PREACH. Sadly, you answered your own question(s) with this graph:
"perhaps we should be asking some pointy questions about just what the purpose of a public school is. if the purpose is to produce healthy, happy, high functioning children, then how is it that they have so little physical and nutritional content in their curriculums?"
Clearly the purpose of a public school is NOT to produce healthy, happy, high functioning children. It's to drill obedience into them; to train them to focus on one mindless task for fifty minutes and then switch to another mindless task at the sound of a bell; to teach them the government's version of "history" and "science" and "physical education;" to remove them from their parents' watchful eye for the majority of their waking hours.
I'm SO thankful my girls are grown because I'd have made one lousy homeschool teacher--and I would have had no other choice.
The reason that schools don't have physical and nutritional content in their curricula is the same reason the government (CDC) didn't advise people during Covid on how to strengthen their immune systems. They want us unhealthy so that we will give more money to pharma and then die early anyway, thereby saving the government money in entitlement payments.
ALL of this is, indeed, intentional. It is a long-term strategy of the globalist fascists who see themselves as the rightful rulers of the world, the WEF, the corporate elite of Big Pharma, Big Tech, etc, the CDC, the UN and all its sub-agencies, and so on. It is aimed at 1st World capitalist countries, with the USA at the top of their target list. Like Gato, I live on a beach. Unlike him, the one I live on is in the 3rd World. Fat males are rare, and the fat women tend to be poor, rarely grossly obese, qand over 50. For the poor who make up the majority - their Middle Class is generally below our poverty level - industrial quantities of rice are consumed daily and sugar and fat appear to be the two basic food groups. Yet obesity and diabetes are NOT the problems they are in the West. However, with the advent of the Magical Smart Phone, this may change, since everyone over the age of 12 seems to have one and instead of being outdoors running around, they like their 1st World counterparts sit and play vid games and watch Tiktok and text the kid next to them instead of talking, and so on...In spite of a lifestyle over the nearly 80 years I have been around that should have killed me decades ago, I am still the same size I was when I was 30, and my fear is that I will keep going long enough to see where the degeneration of Civilization, Eastern and/or Western version, will take us. My guess is that things are going to get REALLY ugly, fairly soon.
Interesting observations from the 3rd world! I'm about a decade behind you in terms of age and right there with you with a lifestyle that should have killed me a while ago if the "experts" are to be believed. I will probably live long enough to see the crash AND the rebound. Should be a wild ride!
Yep. If they only thing they had done was 'mandate' an hour-long walk in the sunshine on days it was possible, we would have ended up with much better health outcomes (and not just from covid.)
Some years back a study was done in Europe, Netherlands I think. It was determined that, counter intuitively, those who stay healthy into very old age actually cost the social welfare system more than those who died early due to bad health. That would be more rational if pension costs were included, but "I think" the study only looked at health care.
This surprises me. I had read that cigarettes saved the (U.S.) government money because cigarettes often kill people quickly and very soon after they retire. Perhaps this was a savings in pension and not health care costs.
It doesn’t surprise me. Take two people, one is very fit and healthy, one is mega obese. They both get cancer. Mega obese lasts six months. Dies. Really healthy beats it. It comes back five years later. Healthy person beats it again. Third time not so lucky but the strong spry old lady hangs in for a long time before finally succumbing. Put another way. Cheapest death for the health care system is a massive fatal heart attack. Who is most likely to have that? Very healthy vigorous healthy eating active old lady, or very obese person who has to get around in an electric scooter?
The vigorous old lady also didn't buy a scooter and go to the doctor constantly and employ home health care. Which, like it or not, fuels the Medical Industrial Complex.
H. L. knew: The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
Nietzsche said much the same, roughly a generation earlier. He was unhappy with liberal democracy in Europe and among other issues, that the public education system was designed to produce a "herd animal," a complacent worker who would be a good boy and obey authority.
Substack does not allow me to "like". However, I like your post. Yes, this speaks to a guiding principle. It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
Oh hell, they don’t even bother teaching kids how to read or write in cursive anymore. Foreign languages are gone, art is gone, and probably literature and sentence diagramming too.
My mom wrote a letter to my niece, who is a 22-year-old in college who's always done really well in school and she could not read it. She was never taught to read or write cursive.
Speaking as a middle school Latin teacher (ran away Jan. '21), I noted that any cursive writing came only from my boys. No joke (as would say someone some I despise).
I'm a teacher and, yes, sentence diagramming went the way of the 8-track player, Blockbuster video, and rotary dial phones. Just identifying parts of speech is a challenge...
My ex wife was what one would call a "Grammar Nazi." She made me a better writer. She could diagram the sh*t out of sentence in seconds. It was terrifying. If any of her college students turned in a paper with a comma splice: F She was ruthless. Many kids today can't even read a clock.
Depends on where you are...art and languages are strong in the district from which I retired - as well as good literature. And I retired with the "preschool" crowd with a heavy emphasis on pre-reading skills and compassion for the many special needs kids in each classroom. Go visit a school- volunteers are always needed!
I homeschooled in a perfectly mediocre yet satisfactory way. My bar was easy to meet: No bad influences and as good or better academics than public school.
I concur with this writing today. In my high school class of 225 in the early 70’s, three or four of my peers were somewhat overweight.
I have been teaching since 1978. Presently, I would say most of the kids may not be super fit, but the majority are not obese. There are those overindulging youths who have been multiplying in poundage since the 70s, the graphs show that fact. I would be interested in seeing a graph of 15 to 18-year-olds.
The pounds start packing on in eighth grade, and if it’s not caught by ninth grade, then it looks to me as if those kids go down the road to obesity. That is a generalization of course , but an observation that I’ve made over the decades. A student either slims down in eighth grade or starts fattening up. That should be the year that teachers need to teach nutrition, diet, and fitness. They need to cover the stark reality of health problems with eating that extra bag of chips. I believe it’s after high school where the weight stacks on. Evidently they were not taught Nutrition by either their parents nor the school, and they seem to have no self discipline when it comes to putting the fork down.
As the saying goes , three minutes on the lips, three hours in the stomach and three years on the hips.
My advice to everyone is to remember to stay on the periphery at the grocery store, and only veer into the aisles rarely.
The problem is how nutrition is taught in schools. It’s all wrong and higher education teaches it wrong and passes it on to school teachers and doctors. Nina Teicholz explains very well what went wrong with nutritional advice and why. She has a Substack here called Unsettled Science and it’s worth checking out.
Agreed. Government schools/union teacher schools not interested in education or discipline or health. They come out fat and dumb. Thank God my parents sent me to Catholic schools my whole life. And 40 years ago things were very different.
saw that/lived that...teaching used to be so great in the 70s...then the mandated federal paperwork for EVERYTHING started (especially in Special Education)- I retired because of the stupid paperwork. (that NO ONE READS! EVER!)
I am sorry but I crammed nutrition and exercise down kid’s throats and brains for 41years. Did some catch on? Maybe. Hopefully. But when school is 7% of their whole life, (do the math) and meals offered are on top of junk they get at home, it’s an uphill battle for sure. Pack your kid’s lunches and be the role model. Stop blaming schools
Why would anyone ever "stop blaming schools" when they are damnably culpable? OF COURSE parents are the first line of defense; but during the formative years, the schools have them half of their waking hours for nonstop "teaching." In the remaining half, parents have to feed, discipline, guide, comfort, nurture, encourage, chauffer, listen to, protect, and deprogram them. (The kids themselves may also wish to bathe, play, socialize, recreate, and otherwise engage in activities that eat into their parents' precious "teaching time.") Yes, pack your kid's lunches and be the role model... but know what you're up against.
wow..sounds as if you have never been in a classroom since you were in school. HALF their waking hours? Maybe if you relied on the before and after school programs that were offered-most kids are in school for 6/12 hours- (and I took part in the after school "care"-coaching a cross country team for 7 years without pay- only because I wanted to see out of shape kids get in shape and knew they were going home to empty houses to sit in front of a TV and eat chips until "someone" came home.) I worked my butt off for 41 years teaching kids the basics, compassion for others, and had more of an impact on kids because I WAS the one offering discipline, guidance, comfort, encouragement, and at times transportation (that was a crazy thing!) It's a calling and I am proud to say that the teachers I worked with for those 41 years offered their students the same "menu"- It's a choice. Take your kids out if you don't like "your" school. I was proud of my career and those I with whom I worked alongside. I have no regrets whatsoever it what I taught "my" students over the years.
I'm not sure why you're so defensive and angry! I'm sure you were a wonderful mentor and educator; similarly, I'm sure many schools suck. The two things can be true simultaneously. ;)
My youngest daughter graduated high school last year; she (and her sister before her) was at that school from 8 am until 4 PM. Assuming she didn't go to work or out with friends or thrifting afterward (which is a bold assumption TBH) I might have her from 5-10 (before I went to bed). We can argue numbers all day long, but the reality is no single place or thing has as much of an impact on kids BESIDES THEIR PARENTS than school, full stop.
Again, I am sure you were a gift to the kids you worked with. My daughters had a small handful of such gifts over the years; being rare, we were grateful for them.
Not angry- but yes defensive of those who sacrificed hours, years and lots of $ to try and give children an education. I am still amazed at the impact teachers had on me, and then me on certain students, when if I were to add up the time spent with them, was minimal compared to other influences. Totally agree. Which is why there are so many young adults struggling these days because of the lack of school structure and necessary socialization so necessary for a their development. I hardly saw my kid in middle and high school because of her preferring friends, ballet practice (lasted until 10 some nights before performances) to being at home. But we are good buddies now....takes a village. P.S. I worked on reservations and brought kids home to bathe and feed them because no one did...same with inner city kids. Thanks for being a caring parent. There are many kids who don't have them...
You, of all people, should understand why most of today's schools and teachers (if only because of regulations and standardized, Leftist curricula) are a net negative to kids.
See? I was right. You WERE a gift to those kids. Bless you for those hours and that kindness that probably went unnoticed. (Not by the kids; they noticed for sure.) :)
It's fitting that you mention the government's version of history in relation to this discussion because it can be proven via historical argument that there exists a very old, very real *Malthusian* conspiracy behind much, if not all, of the insanity at the present, including both the climate alarmist agenda as well as the COVID plandemic. I first hypothesized and confirmed this conspiracy's existence 25 years ago and what led me to do so was the sudden clearing up of a minor health condition as a result of a change in my diet which prompted my wife to recommend that I read Udo Erasmus' book, "Fats and Oils," which I did. Doing so was a life-changing event for me. As a result, I changed my diet to incorporate more good fats with Essential Fatty Acids along with necessary supportive vitamins while completely eliminating all hydrogenated fats. I also stopped drinking sodas as they interfere with EFA metabolism... My health improved noticeably. Then, perhaps a year or two after having changed my diet, I discovered as a result of simply mowing the lawn on a hot and sunny day that all of the bad sunburns I had experienced since I was a teenager didn't have to happen -- or at least they didn't have to be near as bad as they were -- and instead of my using sunscreen to protect myself from them, I should've simply been eating a better diet. Upon finishing up my yard work that afternoon, I came inside and took a hot shower and discovered with great amazement that, for the first time in many, many years after having spent perhaps a couple of hours in direct sunlight, I hadn't sunburned! I now realize that having sufficient EFAs in my diet enabled my skin to respond to the Sun's radiation the way nature had intended... So at that point I was really off to the races deep diving into history in search of more evidence of this hypothesized Malthusian conspiracy that could explain why our food supply was being hacked by psychopaths who clearly wanted to do us great harm. Evidence of the conspiracy was everywhere to be found in history and I was able to trace it back through history to just before the 19th century (where I arbitrarily limited my research). What I've disclosed here is just the tip of the iceberg and American history is a huge crime scene which is why the conspirators themselves had no choice but to establish the "gate" through which our history is vetted (therefore suppressed) -- as is discussed in some detail in my initial post here on Substack titled, "Birds of a Feather". In a nutshell, the obesity epidemic here in the U.S. is mostly the result of our diets having become devoid of good fats containing sufficient EFAs while at the same time becoming adulterated with fake (hydrogenated) fats which attempt to fulfill the roles of the missing EFAs but are unable to do so...
There is a massive disregulation of peoples gut microbiome. Blasted with antibiotics, hyper cleaning and food that comes in a box, most people have wrecked their microbiome. The same one responsible for 90 percent of the serotonin in the body, as well as having clear links to physical and mental health. We are a people out of balance with nature.
it's also as you point out physical fitness. when i was a kid it didn't matter what i ate because we were constantly exercising...even if it wasn't organized....riding bikes, etc.
these kids aren't "flushing" their systems.
btw our school has implemented a quasi-physical fitness program and it has now become, more or less, a mandatory elective unless the parents sign a document exempting their child.
my wife is the pta president so I went to one of these sessions they hold out on the track field. i asked my wife why there were so few kids and she said over 50% of the students parents exempted their child. i watched how the boys performed on these test. My boy was the only one to get over 50 pushups in a row and 10 pullups out of 1,800 in his junior high. theres no excuse for this especially living in FL. i was just gobsmacked.
this is also creating a selection bias for both genders. the boys actually like "fat" girls...
I was never one for what was called "exercise" of the organized form. Hated gym class. But man, when I was a kid, we ranged all over the town on our bicycles, and in our teens, all over the county. Even after school, at age 20, I put 5000 miles on my bicycle in one year. (yeah, I lost my leadfoot license for 3 months, and couldn't afford insurance for another year.) Plus, we were swimming at the quarry, running around playing stupid games all over the neighborhood, exploring the woods.
Me too. We used to ride our bikes all over town never worrying about someone stealing them or shooting us. And we played baseball, basketball, kickball, hop scotch, hide n seek, swam at the pool at the Y, had mud fights, made snowmen and threw snowballs at each other, didn't have seat belts or bike helmets, helped our parents plant flower and vegetable gardens and helped maintain them, climbed trees and fences, In other words, we were outside and playing and having fun.
