You’re trying to be serious about farts aren’t you? NOT POSSIBLE anywhere at any time in the history of us bipedal creatures and I have my suspicions about the quadrupeds. 😏
BUT…I read a medical report on testing masks, and one test was if you could smell perfume sprayed on the mask. If you could, the mask failed the test for protecting you from Covid.
Questinable. Spraying the mask means the perfume is adhering to the mask surface. Sprayed perfume is applied as an aerosol, but the odor is a volatile gas. So gas molecules would be stripped off the liquid as you breath in and you'd smell it. But, gas molecules are smaller than virus particules.
Just saying that was the official test for the effectiveness of masks. Check the mask boxes. They even state on the box that the masks will not protect against viruses.
I like to occasionally use a little something purchased from Amazon surreptitiously of course. Can’t call them up on demand like I could back in the day. Yeah, I know but then old age was often called the second childhood a condition that apparently I now fully embrace. Besides no one suspects a harmless old man. 😇😈
It is unfair to say people would just rather eat junk. The entire nutrition and medical industry tells them to eat a diet that is high in diabetes-promoting carbohydrates and low in healthy fats and meat. Hell, the diabetes association suggested diet is laden with carbs and low fat. Many who have done everything their doctors told them to lose weight just continue to gain and get sicker. Take a look at the latest chart of foods from Tufts, where Lucky Charms are rated as extremely healthy, while bacon and eggs is rated extremely unhealthy. A high carb diet is addictive, these poor folk crave those sweets. Following mainstream diet advice It is like going to a drug dealer for advice on kicking your habit.
You got that right! I still love bacon even though I know how the bacon is made so to speak (and the sausage) ‘cause I was a farm boy on a pig farm down here in Dixie. Cue The Dukes of Hazard music. (This is here in NASCAR’s ancestral territory otherwise it’d be The Beverly Hillbillies).
Home-made is the way to go, always. Flour, fat, salt, and water, right?
You know, I was so intrigued by your and Kenneth's exchange I went and looked for info on "industrial pastry contents" and found that Science Direct's got an entire page filled with summaries of and links to articles on the topic.
Well, if it’s anything like how Hershey bars are made and what legend says they used for moisturizer in Winston, Salem and Camels at the Reynolds Tobacco Company just down the road here then I don’t want to know.
This is spot on. There are so many who need to understand that what big ag and big pharma and the gov have been pushing for diet is not in the best interest in our health.
Just thinking about that this morning— about the FDA. No wonder we don’t have a cure for cancer and other diseases yet. When our food and drugs are controlled by the same agency!
The ADA has diabetic recipes. One is apple crisp with 1/2 cup of sugar and oatmeal grain topping. Makes a big pan and then tells you to only eat 1/2 cup of the diabetic poison. Crazy, but look at the list that pays them off and you understand clearly--junk food corps and big pharma.
That's exactly what happened to me. I was always slender and fit, and I ate what I thought was a healthy low-fat diet. Unfortunately for me, I love veggies and salad but I also love the starchy foods like bread and pasta and I had NO idea that my middle-age weight gain was due to eating too many carbs until it was too late. I now have Type 2, which is kept in check by eating low carb but it's hard as crap to eat this way 24/7 because my body hasn't lost the cravings. Also, low carb food isn't easily available especially when traveling.
If I had only known twenty years ago that moderating my carbs and adding some fat would have avoided this permanent damage to my metabolism. As a tragic aside, my poor mother died of a heart attack at age 59 because of undiagnosed Type 2. She kept eating lower and lower and lower fat, and continued to gain weight and have terrible cholesterol numbers. Doctors were stumped---why did she have high cholesterol and high blood pressure when she didn't eat fat or excess salt? Now we know that had absolutely nothing to do with it.
I’m so sorry you’ve had to go through this. Have you considered a high fat carnivore diet? The key to losing the cravings is to eliminate all sweet tastes from your diet. You will go through a brief period of withdrawal, but then you’ll be free from the cravings. One trick that helps quench sugar craving is to put some salt on your tongue. I used Himalayan pink salt crystals for this.
I agree totally about eliminating sugar and sweet tasting foods. Typically I eat meats, cheeses, salads, and veggies and I drink water or unsweetened iced tea. Admittedly cravings are reduced this way but it still takes a lot of discipline to avoid the occasional sandwich or bagel. Fortunately I've never had a big sweet tooth or this would have been so much worse.
I'm 66, 5'5" and fairly healthy including a healthy weight +/- 5 lbs.
Years ago I was about 20 lbs overweight with some health problems which lead me to research nutrition, exercise, lifestyle etc. Without really being aware, I turned to a low carb/sugar diet and lost most of the wieght, got healthier and noticed more energy. I do eat treats on occasion but very quickly regret it because I don't feel well for a few hours after. Hang in there Sheryl!
I'm sorry to hear about your mom 😢 I too had very high cholesterol, blood sugar dysregulation, hypertension and sleep problems until I got on a bit of thyroid hormone. Hypothyroidism is very common in women, especially around menopause. Yet doctors RARELY perform all of the meaningful tests, instead they prescribe SSRI's, Ambien, beta blockers, Metformin, Lipitor etc. etc. etc. 🤬 FIVE pharmaceutical prescriptions became entirely unnecessary for me after a little T3.
Good you found a doc willing to prescribe T3. That's a rarity. I have to get mine from the 'south of the border' internet pharmacias because I haven't been able to find a local doc that will. And even if they did, insurance wouldn't cover it because it's not on the 'preferred / approved drug schedule'. Very expensive here in the US. About $15/mo from the online pharmacias.... I try to get a year's supply at a time & keep 2 in the freezer, since s&h is expensive, and CBP ramping up shipment seizures at any time is always a constant threat.
Yep, the struggle for T3 is real and you know it works precisely because it's NOT the "Standard of Care". I spent many years searching for a doc who would listen. Meanwhile I paid for all of my own lab work while experimenting with South of the Border hormone to find out for certain if that was the cure. My self experimentation was so successful that I decided to drive thousands of miles to walk across the border and purchase it myself, in person, only to be refused entry back into my own country while being accused of being a drug dealer for having too much thyroid hormone in my purse 🤬 Currently, I only know of two doctors in the entire nation who are willing to prescribe T3 and one of those is reluctant with quantities. It's a crime.
