you can breath Oxygen (O2) but not water (H2O) even though the later is made of the former and you definitelly don't want to make your car out of rust (FeO2) or indeed breath it even though it's made of Iron (Fe) and Oxygen (O2). Maybe you should walk carefully lest the air you breath explode since most explosives are made from Nytrogen which forms more than 70% of the composition of Air.
As for Diabetes, the one which comes from bad eating (Type II) is due to excess sugar, not Fat. Esquimos are not exactly known for their vast sugar cane fields, or indeed any fields that produce any kind of starch rich food (starch is just a form of sugar). If you really want to use Eskimos as example for Fat consumption you should look at the incidence of Heart Attacks, Trombosis and other Hearth Diseases, since most of those are caused by excessive accumulation of Cholesterol (a kind of Fat which the Human Body produces from certain types of fat) in the blood, the veins and arteries and the hearth. Still, I would thread carefully about using Esquimos as examples to compare with the average American denizen, since Esquimos not only live in far colder climates (so consume a lot more energy just keeping their body temperature) but they also have a lot more physical activity than, say, a California-based office drone.
[The really scary bit is how many people voted this ignorant rant up]
excellent remarks. the devil, as usual, is in the details
eating well is about quality, balance, moderation and a sprinkle of genetics (on the female side, interestingly)
In my homeland (Portugal) we have a saying: "Virtue is in the middle."
It seems to apply to most things, there is a middle point which is just right, above which it quickly becomes too much and below too little, both bad. It's as much true for Salt, Fat and Sugars as it is for Hours of Sleep, Inequality, Number of Laws or how hard should a task be to maximise interest and performance.
does that include the middle finger?
Yes. You can even die from drinking too much water. Happened to a girl here a few years back. She took a designer drug and her body lost its ability to know when she'd had her fill. I think she drank about two or three gallons before she croaked.
"The health consequences of eating too much sodium are well-known, prompting Americans to limit salt intake. However, there also are consequences when you take in too little, such as potentially not producing enough hydrochloric acid, or HCL, in your stomach. You need HCL to utilize nutrients like magnesium and B12, to kill bacteria and to help denature proteins so they can be broken down by the digestive enzyme pepsin. Consuming the right amount of salt helps you produce HCL"
Your Chemistry is non existent! suggesting HCl is not made from the Cl in NaCl
Oh and Cholesterol gives your cells rigidity.. oh and you make sex hormones from cholesterol...
You should do your homework.
Actually, his chemistry is spot-on, as the human diet has next to no souces of chlorine other than sodium chloride (a.k.a. common salt), and the human body does in fact produce the hydrochloric acid found in the stomach from the chlorine derived from ingested sodium chloride.
LOL @ BMI. Such a bullshit metric.
Charles Barkley? Is that really you? Thanks for joining the discussion!
Just wait. That BMI will now be reported by ur Dr. according to the ACA. This will b used to raise ur rates. Perhaps the TeaBaggers were right on killing grandma & death squads.
On another note. I had may annual in Sept. I asked SIRI (i know, cuss me) HOW to calculate BMI. Got all the info, but also got my ht, wt & BMI. I know this Dr. used Athena health software. So much for HIPPA.
b4 you jump the gun thinking I had posted any of this info on a website like weight watchers, no, I didn't.
Wait wait wait......hold the phones...aren't diabetics (and those who aspire to be diabetics) actually the most excellent consumers of high-margin, high-value-added food-drug goods, both before and after diagnosis?
Shouldn't we be promoting diabetes, and the many careers and economies that support the charming endeavors of diabetics and the would-be pudgy amateurs?
I should remind ZHers to think of the children who will have to pay higher prices of wheat and so forth, the med students without a future, and the children, think of the children, and what will happen to them once the growth of obesity is stunted.
They die younger, too, saving a lot on post-retirement costs. This article is mostly wrong and stupid, but there are plenty of good reasons people should try not to be fat fucks.
Well-put. I'm not against obesity per se, but I am against fat fuckitude.
I don't much care for it, but I'm not even "against" fat-fuckitude unless I'm trying to get past you in a store aisle or subway door or whatever.
People are free to get as fat as they like--it's not a problem that affects me any more than that people are free to ride motorcycles or bungee-jump.