Walking at the park the other day when there were soccer try-outs. I was happy to see the kids running around but sad to hear them complaining about the “torture” of running up and down a 30 degree hill about 25 feet for 2-3 times. But they did it …!
It *did* matter what you ate. Back then food tended to be more real, there was no misguided lowfat recommendation, people didn't snack constantly all day at their desk, and fast food was a treat, not a staple.
So through no fault of your own you had a much better diet ;)
We may not have a sovereign country if the Democrats have their way. And since our borders are wide open and anyone from anywhere can enter our country at will, are we really a nation any longer or just a geographical area?
The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved language in its annual defense policy bill that would require women to register for the draft.
The problem though is a U.S. Supreme Court Justice cannot define what a woman is as do many others so I'm interested to see how the definition of their requirement is added to the bill.
Added to the train wreck in the microbiome, victims are conditioned to add artificial sweetener products to their diet which causes massive biochemical disregulation. Considering the combined effects of corn high fructose sweetener, inflammatory (so called "heart healthy") seed oils, and conditioned sedentary lifestyle, those in charge of regulating big food, big pharma, big education, and big tech seem to be quite happy with the end result. No wonder the democide of Kennedy happened. The eugenic plan is being executed perfectly!
In partial defense of artificial sweeteners: Yes, they do have a downside. Some have side effects (e.g. sugar alcohols may make one fart his guts out, pardon me, be gassy or have diarrhea. There may be other health risks. For example, a few old-line sweeteners were thought to cause cancer but at least some were later cleared (saccharin). There may be other effects, including upon the gut biome. (I admit I haven’t studied that at all.)
But let’s look at the use of these sweeteners from another angle: Granted they have risks. But the question we should be asking is how do the known or likely risks compare to using sugar and HFCS to achieve same levels of sweetness? I have no easy way to prove it, but I believe that sugar/HFCS used to excess (which is what the typical diet does!) poses far greater known risks to the average person.
Most, if not all, of the widely used fake sweeteners have been approved “generally recognized as safe.” Except for the sugar alcohols, the quantity used per serving is tiny, in the milligram range.
Of course, the only way to be completely safe would be to avoid the fake stuff completely. A final option is to use the real sweeteners in moderation.
Your final option is the only good one. As a society we have been conditioned by advertising and the sheer abundance of sweet food to only associate sweet and salty as pleasurable foods. We have lost the ability to enjoy bitter, which is very important. Kids in particular are bombarded with sugar adverts. Setting them up for a lifetime of health issues. SIBO, psoriasis, cancer, cardiovascular disease etc
Also, the pesticides, herbicides, GMOs, vaccines, etc....it's all part of the depop plan... it's all laid out in the DAY TAPES..... scary but important and true..... Shocking plans to implement depopulation and a worldwide totalitarian system revealed more than 50 years ago A set of audio tapes titled ‘The New Order of Barbarians’ established the existence, scope and direction of a conspiracy which was revealed by an insider, Dr. Richard Day, in 1969. Dr. Day spoke at The Pittsburgh Paediatric Society in March 1969. Dr. Lawrence Dunegan attended that meeting and in 1988 blew the whistle about the plans that were in place in 1969 to form a new system of government, altering all of society to implement this new system. All of society has been redirected according to these plans. “Everything is in place and nobody can stop us now … Some of you will think I’m talking about Communism. Well, what I’m talking about is much bigger than Communism!” Dr. Day said. https://expose-news.com/2023/04/14/depopulation-plans-revealed-over-50-years-ago/
Replace all the kids in that video with the overweight kids today. They couldn’t do anything in that video. We can’t institute proper fitness like that in any school today until we FIRST address the improper national nutrition standards being taught and reinforced by clueless doctors. Overly processed foods, high sugar, and chemicals ur lab created ingredients cause a disruption to our insulin regulation system and our metabolic functioning. With the right diet most kids could drop excess fat in under a year and have the magical energy to be able to actually do fitness without injuring themselves. You don’t lose the fat with the exercise, you lose it with the right diet, then the exercise builds muscle and strengthens cardiovascular systems. But we can’t put the cart before the horse.
I’ll post a separate comment about why this post is near and dear to my heart
It's a combination of defunct micobiome and food production practices that causes this.
Exercise has little to do with this problem.
The wide spread use of antibiotics in children and the wide spread use of glyphosate use in agriculture are the main drivers. Glyphosate causes nutrient deficient foods (ratio of carbs to vitamins and minerals is worse) which cause you to eat more. Defunct micobiomes cause people to not absorb those already deficient foods properly.
Exercise burns more carbs/fat and it can reverse some of the damage but that's only an indirect fix.
If you plot antibiotics use and glyphosate use over time then there is a delay in relation to the weight increase. This is because it is the repeated use of those substances over the years that has a compounding effect. There is however a visible correlation between the graphs.
Add to this: I read that Mars company owns most pet food and is now buying our vet clinics … so feed ‘em kibble, vax ‘em up, and make money when they get sick. (I haven’t been able to confirm this yet. Maybe gato knows.)
Most vets I've known here in Australia have no idea how to properly feed dogs - they push the crap-in-a-bag that they sell, and hand out 'nutrition' advice provided by the manufacturers of aforementioned crap.
Or it has been wrecked by doctors, I know those people, unfortunately, not everybody is in a situation to find this out and solve it. Instead of what is done in this article: give ADVISE, that is what I do.
He is also complaining about the "fact" in the seventies hardly anybody was fat, not true, I've seen many being fat and having done research to it, even in times of huge poverty, people living in huts made of wood and dirt, farmers, you saw many fat people.
There's something like being fat outside, slim inside; fat people having very good blood values, low bloodpressure, low sugar etcetc. Just as almost 50% of skinny, slim people who THINK they live healthy (here being supported in this believe by this article) because they are slim. Over 50% of people has a very bad lifestyle, almost all people eat junk. I know fat people eating only what they grow themselves, never ever processed foods, never even visit a supermarket, get their eggs and meat (if not vegetarian) from a local farmer, walk hours a day, exercise more then average and are still fat; they live in my very remote village and most here have the same lifestyle. I also know many living in cities, no work on the land, loads of sugar, no exercise, chocolate, fries, supermarket junk and they are as skinny as hell.
We know we have since decades way too much antibiotics being subscribed and....those ruin the gut bacteria. Bad catitude should do some research first (like I did during my medical education in which I also looked at the effect of food on (brain)cell level of skinny, slim, fat and extreme fat people), where he is right about everything is tolerated and we shouldn't, this is something else then prejudice and not helping but shaming. I wonder how he eats, what his lifestyle actually is, I almost dare to bet it is not as healthy as he thinks.
BTW: nobody needs an excuse to be fat as it really isn't so nice. Do you think this girl feels fine with her big tits, sweating, getting sore under her bra? I have been fat, thanks to doctors, I went in the hospital being very slim, skinny, came out being morbid obese, I KNOW what it does to you, how you can't tie your own shoes, not "just get this or that" because it is too low. I had the luck my gut bacteria hadn't been that ruined and I got healthy enough again (after years) to say: wait! What you are (litteraly) feeding me i s n o t healthy! You ruin my health! No, you should eat low fat, here, take another yogurt (as in between), eat it otherwise you are not allowed to go back in bed, pain or not, you have to eat first. I recall I saw all the additives, the sugar substitutes, the shit and I already had had 2 main meals and an "inbetween", I refused and I collapsed sitting behind my table, with my face in the "healthy" yogurt. They got angry with me, I surely didn't want to get better. THAT, whoever is behind Bad Cattitude, made me fat, I didn't need an excuse for that, don't ever dare to tell me! It was torture, I gained 60+ kilos and it took me 10 years to get rid of it as my body only looses weight when I eat below 600 kcal a day or when I walk 9 hours a day (and this is too personal, not going to explain the abuse (as a kid) that was behind that!). I was lucky to have a lot of knowledge about food, so I managed to find a way that was still healthy (600- kcal a day isn't).
I'm back to normal clothing sizes, after over a decade, I emigrated because in my home country, fat people are being yelled at, pointed at, I didn't dare to be outside and if I had to, I never ate or drunk anything, not even during a heatwave as as soon as I got my waterbottle, I got remarks. I have never been drinking anything else in my whole F-life then water but heard: yeah, that should all fat people do.... Hey fat swine, sure you haven't put sugar in it? Jeezzzz see that fat pig, one should forbid them to be outside where I can see them. You, bad catitude, are enabling that. This is why I'm also so happy to live far away from any people, now I'm slim, they act kind but I know what shallow minded souls are housed in many of those kind looking faces. Depression you say? Wait until you are yelled at, wished to get cancer, being kicked of your bike to see if you "bounce back, hahahaha" and when you fall while you try to recover from a very serious illness, you lay in the mud and the abusers tell you: that is where pigs belong! This are only the mild things I experienced, the others would be way too rude to put under peoples eyes (although some may need it). Unsubscribed.
You “know” these people but this is anecdotal… I look at peoples grocery carts. The food people are buying very much correspond to how healthy they look. If you look good for your age and in physically in shape you are probably pretty healthy. Period.
BTW I now advice people, to help them, don't earning money with it. I like to change the world in a positive way, not by adding more hate and ugliness to it. This way, with a positive approach, I did not enable people having an unhealthy lifestyle, I motivated them, yes....bodypositivity, that is where change starts, I told them they should not be ashamed, they are allowed to love themselves, accept themselves (that alone makes people loose kilos, often many as our brains and thought are so powerful!) and then I advised them to make minor changes, and maybe some more, depending on what was needed. All lost weight (or gained, being too skinny), hope to inspire people to do it this way instead of bullying.
Have a good life, be healthy and love your body, that is where all health starts! Get rid of big food and big pharma: supermarkets, eat what you can make yourself and it can take a while, you will be verbally abused (or worse) during that time as well, let them: you know better and any person not respecting you, does not deserve you, they only make you lose respect for yourself which will result in the opposite, you stay fat, unheappy, too skinny (underweight is much more damaging and seldom reversible, where overweight is) or whatever it is that other don't want you to be. Never do it for somebody else, do it for yourself, so you can move around better not anxious to get bruised because you're a bag of bones or because you are afraid you get stuck because you can't bend that far and will harm yourself. Whatever you want to change in your life or lifestyle; it starts with acceptance and self love. Good luck; you to, Bad cattitude, you also have some work to do.
same difference. note I mentioned processed grains and foods. that cover about every food poison out there. We are in agreement. Eating whole foods and minimizing processed foods is the key to a healthy diet.
The American diet is something like 60 percent corn based. The sugar you mention is mostly corn syrup. The other crap carbs are mostly sourced from corn. When the chickens and cows and pigs are all fed corn, even the meat can be considered corn-based.
I've been low-carb for about two years. Overall I do very well in minimizing (not to say totally banishing) the real junk, e.g. a Danish or fruit pie was part of my breakfast every day. Carb-wise my main weakness is the basket (or two) of tortilla chips at El Restaurante Mexicano. It’s a big dose of carbs but not quite the insulin spike that a glass of Horchata (or damned near any other soft drink there – they are tasty but the Mexicans love them their sugar!).
We eat (are fed?) so much corn based product because it is subsidized by the federal government. I'm a bit thankful I have 3 of my kids having corn allergies/gut sensitivities. They can't even have a lick of anything corn-derived without getting a lip rash and stomach ache, so we NEVER have it around. We're better for it!
Coincidentally, author Gary Taubes who's written extensively on obesity, sugar, diabetes, etc. admits in one of his books that while young, discovered he had a corn allergy. Although he loved popcorn, corn on the cob, etc. giving them up completely was the price he had to pay to avoid IBS or whatever.
Maybe he was. My Mom grew up on an Iowa farm and I recall her telling me once that corn-fed beef was superior to grass-fed. In any case, feeding meat animals carbs to fatten them is ancient knowledge. I think Mom’s standard of “better” was that the beef would be richer, having more fat, which does seem likely.
Elsewhere, and fairly new info to me, is the fact that even if you ate only meat, you are still indirectly eating what the animal was eating, and often that is the very same seed oils that many people try to avoid, e.g. corn, soy, and so forth. It's primarily a problem with pork and chicken, but I'm not sure why. Obviously if you eat grass-fed meat this would be less of an issue.
'It's primarily a problem with pork and chicken, but I'm not sure why.'
Pigs are monogastric—they have only one stomach, like humans. When fed grain and things like waste fermentation products from breweries, it tends to make their meat higher in polyunsaturated fats, which evidence is accumulating are not good for you, not in supra-evolutionary amounts.
Ruminants like cows, on the other hand, have multiple stomachs and what they eat goes through several cycles of fermentation by gut bacteria (all that cud chewing), progressively saturating the fat.
Birds and fowl have always had much higher proportions of polyunsaturated fat in their meat (I like to think it's to keep their little bare toes from freezing, because polyunsaturated fats stay liquid where saturated fats solidify). But the horrible diet that commercial chickens get makes this worse.
These days I only eat ruminant meat, grassfed if I can get it, usually from my neighbors who raise their own cows. I know I'm lucky there.
I don't like even non-commercial raised chickens. They have bred the birds to have large breasts and they taste like nothing. You pay extra for free range birds and it's no help.
Low-carb doctor Michael Eades says that while it's better for the cows to be grass-fed, It's OK for people to eat corn-fed beef while eating low-carb. I don't remember him explaining why.
Some people believe eating chicken and pork is be an issue because those meats contain a lot of linoleic acid which is a PUFA. Here's a blog which argues that it doesn't seem to actually be an issue.
I prefer the taste. I am not 100% sure but I think grass-fed was typical when I was a child (I was born in 1957). A lot of people think grass-fed beef tastes funny but it always seemed familiar to me.
I looked at the website. At least Judy is not a traditional certified nutritionist. Sorry but I'm convinced that PUFAs are best avoided. I've been convinced by reading, for years, about the nitty-gritty of subcellular chemistry, especially in the mitochondria. We just aren't evoved for all those PUFAs.
