I have long been involved in health related issues since my profession involves exercise. I also advise clients on diet (which is where fat loss happens, not via exercise to any significant degree) and I noticed early on that the smarter people in the diet and exercise space were, with perhaps a few exceptions, some of the first to question all the nonsense in the Spring of 2020. This is because we had been swimming against the tide of BS regarding things like the food pyramid, fear of saturated fat, the efficacy of statins, the non-importance of LDL when in the presence of a healthy HDL to triglyceride ratio, etc. for years. We new how pharma and processed food corporations had captured entire fields of research. Ancel Keyes is the mid-20th century Fauci in so many ways. A skilled bureaucrat with an amazing ability to accrue power and authority. So it was no surprise when Ivor Cummins (who I have followed for years regarding cardio respiratory health) had guests on his podcast that spring of 2020 who were not necessarily epidemiologists, but data savvy outsiders pointing out the impossibility of the exponential growth that computer modelers were then promoting.
We who know how to actually maintain proper metabolic health have always known that the mainstream advice was terrible. And we did and do our best to educate who we can. But it never seemed as dire as this, because ultimately, if people chose not to listen, the only outcome was their own ill health. (You don’t know how many obese doctor clients of mine tell me, 5 foot 10, 147lbs, that all that red meat I eat is going to kill me). I could swim against that tide, as could my family and simply pity their ignorance and reliance on authorities who had so terribly mislead them. But now, that same terrible top down advice is coming in the form of mandates that limit my freedom and possibly my ability to make sound choices about my own health. Well, fuck that. I am not eating “healthy whole grains” and I’m not going to be part of a pharma annuity plan, whether for Covid or heart disease. Pass the steak and eggs…
Baby, that "deep societal reservoir of trust in these federal agencies" has run COMPLETELY dry in this house. I'd be skeptical if they told me the sky was blue at this point.
(Responses explaining that the sky isn't actually blue, actually, are as welcome as a hemorrhoid, and I hope someone punches you in the face while wearing a ring with "DICK" printed on it backwards. Happy Halloween!)
Great article. I can totally agree with that school lunch issue you mention, as I have worked in a public school system now for twenty years, and the food they provide the students is utter crap. We are required by law to let students pick three foods and a drink from the approved breakfast list each morning, but the list consists of things like coco puffs with high sugar no fat milk, teddy grahams, chocolate chip mini muffins, trix cereal branded yogurt (I looked up its sugars and found it compares to a regular size kitkat bar) applesauce (high sugar again) chocolate milk, and frosted nutri-grain bars. It's like someone with a 1950s faith in processed foods designed the menus, absolutely no demonstration of a knowledge about our evolving understanding of nutrition. And year over year, our students gain weight each month they are in school, not going from an unhealthy low to a stable weight, but going from a healthy or slightly over weight into full on obesity. With all of the accompanying risks of diabetes, heart problems, etc. It's a total sham. Just a single demonstration, like the food pyramid debacle you mention, of how Big Health "thinking" so often gets it terrible wrong.
Hasn't the public health space always been largely a matter of puffed up quackery? Aside from the great benefits of clean air and water, housing quality standards, and sanitation, it has been one parade of idiotic, counter productive program after another —- always with a cadre of profit seeking goons handing out “liberty cigarettes” or any of a number of “magic bullets” to all in attendance (and the parade viewers gobbled them up like children scrambling after candy thrown from the broken piñata). People who really want to be healthy are on their own. They must educate themselves, figure out what works for them, and who they can trust as reliable health consultants (hint … no one who works in corporate allopathic “healthcare”).
The science is scrambled, and the health is poached. The frog is boiled, and people's brains are turned into an omelette. The sunny side is down. Courage is currently pickled. Is it time to fray out the fat of this nonsense?
Many people seem desperate to hide from the uncomfortable fact that there are zero choices in life that don't come with a risk of death. Be it from eggs, a virus or getting hit by an errand jumping fish.
Police taking away oxygen cylinder from someone who was trying to save his mom from dying. Uttar Pradesh state had made procuring oxygen illegal during the height of the Covid Wave in India due to shortages in the hospital. It also sent cops to people's homes who were sending SOS for oxygen on twitter. They did this so that nobody could claim officially that someone who had covid died of hypoxia.
Still people died of hypoxia, in the hospital and on the streets. Governments killed more people in this pandemic by interfering with the public's ability to fend for themselves than by spreading disinformation. I think that if simply ignored everyone and left us to do whatever we could, like treat early, get access to tests etc. We'd be over with the pandemic because the ability to experiment is the basis to discover what works and when and to perfect it when it works and discard when fails. But we were never really allowed to innovate, just told to stay home and die.