Only hardcore authoritarians would ever DREAM of legislating lifestyle choices based on medical costs, but since this is a society that fosters hatred of fatness, we're actually hearing a lot of this sort of thinking.
It's just the start of a slippery slope, though. Just WAIT until the Feds can't even determine your tax rates without a full physical, complete blood screening, and a colonoscopy....
I retract my "againstness". Some of my favorite people were fat fucks. Off the top of my head, Dom DeLuise!
I was thinking something similar.
This could be the solution for the social security and Medicare financial solvency crisis.
Make the food, water and air unhealthy enough to cause these degenerative diseases like obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart and blood diseases, Alzheimer's, etc. and then all the baby boomers will die early in their 50s or 60s.
And at the same time the pharmaceutical, health care and health insurance companies can make a killing.
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The Broken Pancreas Fallacy.
diabetes - Keynsian bull!
Capitalism and Technology.....FUCK YEAH !
The combo of the two have tried to industrialize everything so everyone can have a chance to live a life free of want and deprivation.
Now we have everything except peace of mind....good and living wage jobs and work that is actually work...not daytrading from your home office or being a cog in the industrial or virtual world.
Not saying I want a "worker's paradise"....just saying that all "isms" will fail including capitalism and will cause great harm in ways you would not expect at first.
Only those that do not understand that Capitalism is nothing new will say that it's an applied ISM and that it will fail.
First of all you need to have capitalism in order for it to""fail". What we have is not capitalism it is fascism, if we had capitalism there would be a few dead banks and a couple less car companies. Without the right to fail we continue to have a misallocation of capital into the entities that should have gone the way of the dodo. Capitalism needs failure and success for the creative destruction that capitalism thrives on. It doesn't exist now and it never will, just like none of the other isms (other than fascism) will never exist in their purest of forms.
I doubt the ability to individually own means of production and make a profit out of it has anything to do with this post whatsoever. But hey, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail!
What is the issue with salt? A high salt diet doesn't lead to obesity; a high processed carb diet leads to obesity.
sickness old age and death is a result of being born..that's why abortion is so popular it cures lifes misery..oh also its joy but that's a side effect most modern women can live with..banal evil.
Too much Salt hardens the arteries and leads to things like Hearth Disease. It also causes general damage to living cells.
Salt has nothing to do with obesity, although the later also often results in several different kinds of Heart Disease, through different mechanisms.
Damn, now our fireplaces are getting sick! One might even say that the health of our hearths is being stove-in.
"What is the issue with salt?"
Too much salt will make your blood pressure dangerously high; combined with effort to haul all the extra body fat leads to heart attack or so the theory goes.
But too less salt will dangerously decrease you muscle activity endurance (makes you "lazy", so to speak). You have to find your own salt needs with personal experience... Outside of endurance circles nobody talks about this problem.
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And I see coffee listed with "sugary drinks"... You don't like coffee if you put sugar in it.
Even if you keep off the processed foods as much as you can, in North America, you get plenty if not too much of salt without even thinking about it...
May we all be blessed with deep fried twinkies, Happy Thanksgiving my bitchez.
APRES NOUS LE DELUGE
A deluge of an unprecedented magnitude is both inevitable and imminent. The consequences of the economic and political mismanagement will have a devastating impact on the world for a very long time. And the consequences will touch most corners of the world in so many different areas; economic, financial, social, political and geopolitical.
http://www.mmnews.de/index.php/english-news/7423-apres-nous-le-deluge
Indeed. That overnight EUR/USD chart reeks of desparation and manipulation.
When I was growing up there was only one kid in school that was fat and his own mother said he was the lazziest kid she had ever seen We only had PE once a week but there were no video games either. We were always palying outside getting plenty of excercise. I kept a 29 inch waist size unti my mid twenties. Our diets in those days were arguably worse than they are now yet no fatties. Gotta get kids outdoors more. I watched my nieces and nephew come home from school and head straight for the computer or PlayStation. They aren't fat but still all that sedintary lifestyle can't be doing em much good.
I wasted two years on my daughters' PTA. The last year, everyone was all excited about "Year of the Healthy Child", and the principal swore every kid would get at least 30 minutes of physical activity each day. Except my girls told me that PE was the first thing cancelled whenever it was too cold, or too rainy, or the lunch lines were too long...