Intermittent fasting and tinkering around with various supplements might help. I discovered by accident that adding fish oil in a larger quantity than recommended quashed my evening cravings and the fasting bumped up my energy levels substantially. Also discovering any hidden food allergies is important. I had several.
I do intermittent fast, and I take lots of supplements. I take one Mega Red (fish/krill oil) per day, in the am, but maybe I will add a second one in the evening to see if it helps, thanks for the tip!
You are absolutely right. I always find it amusing when I see someone (usually women) having a toast with no butter, but a lot of jam. Or eating lots of "diet" food because they do not get satiated with them.
I personally would prefer to have just the butter, if I had to choose. And try to keep myself as far as possible from low-fat junk.
"Take a look at the latest chart of foods from Tufts, where Lucky Charms are rated as extremely healthy, while bacon and eggs is rated extremely unhealthy."
... NO ...!
This makes me ashamed to say where my doctoral degree comes from ([major cringe]).
I graduated 10 years ago. Recently I have had the feeling that I most likely got out at the very nick of time before it became so UTTERLY, incomprehensibly Borg as to offer literally no educational value whatsoever. The above quote makes me realize that I must be right. ARGH.
Bacon and eggs makes me feel strong in the morning. I am ~6' and ~130 lb. Must be doing something right by me ...
"It is unfair to say people would just rather eat junk."
You could make the same excuse for people buying into the mRNA thing. They listened to the experts. OK, but now we know the experts were dead wrong, and we expect people to pay attention and come to a different conclusion.
Same with food. The fat and cholesterol hypothesis has been discredited for years now. There's no excuse at this point for believing a low fat low salt diet is healthy.
Except that the Standard American Diet is drilled into us from early childhood, our parents and grandparents and almost all of our peers, magazines and TV shows, along with the experts all sing the same SAD song. (Excuse the pun) remember, half the population is dumber than average. It is unlikely they will be able to figure this stuff out, or even be curious about it. And many if not most of those diabetics/obese patients may be following exactly what they’ve been lead to believe is healthy and not stuffing their faces with ice cream and waffles every day.
Funny thing about that guy's resume picture. I really, really hate thoughtful hand pose. The guy who invented it ought to be defenestrated too.
Anyway--nature ain't yet been healing enough. This Administration seems to hate children more than any administration we ever had. Its full force is being used to turn them into sexless neurotic morons. You think more than half the nation will rise up to protect them? That's the equation we need and we ain't got it.
one of the best things to avoid covid is not to get injected with its spike. Being overweight, borderline diabetic, over 65, doing little else than walk the dog and my household, I did not get it far as i know. I also avoid doctors and hospitals which helps a lot in staying healthy, cook food every day and do not eat out. Seems like it works, I am alive !
You are probably naturally immune now because you are in the world and out and around fighting it off with the healthy immune system God gave you. I understand the reason more older adults are getting shingles is because kids no longer get it because of vaccines and we are not being constantly naturally immunized anymore and the dormant virus reawakens. Most of my friends--have gotten shingles. Not sure how those new shingles shots are working. I’m not getting those either (74) But the Covid shots also made them more susceptible I read. It’s a mess for sure. I had Covid January 2021 before Covid jabs. I just thought it was a cold. That October I had antibody test showing I had it. Either in January or I built up an immunity by living a very full life and my immune system showed I’m ready to roll fighting the virus and variants off. Probably you too.
indeed, we older generation (66 here) still had all the childhood illnesses, built up immunity, and then I cleaned houses for 10 years, got close to all the germs and never had anything serious. I heard that some shingles shots cause shingles, one friend had that, but there seem to be new ones that don't have it, they are all painful and I don't think much of any jab right now. No needles in me if I can avoid it! Well, I am a seemstress and that are the only needles I want.
My sister cleaned houses. The messes the high income people made and what was even shoved under their beds was enough to make you immune to everything. Lol. There is a new 2 shot series. No thanks. I thought I was getting shingles 2 weeks ago but found it was just a very very itchy chigger attack from yard work carrying pine needles in my arms to the waste container. They were gone in 2 days. I was worried because when hubby got them in November 2020 it was the sickest I’ve ever seen him, but he also had bronchitis at the same time. I think it was actually Covid but his doc didn’t even run a Covid test when he went in. I found it strange as that was December 2020 he didn’t run the test like all docs were doing. But it wasn’t as insane out here (yet).
recently found out that coconut oil helps for bites, both to help prevent them and to sooth them. someone advized me to add catnip oil but have not bought that yet. I also use florasone cream and a mixture of herbs, as I am an insect magnet. Yes, between yardwork and house cleaning we should be fine LOLOL I know at least 5 people who had shingles, mom least sick, and a friend-s husband has Long shingles, he had them early last year and the nerve pain seems to not go away, This spring he was still sore, have not seen them since early this year. No idea why some are so sick and others barely just like with the covid. Hope the best for both of you !
A remedy for shingles: Super Lysine, Quantum brand. Comes in a tube. Rub, with pressure, some on the affected area. Have to keep rubbing until the itch or other problem resolves.
These people are all clearly suffering from cluster b personality disorders.
They don't live in the real world, they inhabit an imaginary world that is a figment of their own mind, a delusion. They all exhibit narcissistic, borderline, histrionic and anti-social (f/k/a psychopathic) aspects of their personality, to such a degree, that it clearly has an impairment on their ability to function in a civilized society. These cluster b types have a clear proclivity towards left wing authoritarian ideology, and their comments and actions over the last 3 years prove that.
Covid is not the problem. Mental illness is. The real issue is that cluster b personality disorders are, for the most part, untreatable. Because they tend to be more vociferous than others (due to their grandiosity), social media has amplified their psychosis... essential, social media is a haven for these types as they may only obtain personal validation from likes and comments to their postings. They are truly deranged.
A friend has a 5yr old with behavioral problems and sees multiple specialists. Not too long ago he had his flu shot and I’d assume an experimental injection as well. I mentioned brain damage… that didn’t go over well.
I am estranged from my younger daughter, her controlling husband and three adorrrable grand babies all because last year (15 months ago) I suggested not to get the covid jabs for the kids. All hell broke loose and now I am a monster.
