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@andy_ramsden Focus on the Triglyceride (TG) to HDL ratio + fasting glucose and fasting insulin. TC and LDL are not reliable predictors of heart risk (unless too low).
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Serum vitamin D levels of 50 ng/ml is just entering the optimal range. To maintain/exceed 50 ng/ml, supplement with highest quality vitamin D3 (5,000 IU) and/or eat fatty fish/increase sun exposure. Fry liver (best source of vitamin A) in lard (best source of vitamin D).
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@NadiaInBC 1997: During Senate hearing, George Kennan (who knew Russia best) testified against Bill Clinton's proposed NATO expansion (which violated the pledge to Gorbachev: No expansion "one inch to the East." Kennan's final warning: "Don't meddle in the Ukraine." US ignored that too!
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@wallacemick 1997: During Senate hearing, George Kennan (who knew Russia best) testified against Bill Clinton's proposed NATO expansion (which violated the pledge to Gorbachev: No expansion "one inch to the East." Kennan's final warning: "Don't meddle in the Ukraine." US ignored that too!
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Church of St. Job of Pochaev, Milievo, #Ukraine (burned 24 April 2023). Persecution of Christians in Ukraine (torture, arrests, public beatings, murder of priests) is ignored by the cowardly US media beholden only to those who butter their bread...
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In sworn testimony, CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell admitted that he orchestrated the Hunter #Biden laptop “Russian disinformation” letter "Because I wanted Biden to win the election...” Powerful people in the DC Beltway are in control. American Democracy is dead.
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"Because of the difficulties of accurately measuring the blood pressure, it's estimated that around 25% of people diagnosed as hypertensive do not have high blood pressure at all, meaning they are taking drugs they do not need!"
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"Next time you meet a doctor, and you sit down in his office and he starts to talk, if you have the sense that he isn't listening to you, that he's talking down to you, and that he isn't treating you with respect, listen to that feeling. You have... found him wanting."
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Childhood obesity & pre-diabetes have reached epidemic levels. (80% diabetics die of heart disease - #1 killer.) Despite this blood-sugar & insulin resistance crisis, there is a cap on nutritious foods containing saturated fats, but no cap on sugar in school meals.
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@holmanm Hey, Marion, I hear you. We're up against a vast "anti-disinformation" industry that supports the war, pharma and chemical ag industries, etc. Best to take a break or two, but please understand your efforts are appreciated! https://www.racket.news/p/report-on-the-censorship-industrial-74b
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90 million in US are pre-diabetic (fasting blood sugar between 100-125 mg/dl), asso w/ decreased blood vessel flexibility, increased heart muscle stiffness & decreased production of nitric oxide, needed for optimal blood vessel dilation. Solution? Atkins or #Keto-style diet.
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Everyone thinks that lowering LDL, a.k.a. ‘bad cholesterol' is considered the single most important way to reduce the risk of heart disease and strokes; however, "decades of research have failed to show any consistent benefit for this approach.”
-- Malcolm Kendrick, MD
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When sugars bind to proteins, fats, or nucleic acids in our body, toxic advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are formed, leading to kidney failure & coronary disease. Warning: Glycation processes begin in pre-diabetic stages. Solution? Atkins or Keto-style diet.
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The coordinated, systematic cover-up of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage by the U.S. and its NATO allies – an act of war and state terrorism – demonstrates the odious criminality of Team #Biden and the pathetic, servile function of U.S. journalism.
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Journal of Nutritional Science, 23 September 2022, Cambridge University Study: Those eating 2 or more servings of imitation plant-based-meat for 8 weeks had higher biological markers of inflammation compared to those eating real meat during the same period. Eat Real Food!
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@Freeeethinker1 Since 1948, the American Heart[less] Association has been a fund-raising organization. The red dress events are increasingly pathetic. Incidence of heart failure has more than doubled since statins were introduced in 1987. Don't give 'em a dime.
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Veg seed oils were never in US diet until intro of Crisco in 1911. We've consumed ever-increasing quantities of veg oils (+ trans fat), paralleling rise of chronic disease. Ratio of n−6 (veg oil) to n−3 PUFAs has risen from healthy 3:1 to adverse 10:1 since 1911.
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@VigilantFox @TuckerCarlson Church of St. Job of Pochaev, Milievo, Ukraine (burned 24 April 2023). Persecution of Christians in #Ukraine (torture, arrests, public beatings, murder of priests) is disregarded, ignored by the US government, US media & US public.
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Once again, American Heart[less] Association is bashing #keto, spawning 30 keto-bashing headlines from CNN, Forbes, Salon, WebMD, Medscape, etc. Lead author? Vegan activist (panelist for US News’ “Best Diets”) plant-based advocate Christopher Gardner.
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If there ever was a time to employ one's critical thinking, this is it. Independent media in the US is dead. Censorship is widespread. Federal agencies & govt bureaucrats do not protect us. Corrupt politicians, a self-dealing Uni-party, represent Beltway lobbyists, never us.
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@AbasMacow @lowcarbGP @rcgp @DrMichaelMosley @DrEades @DrFrankLipman @lowcarb_aus @drtonyhampton @DoctorTro @DrScottMurray @BDA_Dietitians Sensitivity to carbs varies, Type of carbs matter. Fermented & salad vegetables are vastly different in terms of body's response compared to cereals, fruits and grains. This classic book (used copies?) is helpful. Dr Atkins stated that 1 in 4 of us have to be very careful with…
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LDL levels do not reliably predict heart risk (unless too low). That "systemic large artery disease" has a single cause - elevated LDL - & a single remedy - cholesterol-lowering with low fat diets & statin drugs - is nonsense. Why do they keep barking up the wrong tree?
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High insulin levels (hyperinsulinism) explain why we have fattened. When insulin is elevated – either chronically or after a meal – we make, store & lock up fat. When locked, fat is not an available to fuel the body's trillions of cells. Hunger is the result. Excess sugars &…
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@lesleyf21262824 You may want to consider advanced lipid testing that provides particle size and particle count. NMR LipoProfile: LDL-P, LDL-C, HDL-C, HDL-P, TC and Triglycerides; however, your TG at 90 suggests a higher percentage of Pattern A: benign large dense LDL particles - what matters.
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1992 study published (subsequently ignored) by AHA: People with highest TG & lowest HDL (Q4) were 16 times more likely to die of heart disease than people with lowest TG & highest HDL (Q1). Let your doctor know. Aim for Q1 with high(er) fat, restricted sugar/grain diet.
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Known for decades, there's a teeter-totter relationship between Triglycerides (TG) & HDL. Eat a high(er) grain/sugar diet, TG goes up; HDL down. Ignored by most MDs, an adverse TG:HDL ratio is a reliable predictor of heart risk. Atkins/Keto diet is the reliable remedy.
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Chemically-unstable linoleic acid (ultra-processed omega 6), found in veg seed oils such as soybean & Con-ola, is the Fat of Mass Destruction. Big Food knows it, USDA knows it - but they no longer care - if they ever did - about the health of we ordinary middle class people.
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Diet-Heart Study Cancelled.
Pilot study (below) involving 2,000 men showed Prudent Diet (margarine, cereal, no red meat), if anything, caused harm...
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"...it's often impossible for a farmer to find uncoated seeds for certain crops like corn even if they want to plant them, especially because half a dozen of the largest pesticide manufacturers now own most of the seed distributors..."
USDA: "No comment."
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Micronutrients are critical! In this paper, Bruce Ames, PhD, discusses how to optimize micronutrient intake to prolong healthy aging. Ames argues that the level of nutrition required for this is significantly higher than the RDA for most nutrients. https://bit.ly/3H9580h
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Does the Fox News decision to settle Dominion lawsuit for more than three-quarters of a billion dollars make any sense? Something fishy here... https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/04/26/fox-news-decision-to-settle-dominion-lawsuit-for-three-quarters-of-a-billion-dollars-makes-no-sense/
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@ZiemniakKaren I think you're right. They prescribe statins like candy to seniors and to women of all ages. Women, in particular, should never take a statin.
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According to his MD, Biden takes the statin Crestor. (His TC = 100; LDL = 46.) Patients taking statins, especially at high doses, are much more likely to develop gait issues, perhaps explaining Biden’s “statin shuffle.” Why no cognitive test for the 80-year-old president?
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Why is Michael Regan, head of Environmental Protection Agency, ignoring a 2020 court order prohibiting the use of #Monsanto's toxic dicamba-based herbicide that is destroying millions of acres of cropland, harming endangered species & increasing cancer risks for farmers?