One word a lot of people seem to be unfamiliar with: "Excitotoxin"
Food "Science", as employed by BigAg deliberately engineers commercially processed food to be ultra-addictive, by adding excitotoxins and other substances in unnatural combinations and quantities. If your great grandparents would not recognize it as food, then it probably should not be considered food :) These days, it's probably best to eat nothing that comes in a box, except maybe a little bit of (plain) organic oatmeal & rice here & there...
RFK jr said Big Food hired ex-Big Tobacco execs to make the food addictive. If BlackFink and the oligarchs and the usual suspects think of us as a commodifiable herd to be culled or exploited from in utero to the moment we become liabilities (social security, medicare), then offed, they would manufacture every opportunity to sell us and make us dependent, gold teeth and lampshades on steroids. Someone needs to figure out which herbs and nutrients can cure the addiction, maybe iboga? And part of the agenda is to glamorize it, like that fatty stuffed into silver spandex who is a fat influencer in the Olympics Da Vinci mockery. Let them eat cake! The answer isn't shame, though, at first. It is letting them know that a force that loathes them is glamorizing the food equivalent of fentanyal.
It's going to take more than dieting and iboga. I have weight issues myself and even though I cut out ~99% of sugar & packaged/processed food over 4 years ago, I think previous years of eating a 'standard' diet before I learned how terrible it was has permanently ruined my mitochondrial & metabolic function. I've tried a bunch of supplements to try to revive it, to no avail. We need something (safe) to jump start that back up. I am not ever planning on taking BigPharma poisons like Ozempic though. Doesn't help that I lost my thyroid to autoimmune disease 10 years ago either. Along w/ the diet changes, I've been doing IF for 2 years, and even tried a 3 month stint of OMAD and it's not made any huge difference - like everyone says it would :( I'm older and due to some orthopedic injuries in the past, can't get out there and run, but I do what I am able to on the exercise front. So you can save the shaming and stick it where the sun don't shine. I am, and have been making a concerted effort and I reject any notion that I should be shamed because it's not working as well as everyone thinks it should.
You already sound well informed, but it's worth a try anyway: You say you cut out the sugars. What about the other carbs nearly all of which the body turns into sugar? If you haven't already, read Atkins's books and no doubt may others. Your case is difficult but there may be "hacks" you haven't found yet.
Don’t bemoan your limited exercise ability. Exercise is healthful but it’s not a realistic way to drop weight. Consider an exceptional athlete, a 150 Lb. person running a marathon (26 miles). He’ll burn about 3,100 calories. That’s about 500 calories LESS than the average American eats every day.
I also have weight issues, but they would be much, much worse if I didn't fast. I do a 36-hour fast every five days, but I am contemplating a ninety-day continuous 36-hour fast-12-hour-eating window. (Every othery day overnight fast.) You should refeed with something healthy for the gut biome. Our perseverance is improving our health, even though not as
I was stuck weightwise. Then I did the Wildfit Challenge and everything changed.
I’m now down almost 60 lbs (with about 40 more to go). I’m thinking more clearly, am more emotionally stable, have more energy and fewer aches and pains, and my A1c is no longer prediabetic but on the low side of normal.
After the 13-week program ended, I added in intermittent fasting and a three-day fast each month (mostly for brain health and healing, but it helps with weightloss, too). Wildfit is expensive (but not the most expensive program out there, by any means), but I think it’s the best money I’ve ever spent on my health and will save multiple times what it cost as well as saving me from increasing pain as I age.
And I’m not even tempted to go back. Nothing tastes as good as healthy feels!
Ironically, Big Sugar once helped Big Tobacco (unintentionally) to make cigarettes popular! Taubes in The Case Against Sugar, says that early in 20th century, Evil Tobacco Co. discovered by accident that mixing sugar-cured chewing tobacco with other tobaccos resulted in a smoother smoke (allowing it to be held in the lungs easier.) This, he reports, led to the popularization of cigarettes.
A gentleman at the lamb feed told me the corn is like donuts. Most cereal is corn based and was promoted as a breakfast food. Look at how many kids snacks are corn. Corn cereal is people food just like dog is dog food. Go to the dog and cat food aisles. It is almost all with corn. The cows, the horses, the chickens... Everyone gets corn.
I've spent a lot of time studying this from an holistic perspective, because people are SO sick now that just working out and eating better doesn't shift it. They are suffering from severe iatrogenic and multi-generational epigenetic metabolic diseases and they try to make the changes and get really discouraged. There are many layers to how I have to approach it, but the mindset that change IS possible, and that it is going to take serious effort, is key. People in this situation need role models who HAVE done it; anyone coaching someone through that should be in reasonable shape. I, personally, don't take health or medical advice from people who aren't fit, unless I have good reason to.
Yes, I agree with you so much on this. There are many factors involved, and reducing calories + increasing exercise isn't a sure-fire approach to true wellness and fitness if there are metabolic issues that haven't been addressed. But I especially agree with your statement that having the mindset that change IS possible is key, as well as having people who have hone through it to advise and encourage others on the journey.
I can help with a lot of aspects of this, because I am an excellent practitioner, but I have never struggled with my weight. I've had issues with addiction and poor diet, but I have never had weight issues. When I have clients who need help in that department, I really encourage them to get a team. I focus on where the root susceptibilities and dynamics are, but they also need someone actively hand-holding on the day to day.
Honestly I have been overweight (started emotionally overeating as a child with family problems and battled moderate overweight my whole life) and I have been at a healthy weight, and people who have never been overweight rarely understand what it is like. I am cautious about taking weight loss and fitness advice from those who don’t fully understand disordered eating, because they have not experienced an unhealthy dependence on food, just as my advice on how to stop gambling, drinking or looking at porn (none of which have ever interested me at all) is of limited value. I know lots of naturally slender people who simply don’t get it. They don’t think about food outside of mealtime, they forget to eat, they can make the same boring low cal meals week in and week out and feel completely satisfied by them, they aren’t emotionally soothed by food. There is nothing wrong with such people obviously but they are as useful as “sponsors” or “coaches” as someone who’s never been a drunk is in AA. They are not starting with the same set of understandings.
Yep - I was normal weight until about 10-years ago….somehow gained 30-lbs in 3-months! And then another 20 more slowly….losing weight and maintaining weight before ever being overweight are entirely different beasts! But I wouldn’t say those that have never been overweight have nothing to offer - many are eating super healthy and so have never broken their metabolism….it takes a bit more than what they’ve always done to reverse things, but not much more …. But the emotional aspect of food also has to be addressed, which is probably outside of diet (some of us turn to food, some to alcohol, porn, extremes of other sorts, etc)
Thank you for mentioning this. I think the damage does get deeper over time and generations. However these people who get discouraged rarely put the work into fasting. very few people fast. I have seen them try to be healthy but they refuse to fast or suffer. Very few can get through carb withdrawals and detoxing. They need to get quite sick before they get better
Discipline and self-control are what's needed to combat obesity. Instead, we've encouraged self-absorption.
The Left hates fitness because it is a constant reminder that their predicament can be solved with effort. Their blue hair can go away on its own, given enough time.
Ever notice that you're almost ALWAYS bombarded with "BUT WHAT ABOUT THYROID DISEASE" when you bring this up in normal online spaces? They're so desperate for any excuse.....
It's too hard, Dr. Linda. It's always easier to blame someone/something else rather than take an honest evaluation of one's life, and take steps to improve it.
A dear relative of mine is obese, and we vacationed together years ago. Within a couple of minutes of waking in the morning, he cracked open 2 cans of soda and ate 2 sandwiches. It really is calories in/calories out. Simple as.
I hear what you are saying. I know I am going to die, I know I am getting older. But I want to do it with grace. Maybe it is too hard. I do hard. I appreciate your comment
Thank you for saying what needs to be said. I would also add that there are few conversations being had regarding the pollution of our "food" since around 1980ish. I can recall that time period and they were introducing artificial sweeteners such as aspartame (aka "NutraSweet" and other names) and the push toward low fat/no fat was starting in earnest. Almost overnight butter, eggs, and meat were deemed bad and vegetable oils were foisted upon us. Sugar was replaced with corn syrup in soft drinks and just about every other product on grocery shelves. So while I do not condone this ridiculous mindset of fat being normal and healthy I would add that it is increasingly difficult to eat a healthy diet and maintain a healthy weight with the available food sources at most supermarkets. Personally I struggle with weight, even while walking two miles per day and trying to eat healthy (sweet tooth kills me). Yes, I need more willpower but also I need more food that is not polluted with weird chemical additives that are doing God-knows-what to my metabolism. We need to be addressing this insane "food" situation in our country or the weight problems will only continue worsening. People did not just start all of a sudden ballooning up for no reason or due to suddenly throwing willpower out the window; the "normalization" of overweight only came about because the underlying problem is food pollution and we are full of contaminated food products wreaking havoc on our bodies. It is easier for MSM to make fat ok than it is for our leaders to stand up to lobbyists in the food industry and ensure quality food on the store shelves.
Thank you for saying this. I never struggled with weight until the last ten years. I haven’t changed my eating or exercise habits nor my willpower. What has changed are the poisons added to the food I buy at the store. I recently bought “organic”. milk that had an expiration of 5 MONTHS! Bread doesn’t mold. Chicken, once considered the healthiest of meats is rubbery now and loaded with omega 6s from corn feed. Even fresh vegetables are suspect because of the chemicals sprayed on them. How can we avoid it all?
I turned it around for myself. I no longer buy ANYTHING over processed. Most of the food I eat is whole and only one ingredient. I make most everything I eat now and am even good at making grab and go items homemade. When there is a list of ingredients on a packaged item, I have to recognize every ingredient by name and they have to be whole and healthy or I don’t buy it. No chemicals or lab created crap. I haven’t eaten a single grain of sugar or a drop of corn syrup product in over two and a half years. In that same time I haven’t ordered one item from any fast food restaurant except chipotle where I only get the meat, cheese, and peppers/onions/lettuce in a bowl. That’s my only fast food splurge/deviation. I now only frequent restaurants that serve meats and fish and salads without sugar, where I can request how it’s cooked and in what. I only use butter, tallow, avocado oil, coconut oils, or olive oil. No seed oils whatsoever in anything. It sounds hard, but once I learned what I needed to and got my household and kitchen set up to support my new clean eating it’s quite easy. I’m so much healthier and lost over 55 lbs.
Now that I’m thin again my body handles certain things on rare occasion without much of a problem, but that’s because I’m healthier, and I keep it a rare occasion. Like if there is a trace of something I don’t include in my diet, like the dextrose or sugar used to cure bacon or sausage, or the restaurant used sugar in their BBQ sauce, or I have a small portion of mashed potatoes with my steak, it doesn’t really hurt me like it used to - because it’s so infrequent and my body is healthy again.
Oh good to know. Yeah I eat it about once every three months and it’s my only deviation from my diet. I’m at a place now where it doesn’t cause too much damage or issues since it’s so infrequent
Changed my life. I posted my story further down so won’t repeat it here. Maybe that too can give you inspiration. When we feel this great we can’t help but want to share with others what we learned and help them too. ❤️
Wow—I was shocked to see the graph on average weights for women & men from 1960-2010. So what was happening in history beginning in 1960 that caused people on a massive scale to stop moving? Television became big; people sitting in front of the tv for hours began to ascend. Farm kid here—had chores to do every night after school. My father taught me: motion is lotion; rest is rust.
Quote from the little known—but excellent!—1980 Michael Crichton movie, Looker. John Reston, CEO of Looker Labs, addressing his Board of Directors:
John Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, that's power.
And remember: this was 1980. You can pretty much double the numbers for today.
Alas, it's true. In spades. Know why? Because SM not only gives the jolt that tv does, but it also provides feedback in near-realtime. That makes it hard to pull away from.
I've read almost everything he's written under his name and a few under other noms de plume. About half end with deus ex machine devices--real turnoffs. But the other half are great. I don't think the way that the brain learns is quite as simple as portrayed in TM.
For my money, one of his best novels is The Great Train Robbery; movie starred Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and (heartthrob) Leslie-Anne Down. But the book was better. Second was Dealing: or the Berkeley to Boston Forty Brick Lost Bag Blues, written as "Michael Douglas"--Michael and his brother Douglas wrote it. Book ~much~ better than movie. Neither is medical or sci-fi.
Thanks for the recommendations. I enjoyed The Great Train Robbery. My two heart throbs Sean & Donald. Also a fan of Leslie-Ann Down. The Douglas book is new to me. I’ll check it out
It's dated--came out of the 60s--but it's pretty good. Best part of the movie is that a prof/friend of the "importer" is played by John Lithgow. I've never seen him in anything I didn't love. Guy's off the wall crazy, and he takes it to the screen. Every single time.
Yes, that was a good movie. Those of us (young males at least) who were fans of the TV "Partridge Family" finally got to see ALL of Susan Dey, even if she was somewhat past her sell-by date.
Movies are fantasy that sometimes reflects reality, but always heavily distorted. If they were just a repetition of actual life nobody would buy the product, as they already consume it by virtue of waking up every day.
If we want to know what's happening in reality, we need to do something other than look at (or genuflect to) a screen. Big screen, little screen, whatever, that's not real life.
Yeah we were super active as kids in the 70's and 80's. Outside almost all the time. I think people are less active today due to tech.
But as well...I think once the processed food starts to take it's toll on the body and people gain 30+ lbs...they just become less active because they feel like shit.
I've argued with a lot people who say that weight gain is a natural part of the aging process. The reality is that as we age, most of us end up with a job, a family, and a ton of other responsibilities that all require time spent sitting.
Agree...it's not the aging that causes the weight gain...it's a change in habits. Also it's the loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia) that results from less physical activity for many adults. Once you lose muscle mass, the body struggles to manage glucose and u increase insulin which shuts off fat burning.
If you eat well, stay active and stay physically strong (lift things that are heavy) you can stay very lean as you age.
Yes... but based on my experience hanging around with 65yr old(+) guys here in Cambodia, they're all solid as rocks (except for the alcoholism).