Thank you. My heart is broken and damaged now. 15 months is a long time.
They just ignore me, I am not allowed to email or call or text.
I just try not to think about it too much because, you know, it could
make me nutty. I have a friend that is a psychiatrist (we used to figure skate together several times a week bk in the days of olden) and she has been an absolute angel. Of course, my husband has also been my greatest advocate. I used to be an RN!!! I took many years of that bloody orgochem, pharmacology, biology etc. Oh well. I am 68 years old and feel very sad about this but I can not control it. I have "apologised" at least 50 times
Just exactly how much more "toleration" are we expected to endure from these tolerant liberals?
I haven't lost touch with my family but they all took the swan dive into the Woke punchbowl and have no intention of climbing out. Two of my three nieces are pumped full of psychopharmaceuticals and zombified. The youngest at 15 has been on puberty blockers for some time and now wants to slice off her breasts. "Top surgery" being the euphemism.
I'm glad the "Like" button has a heart symbol next to it - truly heartbreaking - however, I believe you did the right thing in trying to warn them. If you had said nothing and one of them is/was injured by these protocols then you would truly have something you could not live with and the damage could not be undone. You did your loving best and there is always the chance they will come around.
You did the right thing. It is their failing to see it. Don't apologize. I know it's painful. Happened to me with many many friends and my cousin with her kids. They have their own path.
And no doubt your son-in-law views himself as an open-minded liberal, the kind who puts a "Love" sign on their lawn. (There are people in my family just like that: they're all in for "love" so long as you agree with them.)
I am so sorry. Horrible. My daughter told her dad to tell me not to send anything else about this. But we are not estranged, thankfully. I pray every day for their safety. They have also bought the trans evil and my only grandchild is now a “boy”. That is a special kind of grandparent hell also. I can’t say anything actually health wise anymore.
Oh my, to have a grandchild tormented by thinking they are the other gender is truly the saddest thing ever to happen as a grandparent. What kind of parent would push that on a child🤬🥲
thank you Linda. This year has been so traumatizing for me.
My daughter has shown no sympathy or offered any solace or peace.
My father passed away (peacefully at age 99 and a half!) and she has not offered any care or attention. It greatly saddens me. I know she would not be like this if her husband was not in her life. She used to be a very empathetic and curious person. Now she just follows orders of her husband
The most blatant cover-ups & lies of the scamdemic pertaining to so-called “public health” were not telling people that FREE measures like exercise, fresh air, sunshine, losing weight, taking helpful OTC vitamins...& outright demonizing & banning cheap & beneficial therapeutics like Iver & Hydroxy & promoting every harmful measure like lockdowns, masks, the jab & ignoring every other disease & cause of death were the 1st clues that something was VERY wrong.
If by "poorly calibrated," you mean "statistically challenged," I am that; but I think I am able to distinguish honest from deceptive statistical argument when they are placed side by side. I will be forever grateful to you Gato for that.
NY City ... upstate NY is relatively sane overall and doesn't align much with the city. If they could spin it off as its own voting block, they would. :)
I've heard that if NYC seceded from NY, you'd probably be able to live normally without their nonsense skewing everything. If y'all do ever split off, make them keep Kathy Hochul!
someone posted a secession for the large cities which are mostly blue, and that all the rest of America is mostly red (and sane). Sounds like aplan. Like the citystates in old Greece, and Rome.
An acquaintance of my husband’s still wears a mask. She works in a school and the teacher in the next classroom got vaccinated/boosted and keeps getting C19 NONSTOP….she coughs and sneezes all over the place continually. This acquaintance is in panic because she takes care of her elderly mom and cannot afford to get sick. She is in a panic. When my husband told me she was wearing a mask, I laughed till I heard the rest. It’s so very sad really. She’s not being an uptight ass, just a frightened and stressed caretaker. Unfortunately she’s not in a place to hear the truth of the situation. It makes me really mad but not at her.
You are absolutely right! This woman is terrified and with good reason. If the TEACHER would wear a mask, at least the flying germs could be contained, no matter what sort of bacteria she was getting on everyone! It would ease the caregiver's mind about carrying the virus home. At the very least, it is RUDE of the teacher. No matter what she's spewing, nobody wants it on them! Has anyone spoken with the teacher? Of course, teachers know more than anyone else so she probably wouldn't listen...
Just click on the blue embedded link, "addict style behavior" in Gato's post. It is profoundly correct; even explains making while driving alone in your car.
As they say, I beg to differ. I genuinely think it is mortal fear, plus absence of faith, which, whether true or not, promises eternal life. As does psilocybin and as does evidence of NDEs, but all of us human animals fear death and want to survive, and the fifth generation warfare coming at people day and night, pulsing mortal fear---aliens, nukes, leprosy, new variants---plus the effing administration causing massive inflation, and the stores taking advantage of that, so people not being able to afford rent, food, medicine, transportation, so existential fear, not to mention the crap climate idiocy pulsed with end of the world predictions. Hard to resist that and masks seem like a talisman against death. I saw teens outside alone last winter shoveling snow wearing blue plastic masks. Terror management. The propaganda has to stop, but they just pulse it harder. They want people to fall deeper into the mental mass formation, not wake up, and they are effing sophisticated.
Something has been wrong for at least forty years, that everyone was ready to sacrifice children to the lockdowns and vaccines and wokeism. Adults are no longer adults, these parents are developmentally and mentally screwed up at a population level.
No need to beg in order to differ! I think the addiction model explains a lot; and part of that syndrome is an addiction to the fear (that is, to the fear porn); followed the adoption of the mask talisman as a signal to yourself and others that dammit, in the face of all these threats you, at least, are taking action and doing your part. A placebo. If people were really so terrified of catching a fatal illness outdoors in the sunshine although all others around them, maskless, somehow do not, I think they would not emerge at all (though I admit that introduces the irrelevancy of a rational approach to the situation).
When I had covid I followed protocol and wore a mask when I shopped, after the symptoms were gone but my two weeks weren’t up. When I see someone wearing one I assume its for the same reason. Since then I’ve read that masks actually make it worse. If the stores go back to mandating masks, well, ya gotta eat. Don’t know a solution to that problem.