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@LucyGatsby George Kennan, author of the "containment" doctrine, in US State Dept from 1925-1952, fluent in German & Russian, testified that NATO as a military alliance would divide Europe into warring camps. In 1997, testified against NATO expansion - it would lead to WW III & it has.
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At the request of "Team Biden," just before the 2020 election, CIA director Mike Morell admitted that 51 former members of the intelligence community signed a letter declaring the #HunterBiden laptop story was “Russian disinformation.”
It wasn't and isn't!
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Children require diverse nutrients in meat for healthy brain development, but NY Mayor Eric Adams has sent a different message, adding vegan Fridays to school lunch Meatless Mondays + instituting default vegan meals for NYC hospitals. Removing meat will not save the planet.
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Reuters: “Kennedy has been banned from YouTube and Instagram for spreading misinformation about vaccines and the #COVID-19 pandemic.”
#RFKJr
When you read, spreading misinformation, does your brain not instantly translate that into telling the truth?
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1973 Atkins had to appear at a Senate Hearing. Crime: Saying #diabetes is result of excess sugars & grains & that this condition could be reversed with high(er) fat, moderate protein, sugar/grain restricted diet. Atkins prevailed but the vacuous demonization never stopped
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First gradually, then suddenly...
G7 foreign ministers slam #China.
Biden preparing Executive Order to limit US investments in China.
US to sell Taiwan 400 Boeing harpoon anti-ship missiles.
US dispatches 200 military advisors to Taiwan.
Anyone remember Vietnam?
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@vicktop55 Ukraine youth resemble Chicago youth sabotaging their own community. All eight Walmart's have closed due to theft and rioting. In Ukraine, books are burned, priest are arrested and mobs of youth prevent old women from attending church.
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Inuit have 40 words for snow. We need more words for dairy; i.e., butter is 80% fat; 20% water - no potentially problematic casein (protein). Yogurt made from raw milk is easily digested - good for the gut - pasteurized milk should be avoided.
https://www.realmilk.com/
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Underpinning many important body processes, taurine is also one of the most plentiful amino acids in the brain. Shellfish, liver, eggs provide taurine; vegetables do not. Some species can make all the taurine they need; humans have very limited capacity. Feed your brain!
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Though it accounts for 2% of body weight, our brains devour 20% of daily calories. Not in plant food, our brains require creatine, carnosine, taurine, EPA/DHA omega-3, heme iron & vitamins B12 & D3 + the enormous array of fats & amino acids abundant in animal foods.
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@UnionHumanist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. To Heal the Great Divide:
https://edwardcurtin.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-to-heal-the-great-divide/
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@caitoz Fueling China’s meteoric economic rise, tens of thousands of US corporations outsourced their manufacturing to #China; however, now the US is targeting China for a war, dispatching the first group of 200 military advisors to Taiwan. Anyone remember Vietnam?
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Prescribing multiple drugs to patients - “polypharmacy” - is epidemic: 40% of older adults take five or more prescriptions; 20% take ten or more. Adverse consequences of multiple drugs is not studied, nor do drugs reverse chronic disease. We ought to do better!
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Is there even one part of cholesterol-as-culprit that “rings true”? No, it´s a diversion from the refined sugars & grains that have a direct, immediate effect on blood sugar & insulin - "on the disruption of the entire harmonic ensemble of the human body.” @garytaubes
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@ElieJarrougeMD Abundant in red meat, Carnitine plays a critical role in energy production; helps transport long-chain fatty acids into the mitochondria to produce energy; helps transport toxic compounds out of the mitochondria to alleviate mitochondrial dysfunction.
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Abundant in red meat, Carnitine plays a critical role in energy production; helps transport long-chain fatty acids into the mitochondria to produce energy; helps transport toxic compounds out of the mitochondria to alleviate mitochondrial dysfunction.
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Meeting 1 of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, Dr Joanne Slavin defended the use of HFCS by saying “a calorie is a calorie is a calorie...” Guess who provides her University of Minnesota nutrition department with major financial support?
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During meeting 1 of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, Harvard’s Dr Eric Rimm testified "I am concerned about the artificial limit on fat in the Guidelines." He added, “I could be thrown off the stage for saying this...” [only silence]
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As reported in “Preharvest Use of Glyphosate Poisons Kids’ Food,” testing has revealed high levels of #glyphosate in 43 of 45 breakfast products & snacks made with oats. (Highest levels of the weedkiller were detected in General Mills’ Honey Nut Cheerios.) Boycott 'em!
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50 countries have banned the herbicide paraquat, but it remains legal in the US; however, more than 3,000 farmers with Parkinson’s disease are suing Syngenta (lead manufacturer) & Chevron (key distributor) arguing that paraquat caused their disease.
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As precursor to adrenal/steroid hormones, stress can elevate blood cholesterol. Fluctuations due to anger, hot/cold weather or driving in rush hour to get your cholesterol checked represent normal body functioning. Later, cholesterol transits to the liver. Called being alive!
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We don't eat fatty acid isolates from test tubes. Fat in red meat is always mix of saturated & unsaturated fats; i.e. a porterhouse is about 50% saturated; 50% monounsaturated. We never eat saturated fat; closest we come is 92% saturated coconut oil, eaten by healthy people for…
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Seymour Hersh: "CIA knows Zelensky & his generals are skimming US aid." At least $400 million was embezzled in 2022. #Ukraine officials are also "competing" to set up front companies for export contracts to private arms dealers around the world.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hersh-cia-knows-zelensky-top-generals-are-skimming-us-aid
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@everpresentwell Your liver will take care of LDL - sets the blood level. Instead, focus on Triglycerides (TG) under 100 mg/dl and HDL over 60 for men; over 70 for women - with the goal of TG:HDL ratio ideally 1 but under 2.
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In the Framingham Heart Study, best predictor of mortality was persistent low cholesterol or cholesterol dropping steadily over time. All cause mortality increases when TC falls below 160 mg/dl. (Low LDL is associated with cancer. Very low LDL is associated with sepsis.)
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@GoldshteynYulia @Mangan150 @holmanm Yes, since 1984, the unholy alliance of the AHA (private doctors) and the NIH (government bureaucrats) have colluded to make cholesterol the single cause of coronary heart disease and low fat diets and statins the treatments.
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@vicktop55 February 2022, in preparation to invade, Ukraine army significantly increased shelling Donbass. The Russian action (SMO) preempted the invasion. Never reported in the US - not understood by 80% or more of the population. "Russia's unprovoked invasion" is an unassailable fact!
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@JamesCo93959019 The AHA has more than $1.1 billion in their net fund balance. CEO Nancy Brown makes $2,517,493 annually. Fund-raising AHA is not "in the red..."
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American Heart Asso says replace butter with imitation spreads (veg seed oil). Replace eggs with egg whites (not a joke) or box cereal. For protein: "Instead of dark meat, look to chicken, tuna packed in water," or beans, they're cholesterol-free."
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@lissadmss There's no "bad cholesterol" unless oxidized (another topic). Statins reliably lower TC & LDL, but you don't live any longer + there are side effects. Research this topic. Excellent place to start: Read The Big Fat Surprise by @bigfatsurprise
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Ounce for ounce, protein-rich organ meats are the most nutrient-dense foods you can eat (and they are making a comeback). This is the full story - nutrition that can extend your life! Links to recipes and 24 references. -- Chris Kresser
https://bit.ly/3qK035S
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When you read, "cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance..." STOP.
Mother of all hormones, cholesterol is a defining molecule of human (animal) life - so important every cell (except nervous tissue) can make it. No cholesterol; no life. "Fear Cholesterol" is 100% scam!
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@EsperEklerovici What is corruption – and why does it matter? Malcolm Kendrick, MD on the Sir Richard Doll Monsanto story: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2023/01/12/what-is-corruption-and-why-does-it-matter-so-much/
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Bioavailability of calcium from spinach = 5%. Of the 115 mg calcium in a serving of spinach, only 6 mg is absorbed. You’d have to consume 16 cups of spinach to get the same amount of bioavailable calcium in one glass of milk (ideally whole raw milk).
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/70/3/543s/4714998
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While Oxford epidemiologist Sir Richard Doll linked cigarette smoking to cancer, he also received $11 million from Monsanto over 20 years. Sir Richard testified that Agent Orange, made by Monsanto, used in Vietnam, did not cause cancer or congenital (birth) disorders.
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European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Volume 29, Issue 18, December 2022, Pages 2312–2321:
Saturated Fatty Acid (SFA) are not significantly associated with CVD risk, events or mortality. SFA naturally occurring in nutrient-dense foods can be safely included in the diet.