They're also not university guys, so they live their lives without 'studies' to guide them.
I used to think I'd be shutting it down at about 65. Now it seems like 85 is a better estimate. Sure, I won't run 5 minute miles. But then... I never have!
No disagreement there but that's just a matter of degree. There is no alternative to the final result. I just spent ten glorious years living like a sexagenarian. Now I'm seventy and while I'm not as good as I once was I feel that I am as good once as I ever was . .
I wish I had the willpower to fast more often! The best my digestion has been in years was after a three-day fast I tried last year. I forget the name, but there is an interesting documentary about the health benefits of fasting. There is even a European clinic that specializes in cancer treatment thru fasting. Their success rate is better than any American hospital.
I love intermittent fasting! Early dinner to either late breakfast or lunch and you can effortlessly get in a 12+ hour fast. I just eat 2 meals per day within an 8 hour eating window and it quickly becomes habit.
I fast all the time. At 59 I have lost almost every wrinkle I gained between 50 and 57. I look 10 years younger because of it. I think it’s the autophagy.
There is also paranoia around letting kids be outside… unless you’re hovering over them to protect them from predators. I mean I am not free range like my mom was but I remember a woman being shocked that my toddler was allowed to be outside in the fenced locked yard without me right next to him. I feel it is safer to let them be outside playing than inside on a screen, in reality, but their mental state feels kids are best inside
" motion is lotion; rest is rust." I too was raised on a farm. Never heard it phrased that way, but my dad always said that the best medicine was exercise and fresh air. We almost never missed school because school was easier than staying home sick.
I would guess that the cause is probable video games, toys, and the food pyramid. Play became more sedentary. And public health started ingraining the food pyramid into how we eat food and trying to convince people to eat mostly carbohydrates. Public health can shut down the world, but they can’t take the time to fully address the screw up on the food pyramid and play.
Clothing sizes have changed to accommodate weight gain. When I was in high school and college in the years 1967-74, I weighed about 120 at 5'6". My dress size was a 10. Today a 10 is considerably larger than it was before.
As a retired teacher, I say you better flee the schools you have no idea what they are teaching your children. Run as fast as you can away from them. Even private or Christian schools aren’t great. They have to cater to other religions so what good is a Christian school. Christian schools have to sing dreidel dreidel at their own Christmas “winter”concert.
Don’t let the state get their hands on your children.
Agree. My biggest regret in life is not having homeschooled my kids. I think I actually did a fairly good job of discrediting the communism and multicultural nonsense. But even so, the quality of the education - even at a very pricey religious school - was poor. It would have been hard, but I should have homeschooled.
Yes, in the outer reaches of hyper-liberalism, even obesity has been added to the list of sanctified identities. Witnessing this total abrogation of personal responsibility (and outsourcing of it to Social Justice) can tip otherwise sane people from exasperation to outright contempt. As in this from Josh Slocum's Substack:
“They’re everywhere. They serve you coffee and lunch at the diner. They’re blocking the aisles at the grocery store.....They’re the primary school teachers. They’re the librarians.....Most of them are enormously fat. Not overweight. Fat enough that you can hear them struggling to breathe. As they order the two-person meal at the local restaurant (while overfeeding their children so they turn into goblins, too). This morning one of them took up the whole aisle at the corner store, piling Combos, Starbucks sugar drinks, and bags of Funyuns into her arms until half the pile tumbled to the floor..... This is what it’s like in blue American cities today. This is new normal. It’s a psychiatric freak show that you are not allowed to notice is a psychiatric freak show. It is the Twilight Zone episode “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”.”
Seeing videos of the new, young, woke, multicolor hair, ELEMENTARY school teachers, that are grotesquely fat just grosses and freaks me out. Who would want that teaching your child?! Lord only knows what extra things your poor child might learn from things like that!
The videos I've seen on Utoob and TV of these beached whales who are in college, studying education, that get asked (EASY) man-on-the-street, questions about their own country and they haven't a living clue, too. Like what is the name of the capitol of the United States? AND they can't answer it. They start guessing states. They're insane and their lazy parents should be ashamed of themselves and their lazy brats!
The link below is for a great podcast that helps to explain why the Standard American Diet is causing a national emergency on so many levels. Blame the food industry, the pharma industry, and the federal government that is bought and paid for and uses our tax dollars to subsidize these industries that have no interest in our health or the health of the country. These industries, in the words of Dr. Mark Hyman, have "privatized the profits and socialized the costs."
Easier said than done. When our children are forced to eat lunchables because schools won't get federal funding for lunch programs unless that is what they serve, we're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. Give a listen to the podcast. It's pretty eye-opening.
That’s how the feds control everything. Print money and dole it out to those who toe the line. Have your children make their own lunch and take it to school
I agree that "if" schools are feeding children (which, in my opinion, they shouldn't be), that at least we should make sure they are feeding them properly.
Dr. Mark Hyman's podcast is called, "How to Fix America's Broken Food System with Cory Booker," and is well worth a listen. We are being bamboozled by the very people we pay to protect us, and that has to change.
I listened to the podcast with a completely unbiased perspective; I did not have any pre-conceived notions about Booker, and I was impressed by him. I only wonder how he'll do in his re-election campaign when his opponents start getting some big donations from Big Food! If he's serious about going up against the big guys, they might do their best to take him out of the picture. (That's me moving into conspiracy theories...ha!)
Ha! Honestly, I know nothing about him other than his position on food policies (after listening to this podcast). Give it a listen. He comes across as a rational politician with a real interest in changing things. This "food fix" movement may be the one thing that has the ability to unify this country; it's something that actually impacts each and every one of us on a daily basis.
Hyman has lots of good info on this topic. Dr. Ben Bikman and Dr. Casey Means are great as well. I also follow Dr. Ellie Jarrouge, Dr. James DiNicolantonio, and Dr. Tro Kalayjian. All great sources of info. But the reality is...the topic isn't that complicated. More whole foods, ditch the processed foods, more activity, stay strong. That's about it.
I agree! It shouldn't be that complicated, but it is because we've been mislead by the FDA and Big Food. When you walk into a grocery store, the "healthy foods," other than produce and meat, is marketed to consumers to make people think they're healthy, though they're ultra-processed and packed with sugar (in many disguises) and chemicals. Whole grain, high fiber, gluten free, etc. all sound healthy, but once you read the label and you can't pronounce most of the ingredients, you realize it's an actual science project.
Yeah I avoid the entire middle of the grocery store. The outer ring is where you'll find the whole foods. When I hit the grocery store, it's like a NASCAR race...around the outer oval with 4 left hand turns. 😅
Generally, obesity is a form of suicide. That the machine now applauds and encourages it, is part and parcel of the pro-euthanasia movement, the abortion industry, the deficit cliff, the cascade of illegal migrants, the legalization of drugs, and the childless single woman trope, to mention but a few.
The West is committing suicide, and it is doing so at an ever-greater speed. You can step out of the stream of lemmings heading for the precipice and protect yourself and your loved ones, but you will not stop the national suicide.
Watched with my kids when they were young many times and point out to them now that they are young adults how close this is to reality. Obese, glued to devices, sedentary, isolated from real interaction.
It's interesting that the body positivity movement is happening right along with the dramatic rise in people willing to take dangerous drugs like Ozempic for a quick-fix slim down.
I 100% agree with you, but you also have to lay some blame on the food companies that have modified everything to be fake. Even vegetables have less nutrition because the soil is depleted. Eggs from conventionally raised hens arent as healthy as before. They are spraying the skies with toxic chemicals, and the water supply is filled with toxins... it's a whole bunch of issues with our bodies besides just what you mentioned
They're definitely in on it too. In 1960, if you wanted a thousand empty, non-satiating calories, you had to bake a cake and eat the whole thing. Now, every intersection has fast food, c-stores, and "pharmacies" that will sell you 1000 calories that you can consume in about five minutes and prime your appetite and dopamine receptors for more before the cake would even be out of the oven.
This is what ultra processed, highly palatable foods, in combination with combatting only symptoms in healthcare, does. I work out multiple times every week, and I eat clean, but even I have trouble resisting modern snacks. Not that I'm excusing normalisation of high BMI, just noting that it's more difficult to maintain a healthy lifestyle in todays world. Comparing todays situation with that of the 70's is not 100% valid.
The dynamic is probably 80% diet, if not more. I could drive (no one bikes or walks, right?) a couple of miles from my home and have a half dozen options that would offer me 2000 kcal that I could consume in 10 minutes, and if I wasn't calibrated to resist the urge, I would go and do it again every six hours because the food is engineered to be so palatable. No one could out exercise that kind of diet, and that kind of diet makes you not want to even try.
Let alone ordering it to your door, which was also not a thing in the 70's. You're absolutely right, but when healtcare focusses on only treating symptoms, and the symptoms are not there, you must be healthy right? Even if you have a BMI of 40, cause that just gets relegated to weight, not being unhealthy. They step over the phenomenon of metabolic syndrome, and put functional medicine in the same category as other alternative medicines (with the quacks and he whack jobs).
Absolutely. Caring for your health has become synonymous with drug and procedure based western medicine. That is an interesting semantic hijacking of language embedded in how we discuss things. If it doesn't put you in the ER in need of intervention, you're healthy until your insurance, medicare or medicaid agrees to pay for something.
I was astonished to learn that the average American (and many other naitons, like Ireland) on average consume around 3,600 Kcal/day average. (That's not a typo: three thousand six hundred Kilocalories per day). I’m well aware the recommed daily calories (for a man) is about 2,000. I thought I’d made a mistake and looked up the figures on a second, separate day. Yep, 3,600. That’s DOUBLE what is recommended for a female! Is it any wonder that so many of us resemble understudies for Jabba the Hut?
It's especially difficult when many of those highly processed foods have been marketed as "healthy" alternatives. People think they are "doing everything right" and still struggling, when in actuality, they are doing a lot wrong by relying on those "healthy" foods.
PREACH. Sadly, you answered your own question(s) with this graph:
"perhaps we should be asking some pointy questions about just what the purpose of a public school is. if the purpose is to produce healthy, happy, high functioning children, then how is it that they have so little physical and nutritional content in their curriculums?"
Clearly the purpose of a public school is NOT to produce healthy, happy, high functioning children. It's to drill obedience into them; to train them to focus on one mindless task for fifty minutes and then switch to another mindless task at the sound of a bell; to teach them the government's version of "history" and "science" and "physical education;" to remove them from their parents' watchful eye for the majority of their waking hours.
I'm SO thankful my girls are grown because I'd have made one lousy homeschool teacher--and I would have had no other choice.
The reason that schools don't have physical and nutritional content in their curricula is the same reason the government (CDC) didn't advise people during Covid on how to strengthen their immune systems. They want us unhealthy so that we will give more money to pharma and then die early anyway, thereby saving the government money in entitlement payments.
In a riff on Dean Wormer from Animal House, Fat, Drunk, and Stupid is exactly how they want us to go through life!
I won't subscribe to this theory. I refuse to be fat. The drunk and stupid part? Well, that’s a whole other discussion.
Emphasis on "stupid".
ALL of this is, indeed, intentional. It is a long-term strategy of the globalist fascists who see themselves as the rightful rulers of the world, the WEF, the corporate elite of Big Pharma, Big Tech, etc, the CDC, the UN and all its sub-agencies, and so on. It is aimed at 1st World capitalist countries, with the USA at the top of their target list. Like Gato, I live on a beach. Unlike him, the one I live on is in the 3rd World. Fat males are rare, and the fat women tend to be poor, rarely grossly obese, qand over 50. For the poor who make up the majority - their Middle Class is generally below our poverty level - industrial quantities of rice are consumed daily and sugar and fat appear to be the two basic food groups. Yet obesity and diabetes are NOT the problems they are in the West. However, with the advent of the Magical Smart Phone, this may change, since everyone over the age of 12 seems to have one and instead of being outdoors running around, they like their 1st World counterparts sit and play vid games and watch Tiktok and text the kid next to them instead of talking, and so on...In spite of a lifestyle over the nearly 80 years I have been around that should have killed me decades ago, I am still the same size I was when I was 30, and my fear is that I will keep going long enough to see where the degeneration of Civilization, Eastern and/or Western version, will take us. My guess is that things are going to get REALLY ugly, fairly soon.
Interesting observations from the 3rd world! I'm about a decade behind you in terms of age and right there with you with a lifestyle that should have killed me a while ago if the "experts" are to be believed. I will probably live long enough to see the crash AND the rebound. Should be a wild ride!
No seed oils am guessing
I'm also in a 3rd world country, and seed-oils are rampant -- they're much cheaper. Portions are smaller, though.
Yep. If they only thing they had done was 'mandate' an hour-long walk in the sunshine on days it was possible, we would have ended up with much better health outcomes (and not just from covid.)
Some years back a study was done in Europe, Netherlands I think. It was determined that, counter intuitively, those who stay healthy into very old age actually cost the social welfare system more than those who died early due to bad health. That would be more rational if pension costs were included, but "I think" the study only looked at health care.
This surprises me. I had read that cigarettes saved the (U.S.) government money because cigarettes often kill people quickly and very soon after they retire. Perhaps this was a savings in pension and not health care costs.
It doesn’t surprise me. Take two people, one is very fit and healthy, one is mega obese. They both get cancer. Mega obese lasts six months. Dies. Really healthy beats it. It comes back five years later. Healthy person beats it again. Third time not so lucky but the strong spry old lady hangs in for a long time before finally succumbing. Put another way. Cheapest death for the health care system is a massive fatal heart attack. Who is most likely to have that? Very healthy vigorous healthy eating active old lady, or very obese person who has to get around in an electric scooter?
"Who is most likely to have that?"
someone who had the vaxxes, obviously
The vigorous old lady also didn't buy a scooter and go to the doctor constantly and employ home health care. Which, like it or not, fuels the Medical Industrial Complex.
H. L. knew: The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
H. L. Mencken
Nietzsche said much the same, roughly a generation earlier. He was unhappy with liberal democracy in Europe and among other issues, that the public education system was designed to produce a "herd animal," a complacent worker who would be a good boy and obey authority.