Don't buy in. I have friends that never ever wore one and managed to shop just fine. Ignored or challenged the mask nazis successfully. It's the fear of retaliation that we really face. That's an inner process to handle.
Both of the groceries in my mostly rural area had watchers at the doors. One had watchers to see that people got in line, properly-spaced, to access the checkouts.
Some stores in this area (northern CA, Bay area) wouldn't let customers in unless masked, but that was a year or so ago. Now no requirements. But, unfortunately, there are signs that the mask tyrants will most probably take over again.
London - hardly see anyone in a mask but when I do it's very weird, like they didn't get the memo or something. Most mask enthusiasts here are either Asian tourists or workers following protocol or fearful elderly.
still a few leftovers here in rural GA, mostly in one local store. I think walmart still requires them, but most employees wear them round their necks. And the local store might lose me as a customer sometime soon if they don't lighten up
not kidding at all. This local store is less than 3 miles, had not gone there for quite some time because their prices are high, but the other store discriminated (no jabs must mask to shop) so I stopped going there. I have no idea about the requirements at wm, some wear them, most have them round their neck, some have none at all. Dad told me that the world championship cycling still required them at the finish, so we have not the last lunatics in the world LOL
Gato, type 1 diabetics also benefit greatly from eating a proper human diet that has zero added carbohydrates. I’ve seen interviews with some who are thriving on a high fat carnivore diet, which greatly reduces their need for insulin.
It’s useless to try to convince these people of anything and they will always manipulate the data. No one understands statistics. It was my least favorite course in grad school but had to endure two courses.
DOD/Big Medical/Big Pharma/Big Media's Propaganda and Censorship Professional Taylor Lorenz:
"We could literally stop the virus at any time with basic mitigation measures [like Vitamin C, D, Zinc, Magnesium, sunshine, fresh air, drink 1 gallon water/day, 30 minutes exercise/day, wash hands], but that might mean slightly less profit for corporations [her biggest paying clients], so we'll just keep letting vulnerable ppl needlessly die and millions become permanently disabled [from using her client's products] with zero support system in place [dying isolated from families in hospitals following one-size-fits-all protocols her clients lobby politicians and regulators to mandate.]"
Big Pharma Earnings Season: Record Profits From Patients Being Poured Into Windfall Earnings For Lobbyists
That twitter comment of Mr. Olesen about preferring HIV infection to COVID is so profoundly ignorant it is hilarious (stunning that someone with supposed knowledge of the field could know so little). Perhaps correlated to why he is no longer working.
I try to fart when standing next to people with masks. Just as a test.
ROFL your farts probably smell better than the noxious rebreathed air inside their masks.
"So if I can smell that dude's fart..."
And it just never connects.
It's good for a laugh, but fart smells are gas molecules which make viruses look huge.
Back in the summer of '20, when Mask Fever was pitched, someone was interviewing Dr. Fauci and asked him about masks and the CA Wolfie season.
"So it's good that we're all already wearing masks. That should help with the smoke - right, Doctor?"
"Oh, no," Fauci replied. "Smoke particles are.much to small to get caught by the mask mesh."
Do want to hazard a guess what sorts of particles _are even smaller than_ smoke particles?
The conscience of a politician?
Nice!
You’re trying to be serious about farts aren’t you? NOT POSSIBLE anywhere at any time in the history of us bipedal creatures and I have my suspicions about the quadrupeds. 😏
BUT…I read a medical report on testing masks, and one test was if you could smell perfume sprayed on the mask. If you could, the mask failed the test for protecting you from Covid.
Questinable. Spraying the mask means the perfume is adhering to the mask surface. Sprayed perfume is applied as an aerosol, but the odor is a volatile gas. So gas molecules would be stripped off the liquid as you breath in and you'd smell it. But, gas molecules are smaller than virus particules.
Just saying that was the official test for the effectiveness of masks. Check the mask boxes. They even state on the box that the masks will not protect against viruses.
Comment of the day, Mabel!
Mabal. Darn autocorrect.
All my life I’ve been told, women don’t fart.
Surprise
😸
Mabal, be careful about that. It's proving to be risky to cows.
😜
I like to occasionally use a little something purchased from Amazon surreptitiously of course. Can’t call them up on demand like I could back in the day. Yeah, I know but then old age was often called the second childhood a condition that apparently I now fully embrace. Besides no one suspects a harmless old man. 😇😈
Loudly, or silently?
depends on who the test is for
Bwhahaha
It is unfair to say people would just rather eat junk. The entire nutrition and medical industry tells them to eat a diet that is high in diabetes-promoting carbohydrates and low in healthy fats and meat. Hell, the diabetes association suggested diet is laden with carbs and low fat. Many who have done everything their doctors told them to lose weight just continue to gain and get sicker. Take a look at the latest chart of foods from Tufts, where Lucky Charms are rated as extremely healthy, while bacon and eggs is rated extremely unhealthy. A high carb diet is addictive, these poor folk crave those sweets. Following mainstream diet advice It is like going to a drug dealer for advice on kicking your habit.
"while bacon and eggs is rated extremely unhealthy"
You can have my Bacon when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
You got that right! I still love bacon even though I know how the bacon is made so to speak (and the sausage) ‘cause I was a farm boy on a pig farm down here in Dixie. Cue The Dukes of Hazard music. (This is here in NASCAR’s ancestral territory otherwise it’d be The Beverly Hillbillies).
Do you know how industrial pastry is made?
Home-made is the way to go, always. Flour, fat, salt, and water, right?
You know, I was so intrigued by your and Kenneth's exchange I went and looked for info on "industrial pastry contents" and found that Science Direct's got an entire page filled with summaries of and links to articles on the topic.
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/pastries]
Now, I'm going to have a cup of coffee and one of my wife's cookies, since she's at work and can't stop me! Mua-ha-ha-ha!
Well, if it’s anything like how Hershey bars are made and what legend says they used for moisturizer in Winston, Salem and Camels at the Reynolds Tobacco Company just down the road here then I don’t want to know.
🪕🎵"Never meanin' no harm"🎶
https://tinyurl.com/3uchtmmz
This is spot on. There are so many who need to understand that what big ag and big pharma and the gov have been pushing for diet is not in the best interest in our health.