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@catoletters Not once in US media: 2014 CIA-engineered coup in Kiev; targeting, killing over 10,000 Donbass (mostly Russian) civilians since 2014 - not one - nothing about this man who lost his little girl...
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@StewartJacob14 @ProfTimNoakes What does "high cholesterol" - by itself - mean? Nothing! Focus on the TG:HDL ratio, a reliable predictor of heart risk. TC and LDL numbers do not reliably predict risk - unless too low. (All cause mortality increases when TC falls below 160 mg/dl.)
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Where polypharmacy is the norm, US has highest per person healthcare spending in the world ($12,914), yet life expectancy is lower than in Poland, which spends $1,000 per person. Despite $4.3 trillion spent annually, life expectancy is 5 years lower than in any comparable…
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"When people ask me, what has gone wrong with medical research my reply is usually. ‘Money’. When they ask me what else, I reply, ‘More money’.... The end result has been a distortion of research, distortion of clinical guidelines - followed by people taking medications that very…
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Statin sales have passed $1 trillion - $1,000,000,000,000 & new worthless cholesterol-lowering drugs are still being introduced. In the UK, doctors & researchers who resist this monumental fraud are branded "statin-deniers" for spewing "deadly anti-statin propaganda."
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"There are two areas of medicine that cannot be questioned. Number one... I will allow you to guess, not that difficult in truth, it's a word beginning with vaccine. Number two, not far behind, is the cholesterol hypothesis. It is an unbelievably touchy subject..."
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@holmanm "There are two areas of medicine that cannot be questioned. Number one... I will allow you to guess, not that difficult in truth, it's a word beginning with vaccine. Number two, not far behind, is the cholesterol hypothesis. It is an unbelievably touchy subject."
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Statin Instruction Packet: "Take with low fat diet."
Low fat diets elevate Triglycerides (liver-made fat) in turn reducing HDL (lipid recycling vehicles). Side-effect laden statins deplete CoQ10; low fat increases TG:HDL ratio & likelihood of heart disease.
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There's a form of cholesterol best avoided: Oxidized, heat-damaged cholesterol found in powdered eggs & powdered milk - used in hundreds of processed products. Powdered milk with rancid cholesterol is added to skim(med of nutrition) milk to add body. Not Natural!
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“A theory that is wrong [cholesterol is the cause of heart disease] is considered preferable to admitting ignorance” [of the process of systemic large artery disease].
-- Elliot Valenstein, PhD (1923-2023)
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#1 killer is systemic large artery disease. Kendrick: Chronic injury to endothelium (i.e., pre-diabetes) & then blood clots (repair/response). Fix: Eliminate injury (Keto diet), take magnesium + add high-heat cayenne to your dishes (both reduce platelet stickiness).
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ABC, CNN, CBS, FOX, NBC, NPR... no longer represent the 4th Estate: Independent Media. "Conspiracy Theory," often used by the above, was coined by the CIA in 1963 to make look foolish anyone who challenged: "Oswald, the lone gunman, killed JFK with a magic bullet."
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Compared to the US average today, the diets of healthy, non-industrial-era people contained four times more minerals and water-soluble vitamins & ten times more fat-soluble vitamins (A, D & K2) found only in animal foods: https://www.westonaprice.org/3-principle/
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@Rock_nRobin @cathyslifeSP @tomcowan Dr. Cowan has Mensa-level intellect & is a kind, sensitive man. His book, Human Heart, Cosmic Heart, like Kendrick's The Clot Thickens, is must reading for those wanting to understand "systemic large artery disease." Thanks for posting this link!
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Nourish your collagen with gelatin-rich broth from beef, chicken, fish, pork & bones (include the collagen-rich feet). Make delicious sauces, gravies, soups, stews. Eat the skin on fish, crispy chicken skin or chicharrones (pork rinds).
https://www.westonaprice.org/10-principle/
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@beaka60 After the 2014 coup, Ukraine targeted, killed over 10,000 ethnic Russian Ukrainians, including this man's little girl. 21 Fed 2022: Russian Security Council voted on live TV to intervene, stop the killing. (Your obsession with Putin suggests you watch too much TV news.)
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@aramisio2 @vaestervik Putin is not going anywhere. He enjoys 80% favorability among Russian street. Already travel restrictions are being enacted. Finland is building a border wall. Do you know what that means? Russian tourists will go elsewhere - never return.
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During "Welcome to NATO" anointing #Finland's membership, Stoltenberg said: "NATO's position remains unchanged. Ukraine will become a member of the alliance." Whether you agree or not, this clearly stated premise is certain to escalate, ratchet up the war in #Ukraine.
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@aramisio2 @SamJohnston724 It is not my point; it is George F. Kennan's testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee in 1997 on Bill Clinton's proposed NATO expansion. As Kennan, warned, violating the pledge to Gorbachev not to expand NATO "one inch to the east" has us at the brink of WWIII.
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Alan Watson
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Excess sugars/grains > chronic elevated glucose > hyperinsulinism > insulin resistance (pre-diabetes) + industrial veg oils + mineral deficiencies (magnesium) + smoking + pesticides + undue haste + not exercising > inflamed arteries > blood clots > plaque > sudden death
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@SamJohnston724 The dean of US Russian experts, George Kennan (fluent in German & Russian) warned in 1997 that the expansion of NATO into Central Europe [now Eastern Europe] is “the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era.”
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@PresidentAlbus @Kanthan2030 No, Zelensky and his cronies hogged them all. (Zelensky and wife sold this villa in Italy within the last six months.)
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With population just over 5 million - less than Minnesota's - #Finland becomes 31st member of #NATO. Peaceful 832-mile border separating Finland & Russia (below) will now be militarized (has started). Finnish tourists can forget about weekend visits to St Petersburg.
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Alan Watson
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@vicktop55 Hitler forced a Nazi Church in Germany. Zelensky is forcing a Nazi Church in Ukraine. Like father, like son...
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@Deuce_Acess The NMR LipoProfile test provides the LDL and HDL particle values (plus risk assessment for insulin resistance). If your TG:HDL ratio = 1, you have Pattern A (below left). As the TG:HDL ratio passes 3 or more, you have an increasing percentage of Pattern B (right side).
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@garyb4441 LDL particle size (more complicated). Suffice it to say, if your TG:HDL ratio is 1 - you have benign Pattern A (large particles). As TG:HDL ratio reaches 3 or 4 (or higher), you will have a higher percentage of Pattern B. (Search "NMR LipoProfile Blood Test' for more info.)
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Alan Watson
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@MikeSugar17 Not a major category for me, but:
Toasted sesame seeds (mixed with sea salt popular in Japan: Research Gomasio) + Pumpkin seeds traditionally prepared to neutralize phytic acid prepared:
https://www.westonaprice.org/best-roasted-chili-lime-pumpkin-seeds/#gsc.tab=0
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Alan Watson
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We need omega-6/3 (EFAs) in very small amts (6/3 ratio about 2:1). Emphasizing real food + eliminating processed products & veg seed oils, balance is achieved. Butter, nuts, seeds + traditionally-prepared grains provide 6; seafood, flax, pasture-raised animal food = 3.
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Alan Watson
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Because they resist oxidation, saturated fats are vital for cell membrane integrity & permeability. “Saturated” means chemically stable - in food & in our bodies. Despite the tired "fear cholesterol" mantra, with solid single bonds, saturates provide "food & cell security."
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Alan Watson
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@JaanaAnneli Never buy mayo again: https://www.westonaprice.org/never-buy-mayonnaise-again/#gsc.tab=0
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Alan Watson
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All traditional cultures consumed nutrient-dense animal food: Fish, shellfish; land, water fowl; land, sea mammals; eggs; milk & milk products; reptiles, insects. Nothing was wasted: Muscle meat, organs, bones & fat. Most valued: Fat & organ meats!
http://westonaprice.org
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Alan Watson
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@MarkKin67200903 Rain forests in Brazil have been cleared to produce soybean oil. Also, there are vast soil-destroying GMO soybean fields in the US. (Besides, palm oil sustainably produced is available.) Next time you reply on my site, refrain from low-level high school parlance or be BLOCKED!
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Alan Watson
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Use unrefined salt - sodium chloride - liberally - to make hydrochloric acid for digesting meat; sodium to activate enzymes for digesting carbs. Sodium is needed for brain & adrenal function, regulation of blood pressure & hormone production. Sodium is key to cellular function;…
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Alan Watson
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Involved in cell division, energy & hormone production, immune system & thyroid function + reproduction & growth, vitamin A only occurs in foods like butter (grass-fed cows), cod liver oil, eggs yolks & liver. Carotenes in plant foods are not reliable sources of vitamin A.