Is not that what "kindergarten" was designed to do, in growing-industrial Germany?
Substack does not allow me to "like". However, I like your post. Yes, this speaks to a guiding principle. It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
Adam Weishaupt
I completely misread your comment so I replied to you by accident. Reply deleted.
Oh hell, they don’t even bother teaching kids how to read or write in cursive anymore. Foreign languages are gone, art is gone, and probably literature and sentence diagramming too.
They may not write cursive, but they sure do speak it.
I tell my daughter that her cursive writing will be code in the future 😃
My mom wrote a letter to my niece, who is a 22-year-old in college who's always done really well in school and she could not read it. She was never taught to read or write cursive.
If she had a tiny bit of industry and intellectual curiosity, she would learn to read it as she deciphers the letter.
Speaking as a middle school Latin teacher (ran away Jan. '21), I noted that any cursive writing came only from my boys. No joke (as would say someone some I despise).
Except "no joke" signals a lie is coming when he says it.
I'm a teacher and, yes, sentence diagramming went the way of the 8-track player, Blockbuster video, and rotary dial phones. Just identifying parts of speech is a challenge...
My ex wife was what one would call a "Grammar Nazi." She made me a better writer. She could diagram the sh*t out of sentence in seconds. It was terrifying. If any of her college students turned in a paper with a comma splice: F She was ruthless. Many kids today can't even read a clock.
Depends on where you are...art and languages are strong in the district from which I retired - as well as good literature. And I retired with the "preschool" crowd with a heavy emphasis on pre-reading skills and compassion for the many special needs kids in each classroom. Go visit a school- volunteers are always needed!
It’s easier now than ever to homeschool, we have “pods” with hired teachers that also want to escape the system but still love teaching
I homeschooled in a perfectly mediocre yet satisfactory way. My bar was easy to meet: No bad influences and as good or better academics than public school.
I concur with this writing today. In my high school class of 225 in the early 70’s, three or four of my peers were somewhat overweight.
I have been teaching since 1978. Presently, I would say most of the kids may not be super fit, but the majority are not obese. There are those overindulging youths who have been multiplying in poundage since the 70s, the graphs show that fact. I would be interested in seeing a graph of 15 to 18-year-olds.
The pounds start packing on in eighth grade, and if it’s not caught by ninth grade, then it looks to me as if those kids go down the road to obesity. That is a generalization of course , but an observation that I’ve made over the decades. A student either slims down in eighth grade or starts fattening up. That should be the year that teachers need to teach nutrition, diet, and fitness. They need to cover the stark reality of health problems with eating that extra bag of chips. I believe it’s after high school where the weight stacks on. Evidently they were not taught Nutrition by either their parents nor the school, and they seem to have no self discipline when it comes to putting the fork down.
As the saying goes , three minutes on the lips, three hours in the stomach and three years on the hips.
My advice to everyone is to remember to stay on the periphery at the grocery store, and only veer into the aisles rarely.
Remember, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
The problem is how nutrition is taught in schools. It’s all wrong and higher education teaches it wrong and passes it on to school teachers and doctors. Nina Teicholz explains very well what went wrong with nutritional advice and why. She has a Substack here called Unsettled Science and it’s worth checking out.
It is rare to find any nutrition "expert" who doesn't use carb-focused, keto adverse, anti-fasting recommendations.
Just one of the many reasons why I chose to homeschool. :-)
your right its about controlling the hearts and minds of the next generations.
this is exactly why WE have become the "product".
Agreed. Government schools/union teacher schools not interested in education or discipline or health. They come out fat and dumb. Thank God my parents sent me to Catholic schools my whole life. And 40 years ago things were very different.
yup. just 45 years ago the US ranked number one with education. since the Dept. of Education was formed in 79' we've fallen out of the top 30.
this precipitous fall in standing started immediately after the DOE was implemented...literally the next year.
government f0cks up everything
saw that/lived that...teaching used to be so great in the 70s...then the mandated federal paperwork for EVERYTHING started (especially in Special Education)- I retired because of the stupid paperwork. (that NO ONE READS! EVER!)
Maybe not everything, but beyond all doubt, the list is a long one!
Government school = child abuse
I am sorry but I crammed nutrition and exercise down kid’s throats and brains for 41years. Did some catch on? Maybe. Hopefully. But when school is 7% of their whole life, (do the math) and meals offered are on top of junk they get at home, it’s an uphill battle for sure. Pack your kid’s lunches and be the role model. Stop blaming schools
Why would anyone ever "stop blaming schools" when they are damnably culpable? OF COURSE parents are the first line of defense; but during the formative years, the schools have them half of their waking hours for nonstop "teaching." In the remaining half, parents have to feed, discipline, guide, comfort, nurture, encourage, chauffer, listen to, protect, and deprogram them. (The kids themselves may also wish to bathe, play, socialize, recreate, and otherwise engage in activities that eat into their parents' precious "teaching time.") Yes, pack your kid's lunches and be the role model... but know what you're up against.
Do the math. ;)
wow..sounds as if you have never been in a classroom since you were in school. HALF their waking hours? Maybe if you relied on the before and after school programs that were offered-most kids are in school for 6/12 hours- (and I took part in the after school "care"-coaching a cross country team for 7 years without pay- only because I wanted to see out of shape kids get in shape and knew they were going home to empty houses to sit in front of a TV and eat chips until "someone" came home.) I worked my butt off for 41 years teaching kids the basics, compassion for others, and had more of an impact on kids because I WAS the one offering discipline, guidance, comfort, encouragement, and at times transportation (that was a crazy thing!) It's a calling and I am proud to say that the teachers I worked with for those 41 years offered their students the same "menu"- It's a choice. Take your kids out if you don't like "your" school. I was proud of my career and those I with whom I worked alongside. I have no regrets whatsoever it what I taught "my" students over the years.
I'm not sure why you're so defensive and angry! I'm sure you were a wonderful mentor and educator; similarly, I'm sure many schools suck. The two things can be true simultaneously. ;)
My youngest daughter graduated high school last year; she (and her sister before her) was at that school from 8 am until 4 PM. Assuming she didn't go to work or out with friends or thrifting afterward (which is a bold assumption TBH) I might have her from 5-10 (before I went to bed). We can argue numbers all day long, but the reality is no single place or thing has as much of an impact on kids BESIDES THEIR PARENTS than school, full stop.
Again, I am sure you were a gift to the kids you worked with. My daughters had a small handful of such gifts over the years; being rare, we were grateful for them.
Not angry- but yes defensive of those who sacrificed hours, years and lots of $ to try and give children an education. I am still amazed at the impact teachers had on me, and then me on certain students, when if I were to add up the time spent with them, was minimal compared to other influences. Totally agree. Which is why there are so many young adults struggling these days because of the lack of school structure and necessary socialization so necessary for a their development. I hardly saw my kid in middle and high school because of her preferring friends, ballet practice (lasted until 10 some nights before performances) to being at home. But we are good buddies now....takes a village. P.S. I worked on reservations and brought kids home to bathe and feed them because no one did...same with inner city kids. Thanks for being a caring parent. There are many kids who don't have them...
You, of all people, should understand why most of today's schools and teachers (if only because of regulations and standardized, Leftist curricula) are a net negative to kids.
See? I was right. You WERE a gift to those kids. Bless you for those hours and that kindness that probably went unnoticed. (Not by the kids; they noticed for sure.) :)
It's fitting that you mention the government's version of history in relation to this discussion because it can be proven via historical argument that there exists a very old, very real *Malthusian* conspiracy behind much, if not all, of the insanity at the present, including both the climate alarmist agenda as well as the COVID plandemic. I first hypothesized and confirmed this conspiracy's existence 25 years ago and what led me to do so was the sudden clearing up of a minor health condition as a result of a change in my diet which prompted my wife to recommend that I read Udo Erasmus' book, "Fats and Oils," which I did. Doing so was a life-changing event for me. As a result, I changed my diet to incorporate more good fats with Essential Fatty Acids along with necessary supportive vitamins while completely eliminating all hydrogenated fats. I also stopped drinking sodas as they interfere with EFA metabolism... My health improved noticeably. Then, perhaps a year or two after having changed my diet, I discovered as a result of simply mowing the lawn on a hot and sunny day that all of the bad sunburns I had experienced since I was a teenager didn't have to happen -- or at least they didn't have to be near as bad as they were -- and instead of my using sunscreen to protect myself from them, I should've simply been eating a better diet. Upon finishing up my yard work that afternoon, I came inside and took a hot shower and discovered with great amazement that, for the first time in many, many years after having spent perhaps a couple of hours in direct sunlight, I hadn't sunburned! I now realize that having sufficient EFAs in my diet enabled my skin to respond to the Sun's radiation the way nature had intended... So at that point I was really off to the races deep diving into history in search of more evidence of this hypothesized Malthusian conspiracy that could explain why our food supply was being hacked by psychopaths who clearly wanted to do us great harm. Evidence of the conspiracy was everywhere to be found in history and I was able to trace it back through history to just before the 19th century (where I arbitrarily limited my research). What I've disclosed here is just the tip of the iceberg and American history is a huge crime scene which is why the conspirators themselves had no choice but to establish the "gate" through which our history is vetted (therefore suppressed) -- as is discussed in some detail in my initial post here on Substack titled, "Birds of a Feather". In a nutshell, the obesity epidemic here in the U.S. is mostly the result of our diets having become devoid of good fats containing sufficient EFAs while at the same time becoming adulterated with fake (hydrogenated) fats which attempt to fulfill the roles of the missing EFAs but are unable to do so...
There is a massive disregulation of peoples gut microbiome. Blasted with antibiotics, hyper cleaning and food that comes in a box, most people have wrecked their microbiome. The same one responsible for 90 percent of the serotonin in the body, as well as having clear links to physical and mental health. We are a people out of balance with nature.
on top of the drugs, too much sugar, not enough fiber.
this causes the wrong sorts of flora to flourish. the sonnenberg lab at stanford has done a lot of great work on this.
it's also as you point out physical fitness. when i was a kid it didn't matter what i ate because we were constantly exercising...even if it wasn't organized....riding bikes, etc.
these kids aren't "flushing" their systems.
btw our school has implemented a quasi-physical fitness program and it has now become, more or less, a mandatory elective unless the parents sign a document exempting their child.
my wife is the pta president so I went to one of these sessions they hold out on the track field. i asked my wife why there were so few kids and she said over 50% of the students parents exempted their child. i watched how the boys performed on these test. My boy was the only one to get over 50 pushups in a row and 10 pullups out of 1,800 in his junior high. theres no excuse for this especially living in FL. i was just gobsmacked.
this is also creating a selection bias for both genders. the boys actually like "fat" girls...
I was never one for what was called "exercise" of the organized form. Hated gym class. But man, when I was a kid, we ranged all over the town on our bicycles, and in our teens, all over the county. Even after school, at age 20, I put 5000 miles on my bicycle in one year. (yeah, I lost my leadfoot license for 3 months, and couldn't afford insurance for another year.) Plus, we were swimming at the quarry, running around playing stupid games all over the neighborhood, exploring the woods.
Me too. We used to ride our bikes all over town never worrying about someone stealing them or shooting us. And we played baseball, basketball, kickball, hop scotch, hide n seek, swam at the pool at the Y, had mud fights, made snowmen and threw snowballs at each other, didn't have seat belts or bike helmets, helped our parents plant flower and vegetable gardens and helped maintain them, climbed trees and fences, In other words, we were outside and playing and having fun.
My childhood. Born 1950.
Then you had the same childhood. Those days are long gone. I am so grateful I was born then.
All of it. Gives me goosebumps remembering how great it was to be a kid back then.
Walking at the park the other day when there were soccer try-outs. I was happy to see the kids running around but sad to hear them complaining about the “torture” of running up and down a 30 degree hill about 25 feet for 2-3 times. But they did it …!
It *did* matter what you ate. Back then food tended to be more real, there was no misguided lowfat recommendation, people didn't snack constantly all day at their desk, and fast food was a treat, not a staple.
So through no fault of your own you had a much better diet ;)
Eroding the number of candidates for military service.
We are in serious trouble if the last two generations have defend our sovereignty
We may not have a sovereign country if the Democrats have their way. And since our borders are wide open and anyone from anywhere can enter our country at will, are we really a nation any longer or just a geographical area?
The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved language in its annual defense policy bill that would require women to register for the draft.
The problem though is a U.S. Supreme Court Justice cannot define what a woman is as do many others so I'm interested to see how the definition of their requirement is added to the bill.
Easy. Every human creature of any gender or nongender must register.
They have to like fat girls...there's not much else left?
Added to the train wreck in the microbiome, victims are conditioned to add artificial sweetener products to their diet which causes massive biochemical disregulation. Considering the combined effects of corn high fructose sweetener, inflammatory (so called "heart healthy") seed oils, and conditioned sedentary lifestyle, those in charge of regulating big food, big pharma, big education, and big tech seem to be quite happy with the end result. No wonder the democide of Kennedy happened. The eugenic plan is being executed perfectly!
In partial defense of artificial sweeteners: Yes, they do have a downside. Some have side effects (e.g. sugar alcohols may make one fart his guts out, pardon me, be gassy or have diarrhea. There may be other health risks. For example, a few old-line sweeteners were thought to cause cancer but at least some were later cleared (saccharin). There may be other effects, including upon the gut biome. (I admit I haven’t studied that at all.)
But let’s look at the use of these sweeteners from another angle: Granted they have risks. But the question we should be asking is how do the known or likely risks compare to using sugar and HFCS to achieve same levels of sweetness? I have no easy way to prove it, but I believe that sugar/HFCS used to excess (which is what the typical diet does!) poses far greater known risks to the average person.
Most, if not all, of the widely used fake sweeteners have been approved “generally recognized as safe.” Except for the sugar alcohols, the quantity used per serving is tiny, in the milligram range.