They want to sell you a pill when their diet makes you fat and sick
Just thinking about that this morning— about the FDA. No wonder we don’t have a cure for cancer and other diseases yet. When our food and drugs are controlled by the same agency!
Too much money to be made with cancer
The ADA has diabetic recipes. One is apple crisp with 1/2 cup of sugar and oatmeal grain topping. Makes a big pan and then tells you to only eat 1/2 cup of the diabetic poison. Crazy, but look at the list that pays them off and you understand clearly--junk food corps and big pharma.
And they suggest oatmeal for breakfast. Try testing you blood sugar after a bowl of oatmeal.
Oh yeah. I could eat oatmeal happily every day but it skyrockets my blood glucose level so I don't, at all.
Not using one's own brains has always been bad for people.
That's exactly what happened to me. I was always slender and fit, and I ate what I thought was a healthy low-fat diet. Unfortunately for me, I love veggies and salad but I also love the starchy foods like bread and pasta and I had NO idea that my middle-age weight gain was due to eating too many carbs until it was too late. I now have Type 2, which is kept in check by eating low carb but it's hard as crap to eat this way 24/7 because my body hasn't lost the cravings. Also, low carb food isn't easily available especially when traveling.
If I had only known twenty years ago that moderating my carbs and adding some fat would have avoided this permanent damage to my metabolism. As a tragic aside, my poor mother died of a heart attack at age 59 because of undiagnosed Type 2. She kept eating lower and lower and lower fat, and continued to gain weight and have terrible cholesterol numbers. Doctors were stumped---why did she have high cholesterol and high blood pressure when she didn't eat fat or excess salt? Now we know that had absolutely nothing to do with it.
I’m so sorry you’ve had to go through this. Have you considered a high fat carnivore diet? The key to losing the cravings is to eliminate all sweet tastes from your diet. You will go through a brief period of withdrawal, but then you’ll be free from the cravings. One trick that helps quench sugar craving is to put some salt on your tongue. I used Himalayan pink salt crystals for this.
I agree totally about eliminating sugar and sweet tasting foods. Typically I eat meats, cheeses, salads, and veggies and I drink water or unsweetened iced tea. Admittedly cravings are reduced this way but it still takes a lot of discipline to avoid the occasional sandwich or bagel. Fortunately I've never had a big sweet tooth or this would have been so much worse.
I'm 66, 5'5" and fairly healthy including a healthy weight +/- 5 lbs.
Years ago I was about 20 lbs overweight with some health problems which lead me to research nutrition, exercise, lifestyle etc. Without really being aware, I turned to a low carb/sugar diet and lost most of the wieght, got healthier and noticed more energy. I do eat treats on occasion but very quickly regret it because I don't feel well for a few hours after. Hang in there Sheryl!
Also, a nice probiotic with a variety of microbes can help crowd out the gut bacteria that make you crave
I find cravings go away when I don’t eat carbs. During withdrawal, a bit of salt on the tongue works to quench them.
I'm sorry to hear about your mom 😢 I too had very high cholesterol, blood sugar dysregulation, hypertension and sleep problems until I got on a bit of thyroid hormone. Hypothyroidism is very common in women, especially around menopause. Yet doctors RARELY perform all of the meaningful tests, instead they prescribe SSRI's, Ambien, beta blockers, Metformin, Lipitor etc. etc. etc. 🤬 FIVE pharmaceutical prescriptions became entirely unnecessary for me after a little T3.
Doctors aren't stumped, they're greedy a$$holes.
Good you found a doc willing to prescribe T3. That's a rarity. I have to get mine from the 'south of the border' internet pharmacias because I haven't been able to find a local doc that will. And even if they did, insurance wouldn't cover it because it's not on the 'preferred / approved drug schedule'. Very expensive here in the US. About $15/mo from the online pharmacias.... I try to get a year's supply at a time & keep 2 in the freezer, since s&h is expensive, and CBP ramping up shipment seizures at any time is always a constant threat.
Yep, the struggle for T3 is real and you know it works precisely because it's NOT the "Standard of Care". I spent many years searching for a doc who would listen. Meanwhile I paid for all of my own lab work while experimenting with South of the Border hormone to find out for certain if that was the cure. My self experimentation was so successful that I decided to drive thousands of miles to walk across the border and purchase it myself, in person, only to be refused entry back into my own country while being accused of being a drug dealer for having too much thyroid hormone in my purse 🤬 Currently, I only know of two doctors in the entire nation who are willing to prescribe T3 and one of those is reluctant with quantities. It's a crime.
Intermittent fasting and tinkering around with various supplements might help. I discovered by accident that adding fish oil in a larger quantity than recommended quashed my evening cravings and the fasting bumped up my energy levels substantially. Also discovering any hidden food allergies is important. I had several.
I do intermittent fast, and I take lots of supplements. I take one Mega Red (fish/krill oil) per day, in the am, but maybe I will add a second one in the evening to see if it helps, thanks for the tip!
They crave carbs because they are eating foods with no nutrition.
There is more to it. Both sugar and gluten have addictive properties, so even if eating a diet high in nutrients, they will still cause cravings.
PS: all carbohydrates become either glucose of fructose when digested. So much for healthy whole grains.
It actually has to do with your gut bacteria. The gut bacteria are doing the craving.
I was going to say that. The wrong gut bacteria (there goes the immune system!)
#IntentionalHarm all the way down.
You are absolutely right. I always find it amusing when I see someone (usually women) having a toast with no butter, but a lot of jam. Or eating lots of "diet" food because they do not get satiated with them.
I personally would prefer to have just the butter, if I had to choose. And try to keep myself as far as possible from low-fat junk.
My favorite treat is browned butter bites.
"Take a look at the latest chart of foods from Tufts, where Lucky Charms are rated as extremely healthy, while bacon and eggs is rated extremely unhealthy."
... NO ...!
This makes me ashamed to say where my doctoral degree comes from ([major cringe]).
I graduated 10 years ago. Recently I have had the feeling that I most likely got out at the very nick of time before it became so UTTERLY, incomprehensibly Borg as to offer literally no educational value whatsoever. The above quote makes me realize that I must be right. ARGH.