When I remember the games we played at lunch and recess in public school - tackle football, Red Rover, murderball, etc. - not a one of them would be allowed by the female dominated PTA's/school boards we have today. They won't let kids play softball (let alone baseball) - 'the bat is hard! it might hurt someone!'. No soccer - 'someone might fall down!'
The downfall of the US wasn't the Fed from 1913; it was giving women the vote in 1916. America's been pussifying ever since.
"To much salt" is a bunch of BS. If you have healthy kidneys salt is removed from the system if it is not needed. "To much fat" I would agree with this if it is man made fat such as trans fat and highly refined vegetable fats but other natural fats are required for life and even after many attempts have never been proven to cause any heath problems, even saturated animal fat is not bad for you. Stay away from the high sugar fruits that have been selectively cultivated to produce a high sugar content. Berries are ok other then that most fuits are pure sugar. Oh and fiber is way over hyped.
The type of sugar that whole fruit has doesn't spike your insulin levels like refined sugar does and you are missing tons of necessary nutrients by not including it in your diet - and also there's nothing better tasting than a piece of fresh ripe fruit.
soylent green is people
+1 for your avatar.
hell yeah! if we could just get Pladizow to step back up to the plate...
Probably 80% of the "food" in supermarkets is either corn or soy byproducts. There's a great documentary on this, called, King Corn.
I read somewhere that soy can give you man-boobs. LOL even if not true I stay away from soy, those soy burgers and dogs are nasty.
Yeah it's true....somehow these frankenfoods boost estrogen, which is feminizing men to some extent, and dropping testosterone levels
"My new book Why Things Are Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It is now available in print and Kindle editions--10% to 20% discounts."
Fuck your book Charlie.
That's a whole lot of fat tenants in the Corporation of the United States. One has to wonder what the response will be by the owners at the Federal Reserve Bank (a private bank) when those tenants can't pay their rent.
hedge accordingly.
Fat bastards.
Supersize that airline seat. Supersize spending. Lack of control.
Trader: The dead-cat bounce in U.S. stocks may be just about over and ‘Budget Progress’ is code to short the bounce
http://investmentwatchblog.com/trader-the-dead-cat-bounce-in-u-s-stocks-may-be-just-about-over-and-budget-progress-is-code-to-short-the-bounce/
I've found dieting between meals doesn't work
The government can make you buy broccoli*, but it can't make you eat it.
*according to Larry Tribe.
Calling Dr. Oz mabitchez
An important point the author makes that should not be missed is that there is a difference between being fat from over-eating and being fat as the result of inflammation from eating the wrong foods. I believe that much if not most of the obesity problem is inflammatory in origin. There is an easy way to tell ( well, maybe not that easy, but certainly definitive).
If you are fat from overeating and lack of exercise and you lose a lot of weight by reducing your food intake and upping your exercise your skin will hang off you because it was stretched out of shape. If you are fat because of inflammation and lose weight by changing your diet to eliminate inflammatory foods ( and BTW exercise doesn't help to lose weight if the origins are inflammatory) your skin will return to normal as your body downsizes.
Inflammation is the killer, and it is the result of deliberate, profit-driven decisions by food manufacturers and the government agencies that they control. There is only one way to change this situation - one person at a time has to become aware and decide - no more. It means giving up a lot of the foods that you 'love' - but there is simply no other way. Remember - you cannot exercise or diet your way out of inflammatory obesity, you can only win the fight by making complete and permanent changes in what you eat. If enough people realize this and do what it takes, these murderous industries will die. If not, these killer industries will continue to thrive and people will continue making them (and the so-called 'health care' industry) rich while the people sicken and die.
Princeton study, Corn syrup calories fatten more than sugar;
https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/
We're all going to die. If not from this, then it'll be something else. The myth of "premature death" is a scare tactic, based on the notion that we will all live forever.
It's just another way they have for controlling your life.
You're going to die, get over it.
Hemp Seed can fix the food problem. Do the research. Knowing is half the battle.
Happy Thanksgiving ZHers
Riiiigggghhhht. Any links for that "miracle" cure? How about simply eating smart and being active?
Charlie did'nt have many health problems. He ate mainly cold rice and a little rat meat.
after you took that mission, did you ever want one again?
The banksters and marketers tell us we can have it all.