Of course, the only way to be completely safe would be to avoid the fake stuff completely. A final option is to use the real sweeteners in moderation.
Your final option is the only good one. As a society we have been conditioned by advertising and the sheer abundance of sweet food to only associate sweet and salty as pleasurable foods. We have lost the ability to enjoy bitter, which is very important. Kids in particular are bombarded with sugar adverts. Setting them up for a lifetime of health issues. SIBO, psoriasis, cancer, cardiovascular disease etc
Everything in America has gone downhill since after WWII.
Sugar plus also the high fructose corn syrup that is so much of processed foods.
The Greatest Generation were mediocre parents?
Also, the pesticides, herbicides, GMOs, vaccines, etc....it's all part of the depop plan... it's all laid out in the DAY TAPES..... scary but important and true..... Shocking plans to implement depopulation and a worldwide totalitarian system revealed more than 50 years ago A set of audio tapes titled ‘The New Order of Barbarians’ established the existence, scope and direction of a conspiracy which was revealed by an insider, Dr. Richard Day, in 1969. Dr. Day spoke at The Pittsburgh Paediatric Society in March 1969. Dr. Lawrence Dunegan attended that meeting and in 1988 blew the whistle about the plans that were in place in 1969 to form a new system of government, altering all of society to implement this new system. All of society has been redirected according to these plans. “Everything is in place and nobody can stop us now … Some of you will think I’m talking about Communism. Well, what I’m talking about is much bigger than Communism!” Dr. Day said. https://expose-news.com/2023/04/14/depopulation-plans-revealed-over-50-years-ago/
You have to think that some of this is a contributing factor to the sharp decline in testosterone in the last 40 years.
Which creates a "tightening" of the vicious feedback loop between the two.
Combine that with "clipping" peacock tails and you can guarantee it effects the peahens.
Replace all the kids in that video with the overweight kids today. They couldn’t do anything in that video. We can’t institute proper fitness like that in any school today until we FIRST address the improper national nutrition standards being taught and reinforced by clueless doctors. Overly processed foods, high sugar, and chemicals ur lab created ingredients cause a disruption to our insulin regulation system and our metabolic functioning. With the right diet most kids could drop excess fat in under a year and have the magical energy to be able to actually do fitness without injuring themselves. You don’t lose the fat with the exercise, you lose it with the right diet, then the exercise builds muscle and strengthens cardiovascular systems. But we can’t put the cart before the horse.
I’ll post a separate comment about why this post is near and dear to my heart
It's a combination of defunct micobiome and food production practices that causes this.
Exercise has little to do with this problem.
The wide spread use of antibiotics in children and the wide spread use of glyphosate use in agriculture are the main drivers. Glyphosate causes nutrient deficient foods (ratio of carbs to vitamins and minerals is worse) which cause you to eat more. Defunct micobiomes cause people to not absorb those already deficient foods properly.
Exercise burns more carbs/fat and it can reverse some of the damage but that's only an indirect fix.
If you plot antibiotics use and glyphosate use over time then there is a delay in relation to the weight increase. This is because it is the repeated use of those substances over the years that has a compounding effect. There is however a visible correlation between the graphs.
One thousand percent agree
I agree with the health fitness people who call it the Standard American Diet (SAD). The big food industry has cut so many corners and swapped out decent ingredients for cheaper and less healthy substitutes. It’s difficult to eat healthy unless you really educate yourself. Maybe you can see this via wayback: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/19/addiction-foods-hyperpalatable-tobacco/ article explaining how big tobacco took over big food and used food scientists to find the exact mix of sugar, salt, and fat to make food addicting. And the timing is around the 80s, just about the time when the fat epidemic got started. Joan Ifland explains it: https://bradkearns.com/2021/08/04/dr-joan-ifland-overcoming-addiction-to-hyper-palatable-processed-foods/ Just look at the companies that “own” the SAD foods: https://www.newsilike.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Food-companies.jpg
Add to this: I read that Mars company owns most pet food and is now buying our vet clinics … so feed ‘em kibble, vax ‘em up, and make money when they get sick. (I haven’t been able to confirm this yet. Maybe gato knows.)
Most vets I've known here in Australia have no idea how to properly feed dogs - they push the crap-in-a-bag that they sell, and hand out 'nutrition' advice provided by the manufacturers of aforementioned crap.
Or it has been wrecked by doctors, I know those people, unfortunately, not everybody is in a situation to find this out and solve it. Instead of what is done in this article: give ADVISE, that is what I do.
He is also complaining about the "fact" in the seventies hardly anybody was fat, not true, I've seen many being fat and having done research to it, even in times of huge poverty, people living in huts made of wood and dirt, farmers, you saw many fat people.
There's something like being fat outside, slim inside; fat people having very good blood values, low bloodpressure, low sugar etcetc. Just as almost 50% of skinny, slim people who THINK they live healthy (here being supported in this believe by this article) because they are slim. Over 50% of people has a very bad lifestyle, almost all people eat junk. I know fat people eating only what they grow themselves, never ever processed foods, never even visit a supermarket, get their eggs and meat (if not vegetarian) from a local farmer, walk hours a day, exercise more then average and are still fat; they live in my very remote village and most here have the same lifestyle. I also know many living in cities, no work on the land, loads of sugar, no exercise, chocolate, fries, supermarket junk and they are as skinny as hell.
We know we have since decades way too much antibiotics being subscribed and....those ruin the gut bacteria. Bad catitude should do some research first (like I did during my medical education in which I also looked at the effect of food on (brain)cell level of skinny, slim, fat and extreme fat people), where he is right about everything is tolerated and we shouldn't, this is something else then prejudice and not helping but shaming. I wonder how he eats, what his lifestyle actually is, I almost dare to bet it is not as healthy as he thinks.
BTW: nobody needs an excuse to be fat as it really isn't so nice. Do you think this girl feels fine with her big tits, sweating, getting sore under her bra? I have been fat, thanks to doctors, I went in the hospital being very slim, skinny, came out being morbid obese, I KNOW what it does to you, how you can't tie your own shoes, not "just get this or that" because it is too low. I had the luck my gut bacteria hadn't been that ruined and I got healthy enough again (after years) to say: wait! What you are (litteraly) feeding me i s n o t healthy! You ruin my health! No, you should eat low fat, here, take another yogurt (as in between), eat it otherwise you are not allowed to go back in bed, pain or not, you have to eat first. I recall I saw all the additives, the sugar substitutes, the shit and I already had had 2 main meals and an "inbetween", I refused and I collapsed sitting behind my table, with my face in the "healthy" yogurt. They got angry with me, I surely didn't want to get better. THAT, whoever is behind Bad Cattitude, made me fat, I didn't need an excuse for that, don't ever dare to tell me! It was torture, I gained 60+ kilos and it took me 10 years to get rid of it as my body only looses weight when I eat below 600 kcal a day or when I walk 9 hours a day (and this is too personal, not going to explain the abuse (as a kid) that was behind that!). I was lucky to have a lot of knowledge about food, so I managed to find a way that was still healthy (600- kcal a day isn't).
I'm back to normal clothing sizes, after over a decade, I emigrated because in my home country, fat people are being yelled at, pointed at, I didn't dare to be outside and if I had to, I never ate or drunk anything, not even during a heatwave as as soon as I got my waterbottle, I got remarks. I have never been drinking anything else in my whole F-life then water but heard: yeah, that should all fat people do.... Hey fat swine, sure you haven't put sugar in it? Jeezzzz see that fat pig, one should forbid them to be outside where I can see them. You, bad catitude, are enabling that. This is why I'm also so happy to live far away from any people, now I'm slim, they act kind but I know what shallow minded souls are housed in many of those kind looking faces. Depression you say? Wait until you are yelled at, wished to get cancer, being kicked of your bike to see if you "bounce back, hahahaha" and when you fall while you try to recover from a very serious illness, you lay in the mud and the abusers tell you: that is where pigs belong! This are only the mild things I experienced, the others would be way too rude to put under peoples eyes (although some may need it). Unsubscribed.
You “know” these people but this is anecdotal… I look at peoples grocery carts. The food people are buying very much correspond to how healthy they look. If you look good for your age and in physically in shape you are probably pretty healthy. Period.
BTW I now advice people, to help them, don't earning money with it. I like to change the world in a positive way, not by adding more hate and ugliness to it. This way, with a positive approach, I did not enable people having an unhealthy lifestyle, I motivated them, yes....bodypositivity, that is where change starts, I told them they should not be ashamed, they are allowed to love themselves, accept themselves (that alone makes people loose kilos, often many as our brains and thought are so powerful!) and then I advised them to make minor changes, and maybe some more, depending on what was needed. All lost weight (or gained, being too skinny), hope to inspire people to do it this way instead of bullying.
Have a good life, be healthy and love your body, that is where all health starts! Get rid of big food and big pharma: supermarkets, eat what you can make yourself and it can take a while, you will be verbally abused (or worse) during that time as well, let them: you know better and any person not respecting you, does not deserve you, they only make you lose respect for yourself which will result in the opposite, you stay fat, unheappy, too skinny (underweight is much more damaging and seldom reversible, where overweight is) or whatever it is that other don't want you to be. Never do it for somebody else, do it for yourself, so you can move around better not anxious to get bruised because you're a bag of bones or because you are afraid you get stuck because you can't bend that far and will harm yourself. Whatever you want to change in your life or lifestyle; it starts with acceptance and self love. Good luck; you to, Bad cattitude, you also have some work to do.
Its quite simple really.. a corn (processed grains/foods) fed diet leads to fat cows.
People are eating sugar and other crap carbs, including but not exclusively corn.
Seed oils are also causing some of the problems.
When I read your comment, I first thought you were talking about actual cows.
same difference. note I mentioned processed grains and foods. that cover about every food poison out there. We are in agreement. Eating whole foods and minimizing processed foods is the key to a healthy diet.
The American diet is something like 60 percent corn based. The sugar you mention is mostly corn syrup. The other crap carbs are mostly sourced from corn. When the chickens and cows and pigs are all fed corn, even the meat can be considered corn-based.
They feed it to farmed fish as well!
I studied for a year in France in 1973-74. I remember how the French would say
how funny it was that Americans ate corn, because they viewed it as food for livestock.
Same attitude in Germany in 1980s.
Because of their multiple stomachs, ruminants, including cows, don't produce meat that's quite as compromised as chickens and pigs.
I've been low-carb for about two years. Overall I do very well in minimizing (not to say totally banishing) the real junk, e.g. a Danish or fruit pie was part of my breakfast every day. Carb-wise my main weakness is the basket (or two) of tortilla chips at El Restaurante Mexicano. It’s a big dose of carbs but not quite the insulin spike that a glass of Horchata (or damned near any other soft drink there – they are tasty but the Mexicans love them their sugar!).
We eat (are fed?) so much corn based product because it is subsidized by the federal government. I'm a bit thankful I have 3 of my kids having corn allergies/gut sensitivities. They can't even have a lick of anything corn-derived without getting a lip rash and stomach ache, so we NEVER have it around. We're better for it!
Coincidentally, author Gary Taubes who's written extensively on obesity, sugar, diabetes, etc. admits in one of his books that while young, discovered he had a corn allergy. Although he loved popcorn, corn on the cob, etc. giving them up completely was the price he had to pay to avoid IBS or whatever.
Yes, I read The Omnivore's Dilemma.
If you feed cows only corn they will die.
Maybe he was. My Mom grew up on an Iowa farm and I recall her telling me once that corn-fed beef was superior to grass-fed. In any case, feeding meat animals carbs to fatten them is ancient knowledge. I think Mom’s standard of “better” was that the beef would be richer, having more fat, which does seem likely.
Elsewhere, and fairly new info to me, is the fact that even if you ate only meat, you are still indirectly eating what the animal was eating, and often that is the very same seed oils that many people try to avoid, e.g. corn, soy, and so forth. It's primarily a problem with pork and chicken, but I'm not sure why. Obviously if you eat grass-fed meat this would be less of an issue.
'It's primarily a problem with pork and chicken, but I'm not sure why.'
Pigs are monogastric—they have only one stomach, like humans. When fed grain and things like waste fermentation products from breweries, it tends to make their meat higher in polyunsaturated fats, which evidence is accumulating are not good for you, not in supra-evolutionary amounts.
Ruminants like cows, on the other hand, have multiple stomachs and what they eat goes through several cycles of fermentation by gut bacteria (all that cud chewing), progressively saturating the fat.
Birds and fowl have always had much higher proportions of polyunsaturated fat in their meat (I like to think it's to keep their little bare toes from freezing, because polyunsaturated fats stay liquid where saturated fats solidify). But the horrible diet that commercial chickens get makes this worse.
These days I only eat ruminant meat, grassfed if I can get it, usually from my neighbors who raise their own cows. I know I'm lucky there.
I don't like even non-commercial raised chickens. They have bred the birds to have large breasts and they taste like nothing. You pay extra for free range birds and it's no help.
Low-carb doctor Michael Eades says that while it's better for the cows to be grass-fed, It's OK for people to eat corn-fed beef while eating low-carb. I don't remember him explaining why.
Some people believe eating chicken and pork is be an issue because those meats contain a lot of linoleic acid which is a PUFA. Here's a blog which argues that it doesn't seem to actually be an issue.
https://www.nutritionwithjudy.com/the-truth-about-pufas-polyunsaturated-fatty-acids
Humans eating corn-fed beef: I explained about the multiple stomachs in another comment in this thread. (Long time Eades follower here.)
The reason I try to get grass-fed beef is because the animals have usually been treated better.
I prefer the taste. I am not 100% sure but I think grass-fed was typical when I was a child (I was born in 1957). A lot of people think grass-fed beef tastes funny but it always seemed familiar to me.
I looked at the website. At least Judy is not a traditional certified nutritionist. Sorry but I'm convinced that PUFAs are best avoided. I've been convinced by reading, for years, about the nitty-gritty of subcellular chemistry, especially in the mitochondria. We just aren't evoved for all those PUFAs.
That won't keep me from eating bacon.