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Alan Watson
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Critical for neurological health + healthy blood, B12 deficiencies can lead to depression, obsessive-compulsive behavior, irrational anger & cause anemia. (Children with anemia exhibit symptoms similar to autism.) B12 is in animal food; liver is best source (fry in lard).
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Alan Watson
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@aricarbins @RDCMSF Statin use overtime - not in everyone, of course, can lead to Alzheimer's and dementia. Muscle damage and CoQ10 depletion are almost certain "side effects."
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Alan Watson
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@k_coleslaw Recently, I have read (and taken notes): The Clot Thickens & The Great Cholesterol Con by Malcolm Kendrick, MD; Why We Get Sick by Benjamin Bikman, PhD. My go to reference books: the lipid textbook used at Oxford, England & this excellent multi-author review.
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Alan Watson
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No fixing stupid when it comes to "heart disease." AHA & NIH say the cause is bad cholesterol [something that doesn't exist]. Solution is a low fat diet [that promotes diabetes]. If low fat doesn't lower your cholesterol [it won't], take a drug for the rest of your life.
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Alan Watson
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LDL is not 'bad' - is not a form of cholesterol - does not cause anything - insipid terminology conjured up by AHA & NIH in early 1990s to sell worthless statin drugs. There's no LDL in plaque. Plaque is formed by the layering of blood clots following chronic arterial injury.
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Alan Watson
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@tyler_rosa19 TC and LDL are not reliable predictor's of heart risk. Instead, the TG:HDL ratio is predicts heart risk.
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@marxar @BenBikmanPhD Ben Bikman's Why We Get Sick is an excellent companion to Malcolm Kendrick's The Clot Thickens. Together, they elucidate the process of systemic large artery disease - should be Medical School required reading!.
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Alan Watson
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Danish doctor, medical researcher Uffe Ravnskov never believed cholesterol or saturated fat caused heart disease. Branded a crank, his 1991 book The Cholesterol Myth was ignored, mocked. Too much for angry "Diet Heart" proponents in Finland, his book was set afire on live TV.
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Alan Watson
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@SecBlinken You have disregarded - don't care about - the 14,000 Donbass civilians targeted, killed by NATO-armed Ukraine army. The Global South is well aware of US/NATO double standards and hypocrisy. This Russian women lost her husband...
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Alan Watson
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HUNT2 study followed 50,000 people in Norway for 10 years: High cholesterol level made no difference in longevity for men. In women, the higher the cholesterol, the longer they lived, and importantly, women with highest cholesterol suffered far less heart disease.
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Alan Watson
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"Science evolves by being challenged, not by being followed. Malcolm Kendrick [The Clot Thickens] proves once again he is not a follower. Anyone stating that we in the medical profession have heart disease worked out has stopped questioning & thinking. That's a worry for patients…
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Alan Watson
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Sydney Diet Heart Study:
"Substituting linoleic acid [BLUE: polyunsaturated fat] in place of saturated fatty acids [RED: saturated fats] increased all-cause, cardiovascular and coronary heart disease mortality."
-- Malcolm Kendrick, MD, The Clot Thickens, page 26
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Alan Watson
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@mitodoc @ProfTimNoakes 1973: No VLDL> LDL. In MN Coronary Experiment, replacing saturates w/polyunsaturates reduced TC. Those participants with greatest TC-lowering were at greater risk of death. Stanols in the veg seed oil - not reduced saturates - brought down TC + increased risk of death.
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Alan Watson
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@krystaleconley Remember, the TG:HDL ratio is the most reliable predictor of heart risk. TC and LDL are not reliable predictors of risk, unless too low. All cause mortality increases when TC falls below 160 mg/dl.
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Alan Watson
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Metabolized within gut wall (not the liver), saturated fat cannot raise LDL. As liver-made VLDL completes delivering liver-made fat (Triglycerides), it morphs into IDL > LDL transporting mostly cholesterol. The only source of LDL is VLDL. Dietary fat is a separate pathway.
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Alan Watson
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"Nothing in the absorption, transport & storage of dietary fat, saturated or not, has anything to do with LDL in any way, shape or form. If you lived all your life & didn't know that, don't worry, you have virtually the entire medical profession to keep you company."
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Alan Watson
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Ancel Keys, 1954:
"The evidence from both experiments & field surveys indicates that cholesterol content of all natural diets has no significant effect on either the cholesterol level or the development of atherosclerosis in man." [but "Fear Cholesterol" continues today]
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Alan Watson
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@c_cpaese It is high school behavior - the worst group of Western leaders in history. If their lips move, they are lying.
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Alan Watson
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@RueDaungier War crimes are not crimes if committed by the U.S. security state. Up to 1,000,000 Iraqis dead or injured was "worth it..." Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen - 14,000 Donbass mostly ethnic Russian civilians killed since 2014. This man lost his little girl...
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Glorious morning birding, spring has sprung! Until the next snow storm anyway. But some birds are back, the sun is shining, & I finished all my work hrs so I'm free, yay! Saw every bird I'd hoped to, except 1, pretty amazing. https://t.co/lyUuuQbwMc
Alan Watson
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Rare whooping cranes along Texas gulf coast, late December.
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Alan Watson
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McGovern's 1977 Committee: Public must cut saturated fat. Number of scientists disagreed; findings were based on insufficient evidence. McGovern: "Senators don't have the luxury... of waiting until every last shred of evidence is in."
Dr Kendrick: "Monumental stupidity."
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Alan Watson
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"Heart disease [systemic large artery disease] has nothing to do with eating saturated fat [eight are common], nor does it have anything to do with cholesterol in the bloodstream [there's no cholesterol in the bloodstream].
-- Malcolm Kendrick, MD: The Clot Thickens
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Alan Watson
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“Alongside our granting a squadron of Challenger 2 battle tanks to #Ukraine, we will be providing armor piercing rounds which contain depleted uranium.
-- UK's Baroness Goldie
[DU is linked to skyrocketing rates of cancer & birth defects in the former Yugoslavia & Iraq.]
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Alan Watson
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Depleted Uranium Study Fallujah, #Iraq 2005 - 2010:
▪️Leukemia increased 38x,
▪️Brain tumors 13x
▪️Lymphoma 10x
▪️Cancer in children 10.5x
Now, the DU shells are headed to the #Ukraine:
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Alan Watson
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@sci_aditya1 @Gh0sT_Th_RipP3R @visegrad24 Maybe it's time for all these countries to ditch there nukes - before its too late.
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Alan Watson
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@magnus_magnetus @GovindoUK @visegrad24 James Baker to Gorbachev:
No NATO expansion "one inch to the east."
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Alan Watson
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@anomicbot @GonzaloLira1968 I have at least 100 photos of Nazi-types in Ukraine. Hopefully, these ultra-crazies in the Russian borderlands will be liquidated soon.
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Alan Watson
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@GemmaHeaney1 US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen arrived with an IOU of $10 billion dollars.
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Wow, I did not realize how big Australia is 🤷🏻♀️ https://t.co/eyun3VyHcq
Alan Watson
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And, by he way, Russia - 11 time zones - is the largest country on earth, contains 40% of the earth's fresh water.
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Alan Watson
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@DameScorpio Against neocon wishes, Reagan took steps to end the cold war. His successor, George Bush, honored the pledge to not expand NATO "one inch to the east." In mid-1990s, Bill Clinton began NATO expansion to Eastern Europe. Now Biden has planted NATO in the Russian borderlands. The…
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Alan Watson
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2019 Trump: “We’re keeping [Syria’s] oil. We have the oil. The oil is secure. We left troops behind only for the oil.”
25 March 2023: US army smuggled 80 fuel tankers loaded with hundreds of tons of #Syrian oil from the country’s Jazira region to US bases in Iraq.
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Alan Watson
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US has chosen Eastern Europeans as cannon fodder in their long game to "weaken Russia." Just as they armed #Ukraine for war, the US is setting up #Poland to carry on the fight. As Soros pointed out, Eastern Europeans are more willing to fill body bags than Western Europeans.
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Alan Watson
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@DameScorpio China's weather balloon was shot down. They knew it was a weather balloon - say it launch. Ukraine army killed 14,000 Ukrainian Russians before Putin was forced to intervene. The U.S. military is occupying Syria and stealing its oil.
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Alan Watson
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@Pontifex What about the 14,000 mostly ethnic Russian Ukrainians killed by the Ukraine army and Azov battalions between 2014 and 2022? This man lost his little girl...