Bacon and eggs makes me feel strong in the morning. I am ~6' and ~130 lb. Must be doing something right by me ...
I find it interesting that so many cardiologists die from heart attacks. Either they’re not taking their own advice…or they are!
Hear hear.....
clear excess carbs out and substitute protein and fats.
works great
"It is unfair to say people would just rather eat junk."
You could make the same excuse for people buying into the mRNA thing. They listened to the experts. OK, but now we know the experts were dead wrong, and we expect people to pay attention and come to a different conclusion.
Same with food. The fat and cholesterol hypothesis has been discredited for years now. There's no excuse at this point for believing a low fat low salt diet is healthy.
Except that the Standard American Diet is drilled into us from early childhood, our parents and grandparents and almost all of our peers, magazines and TV shows, along with the experts all sing the same SAD song. (Excuse the pun) remember, half the population is dumber than average. It is unlikely they will be able to figure this stuff out, or even be curious about it. And many if not most of those diabetics/obese patients may be following exactly what they’ve been lead to believe is healthy and not stuffing their faces with ice cream and waffles every day.
Funny thing about that guy's resume picture. I really, really hate thoughtful hand pose. The guy who invented it ought to be defenestrated too.
Anyway--nature ain't yet been healing enough. This Administration seems to hate children more than any administration we ever had. Its full force is being used to turn them into sexless neurotic morons. You think more than half the nation will rise up to protect them? That's the equation we need and we ain't got it.
I hope parents will finally open their eyes and find out that 80 jabs won't keep their children healthy
I saw the Sexless Neurotic Morons open for Pink Floyd back in '83.
Their best song was "I wanna be vaccinated."
You got a bootleg tape? I wouldn't buy it retail, but...
I know a guy. I'll send a time, place, and secret handshake info separately. I'll be the passed-out hippie lying in the McD's Drive-Thru.
Good choice of location. No one'll suspect it's me going to meet you. I'm a Five Guys kind o' gal.
Five Guys rocks!
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This spreads germs from the hand to the face. Which is why dermatologists tell patients with acne to not touch their face.
one of the best things to avoid covid is not to get injected with its spike. Being overweight, borderline diabetic, over 65, doing little else than walk the dog and my household, I did not get it far as i know. I also avoid doctors and hospitals which helps a lot in staying healthy, cook food every day and do not eat out. Seems like it works, I am alive !
Avoiding processed food is likely 80% of the path to health.
You are probably naturally immune now because you are in the world and out and around fighting it off with the healthy immune system God gave you. I understand the reason more older adults are getting shingles is because kids no longer get it because of vaccines and we are not being constantly naturally immunized anymore and the dormant virus reawakens. Most of my friends--have gotten shingles. Not sure how those new shingles shots are working. I’m not getting those either (74) But the Covid shots also made them more susceptible I read. It’s a mess for sure. I had Covid January 2021 before Covid jabs. I just thought it was a cold. That October I had antibody test showing I had it. Either in January or I built up an immunity by living a very full life and my immune system showed I’m ready to roll fighting the virus and variants off. Probably you too.
indeed, we older generation (66 here) still had all the childhood illnesses, built up immunity, and then I cleaned houses for 10 years, got close to all the germs and never had anything serious. I heard that some shingles shots cause shingles, one friend had that, but there seem to be new ones that don't have it, they are all painful and I don't think much of any jab right now. No needles in me if I can avoid it! Well, I am a seemstress and that are the only needles I want.
My sister cleaned houses. The messes the high income people made and what was even shoved under their beds was enough to make you immune to everything. Lol. There is a new 2 shot series. No thanks. I thought I was getting shingles 2 weeks ago but found it was just a very very itchy chigger attack from yard work carrying pine needles in my arms to the waste container. They were gone in 2 days. I was worried because when hubby got them in November 2020 it was the sickest I’ve ever seen him, but he also had bronchitis at the same time. I think it was actually Covid but his doc didn’t even run a Covid test when he went in. I found it strange as that was December 2020 he didn’t run the test like all docs were doing. But it wasn’t as insane out here (yet).
recently found out that coconut oil helps for bites, both to help prevent them and to sooth them. someone advized me to add catnip oil but have not bought that yet. I also use florasone cream and a mixture of herbs, as I am an insect magnet. Yes, between yardwork and house cleaning we should be fine LOLOL I know at least 5 people who had shingles, mom least sick, and a friend-s husband has Long shingles, he had them early last year and the nerve pain seems to not go away, This spring he was still sore, have not seen them since early this year. No idea why some are so sick and others barely just like with the covid. Hope the best for both of you !
A remedy for shingles: Super Lysine, Quantum brand. Comes in a tube. Rub, with pressure, some on the affected area. Have to keep rubbing until the itch or other problem resolves.
thanks ! I will pass it on.
Same here. I did have a sinus issue that caused me to cough enough that I lost my voice. But no Covid as far as I know.
These people are all clearly suffering from cluster b personality disorders.
They don't live in the real world, they inhabit an imaginary world that is a figment of their own mind, a delusion. They all exhibit narcissistic, borderline, histrionic and anti-social (f/k/a psychopathic) aspects of their personality, to such a degree, that it clearly has an impairment on their ability to function in a civilized society. These cluster b types have a clear proclivity towards left wing authoritarian ideology, and their comments and actions over the last 3 years prove that.
Covid is not the problem. Mental illness is. The real issue is that cluster b personality disorders are, for the most part, untreatable. Because they tend to be more vociferous than others (due to their grandiosity), social media has amplified their psychosis... essential, social media is a haven for these types as they may only obtain personal validation from likes and comments to their postings. They are truly deranged.
At least they’ll be lining up for their boosters.. sounds cruel but these types tend to eliminate themselves.
One can but hope so.
Absolutely mental health is the problem A problem being encouraged and exploited; brilliantly I might say.
And the jab is making it worse!
Cluster B's. Perfect.
hahaha on Vigilant Fox someone renamed them Branch Stupidians. I thought that was pretty funnny too.
This is a win for me. I do not have to deal with people I can not tolerate.
I like it! I’m gonna keep it!
Love that name!
A friend has a 5yr old with behavioral problems and sees multiple specialists. Not too long ago he had his flu shot and I’d assume an experimental injection as well. I mentioned brain damage… that didn’t go over well.