A big house, big SUVs, supersized meals, big seats and big debt.
And, an obese population won't protest and riot like those people in Greece and Spain. They just won't be able to physically do it, even of they wanted to.
Oh, they will riot alright - it jsut won't be BEFORE they've lost everything and are out in the street for good.
Only after.
The apathy... it never ends well.
Add watching TV and shopping as the main physical activities of most Americans to the list of reasons for obesity. Many Americans see any form of physical exertion as a major inconvenience or something that is beneath them.
Well don't you worry, I'm sure the wonderful people of the USSA I'll solve the problem.........the same way Germany took care of their little Jewish problem. Again, WE KNOW THIS COUNTRY IS FUCKED WE GET IT. Wtf do you want?this site has become the fucking crybaby blog!
Long before Columbus ventured to the New World there were great native American nations around Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana. Some of their cities may have exceeded 100,000 in populaton. Archaeological excavations have noted that through time the health of the populaton grew worse and worse. It seems that they had develped major calcium deficiencies frm consumig too much corn and not enough Calcium and protein. They disappeared.
Sitting on your ass all day in a cubicle is what's bad for you............
US 'american' citizens are blobbing-up --- literally!
But as we all know (courtesy of AnAnnoyingUs), overconsumptionalizationalism is an 'american' middle-class thing, and the US 'american' middle class is the king (sized) class.
Everyone seems to focus on diet, and understandably so, however exercise is VERY important also. I am 6' 200lbs and in my mid 50's and have no chronic medical issues. I eat whatever I feel like eating, but I get plenty of aerobic exercise. Mostly in the form of mountain biking in the woods. Everytime a nurse has taken my blood pressure in the last 10 years they are quite surprised at the reading. Several times they thought the low reading not possible and checked it again, and again. My blood pressure is just barely higher than my 30 year old daughter. My brother and mother are both quite inactive and have type 2 diabeties. Neither are obese. People used to actually do HARD physical labor. We have machines for that now. Exercise has been the key to good health for me. I was fortunate to get involved in strenuous sports in my mid teens and have continued to stay active. GET OFF THE SOFA AND GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY!!
On the downside, I recently had 2 steel plates and 8 screws put in my right hand as a result of falling off my motorcycle. Being physically active has it's risks, but is still preferable to having multiple chronic medical issues and taking hundreds of dollars of drugs each month, like most of my peers. In the coming collapse, regardless of it's severity, your physical health will likely be a large contributing factor of the outcome that you experience. Get healthy if you want to live.
"The banksters and marketers tell us we can have it all.
A big house, big SUVs, supersized meals, big seats and big debt"
I don't think the bankers put that thing in the Amercian collective mind. It's sth that's as old as the US nation. "We"re better than any other nations so we need to have bigger cars bigger houses" and bigger bodies too?
I live in Europe and when summer comes I often see US tourists who are simply monstruous.
Although certain foods do increase diabetes and heart problems, the bottom line is if you are taking more calories then you are burning on a daily basis you gain weight. Nothing magical about it. Several fitness experts have indeed proved this by eating junk food based on their caloric needs.
The key to losing any weight is burning more calories then you consume and wallah weight loss. If some actually got off their asses and actually walked for 30 minutes a day they will find they can lose weight. PE in school is now a joke and fat people cannot rebel very easily. They run out of breath walking across the street. Keep the population fat and happy with reality shows.
Wallah?
Voilà maybe?
We are all going to die, but you don't have to dig your grave with your teeth.....
Americans basically take things to extremes. On the one hand the average Joe Bag-of-Donuts who thinks that consuming large amounts of foodstuffs is his patriotic duty.
On the other hand, the fitness nuts who think that micromanaging every aspect of their lives and diet and exercise routines will enable them to win a marathon or live forever (when actually all it does is enable them to man the lifeguard towers and ambulances and pay health insurance premiums to ensure that no obese person suffers any consequences).
Well there you have it. Success is: not being fat and being in the heart disease business. It is time for everyone including the most powerful insurance company bankster M'fers to go after Monsanto.
Studying, jogging long distances and eating mostly organic vegetables has helped me maintain... Once the livestock hormones and chemicals get into your system it is difficult to reverse things.