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Alan Watson
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Sure to promote chronic disease, lab-grown & plant-based meat are mix of ultra-processed chemicals, pesticides & linoleic acid - the fat of mass destruction, while pastured farm animals provide nutritious, health-promoting food & play an integral role in soil restoration.
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Alan Watson
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CDC budget (disease prevention) is $12 billion ($112 billion sent to #Ukraine so far). We in a health crises: Over 50% children have a chronic disease; about 50% adults are diabetic or prediabetic - heart failure is #1 Medicare expenditure. Is it time to change priorities?
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Alan Watson
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In politics, there are no coincidences:
2017: Trump admin brought in leading US bio-warfare advocate Robert Kadlec. 2018: Mysterious viral epidemic hit China’s poultry industry. 2019: Mysterious viral epidemic devastated #China’s pork industry. 2020: #Covid in Wuhan...
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Alan Watson
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At a Thursday hearing, Lloyd Austin & General Milley told Congress that the Pentagon’s 2024 largest-ever budget request ($842 billion) will help the country prepare for a future war with #China. Is it unpatriotic to ask, why is the US preparing for endless war?
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Alan Watson
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U.S. uni-party supports endless war:
The Senate overwhelmingly voted down (86-9) Rand Paul's proposal to repeal a 2001 law which granted sweeping war powers to the White House. Only four lawmakers from each party + Independent Bernie Sanders supported the legislation.
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Alan Watson
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More than 1 million #Iraqis died in the US war of aggression. 20 years later, there is no justice for war criminals like Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, who says it was just a mistake...
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@GonzaloLira1968 "Shock and Awe" from Richard Haass, "proven leader" [Wikipedia] of the warmongering Council of Foreign Relations, architect of the #IraqWar.
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Alan Watson
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Cholesterol-lowering statins may promote coronary artery calcification & function as mitochondrial toxins that impair muscle function in the heart & blood vessels through the depletion of CoQ10 & 'heme A' reducing ATP generation. http://bit.ly/3K36KdO
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Alan Watson
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Since the 1990s, tens of thousands of US corporations have off-shored their manufacturing to #China, which, in turn has dramatically increased China's economic power. Who is responsible for that? To react to China's growing economic power by increasing US military power is high…
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Alan Watson
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Sirhan Sirhan didn’t kill my father. Gov. Newsom should set him free. https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Robert-F-Kennedy-Jr-Sirhan-Sirhan-didn-t-16686114.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral via @sfchronicle
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Alan Watson
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"It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of them you are, and certainly not how many papers your side had published, if your prediction is wrong, than your hypothesis is wrong. Period."
@ProfFeynman
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@DietHeartNews @ADreyzen After 2022 Putin invasion, 100s of 1000s of Ukrainian civilians & soldiers have been killed, with ½ the country displaced &/or destroyed. This is why the West intervened – to save lives & Ukraine.
Ukraine can't surrender in midst of genocide, anymore than a victim of rape can.
Alan Watson
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@ADreyzen The US used Ukrainians as cannon fodder in their attempt to "weaken Russia." Again - and finally - this war requires background, context and history - all of which you are ignoring. Are these Nazis or boy scouts - you tell me.
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@trpdo @ADreyzen There was a CIA/State Department coup in 2014. Here's neocon Victoria Nuland passing out snacks in Kiev. In 2014, she boasted that the US had spent $5 billion to topple the Russian-leaning government.
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@trpdo @ADreyzen "Side of Russia" is high school think. War must be discussed, with background, context & history. Are you aware of the 2014 coup that brought anti-Russian zealots into power? What about the civil war; the targeting, killing of Donbas civilians like this man's little girl?
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Alan Watson
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@trpdo @ADreyzen Crimea is Russia. Anyone with an IQ of 100 should understand that. Czar Nicholas II would not have built his summer palace in Ukraine. Crimea has been home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet since 1783.
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The ICC ordered the arrest of Maria Lvova-Belova, Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights, but no ICC action has ever been taken against Madeleine Albright, who famously declared that the deaths of 500,000 #Iraqi children brought about by US sanctions was “worth it.”
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@timand2037 In spite of State Dept warnings not to, Truman recognized "Israel" during his 1948 election campaign (eyeing the New York Jewish vote). Reportedly, he then received a briefcase full of cash financing his sixteen-car train swing thru 18-states.
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@trpdo @ADreyzen After the 2014 CIA-engineered coup, over 10,000 civilians were killed in the Donbass by the Ukrainian army, including hundreds of children. This is the reason Russia intervened - to stop the slaughter of civilians. This Russian man lost his little girl...
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Alan Watson
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@JJ56123 The foreign ministers of these same countries are as unqualified as the health ministers of these countries are unhealthy. What they have in common: Advocates of war they themselves know they will not be fighting.
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Hitler Mein Kampf - "The human race has grown great in War. In peace there is only decay"
Wonder if bringing all those Nazis to the US at the end of WWII had any influence on DC?
Alan Watson
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Allen Dulles made sure Nazi leaders like Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff evaded prosecution.
Alan Watson
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We need 40 micronutrients to function optimally. When we don’t get enough of even a few, we age & our lifespan shortens. Dr Bruce Ames, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology professor, Berkeley, has "deep dive" nutrition information to extend your life! https://bit.ly/3YXUHmm
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@DietHeartNews Biden would like nothing more.
Alan Watson
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Team Biden out to "weaken Russia" and keep Hunter's laptop and the Nordstream sabotage out of the news.
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Why now - the Hague’s arrest warrant for #Putin? Is it meant to embarrass #China's Xi Jinping for meeting with a "war criminal?" Does it prevent peace talks between Putin & Zelensky? After all, how can a war criminal be involved in peace negotiations? Is Team #Biden intent on…
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@DietHeartNews @Wontevertweet27 Might his favorability be high out of fear ? Can Russians say in a poll they dislike him ?
Alan Watson
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@Wontevertweet27 The polling is conducted by independent European pollsters. No one can reasonably dispute his popularity among the Russian Street. Yeltsin's last words to Putin: "Save Russia." Like it or not, he has.
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Post Brands, makers of Fruity Pebbles, has launched a new line of cereals called Sweet Dreams - containing lavender, chamomile, as well as vitamins & minerals intended to support your body’s production of melatonin. Sweet Dreams also contains up to 13 grams of added sugar.
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Alan Watson
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Like it or not, like Putin or not - I don't care - Russia, after decades of debilitating, oppressive ideological Communism, is becoming a normal country, where the health, welfare of regular people matters.
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Like him or not, Vladimir Putin rescued #Russia from the disintegration, implosion of the USSR (1991) & the impoverished, suicidal Yeltsin 1990s. Life expectancy up, abundant food (non-GMO) and a growing, healthier middle class. Putin's favorability: 80%. (Moscow skyline)
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Alan Watson
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Vitamin B12 helps keep your body's blood & nerve cells healthy, including cellular DNA. Warning, B-12 analogs in soy are not absorbed; increase the body’s requirement for B12 - a vital vitamin only found in animal foods such as red meat & seafood.
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Warning, high levels of phytic acid in soy reduces assimilation of calcium, magnesium, copper, iron & zinc. (Phytic acid is not neutralized by soaking, sprouting or long, slow cooking.) This concern does not apply to fermented soy foods such as miso soup & natto.
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Alan Watson
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Polyunsaturated oils - such as soybean - are chemically unstable, break down into small molecules called aldehydes, cause oxidative stress to membranes throughout the body. Avoid these oils; emphasize stable, nutrient-dense butter, lard, tallow & poultry fats.
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Alan Watson
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Blueberries & Green Beans joined the Dirty Dozen list; both had troubling concentrations of organophosphate insecticides, pesticides that can harm the human nervous system. 9 of 10 samples of each had residues of pesticides - with some showing traces of up to 17 different…
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Alan Watson
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Congress takes brief pause from sending your tax dollars to #Ukraine to send them to Silicon Valley Bank - @TheBabylonBee
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Alan Watson
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"Cost of war is lives lost & inflation. This #Ukrainian Proxy War serves no purpose. Winning or losing will have ZERO impact on our national security or the future of the people. This is simply a grudge match instigated by the Neocons who perpetually love war as long as someone…
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Biden: I will “bring an end” to #NordStream2.
Journalist Seymour Hersh: Provided evidence it was US-directed sabotage.
NY Times: "Pro-Ukrainian group rented a yacht and blew up the 60 mm thick steel, cement-lined pipeline.
Who can we trust? Seymour Hersh or the NY Times?