Even their weight tables have changed over the years. Now you have to be almost skin and bones to be healthy. When I was a girl you could weigh 10 pounds more before being overweight. And in Rubens' time, skinny meant unhealthy. A friend of mine was 30 pounds overweight, got very sick, and lost 20. If she had been 'right' she would probably have died. Who decides about what? Everyone is different. Some African tribes never eat vegetables, they drink milk and eat meat. Other people are lifelong vegetarians. Listen to your body. Your own body knows best.
We are living in a time when a proposed untested treatment can possibly end lives of large segments of our population.
This is definitely because of censorship by Internet giants and scheming of globalists.
But this is ALSO, and this is what the Bad Kitten is saying, because of decades of unwarranted acceptance of "health messaging", where lies and untruths are not questioned, so as "not to make the public question broad health policy".
The result of this, there is no one to question the pompous "experts" and so few people are asking an obvious question "how can all this nonsense be true?"
We are living in a giant Asch Experiment (look it up) where thousands of so called "experts" seemingly agree with each other that 2*2=5 and how untested injections are "definitely safe". We are the subjects in this giant experiment.
The list is endless. Take an aspirin a day. Now aspirin is bad (coincidence that came out right when aspirin was discussed as helping with COVID). Here’s a dumb one- remember when they told us plants clean the air? Not true either.
R Malone just posted a study that *finally* looked at the pathophysiology of vaccinees before and after the shot. Something that our genius public health officials did not think to do at any time during the development, approval, or worldwide distribution of these vaccines.
The biomarkers show that the shot basically gives you Covid complications like “diabetes, renal dysfunction, cholesterol metabolism, coagulation problems, electrolyte imbalance, in a way as if the volunteers experienced an infection.”
I started getting interested in nutrition in the early 90's and quickly discovered how much conflicting information is. I think that's when I started to question the idea that scientists had it all figured out. And food seems like it should be easier to figure out than pharmaceuticals.
Way back in the early days, they loved to state "Masking, along with social distance, helps slow the spread!" That line reminded me of the old super-sugar cereals saying "Part of a balanced breakfast!", then showing a glass of OJ and a muffin. Or my very favorite - "X, along with diet and exercise, is a proven way to lose weight!"
If you have to 'bundle' your strategy as part of a package that helps, it's probably not doing anything at all.
I have long been involved in health related issues since my profession involves exercise. I also advise clients on diet (which is where fat loss happens, not via exercise to any significant degree) and I noticed early on that the smarter people in the diet and exercise space were, with perhaps a few exceptions, some of the first to question all the nonsense in the Spring of 2020. This is because we had been swimming against the tide of BS regarding things like the food pyramid, fear of saturated fat, the efficacy of statins, the non-importance of LDL when in the presence of a healthy HDL to triglyceride ratio, etc. for years. We new how pharma and processed food corporations had captured entire fields of research. Ancel Keyes is the mid-20th century Fauci in so many ways. A skilled bureaucrat with an amazing ability to accrue power and authority. So it was no surprise when Ivor Cummins (who I have followed for years regarding cardio respiratory health) had guests on his podcast that spring of 2020 who were not necessarily epidemiologists, but data savvy outsiders pointing out the impossibility of the exponential growth that computer modelers were then promoting.
We who know how to actually maintain proper metabolic health have always known that the mainstream advice was terrible. And we did and do our best to educate who we can. But it never seemed as dire as this, because ultimately, if people chose not to listen, the only outcome was their own ill health. (You don’t know how many obese doctor clients of mine tell me, 5 foot 10, 147lbs, that all that red meat I eat is going to kill me). I could swim against that tide, as could my family and simply pity their ignorance and reliance on authorities who had so terribly mislead them. But now, that same terrible top down advice is coming in the form of mandates that limit my freedom and possibly my ability to make sound choices about my own health. Well, fuck that. I am not eating “healthy whole grains” and I’m not going to be part of a pharma annuity plan, whether for Covid or heart disease. Pass the steak and eggs…
Baby, that "deep societal reservoir of trust in these federal agencies" has run COMPLETELY dry in this house. I'd be skeptical if they told me the sky was blue at this point.
(Responses explaining that the sky isn't actually blue, actually, are as welcome as a hemorrhoid, and I hope someone punches you in the face while wearing a ring with "DICK" printed on it backwards. Happy Halloween!)
Covidian mask theatre at the Climate Clown show.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1454790195367354369
How can it be possible that anyone takes these people seriously or believes a single thing they say?
Great article. I can totally agree with that school lunch issue you mention, as I have worked in a public school system now for twenty years, and the food they provide the students is utter crap. We are required by law to let students pick three foods and a drink from the approved breakfast list each morning, but the list consists of things like coco puffs with high sugar no fat milk, teddy grahams, chocolate chip mini muffins, trix cereal branded yogurt (I looked up its sugars and found it compares to a regular size kitkat bar) applesauce (high sugar again) chocolate milk, and frosted nutri-grain bars. It's like someone with a 1950s faith in processed foods designed the menus, absolutely no demonstration of a knowledge about our evolving understanding of nutrition. And year over year, our students gain weight each month they are in school, not going from an unhealthy low to a stable weight, but going from a healthy or slightly over weight into full on obesity. With all of the accompanying risks of diabetes, heart problems, etc. It's a total sham. Just a single demonstration, like the food pyramid debacle you mention, of how Big Health "thinking" so often gets it terrible wrong.