The best way to reverse things and eliminate the livestock hormones and chemicals that get into the blood system is to do a detox about once a year. It is like an oil change for your car.
See the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. Very good.
This is NOT America's biggest problem. Besides America has been getting fatter for a very long time. This information is NOT new or exciting.... or even mildly repulsive.
When the dollar collapses and every doubling of EBT allowances is met with a quadrupling of food prices, America's poor will be fortunate to have a million tons of lard hanging around their collective waistlines.
Sometimes two wrongs do make a right.
I have simple rules:
More raw food, vegetables, some (imported) feta cheese (Bulgarian or Romanian), some canned vegetables (non US produced) to be use in home cooked food (beans based).
Almost no meat (5-10 times per year), mostly when am out of US. I just do not need it. If you do try to restric it, for there is so much crap in what is being fed to the livestock that, what you consder "visually" as meat, is something closer to a chemical product, and no one should not touch even if someone pays you to eat it!
(Unprocessed) sugar with the morning coffee. Raw apricot kernels for some cancer killing (naturally engineered) nano bots (just watch "A World without Cancer": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3NNLs8llAY, if you do not get the joke, and as a bonus "The Bitter truth about Sugar": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM )
2 weeks per year (Spring and Fall) ONLY on WATER (After such detoxification I can feel I can fly).
Regrettably, the vegetables are US (corporate) produced ( and water is total crap ) so I can not avoid that, but with the rules above I can make sure that I am trying my best to stay healthy in this insanely-poisoned-possessed-food world.
Agree, for the most part. Meat on special occasions, only. Water fast for 2 weeks, at least once every 5 years. Pretty simple.
Turn us all into Methusela, but where are we gonna park?
We're doing well in our Washington State Initiative to require labeling of GMOs. The initiative in California failed but it made many people aware of the issue. If we don't win this time in Washington State, another State will soon.
GMOs, Corn sweetener, sugar, and growth hormones are still only part of the problem. There are also heavy metals added to fertilizers and feed, radioactive fallout, chemtrail spraying, unhealthy levels of high frequency radiation, many new drug-resistant bacteria and viruses, and direct slaughter in war. No doubt there are also other factors, that I am unaware of.
However, even if we were to overcome each of those difficulties, we still would not have addressed the real problem. That is the relatively small group of individuals who are responsible for those things: They are advocating and implementing schemes for population reduction and eugenics. Perhaps, there may be some arguments in favor of that but I hope to see the day when those responsible will be prosecuted using existing laws on poisening, reckless endangerment, manslaughter, war crimes, and so on....
"So what is different between 1985 and the present?"
Semi-dwarf wheat! Got wheat belly?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
Consequences!
If the food you eat doesn't provide the nutrition your body needs, then you crave more food.
I was interested in the point in the article about connectivity. I think that it is important to connect with producing and preparing your own food, even if only on a very small scale, such as a window box full of salad stuff or making your own beansprouts. One of my pet (folly) theories is that deep down we are all a gardener or a hunter ;)
Pregnant women craving pickles and ice cream, or even more oddly, sand and chips of paint are actually craving iron, calcium, sodium. We've all heard the stories. Morbidly obese yet starving to death seems to be happening. Processed foods are cheap, high in calories and low in nutritional value. Iodine deficiency is more common now. It was once added to salt to ensure the public was adequately supplied with a product containing salt but manufacturers do not add iodine to their salt - it is too troublesome, I read. This is why we need labelling on food supply.
Quality of our food can mean the difference betweeen living a healthy productive life or a life faced with diversions and obstacles for reasons outside of our understanding, leaving us with unfulfilled potential simply because we are overnourished yet malnourished and as a result, compromised by our state of suboptimal health. How tragic is that?
The new book "the fat switch" provides the data. High Fructose corn Syrup provides the switch, any Fructose will do it but HFCS is far more severe. basically, Fructose puts your cells into starvation mpode, they tell your body to convert anything to FAT to get ready for hibernatin. It also switched off your leptin snsitivity so that you no longer feel full or satiated. So you eat more, anything gets turned into fat and you have the current USA. Now that HFCS is also made from GMO, you are getting an extra helping of GMO and Roundup, either of which will cause cancer and a shortened life!