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Alan Watson
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US Congress is an exclusive club. LBJ entered Congress dirt poor; remained in public office until 1969. He retired with a fortune valued today at $100 million. Most recent financial disclosures reveal that more than half of today's Congress members are millionaires.
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Alan Watson
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Suit & Tie Uniparty: Scandals that previously would have ended careers are now just Beltway Business as usual. Members of Congress flagrantly trade stocks with inside information. Alphabet agency bureaucrats end up as well-paid employees of the very companies they are meant to…
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Alan Watson
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US is now a UniParty - the government party - describing the US after the Kennedy brothers were assassinated in the 1960s. A cabal of elites - bureaucratic, financial, media, political - have hijacked the country - are in control - with a self-serving, hegemonic agenda.
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@nlt144 She is making a insipid, unthinking mistake. If Finland joins NATO, the now peaceful largely unguarded 800 mile border with Russia will become heavily militarized - something no one in Finland needs.
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@TzetzoGoranov @BarryCPearson In return for dissolving the Warsaw Pact, Gorbachev was promised no NATO expansion "one inch to the east." In 1998, Bill Clinton began the eastward march. Bush II and Obama continued moving east. Like it or not, Ukraine, the soft underbelly of Russia, is the Russian Red Line.
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Alan Watson
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@BarryCPearson Stalin, a Georgian & Communist dictator, is dead. The Bolshevik ideological USSR imploded between 1989-1991. Putin's capitalist Russia is not interested in a Greater Russia. Eastern Ukraine was part of Russia until Lenin rearranged Soviet borders. The East speaks/is Russian.
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Alan Watson
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@les_politiques A Yes woman with zero experience, similar to Germany's foreign minister Annalena Baerbock who admitted, "The West is at war with Russia."
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Alan Watson
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@veradubs Graham, Klobuchar and others spent New Year's Eve 2016 - after Trump had won the election - promising Poroshenko and Ukrainian fighters that the U.S. had their backs if and when they attacked the Donbass.
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Alan Watson
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Blood clots cause most heart attacks; stress morphing into strain, promoted by excess blood fat (Triglycerides), not enough recycling trucks (HDL), chronic high blood sugar/insulin levels, magnesium & other nutritional deficiencies + anxiety, worry & undue haste.
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Senator Lindsey Graham has suggested opening fire on Russian fighter jets that intercept US drones. Graham: “If Putin gets away with this, there goes #Taiwan" - citing the "domino theory" logic that got us into Vietnam where 58,220 Americans lost their lives.
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Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly admitted that the long term goal of western involvement in #Ukraine is “regime change” in Russia [where Vladimir Putin is more popular than ever...]
Regime change, eh?
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Tim Rees
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I suspect that in a few years if Ukraine is victorious, all the wheat coming from that country will be #GMO.
Just a hunch.
Alan Watson
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The wheat coming from Ukraine is largely controlled by Big Ag giants who own 30% of the arable land.
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Alan Watson
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Eating Well: "Cholesterol is a waxy fat-like substance that is made by the liver and plays a role in making hormones and vitamins."
[Every cell in the body (except neurons) can make cholesterol - it's that vital. Cholesterol is the defining molecule of human life.]
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Alan Watson
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SCHOOL LUNCH:
Restriction of natural saturated fats & cholesterol; no restriction of refined carbohydrates. Promotion of skim(med of nutrition) & high-sugar chocolate milk. "Meat Alternatives." Children on low fat diets are fatter & more prone to developing "diabesity."
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NPR: When FDA approved bempedoic acid (Nexletol) in 2020, it was clear that the drug helped lower LDL "bad" cholesterol.
[There are multiple lipoproteins; one cholesterol. If you read the insipid phrase "bad cholesterol," an ignoramus is pushing worthless, cholesterol-lowering…
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HEADLINE: People who took "statin-alternative" Nexletol 3 years had "23% lower risk" of heart attack: 13.3% on placebo vs 11.7% on Nexletol. (% who actually benefited: 13.3 minus 11.7 = 1.6% and no difference in mortality.) Nexletol costs $426 a month. Do the math!
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Alan Watson
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By itself, LDL is a poor marker for heart risk. Focus on maintaining healthy TG:HDL ratio. Ratio of 1.0 ideal; > 3.0 increased risk. TG reflects the sugar/grain load in the diet (not fat). Evidence suggests that TG > 133 mg/dl (1.5 mmol/l), promotes less https://www.insulean.co.uk/ldl-cholesterol-inconvenient-truth…
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Alan Watson
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Sperm counts dropped more than 50% between 1973- 2018. The rate of decline is accelerating. Avg global levels are only slightly more than the level where the ability of a man to cause a pregnancy drops dramatically. Are chemicals, industrial veg seed oils, plastics to blame?
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EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell:
"Europe Is a garden. The rest of the world Is a jungle, and the jungle could Invade the garden."
#France
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Alan Watson
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Love Your Lipids: Start by reducing excess sugars and starch from the diet. For most people, restricted carb, ketogenic diets result in: low Triglycerides, high HDL & healthy "good" LDL (pattern A).
https://www.insulean.co.uk/ldl-cholesterol-inconvenient-truth/
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Alan Watson
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@NickCotterSr With 4-stomachs, cows were designed to eat grass. With the government-subsidized grain excess after WW II, cows were moved off pasture and in doors. My grandfather's pastured cows had names and lived 10-12 years; cows on cement floors eating soy-feed only live a few years
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19 studies/6 million people. In 8, those w/ highest LDL lived as long as those with normal/low LDL. In 9, those w/ high LDL lived the longest. Conclusion: High LDL not asso w/ reduced lifespan. LDL promotes immune function & pathogen elimination.
Annals of Epidemiology & Public…
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Alan Watson
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Often containing powdered nonfat milk, source of oxidized cholesterol, low fat modern milk comes from cows force-fed soy, a source of estrogenic substances. Pasteurization destroys B-12 - renders milk highly allergenic. If you can’t obtain raw milk for your child, skip the milk!…
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Funded by the Pentagon, Army & Air Force, the Rand Corporation is having 2nd thoughts about the slow-grinding war in #Ukraine to "Overextend Russia," stating that the US needs to husband its [dwindling] resources for its upcoming war with #China.
Are the boys playing RISK?
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"Defense Budget" for 2024 to close in on $1 trillion, larger than the next nine countries combined (including both #China and #Russia). Below: U.S. military assets in a port in Poland. Is it unpatriotic to ask, how does this make are lives better?
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British political science Professor Richard Sakwa:
The entire #Ukraine tragedy would have been easily avoided if Zelensky had been encouraged to say five little words: “Ukraine will not join #NATO.”
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Never Reported in US Media:
2.8 million “Ukrainians” have fled to #Russia after the 2014 CIA-engineered coup; began in Odessa on 2 May 2014, when Nazi-types beat, killed and burned alive any Russian-speaking “Ukrainians” they could get their hands. "GOOGLE" mute too!
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Optimum nutrient density is key if we are to extend our lives. Consuming organ meats like liver is key (no, the liver is not a storage organ; toxins are stored in adipose tissue). Best source of vitamin A & all B-vitamins, learn how to prepare this inexpensive food.
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Warrior Lindsey Graham, in Kiev New Year's eve 2016 urging the Ukrainians to fight Russia, and is now advocating arming Taiwan against #China, said Monday he is preparing legislation to “set the stage” for US military intervention in #Mexico. At last - a declared war!
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Beyond hypocritical "Team Biden" is warning #China against arming Russia while the US is arming Taiwan. Team Biden is endorsing violent attacks on the police in the country of #Georgia while calling for Tucker Carlson to be censored for showing newly released videos of patriotic,…
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"Nobody is pushing the war [in Ukraine] more than Nuland." -- @elonmusk
Late Wednesday, rioting in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. Was #VictoriaNuland in #Georgia four days ago? Is Nuland spearheading regime change in Russia's soft underbelly?
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27 February: US troops transported 34 tankers of Syrian oil to US bases in Iraq.
8 March: A resolution to withdraw US troops from Syria failed to pass the House.
The Beltway - pro-war - Uni-Party has voted to continue to occupy 1/3rd of #Syria & steal its oil.
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The NY Times report on the #NordStream2 sabotage is stupid, insulting. Really? The pipelines were blown up by a ragtag "pro-Ukrainian group" that somehow had the diving equipment, planning, skills & military explosives to carry out the attack. #Biden did it!
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US stocks fell Tuesday after Fed Chair Jerome Powell told Congress that interest rates are likely to go "higher" in the face of persistent inflation [much of which is result of myriad shortages due to "sanctions from hell" against #Russia.