Well, one has to make a few exceptions ;)
YES! Corn is fed to cows to make them fat. So we shouldn't eat it.
One word a lot of people seem to be unfamiliar with: "Excitotoxin"
Food "Science", as employed by BigAg deliberately engineers commercially processed food to be ultra-addictive, by adding excitotoxins and other substances in unnatural combinations and quantities. If your great grandparents would not recognize it as food, then it probably should not be considered food :) These days, it's probably best to eat nothing that comes in a box, except maybe a little bit of (plain) organic oatmeal & rice here & there...
https://recipes.eatingforyourhealth.org/content/excitotoxins-taste-kills
RFK jr said Big Food hired ex-Big Tobacco execs to make the food addictive. If BlackFink and the oligarchs and the usual suspects think of us as a commodifiable herd to be culled or exploited from in utero to the moment we become liabilities (social security, medicare), then offed, they would manufacture every opportunity to sell us and make us dependent, gold teeth and lampshades on steroids. Someone needs to figure out which herbs and nutrients can cure the addiction, maybe iboga? And part of the agenda is to glamorize it, like that fatty stuffed into silver spandex who is a fat influencer in the Olympics Da Vinci mockery. Let them eat cake! The answer isn't shame, though, at first. It is letting them know that a force that loathes them is glamorizing the food equivalent of fentanyal.
It's going to take more than dieting and iboga. I have weight issues myself and even though I cut out ~99% of sugar & packaged/processed food over 4 years ago, I think previous years of eating a 'standard' diet before I learned how terrible it was has permanently ruined my mitochondrial & metabolic function. I've tried a bunch of supplements to try to revive it, to no avail. We need something (safe) to jump start that back up. I am not ever planning on taking BigPharma poisons like Ozempic though. Doesn't help that I lost my thyroid to autoimmune disease 10 years ago either. Along w/ the diet changes, I've been doing IF for 2 years, and even tried a 3 month stint of OMAD and it's not made any huge difference - like everyone says it would :( I'm older and due to some orthopedic injuries in the past, can't get out there and run, but I do what I am able to on the exercise front. So you can save the shaming and stick it where the sun don't shine. I am, and have been making a concerted effort and I reject any notion that I should be shamed because it's not working as well as everyone thinks it should.
You already sound well informed, but it's worth a try anyway: You say you cut out the sugars. What about the other carbs nearly all of which the body turns into sugar? If you haven't already, read Atkins's books and no doubt may others. Your case is difficult but there may be "hacks" you haven't found yet.
Don’t bemoan your limited exercise ability. Exercise is healthful but it’s not a realistic way to drop weight. Consider an exceptional athlete, a 150 Lb. person running a marathon (26 miles). He’ll burn about 3,100 calories. That’s about 500 calories LESS than the average American eats every day.
I also have weight issues, but they would be much, much worse if I didn't fast. I do a 36-hour fast every five days, but I am contemplating a ninety-day continuous 36-hour fast-12-hour-eating window. (Every othery day overnight fast.) You should refeed with something healthy for the gut biome. Our perseverance is improving our health, even though not as
much as we might like..
I was stuck weightwise. Then I did the Wildfit Challenge and everything changed.
I’m now down almost 60 lbs (with about 40 more to go). I’m thinking more clearly, am more emotionally stable, have more energy and fewer aches and pains, and my A1c is no longer prediabetic but on the low side of normal.
After the 13-week program ended, I added in intermittent fasting and a three-day fast each month (mostly for brain health and healing, but it helps with weightloss, too). Wildfit is expensive (but not the most expensive program out there, by any means), but I think it’s the best money I’ve ever spent on my health and will save multiple times what it cost as well as saving me from increasing pain as I age.
And I’m not even tempted to go back. Nothing tastes as good as healthy feels!
Ironically, Big Sugar once helped Big Tobacco (unintentionally) to make cigarettes popular! Taubes in The Case Against Sugar, says that early in 20th century, Evil Tobacco Co. discovered by accident that mixing sugar-cured chewing tobacco with other tobaccos resulted in a smoother smoke (allowing it to be held in the lungs easier.) This, he reports, led to the popularization of cigarettes.
Jack LaLanne said "If man made it, don't eat it."
A gentleman at the lamb feed told me the corn is like donuts. Most cereal is corn based and was promoted as a breakfast food. Look at how many kids snacks are corn. Corn cereal is people food just like dog is dog food. Go to the dog and cat food aisles. It is almost all with corn. The cows, the horses, the chickens... Everyone gets corn.
Corn don't grow on Rocky Top. Ground's too rocky by far. Guess that's why the folks on Rocky Top get their corn from a jar.
They also give livestock antibiotics to make them gain weight.
Sure, but also because they are always getting sick from eating corn and being confined in a CAFO.
I've spent a lot of time studying this from an holistic perspective, because people are SO sick now that just working out and eating better doesn't shift it. They are suffering from severe iatrogenic and multi-generational epigenetic metabolic diseases and they try to make the changes and get really discouraged. There are many layers to how I have to approach it, but the mindset that change IS possible, and that it is going to take serious effort, is key. People in this situation need role models who HAVE done it; anyone coaching someone through that should be in reasonable shape. I, personally, don't take health or medical advice from people who aren't fit, unless I have good reason to.
Yes, I agree with you so much on this. There are many factors involved, and reducing calories + increasing exercise isn't a sure-fire approach to true wellness and fitness if there are metabolic issues that haven't been addressed. But I especially agree with your statement that having the mindset that change IS possible is key, as well as having people who have hone through it to advise and encourage others on the journey.
I can help with a lot of aspects of this, because I am an excellent practitioner, but I have never struggled with my weight. I've had issues with addiction and poor diet, but I have never had weight issues. When I have clients who need help in that department, I really encourage them to get a team. I focus on where the root susceptibilities and dynamics are, but they also need someone actively hand-holding on the day to day.
Honestly I have been overweight (started emotionally overeating as a child with family problems and battled moderate overweight my whole life) and I have been at a healthy weight, and people who have never been overweight rarely understand what it is like. I am cautious about taking weight loss and fitness advice from those who don’t fully understand disordered eating, because they have not experienced an unhealthy dependence on food, just as my advice on how to stop gambling, drinking or looking at porn (none of which have ever interested me at all) is of limited value. I know lots of naturally slender people who simply don’t get it. They don’t think about food outside of mealtime, they forget to eat, they can make the same boring low cal meals week in and week out and feel completely satisfied by them, they aren’t emotionally soothed by food. There is nothing wrong with such people obviously but they are as useful as “sponsors” or “coaches” as someone who’s never been a drunk is in AA. They are not starting with the same set of understandings.
Yep - I was normal weight until about 10-years ago….somehow gained 30-lbs in 3-months! And then another 20 more slowly….losing weight and maintaining weight before ever being overweight are entirely different beasts! But I wouldn’t say those that have never been overweight have nothing to offer - many are eating super healthy and so have never broken their metabolism….it takes a bit more than what they’ve always done to reverse things, but not much more …. But the emotional aspect of food also has to be addressed, which is probably outside of diet (some of us turn to food, some to alcohol, porn, extremes of other sorts, etc)
Thank you for mentioning this. I think the damage does get deeper over time and generations. However these people who get discouraged rarely put the work into fasting. very few people fast. I have seen them try to be healthy but they refuse to fast or suffer. Very few can get through carb withdrawals and detoxing. They need to get quite sick before they get better
So well said Sarah. I could not agree more.
Agree. It takes a big commitment for an individual to turn it around and access to the right, unfortunately too rare, knowledge.
Discipline and self-control are what's needed to combat obesity. Instead, we've encouraged self-absorption.
The Left hates fitness because it is a constant reminder that their predicament can be solved with effort. Their blue hair can go away on its own, given enough time.
Ever notice that you're almost ALWAYS bombarded with "BUT WHAT ABOUT THYROID DISEASE" when you bring this up in normal online spaces? They're so desperate for any excuse.....
Yes, an excuse for everything. As far as I know, devouring donuts and pints of ice cream are not symptoms.of hypothyroidism.
This comment brings to mind the diet drug. Prehaps a useful tool, however it isn’t intended for lifetime use. Some insulin users as well.
I taught yoga at the VA. Routinely student diabetic, over weight students would eat cookies or chip while waiting for class to stay.
Why don’t people want to be in control of their lives and health?
It's too hard, Dr. Linda. It's always easier to blame someone/something else rather than take an honest evaluation of one's life, and take steps to improve it.
A dear relative of mine is obese, and we vacationed together years ago. Within a couple of minutes of waking in the morning, he cracked open 2 cans of soda and ate 2 sandwiches. It really is calories in/calories out. Simple as.
I hear what you are saying. I know I am going to die, I know I am getting older. But I want to do it with grace. Maybe it is too hard. I do hard. I appreciate your comment
Thank you for saying what needs to be said. I would also add that there are few conversations being had regarding the pollution of our "food" since around 1980ish. I can recall that time period and they were introducing artificial sweeteners such as aspartame (aka "NutraSweet" and other names) and the push toward low fat/no fat was starting in earnest. Almost overnight butter, eggs, and meat were deemed bad and vegetable oils were foisted upon us. Sugar was replaced with corn syrup in soft drinks and just about every other product on grocery shelves. So while I do not condone this ridiculous mindset of fat being normal and healthy I would add that it is increasingly difficult to eat a healthy diet and maintain a healthy weight with the available food sources at most supermarkets. Personally I struggle with weight, even while walking two miles per day and trying to eat healthy (sweet tooth kills me). Yes, I need more willpower but also I need more food that is not polluted with weird chemical additives that are doing God-knows-what to my metabolism. We need to be addressing this insane "food" situation in our country or the weight problems will only continue worsening. People did not just start all of a sudden ballooning up for no reason or due to suddenly throwing willpower out the window; the "normalization" of overweight only came about because the underlying problem is food pollution and we are full of contaminated food products wreaking havoc on our bodies. It is easier for MSM to make fat ok than it is for our leaders to stand up to lobbyists in the food industry and ensure quality food on the store shelves.
Thank you for saying this. I never struggled with weight until the last ten years. I haven’t changed my eating or exercise habits nor my willpower. What has changed are the poisons added to the food I buy at the store. I recently bought “organic”. milk that had an expiration of 5 MONTHS! Bread doesn’t mold. Chicken, once considered the healthiest of meats is rubbery now and loaded with omega 6s from corn feed. Even fresh vegetables are suspect because of the chemicals sprayed on them. How can we avoid it all?
I turned it around for myself. I no longer buy ANYTHING over processed. Most of the food I eat is whole and only one ingredient. I make most everything I eat now and am even good at making grab and go items homemade. When there is a list of ingredients on a packaged item, I have to recognize every ingredient by name and they have to be whole and healthy or I don’t buy it. No chemicals or lab created crap. I haven’t eaten a single grain of sugar or a drop of corn syrup product in over two and a half years. In that same time I haven’t ordered one item from any fast food restaurant except chipotle where I only get the meat, cheese, and peppers/onions/lettuce in a bowl. That’s my only fast food splurge/deviation. I now only frequent restaurants that serve meats and fish and salads without sugar, where I can request how it’s cooked and in what. I only use butter, tallow, avocado oil, coconut oils, or olive oil. No seed oils whatsoever in anything. It sounds hard, but once I learned what I needed to and got my household and kitchen set up to support my new clean eating it’s quite easy. I’m so much healthier and lost over 55 lbs.
Now that I’m thin again my body handles certain things on rare occasion without much of a problem, but that’s because I’m healthier, and I keep it a rare occasion. Like if there is a trace of something I don’t include in my diet, like the dextrose or sugar used to cure bacon or sausage, or the restaurant used sugar in their BBQ sauce, or I have a small portion of mashed potatoes with my steak, it doesn’t really hurt me like it used to - because it’s so infrequent and my body is healthy again.
Heads up - the meat and veggies at chipotle are cooked in rice bran oil. I wouldn’t touch it with a 10ft pole.
Oh good to know. Yeah I eat it about once every three months and it’s my only deviation from my diet. I’m at a place now where it doesn’t cause too much damage or issues since it’s so infrequent
Thank you for sharing your regimen. I aspire to eat this well and this is motivational.
Changed my life. I posted my story further down so won’t repeat it here. Maybe that too can give you inspiration. When we feel this great we can’t help but want to share with others what we learned and help them too. ❤️
'the pollution of our "food" since around 1980ish'
Things really started to go downhill in the late 70s with the release of the first Dietary Guidelines. They were more like Dietary Misguidedlines.
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Wow—I was shocked to see the graph on average weights for women & men from 1960-2010. So what was happening in history beginning in 1960 that caused people on a massive scale to stop moving? Television became big; people sitting in front of the tv for hours began to ascend. Farm kid here—had chores to do every night after school. My father taught me: motion is lotion; rest is rust.
Interesting stats—thanks for sharing.
Quote from the little known—but excellent!—1980 Michael Crichton movie, Looker. John Reston, CEO of Looker Labs, addressing his Board of Directors:
John Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, that's power.
And remember: this was 1980. You can pretty much double the numbers for today.
Wow! Thanks for sharing this! And social media is TV on steroids!
Alas, it's true. In spades. Know why? Because SM not only gives the jolt that tv does, but it also provides feedback in near-realtime. That makes it hard to pull away from.
Michael Crichton’s Terminal man not only got me through intro to psychology (book for extra credit) but changed my thinking.
I've read almost everything he's written under his name and a few under other noms de plume. About half end with deus ex machine devices--real turnoffs. But the other half are great. I don't think the way that the brain learns is quite as simple as portrayed in TM.
For my money, one of his best novels is The Great Train Robbery; movie starred Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and (heartthrob) Leslie-Anne Down. But the book was better. Second was Dealing: or the Berkeley to Boston Forty Brick Lost Bag Blues, written as "Michael Douglas"--Michael and his brother Douglas wrote it. Book ~much~ better than movie. Neither is medical or sci-fi.