Hasn't the public health space always been largely a matter of puffed up quackery? Aside from the great benefits of clean air and water, housing quality standards, and sanitation, it has been one parade of idiotic, counter productive program after another —- always with a cadre of profit seeking goons handing out “liberty cigarettes” or any of a number of “magic bullets” to all in attendance (and the parade viewers gobbled them up like children scrambling after candy thrown from the broken piñata). People who really want to be healthy are on their own. They must educate themselves, figure out what works for them, and who they can trust as reliable health consultants (hint … no one who works in corporate allopathic “healthcare”).
The science is scrambled, and the health is poached. The frog is boiled, and people's brains are turned into an omelette. The sunny side is down. Courage is currently pickled. Is it time to fray out the fat of this nonsense?
Many people seem desperate to hide from the uncomfortable fact that there are zero choices in life that don't come with a risk of death. Be it from eggs, a virus or getting hit by an errand jumping fish.
The worst one I saw yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qasdqNH6EU4
Police taking away oxygen cylinder from someone who was trying to save his mom from dying. Uttar Pradesh state had made procuring oxygen illegal during the height of the Covid Wave in India due to shortages in the hospital. It also sent cops to people's homes who were sending SOS for oxygen on twitter. They did this so that nobody could claim officially that someone who had covid died of hypoxia.
Still people died of hypoxia, in the hospital and on the streets. Governments killed more people in this pandemic by interfering with the public's ability to fend for themselves than by spreading disinformation. I think that if simply ignored everyone and left us to do whatever we could, like treat early, get access to tests etc. We'd be over with the pandemic because the ability to experiment is the basis to discover what works and when and to perfect it when it works and discard when fails. But we were never really allowed to innovate, just told to stay home and die.
Trust your gut/heart. They have served me well.
Even their weight tables have changed over the years. Now you have to be almost skin and bones to be healthy. When I was a girl you could weigh 10 pounds more before being overweight. And in Rubens' time, skinny meant unhealthy. A friend of mine was 30 pounds overweight, got very sick, and lost 20. If she had been 'right' she would probably have died. Who decides about what? Everyone is different. Some African tribes never eat vegetables, they drink milk and eat meat. Other people are lifelong vegetarians. Listen to your body. Your own body knows best.
We are living in a time when a proposed untested treatment can possibly end lives of large segments of our population.
This is definitely because of censorship by Internet giants and scheming of globalists.
But this is ALSO, and this is what the Bad Kitten is saying, because of decades of unwarranted acceptance of "health messaging", where lies and untruths are not questioned, so as "not to make the public question broad health policy".
The result of this, there is no one to question the pompous "experts" and so few people are asking an obvious question "how can all this nonsense be true?"
We are living in a giant Asch Experiment (look it up) where thousands of so called "experts" seemingly agree with each other that 2*2=5 and how untested injections are "definitely safe". We are the subjects in this giant experiment.
So is 2*2=5 just because everyone on TV says so?
The list is endless. Take an aspirin a day. Now aspirin is bad (coincidence that came out right when aspirin was discussed as helping with COVID). Here’s a dumb one- remember when they told us plants clean the air? Not true either.
R Malone just posted a study that *finally* looked at the pathophysiology of vaccinees before and after the shot. Something that our genius public health officials did not think to do at any time during the development, approval, or worldwide distribution of these vaccines.
The biomarkers show that the shot basically gives you Covid complications like “diabetes, renal dysfunction, cholesterol metabolism, coagulation problems, electrolyte imbalance, in a way as if the volunteers experienced an infection.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-021-00329-3
Just take these lines from Titanic, replacing "iron" with "trust", and you'll get where this ship his headed:
ISMAY: "But this ship can't sink!"
ANDREWS: "She is made of iron, sir. I assure you, she can. And she will. It is a mathematical certainty."
I started getting interested in nutrition in the early 90's and quickly discovered how much conflicting information is. I think that's when I started to question the idea that scientists had it all figured out. And food seems like it should be easier to figure out than pharmaceuticals.
Way back in the early days, they loved to state "Masking, along with social distance, helps slow the spread!" That line reminded me of the old super-sugar cereals saying "Part of a balanced breakfast!", then showing a glass of OJ and a muffin. Or my very favorite - "X, along with diet and exercise, is a proven way to lose weight!"
If you have to 'bundle' your strategy as part of a package that helps, it's probably not doing anything at all.