-- Martin Armstrong - Economics
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Material @elonmusk released confirms that Twitter’s top echelons were meeting weekly with FBI, Homeland Security & intelligence officials to discuss alleged “disinformation” they wanted excised from the site, including the #HunterBiden laptop story.
Is this the USA or the USSR?
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Americans don't want war, but when the The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse talk of "defeating Russia," they blithely ignore the fact that #Russia has a capacity to greatly escalate and extend the war to NATO with hypersonic weapons - from which there is no defense.
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Because the virus has a "furin cleavage site," added to increase infectiousness, we all know, don't we, that #Covid was made in a lab. Because there's zero evidence of a "leak" at Wuhan, other bio-labs such as the army's Fort Detrick, MD must also be investigated.
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Alan Watson
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"The aim of an artist is to make people love life in all its countless inexhaustible manifestations."
-- Leo Tolstoy, in the introduction to Anna Karenina
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Alan Watson
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"All the variety, charm and beauty in life are made up of light and shade."
-- Leo Tolstoy, in Anna Karenina
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Olaf Scholz returned from his 1-hour visit with Biden. Sevim Dagdelen, leader of #German Left Party, labeled the #NordStream2 sabotage a terrorist attack, adding that the German govt is obligated to look into the case & find the culprit. What does Scholz know?
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Zinc in oysters & red meat help prevent infections. Cod liver oil, hard cheese, lard, liver, poultry fat provide synergistic vitamins A-D-K2. Traditionally-raised animal foods promote health. Get out in the sun. Take a 20-minute walk everyday. Try some gratitude.
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US Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said the US must prepare to win a war with #China over Taiwan. Wormuth: "We obviously have to be prepared to fight and win that war." Will she fight too - risk being in a body bag - or will she sit at her desk & let others die?
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Alan Watson
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Same bureaucrats in same agencies (Vilsack at USDA), who said don't eat butter (best daily source vitamin A), don't eat eggs (gold standard protein), don't eat red meat (best source B-vitamins & zinc), don't eat dark meat chicken (where the B-12 is), remain in charge.
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Amos Miller, Amish organic farmer in Pennsylvania, raises grass-fed beef, pork, chicken; sells raw milk. No customer complaint ever, nonetheless, Amos was threatened with fines & jail time for violating USDA rules. The case is still ongoing....
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Just as Bill Gates became largest owner of US farmland, oligarchs & large Western agribusinesses own more than 28% of #Ukraine’s arable land. Prominent US pension funds & university endowments are also invested through NCH Capital, a US-based private equity fund.
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Of pesticide-laden fruits & vegetables, strawberries, spinach, kale, collard & mustard greens top the list. If you consume raw spinach & kale, you're also ingesting phytates that can inhibit iron & zinc absorption. Buy organic greens, steam them - skip the smoothies.
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Since USDA began issuing low fat, veg seed oil, grain-emphasized Dietary Guidelines in 1980 - a weapon in their War on Cholesterol & Saturated Fat - incidence of obesity & diabetes continues to increase and US "disease management" costs are highest in the world.
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Prof Jeffrey Sachs: "Destruction of #NordStream2 constitutes an act of international terrorism. It's the Council’s responsibility to determine who might have carried out the act, help bring the perpetrator to justice & pursue compensation for the damaged parties..."
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8 Feb 2023: Seymour Hersh's article provided evidence that the #NordStream2 sabotage was carried out by US Navy divers. According to the whistleblower, Norway was in on the plan & #German Chancellor #Scholz ok’d the covert operation while visiting Biden.
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Do you remember when "Communist China" was just #China? Now, after our corps have sent millions of jobs to China, where our coffee grinders & toasters are made, US politicians, who had looked the other way as our jobs disappeared, are seething mad - itching for another war!
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Apparently longing to meet the "Man of the Year" and personally hand him a check, Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen flew to Kiev to pledge another $10 billion in new aid for #Ukraine. No, this is not Saturday Night Live - this is insanity!
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Alan Watson
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@DavidSacks @KimDotcom How about Fort Detrick, MD, military bio-weapons lab shutdown in August 2019 due to unspecified "safety violations."
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Alan Watson
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@GonzaloLira1968 #COVID escaped from Fort Detrick, MD bio-weapons lab in July 2019. The lab was temporarily shut down in August due to undisclosed "safety violations."
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Following his 30-second bit on SNL when he branded big pharma as a cartel forcing it’s drugs on us, Woody Harrelson doubled down against #COVID mandates. To the chagrin of CIA-controlled Rolling Stone & The Daily Beast, Harrelson: "U.S. is no longer a free country."
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Because the US intelligence community has "a variety of views," Natl Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said there is "not a definitive answer" on #Covid origins.
[US military's Ft Detrick bio-weapons lab was shut down August 2019 due to undisclosed "safety violations."]
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Alan Watson
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Whose fault is it that Milwaukee Power Tools are now made in China? Why did US corporations - en masse - ship our jobs to China? Citing "increasing tensions," a cabal of US elites is now threatening to use the military to "contain #China." God help us...
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Like JFK (by 1963), #Trump campaigned on seeking détente with (no-longer-communist) Russia. The CIA within the CIA killed JFK. The FBI, working with Hillary Clinton, the DNC + myriad political & media stooges, teamed up to "kill" Trump - just in a less bloody way.
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In #Ukraine, is Team Biden approaching Zugzwang? A position in chess (German) which means: It's your turn to move, and all of your moves worsen your situation. And, in politics, the cardinal sin: Starting something you can't finish...
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Alan Watson
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Increase HDL (liver-made recycle vehicles): Replace grains/sugars with natural fat + emphasize complete animal protein. Don't fret about LDL - your healthy liver unfailingly sets blood/tissue levels. Eat a lot of eggs. Also, take a 15-minute walk after your evening meal.
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Bill Gates has a solution for "global warming." We must switch to lab-grown beef. WEF says we will all be eating “synthetic meat” in 10-12 years. Expecting to turn a nice profit, Bill is making sizable investments in “synthetic meat” manufacturing. What a guy?
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Nutritional abundance:
Organ meat such as liver & kidney
Grass-fed beef; lamb, heritage pork
Bone broth; soup made with broth
Eggs from foraging chickens
Alaskan salmon, sardines, herring
Berries in season in heavy cream
Yogurt, kefir, cheese made from pastured cows/goats
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In his speech, Putin recounted the myriad ways the NATO West has attacked #Russia: “This means they plan to finish us off once & for all.... This is how we understand it, and we will respond accordingly, because this represents an existential threat to our country.”
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Animal food ideally comes from healthy animals free to express their nature. Cows are healthiest when grazing on pasture. Pigs need sunlight as they root in the ground for iron. Chickens thrive foraging in yards & fields. Fish don't belong in what they call "fish farms."
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CDC just added the leaky #Covid jab to the childhood vaccine schedule - followed by virtually every school system in the US. Walensky did this despite unequivocal evidence that the “vaccines” damage children’s hearts and their nervous, reproductive and immune systems!
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"Remember what Barack Obama said about the former Veep: 'You can never overstate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.' Obama as prophet! Under Joe #Biden, the U.S. has been slipping backwards into a realm of darkness unimaginable a few years ago."
-- James Howard Kunstler
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10 yrs ago, George Soros discussed the need for a war against #Russia, “the last nationalist state with an orthodox christian culture.” Soros added that it would be best if east European lives were expended; that west Europeans would simply resist ending up in body bags.
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David French/NY Times: "On the war’s anniversary it’s time for a concerted effort to persuade Americans of a single idea: We should support #Ukraine as much as it takes, as long as it takes, until the Russian military suffers a decisive, unmistakable defeat."
Why?
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"I don't know what the next war will be fought with, but the one after that will be fought with sticks and stones."
-- Albert Einstein #WWIII
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#Covid fraud marches on:
FDA has just been given authority to ban off-label uses for drugs like #Ivermectin, which is sold OTC in Mexico. (I just bought a supply.) Pharma stockholders & lobbyists control FDA & our greedy pig politicians choose to look the other way.
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Lowest all cause mortality is associated with Fasting Glucose (FG) in 80-89 mg/dl range. Pre-diabetes is diagnosed if FG is over 100. Too often ignoring rising FG, most MD's zero in on TC & LDL in order to prescribe statin drugs. When will this egregious malpractice end?
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12 Feb 1972: Nixon landed in Beijing, initiating the thaw in US/China relations. Zhou: “The gate to friendly contact” is open. In part - because of the bellicosity of Team Biden - that gate is slammed shut. Now, #China is readying for a likely war with the US.