Ooooooo I bet that stung.
I am estranged from my younger daughter, her controlling husband and three adorrrable grand babies all because last year (15 months ago) I suggested not to get the covid jabs for the kids. All hell broke loose and now I am a monster.
Rosemary B - These stories break my heart. I hope and pray you will one day be reunited with them.
Thank you. My heart is broken and damaged now. 15 months is a long time.
They just ignore me, I am not allowed to email or call or text.
I just try not to think about it too much because, you know, it could
make me nutty. I have a friend that is a psychiatrist (we used to figure skate together several times a week bk in the days of olden) and she has been an absolute angel. Of course, my husband has also been my greatest advocate. I used to be an RN!!! I took many years of that bloody orgochem, pharmacology, biology etc. Oh well. I am 68 years old and feel very sad about this but I can not control it. I have "apologised" at least 50 times
Just exactly how much more "toleration" are we expected to endure from these tolerant liberals?
I haven't lost touch with my family but they all took the swan dive into the Woke punchbowl and have no intention of climbing out. Two of my three nieces are pumped full of psychopharmaceuticals and zombified. The youngest at 15 has been on puberty blockers for some time and now wants to slice off her breasts. "Top surgery" being the euphemism.
But we're the monsters, right?
Dear God, that is awful.
I'm glad the "Like" button has a heart symbol next to it - truly heartbreaking - however, I believe you did the right thing in trying to warn them. If you had said nothing and one of them is/was injured by these protocols then you would truly have something you could not live with and the damage could not be undone. You did your loving best and there is always the chance they will come around.
thank you.
I am always hopeful
You did the right thing. It is their failing to see it. Don't apologize. I know it's painful. Happened to me with many many friends and my cousin with her kids. They have their own path.
I'm so sorry that you've been treated like this.
And no doubt your son-in-law views himself as an open-minded liberal, the kind who puts a "Love" sign on their lawn. (There are people in my family just like that: they're all in for "love" so long as you agree with them.)
And no need to apologize any more.
You stated your belief, and the fact you are RN, kinda qualified you to be skeptical/reticent about a specific procedure...
I do hope your estranged ones come to their senses.
no. This generation of 30+ year olds think they are brilliant. Old is old, new is better. Orwellian, yeah?
I agree.
I'll be 70 in February.
When we were in our 20's we were typically idealistic, until we woke up, and got a life.
Can't say the same about most Gen Xers, especially the educated:
They usually display a sense of entitlement, that everyone owes them...
Unsure when reality will eventually wake them up, if ever.
Just my opinion...
I am so sorry. Horrible. My daughter told her dad to tell me not to send anything else about this. But we are not estranged, thankfully. I pray every day for their safety. They have also bought the trans evil and my only grandchild is now a “boy”. That is a special kind of grandparent hell also. I can’t say anything actually health wise anymore.
Oh my, to have a grandchild tormented by thinking they are the other gender is truly the saddest thing ever to happen as a grandparent. What kind of parent would push that on a child🤬🥲
Pray for the kids being raised in hateful neuroticism. Hang in there Rosemary!
O Rosemary, I remember when you first posted this. My heart hurts for you and the family.
thank you Linda. This year has been so traumatizing for me.
My daughter has shown no sympathy or offered any solace or peace.
My father passed away (peacefully at age 99 and a half!) and she has not offered any care or attention. It greatly saddens me. I know she would not be like this if her husband was not in her life. She used to be a very empathetic and curious person. Now she just follows orders of her husband
Not to sound flippant, but these poor kids!!! There’s too much info out there now to be “uninformed”! It’s ridiculous.
In the information age that we live in, being ignorant is a choice. So sad.
dain bramage. 😸
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/BhYKN21olBw
I own that. Vinyl
A music engineering marvel like that cannot be fully enjoyed digitally. There's too much there to MP3 it.
The most blatant cover-ups & lies of the scamdemic pertaining to so-called “public health” were not telling people that FREE measures like exercise, fresh air, sunshine, losing weight, taking helpful OTC vitamins...& outright demonizing & banning cheap & beneficial therapeutics like Iver & Hydroxy & promoting every harmful measure like lockdowns, masks, the jab & ignoring every other disease & cause of death were the 1st clues that something was VERY wrong.
If by "poorly calibrated," you mean "statistically challenged," I am that; but I think I am able to distinguish honest from deceptive statistical argument when they are placed side by side. I will be forever grateful to you Gato for that.
Sounds like the masks will be back any time now... The WEFfers may not have killed as many people as they & Gates wanted to.
They might be in places like Cali and NY. No one in Iowa is doing that again. It really matters where you live.
NY City ... upstate NY is relatively sane overall and doesn't align much with the city. If they could spin it off as its own voting block, they would. :)
I've heard that if NYC seceded from NY, you'd probably be able to live normally without their nonsense skewing everything. If y'all do ever split off, make them keep Kathy Hochul!
someone posted a secession for the large cities which are mostly blue, and that all the rest of America is mostly red (and sane). Sounds like aplan. Like the citystates in old Greece, and Rome.
Let them have NM or NV and then wall them all off!
yes! give them the desert places where they have all kind of crap, and let them sit there. Like they did with the native Americans.
Some people here in NM still wear them! It is so tempting to ask them why but I'm not feeling quite that stupid! I would like to know though.
I've noticed that the closer I get to a Wegman's Grocery Store (a sort of Diet "Whole Foods"), the greater the density of masks.
Inflated self-importance and deflated self-awareness.
Doesn’t seem logical
Not a lot of logic in NM outside of Los Alamos... ;)
An acquaintance of my husband’s still wears a mask. She works in a school and the teacher in the next classroom got vaccinated/boosted and keeps getting C19 NONSTOP….she coughs and sneezes all over the place continually. This acquaintance is in panic because she takes care of her elderly mom and cannot afford to get sick. She is in a panic. When my husband told me she was wearing a mask, I laughed till I heard the rest. It’s so very sad really. She’s not being an uptight ass, just a frightened and stressed caretaker. Unfortunately she’s not in a place to hear the truth of the situation. It makes me really mad but not at her.