So there you have it in a nutshell, HFCS, Fructose have switched on the fat switch and turned off the leptin and anyone affected is eating and storing fat for hiberntaion, just like in several animals and even in fish. Finally there is an extra halping of roundup and GMO to increase cancer and shorten you lifespan. Good job by our FDA and corporations. Thise who know, eat organic, everyone else be damned. Sort of like how the legislators send their kids to private schools!
Eat organic, minimize carbs and return to a human...this is the only sure way. eating is 80% of it, exercise is 20%.
The new book "the fat switch" provides the data. High Fructose corn Syrup provides the switch, any Fructose will do it but HFCS is far more severe. basically, Fructose puts your cells into starvation mpode, they tell your body to convert anything to FAT to get ready for hibernatin. It also switched off your leptin snsitivity so that you no longer feel full or satiated. So you eat more, anything gets turned into fat and you have the current USA. Now that HFCS is also made from GMO, you are getting an extra helping of GMO and Roundup, either of which will cause cancer and a shortened life!
So there you have it in a nutshell, HFCS, Fructose have switched on the fat switch and turned off the leptin and anyone affected is eating and storing fat for hiberntaion, just like in several animals and even in fish. Finally there is an extra halping of roundup and GMO to increase cancer and shorten you lifespan. Good job by our FDA and corporations. Thise who know, eat organic, everyone else be damned. Sort of like how the legislators send their kids to private schools!
Eat organic, minimize carbs and return to a human...this is the only sure way. eating is 80% of it, exercise is 20%.
Killing us softly.
BOSTON, Nov. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at the University of Missouri determined that cirrhosis was not present in more than one-third of patients who had nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) that led to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The records of 17,785 Medicare patients who had HCC were studied, and it was determined that 16 percent of those patients had NAFLD and no other way of developing cancer. About 64 percent of those patients had nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) that progressed to cirrhosis. A very surprising 36 percent of patients who developed HCC from fatty liver disease had no evidence of cirrhosis.PR Newswire (http://s.tt/1sSgc)
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-connection-between-fatty-liver-disease-and-the-increase-in-the-rate-of-liver-cancer-178373931.html
One other side effect of people getting fatter and fatter is that we who are not overweight cannot buy clothes. Winter clothes that are (all) made to accomodate a large belly are not warm winter clothes. Too much air space. Its not just winter clothes. Its all clothes. Pisses me off.
Actually, sometimes it is an advange when, variety of size 29 jeans are on sale. I used to be size 28 5 years ago, even better selection...
And for those talking about excersize and sitting in the chair working all day, without excersize... that what I do for the past 10 years - still size 29.
It all comes from food you eat and drink.
However, I need to start doing pullups or my 17 year old son going to beat me on the number.
Yes, I want to live as long as I can on this wonderful planet full of war, crime, hatred, pain, and sadness. Give me a break. Live a moderate life, love others, be loving, and hope for the best.
To many people are obsessed with living as long as they can. Gonna be rock climbing at 92?
You will die just like everyone else; maybe at age 69, maybe at 89. But you will die, your body failing and in pain with most of the people around you already gone.
You can't hedge death with your lotions and potions.
Yes, I want to live as long as I can on this wonderful planet full of war, crime, hatred, pain, and sadness. Give me a break. Live a moderate life, love others, be loving, and hope for the best.
To many people are obsessed with living as long as they can. Gonna be rock climbing at 92?
You will die just like everyone else; maybe at age 69, maybe at 89. But you will die, your body failing and in pain with most of the people around you already gone.
You can't hedge death with your lotions and potions.
By cooking all my foods from scratch because of my daughter's food allergies I have found that my weight is much easier to control when I eat homemade foods even when those homemade foods are high in fat, sugar and salt, so I do not believe that the availability of more calories is the cause of the epidemic. I think it has more to do with appetite, and what drives appetite. I really think it is the massive addition of glutamate to the diet that is making people hungrier.
I have so much more control of exactly what I eat now that I make it all from scratch, and I even notice an appetite stimulating effect from eating foods that are naturally high in glutamate.
Studies on people and rats show increased weight with increased glutamate consumption, so it is not an unreasonable theory at all, yet so many people seem to discount it, just sticking to the calories in/ calories out mantra that they get from TV.
If you do ever decide to try to reduce glutamate levels the trickiest names for it on labels are malted barley and natural flavors.