Thanks for the recommendations. I enjoyed The Great Train Robbery. My two heart throbs Sean & Donald. Also a fan of Leslie-Ann Down. The Douglas book is new to me. I’ll check it out
It's dated--came out of the 60s--but it's pretty good. Best part of the movie is that a prof/friend of the "importer" is played by John Lithgow. I've never seen him in anything I didn't love. Guy's off the wall crazy, and he takes it to the screen. Every single time.
I couldn’t believe it was John Lithgow. I had to look it up. I knew the voice. I decided I had miss a significant part of his career.
Yes, that was a good movie. Those of us (young males at least) who were fans of the TV "Partridge Family" finally got to see ALL of Susan Dey, even if she was somewhat past her sell-by date.
~I~ didn't put that date on her. Just sayin'....
Movies are fantasy that sometimes reflects reality, but always heavily distorted. If they were just a repetition of actual life nobody would buy the product, as they already consume it by virtue of waking up every day.
If we want to know what's happening in reality, we need to do something other than look at (or genuflect to) a screen. Big screen, little screen, whatever, that's not real life.
Yeah we were super active as kids in the 70's and 80's. Outside almost all the time. I think people are less active today due to tech.
But as well...I think once the processed food starts to take it's toll on the body and people gain 30+ lbs...they just become less active because they feel like shit.
I've argued with a lot people who say that weight gain is a natural part of the aging process. The reality is that as we age, most of us end up with a job, a family, and a ton of other responsibilities that all require time spent sitting.
And in some cases, stress eating.
Agree...it's not the aging that causes the weight gain...it's a change in habits. Also it's the loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia) that results from less physical activity for many adults. Once you lose muscle mass, the body struggles to manage glucose and u increase insulin which shuts off fat burning.
If you eat well, stay active and stay physically strong (lift things that are heavy) you can stay very lean as you age.
I refuse to accept anything being a “natural part of aging” anymore. It doesn’t have to be!
Fair enough but aging is a very natural part of aging. It's unavoidable
Yes... but based on my experience hanging around with 65yr old(+) guys here in Cambodia, they're all solid as rocks (except for the alcoholism).
They're also not university guys, so they live their lives without 'studies' to guide them.
I used to think I'd be shutting it down at about 65. Now it seems like 85 is a better estimate. Sure, I won't run 5 minute miles. But then... I never have!
No disagreement there but that's just a matter of degree. There is no alternative to the final result. I just spent ten glorious years living like a sexagenarian. Now I'm seventy and while I'm not as good as I once was I feel that I am as good once as I ever was . .
That's very true! Not eating at all can make my body feel better than eating, even if I'm hungry, some of the crap foods I used to eat regularly.
I wish I had the willpower to fast more often! The best my digestion has been in years was after a three-day fast I tried last year. I forget the name, but there is an interesting documentary about the health benefits of fasting. There is even a European clinic that specializes in cancer treatment thru fasting. Their success rate is better than any American hospital.
I love intermittent fasting! Early dinner to either late breakfast or lunch and you can effortlessly get in a 12+ hour fast. I just eat 2 meals per day within an 8 hour eating window and it quickly becomes habit.
try intermittent by just skipping lunch. 12 hours, between meals, 4/5 times per week has done the trick for me.
I fast all the time. At 59 I have lost almost every wrinkle I gained between 50 and 57. I look 10 years younger because of it. I think it’s the autophagy.
There is also paranoia around letting kids be outside… unless you’re hovering over them to protect them from predators. I mean I am not free range like my mom was but I remember a woman being shocked that my toddler was allowed to be outside in the fenced locked yard without me right next to him. I feel it is safer to let them be outside playing than inside on a screen, in reality, but their mental state feels kids are best inside
" motion is lotion; rest is rust." I too was raised on a farm. Never heard it phrased that way, but my dad always said that the best medicine was exercise and fresh air. We almost never missed school because school was easier than staying home sick.
I would guess that the cause is probable video games, toys, and the food pyramid. Play became more sedentary. And public health started ingraining the food pyramid into how we eat food and trying to convince people to eat mostly carbohydrates. Public health can shut down the world, but they can’t take the time to fully address the screw up on the food pyramid and play.
"Be sure to get your 6 to 11 Daily Servings of Bread, Cereal, Rice, & Pasta!"
🤣🤣 So true. Instructions to obesity and lack of willpower: eat primarily carbs
Ancel Keys: con artist
It's always been about the graft. Always.
#TeamSnoutsInTrough
And ego
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Clothing sizes have changed to accommodate weight gain. When I was in high school and college in the years 1967-74, I weighed about 120 at 5'6". My dress size was a 10. Today a 10 is considerably larger than it was before.
Love that!!! Motion is lotion rest is rust!!! Gonna put that on our wall
"perhaps we should be asking some pointy questions about just what the purpose of a public school is."
Ask instead whether our schools should be public.
This guy gets it.
As a retired teacher, I say you better flee the schools you have no idea what they are teaching your children. Run as fast as you can away from them. Even private or Christian schools aren’t great. They have to cater to other religions so what good is a Christian school. Christian schools have to sing dreidel dreidel at their own Christmas “winter”concert.
Don’t let the state get their hands on your children.
Agree. My biggest regret in life is not having homeschooled my kids. I think I actually did a fairly good job of discrediting the communism and multicultural nonsense. But even so, the quality of the education - even at a very pricey religious school - was poor. It would have been hard, but I should have homeschooled.
I call them government schools to help people understand what they are really dealing with.
I know this may sound old fashioned and “weird” but why not go back to teaching the deadly vices among which are pride, gluttony and sloth?
“Weird”. Good one in light of recent media blitz.
I’ve no doubt that Kamala would call my suggestion fat phobic, racist, ableist, transphobic, homophobic and weird.
and a far right conspiracy theory. Re: teaching the deadly vices = They are, but not in the way you meant.
Why not a bit of Judeo Christian cultural appropriation?
Then I would include greed too. Specially food corporate greed.
Yes, in the outer reaches of hyper-liberalism, even obesity has been added to the list of sanctified identities. Witnessing this total abrogation of personal responsibility (and outsourcing of it to Social Justice) can tip otherwise sane people from exasperation to outright contempt. As in this from Josh Slocum's Substack:
“They’re everywhere. They serve you coffee and lunch at the diner. They’re blocking the aisles at the grocery store.....They’re the primary school teachers. They’re the librarians.....Most of them are enormously fat. Not overweight. Fat enough that you can hear them struggling to breathe. As they order the two-person meal at the local restaurant (while overfeeding their children so they turn into goblins, too). This morning one of them took up the whole aisle at the corner store, piling Combos, Starbucks sugar drinks, and bags of Funyuns into her arms until half the pile tumbled to the floor..... This is what it’s like in blue American cities today. This is new normal. It’s a psychiatric freak show that you are not allowed to notice is a psychiatric freak show. It is the Twilight Zone episode “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”.”
Talk about calling a spade a spade!......I think I’ll leave it there. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/love-of-the-people
and free burger combo meals and donuts for taking a certain shot.
Seeing videos of the new, young, woke, multicolor hair, ELEMENTARY school teachers, that are grotesquely fat just grosses and freaks me out. Who would want that teaching your child?! Lord only knows what extra things your poor child might learn from things like that!
The videos I've seen on Utoob and TV of these beached whales who are in college, studying education, that get asked (EASY) man-on-the-street, questions about their own country and they haven't a living clue, too. Like what is the name of the capitol of the United States? AND they can't answer it. They start guessing states. They're insane and their lazy parents should be ashamed of themselves and their lazy brats!
The link below is for a great podcast that helps to explain why the Standard American Diet is causing a national emergency on so many levels. Blame the food industry, the pharma industry, and the federal government that is bought and paid for and uses our tax dollars to subsidize these industries that have no interest in our health or the health of the country. These industries, in the words of Dr. Mark Hyman, have "privatized the profits and socialized the costs."
https://drhyman.com/blogs/content/podcast-ep926
"Privatized the profits and socialized the costs." That's an excellent description!
Nope
They make what people want like any other industry
Don’t eat it and they won’t make it
No government intervention please!
Easier said than done. When our children are forced to eat lunchables because schools won't get federal funding for lunch programs unless that is what they serve, we're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. Give a listen to the podcast. It's pretty eye-opening.
That’s how the feds control everything. Print money and dole it out to those who toe the line. Have your children make their own lunch and take it to school
What we did
I agree that "if" schools are feeding children (which, in my opinion, they shouldn't be), that at least we should make sure they are feeding them properly.
Dr. Mark Hyman's podcast is called, "How to Fix America's Broken Food System with Cory Booker," and is well worth a listen. We are being bamboozled by the very people we pay to protect us, and that has to change.
The most important change: stop paying people to "protect" us.
Agreed - but those are our tax dollars working hard for us (insert eye roll).
With... Cory Booker??? That's a shock. Still, he does seem like a very level-headed guy.
I listened to the podcast with a completely unbiased perspective; I did not have any pre-conceived notions about Booker, and I was impressed by him. I only wonder how he'll do in his re-election campaign when his opponents start getting some big donations from Big Food! If he's serious about going up against the big guys, they might do their best to take him out of the picture. (That's me moving into conspiracy theories...ha!)
NJ fella here.
Cory Booker? Warn us please. Empty suit of an EOE hire. It's getting crowded in Cory's closet.
Ha! Honestly, I know nothing about him other than his position on food policies (after listening to this podcast). Give it a listen. He comes across as a rational politician with a real interest in changing things. This "food fix" movement may be the one thing that has the ability to unify this country; it's something that actually impacts each and every one of us on a daily basis.
Anyone that was Mayor of Newark NJ.....look out!!
A thousand "likes" on this!
Hyman has lots of good info on this topic. Dr. Ben Bikman and Dr. Casey Means are great as well. I also follow Dr. Ellie Jarrouge, Dr. James DiNicolantonio, and Dr. Tro Kalayjian. All great sources of info. But the reality is...the topic isn't that complicated. More whole foods, ditch the processed foods, more activity, stay strong. That's about it.
I agree! It shouldn't be that complicated, but it is because we've been mislead by the FDA and Big Food. When you walk into a grocery store, the "healthy foods," other than produce and meat, is marketed to consumers to make people think they're healthy, though they're ultra-processed and packed with sugar (in many disguises) and chemicals. Whole grain, high fiber, gluten free, etc. all sound healthy, but once you read the label and you can't pronounce most of the ingredients, you realize it's an actual science project.
Yeah I avoid the entire middle of the grocery store. The outer ring is where you'll find the whole foods. When I hit the grocery store, it's like a NASCAR race...around the outer oval with 4 left hand turns. 😅
Generally, obesity is a form of suicide. That the machine now applauds and encourages it, is part and parcel of the pro-euthanasia movement, the abortion industry, the deficit cliff, the cascade of illegal migrants, the legalization of drugs, and the childless single woman trope, to mention but a few.
The West is committing suicide, and it is doing so at an ever-greater speed. You can step out of the stream of lemmings heading for the precipice and protect yourself and your loved ones, but you will not stop the national suicide.
WALL-E
I keep saying that’s where we are headed
Watched with my kids when they were young many times and point out to them now that they are young adults how close this is to reality. Obese, glued to devices, sedentary, isolated from real interaction.
It's interesting that the body positivity movement is happening right along with the dramatic rise in people willing to take dangerous drugs like Ozempic for a quick-fix slim down.
I 100% agree with you, but you also have to lay some blame on the food companies that have modified everything to be fake. Even vegetables have less nutrition because the soil is depleted. Eggs from conventionally raised hens arent as healthy as before. They are spraying the skies with toxic chemicals, and the water supply is filled with toxins... it's a whole bunch of issues with our bodies besides just what you mentioned
They're definitely in on it too. In 1960, if you wanted a thousand empty, non-satiating calories, you had to bake a cake and eat the whole thing. Now, every intersection has fast food, c-stores, and "pharmacies" that will sell you 1000 calories that you can consume in about five minutes and prime your appetite and dopamine receptors for more before the cake would even be out of the oven.
This is what ultra processed, highly palatable foods, in combination with combatting only symptoms in healthcare, does. I work out multiple times every week, and I eat clean, but even I have trouble resisting modern snacks. Not that I'm excusing normalisation of high BMI, just noting that it's more difficult to maintain a healthy lifestyle in todays world. Comparing todays situation with that of the 70's is not 100% valid.
The dynamic is probably 80% diet, if not more. I could drive (no one bikes or walks, right?) a couple of miles from my home and have a half dozen options that would offer me 2000 kcal that I could consume in 10 minutes, and if I wasn't calibrated to resist the urge, I would go and do it again every six hours because the food is engineered to be so palatable. No one could out exercise that kind of diet, and that kind of diet makes you not want to even try.
Let alone ordering it to your door, which was also not a thing in the 70's. You're absolutely right, but when healtcare focusses on only treating symptoms, and the symptoms are not there, you must be healthy right? Even if you have a BMI of 40, cause that just gets relegated to weight, not being unhealthy. They step over the phenomenon of metabolic syndrome, and put functional medicine in the same category as other alternative medicines (with the quacks and he whack jobs).
Absolutely. Caring for your health has become synonymous with drug and procedure based western medicine. That is an interesting semantic hijacking of language embedded in how we discuss things. If it doesn't put you in the ER in need of intervention, you're healthy until your insurance, medicare or medicaid agrees to pay for something.
I was astonished to learn that the average American (and many other naitons, like Ireland) on average consume around 3,600 Kcal/day average. (That's not a typo: three thousand six hundred Kilocalories per day). I’m well aware the recommed daily calories (for a man) is about 2,000. I thought I’d made a mistake and looked up the figures on a second, separate day. Yep, 3,600. That’s DOUBLE what is recommended for a female! Is it any wonder that so many of us resemble understudies for Jabba the Hut?
It's especially difficult when many of those highly processed foods have been marketed as "healthy" alternatives. People think they are "doing everything right" and still struggling, when in actuality, they are doing a lot wrong by relying on those "healthy" foods.
Great point. I’m in the same situation. Definitely takes more will power today.