You are absolutely right! This woman is terrified and with good reason. If the TEACHER would wear a mask, at least the flying germs could be contained, no matter what sort of bacteria she was getting on everyone! It would ease the caregiver's mind about carrying the virus home. At the very least, it is RUDE of the teacher. No matter what she's spewing, nobody wants it on them! Has anyone spoken with the teacher? Of course, teachers know more than anyone else so she probably wouldn't listen...
Just click on the blue embedded link, "addict style behavior" in Gato's post. It is profoundly correct; even explains making while driving alone in your car.
As they say, I beg to differ. I genuinely think it is mortal fear, plus absence of faith, which, whether true or not, promises eternal life. As does psilocybin and as does evidence of NDEs, but all of us human animals fear death and want to survive, and the fifth generation warfare coming at people day and night, pulsing mortal fear---aliens, nukes, leprosy, new variants---plus the effing administration causing massive inflation, and the stores taking advantage of that, so people not being able to afford rent, food, medicine, transportation, so existential fear, not to mention the crap climate idiocy pulsed with end of the world predictions. Hard to resist that and masks seem like a talisman against death. I saw teens outside alone last winter shoveling snow wearing blue plastic masks. Terror management. The propaganda has to stop, but they just pulse it harder. They want people to fall deeper into the mental mass formation, not wake up, and they are effing sophisticated.
Something has been wrong for at least forty years, that everyone was ready to sacrifice children to the lockdowns and vaccines and wokeism. Adults are no longer adults, these parents are developmentally and mentally screwed up at a population level.
No need to beg in order to differ! I think the addiction model explains a lot; and part of that syndrome is an addiction to the fear (that is, to the fear porn); followed the adoption of the mask talisman as a signal to yourself and others that dammit, in the face of all these threats you, at least, are taking action and doing your part. A placebo. If people were really so terrified of catching a fatal illness outdoors in the sunshine although all others around them, maskless, somehow do not, I think they would not emerge at all (though I admit that introduces the irrelevancy of a rational approach to the situation).
When I had covid I followed protocol and wore a mask when I shopped, after the symptoms were gone but my two weeks weren’t up. When I see someone wearing one I assume its for the same reason. Since then I’ve read that masks actually make it worse. If the stores go back to mandating masks, well, ya gotta eat. Don’t know a solution to that problem.
Don't buy in. I have friends that never ever wore one and managed to shop just fine. Ignored or challenged the mask nazis successfully. It's the fear of retaliation that we really face. That's an inner process to handle.
Both of the groceries in my mostly rural area had watchers at the doors. One had watchers to see that people got in line, properly-spaced, to access the checkouts.
stare them down. Find a farmers market that doesn't do this. Compliance with intentional harm is no answer.
Some stores in this area (northern CA, Bay area) wouldn't let customers in unless masked, but that was a year or so ago. Now no requirements. But, unfortunately, there are signs that the mask tyrants will most probably take over again.
London - hardly see anyone in a mask but when I do it's very weird, like they didn't get the memo or something. Most mask enthusiasts here are either Asian tourists or workers following protocol or fearful elderly.
You'll see some in airports. Especially on those going into first and business class. The ones I saw wearing masks recently were all Asian.
I stopped flying out of principle. Used to be such a globetrotter. So no airports lately. Much prefer land travel.
still a few leftovers here in rural GA, mostly in one local store. I think walmart still requires them, but most employees wear them round their necks. And the local store might lose me as a customer sometime soon if they don't lighten up
You are kidding, right? Even looney New Mexico dropped them everywhere ages ago.
not kidding at all. This local store is less than 3 miles, had not gone there for quite some time because their prices are high, but the other store discriminated (no jabs must mask to shop) so I stopped going there. I have no idea about the requirements at wm, some wear them, most have them round their neck, some have none at all. Dad told me that the world championship cycling still required them at the finish, so we have not the last lunatics in the world LOL
Omg, that is so depressing.
Bet my Plague Doctor’s mask will still work 😈.
A quick read when one agress 100%. Nothing wrong with an open window in a safe neighborhood, and agoraphobia is seriously underrated.
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Gato, type 1 diabetics also benefit greatly from eating a proper human diet that has zero added carbohydrates. I’ve seen interviews with some who are thriving on a high fat carnivore diet, which greatly reduces their need for insulin.
It’s useless to try to convince these people of anything and they will always manipulate the data. No one understands statistics. It was my least favorite course in grad school but had to endure two courses.
That last pic makes me laugh my ass off. Who want's to hire someone who's been so spectacularly WRONG for 3+ freaking years?
DOD/Big Medical/Big Pharma/Big Media's Propaganda and Censorship Professional Taylor Lorenz:
"We could literally stop the virus at any time with basic mitigation measures [like Vitamin C, D, Zinc, Magnesium, sunshine, fresh air, drink 1 gallon water/day, 30 minutes exercise/day, wash hands], but that might mean slightly less profit for corporations [her biggest paying clients], so we'll just keep letting vulnerable ppl needlessly die and millions become permanently disabled [from using her client's products] with zero support system in place [dying isolated from families in hospitals following one-size-fits-all protocols her clients lobby politicians and regulators to mandate.]"
Big Pharma Earnings Season: Record Profits From Patients Being Poured Into Windfall Earnings For Lobbyists
https://accountable.us/big-pharma-earnings-season-record-profits-from-patients-being-poured-into-windfall-earnings-for-lobbyists/
Covid vaccine profits mint 9 new pharma billionaires
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/21/business/covid-vaccine-billionaires/index.html
As COVID Vaccines Drive Record Profits, CEOs Get Ultra Rich Off Massive Pay Packages, Questionable Stock Sales
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccines-record-profits-ceos-get-ultra-rich/
Projection. The Propagandist's favorite go-to. Project what they are guilty of on others. Follow. The. Money.
That twitter comment of Mr. Olesen about preferring HIV infection to COVID is so profoundly ignorant it is hilarious (stunning that someone with supposed knowledge of the field could know so little). Perhaps correlated to why he is no longer working.
Since he got the shots, he got his HIV wish.
Ouch! : )
I was thinking that HAD to be a joke!!!
No such luck ?
Eh, they're both about as dangerous as each other -- ie, not at all. But I guess HIV is administered in a less pleasant way.