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The coming end of the #Ukraine war will expose myriad, nefarious WEF Globalist schemers: Soros pumping billions into Ukraine, Bill Gates’s #Covid World Health puppet show & ideologues such as Zelensky's new "investment coordinator," Blackrock's Larry Fink.
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Oct 2022: CDC's Immunization Advisory Committee voted 15-0 to add COVID jabs to the childhood-adolescent- adult vaccine schedules. Vaccines on the schedule are typically covered under the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. To satisfy Pfizer, #COVID jabs are not!
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In 2014, Victoria Nuland (State Dept) boasted that the US had spent $5 billion to topple #Ukraine's democratically elected govt. Now, seemingly unhinged, she says Team Biden supports Kiev attacking Russia in #Crimea, home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet since 1783.
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Fix your Fats: Get weekly omega 3 fat from Alaskan salmon, sardines, anchovies or mackerel. Limit, restrict ultra-processed omega 6 found in corn, soybean, sunflower & canola oils. These newfangled veg seed oils contain highly-susceptible-to-oxidation linoleic acid.
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Except water, our cells need fat more than anything else. Cell membranes & organelles within cells all contain fatty bilayers. Saturates = 50% or more of this protective fat. Since the 1960's, “choose lean, low or fat free” explains, in part, why so many are fat & sick.
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Wang Yi, the adult in the room, called on the US to stop “fanning the flames” of the #Ukraine war and stop “profiteering from the situation” - adding that a strategic partnership between Moscow and Beijing is a “sovereign right of two independent states.”
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From the Babylon Bee:
Analysts were greatly troubled by the results of a recent poll: An alarming 26% of people still trust what the media tells them.
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Akin to wartime propaganda, the DC Beltway has gone to war with #twitter. An alliance of political, corporate & media interests have attacked #ElonMusk unrelentingly, including a campaign to force companies to suspend or reduce advertising until censorship is restored.
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Increasing corroborative evidence strongly suggests Team Biden ordered the destruction of #Nordstream2, an energy infrastructure project that took ten years & 12 billion Euros to build. Are the "Rules-Based-Order" unintended consequences coming home to roost?
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Soybean-funded CSPI's 1980's "Anti-Saturated Fat Attack” smeared butter, coconut oil, eggs, lard & red meat, advising us to replace them with margarine, trans-loaded veg oil, cereal & pasta - promoting the surge in life-shortening "diabesity" during the last 4 decades.
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Our study shows that high total cholesterol (TC), HDL or LDL in the elderly are asso with lower all-cause mortality compared to those with the recommended low lipoprotein levels." LET YOUR MD KNOW!
L. Bathum, Scandinavian J of Primary Health Care, 2013; 31: 172–180
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#1 Cause Death: Sticky clot-prone blood. 50% who die suddenly have little or no blockage, but suffer roller coaster, unstable blood sugar, hyperinsulinism, magnesium/mineral deficiencies + stress causing strain. Dietary solution: Atkins/KETO: Nutritional abundance.
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Luc Montagnier, French virologist and researcher, Nobel prize winner and HIV science pioneer: Leaky #Covid vaccines - spawn - give rise to variants. To end the crises, Montagnier: "Stop, end mass vaccination."
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"Crimes of the US have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people talk about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good."
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British PM Rishi Sunak called on Western leaders - no matter the cost in "blood and treasure" - to “double down” on military support for #Ukraine. Almost a billionaire, you can be sure it won't be his blood soaking in the contested Russian borderlands.
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The US is now keen on fighting both China & Russia - what the #Ukraine war is about. The Neo-cons are thirsting for war & we have no right to vote on any of this, confirming once again: We do not live in a democracy, but in a dictatorship masquerading as a republic.
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Zelensky has made it known that control of #Crimea - home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet since George Washington was US president, when Texas was still part of Mexico, where 100,000 Russian/Soviets died fighting off Hitler's army - is major objective in the war. Nonsense!
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Why the coordinated, stunning Media silence over US/Norway #Nordstream2 sabotage story? Well, NY Times is State Department; Washington Post is CIA. Russia has gotten the message. A new Great Wall has blocked #Russia from Europe; Moscow's economy will pivot to Asia.
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Did you know that for years the U.S. has been occupying Deir Ezzor province in northeastern #Syria where a large natural gas field formerly supplied energy to the Syrian people? What justification is there for stealing or blowing up other peoples' energy resources?
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BREAKING NEWS! After several days of insipid nonsense, Biden has confirmed that the balloons and myriad flying objects weren’t surveillance vehicles from China or any other country. Remember, friends, this guy is the U.S. Commander in Chief!
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"The common people don't want war. But the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked & denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism & exposing the country to danger..."
- Goering at Nuremberg
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"I don't know what the next war will be fought with, but the one after that will be fought with sticks and stones."
-- Albert Einstein
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111 years old, Harry Patch, last surviving veteran of World War I, says war is legalized mass murder. In today's provoked, proxy War against Russia, Team Biden - Blinken, Nuland & Sullivan - have no shame as they have sacrificed over 150,000 #Ukrainians.
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In a recent editorial, @bigfatsurprise asks, “What kind of dystopian world has nutrition ‘science’ entered whereby Tufts is advising the public to eat more Lucky Charms & fewer eggs?” Answer: Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition receives funding from 60 companies...
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FDA gave GRAS status (safe to eat) to High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). 2010, Joanne Slavin, whose University of MN nutrition dept receives funding from Cargill & General Mills, defended HFCS: “a calorie of an egg is no different than a calorie of HFCS.”
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Israeli company is introducing their 3D printed "plant meat" - the "future of food." Ingredients: Water, wheat protein, soy protein, potato protein, refined veg seed oils, corn starch, wheat starch, wheat flour, etc. I bet that smart dog of yours won't eat it!
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Key "plant-based meat" ingredients are GMO corn, soy & wheat, crops in the expanding grip of Ag-Multinationals; hence veganism = more artificial fertiliser, pesticides & herbicides produced by Bayer, Syngenta & the rest of the Big Ag chemical giants.
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Dr Atkins identified root cause of Insulin Resistance: Mineral depletion, esp #magnesium, result of metabolizing excess grains/sugars: Low intracellular magnesium then allows calcium to replace magnesium in soft tissue (like arteries). Solution: Eat variety real food.
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US Air Force General Mike Minihan, head of Air Mobility Command, sent a memo last Friday to the officers he commands, predicting the U.S. will be at war with #China within two years. So, just asking, will the War with Russia end before the War with China begins?
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AHA & USDA Recommend Fats of Mass Destruction: Soy/Canola seed oil extracted at very high temperature, high pressure. Next, the gunk is steamed, destroying the vitamins. Then, drying, degumming, deodorization. New fangled, reactive poly-unstable oil heated 5 times.
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Harvard's Fredrick Stare & Mark Hegsted published influential articles linking eggs & meat to heart disease - quietly funded by the Sugar Industry. USDA hired Hegsted to author USDA's 1980 anti-eggs-&-meat Guidelines. 40 years of food fraud written by Big Sugar shills.
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2020: Soy-lobbyist-funded CSPI called on the FDA to take action against Dr Joseph Mercola for the horrific crime of recommending vitamin D. This is the same Beltway gang that defended trans fatty acids while vilifying natural saturated fats as "the greasy killer."
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2014: Obama State Dept official Victoria Nuland boasted that the US had spent $5 billion dollars to topple the democratically-elected govt in #Ukraine. In Kiev in 2014, she passed out snacks. Today, she is on Team Biden pressing for war against Russia.
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@MToddZimmerman You mean the Obama State Dept official, Victoria Nuland, who, in 2014, boasted that the US had spent $5 billion dollars to topple the democratically-elected govt in Ukraine, here passing out snacks in Kiev in 2014 with the US ambassador?
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1963: CIA within CIA killed JFK who sought peace with USSR.
1996: Expanding NATO to Poland, Bill Clinton betrays pledge to Gorbachev: NATO not to "expand 1 inch east."
2014: US topples govt in Kiev, igniting civil war.
2022: Kiev shells Donbass; Russia reacts.
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@BKatakis Are you aware that the Kiev army killed over 10,000 ethnic Russians in the Donbass after 2014. This man lost his little girl; this woman lost her husband. How can you dismiss this targeting of civilian lives? Is it because they are Russian people?
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As Ukrainian fighters die in cold, wet trenches, #Zelensky sold his villa in Italy for 4.5 million euros. (He had been renting it to a U.S. couple.) Perhaps, the tenants had grown weary of Italian demonstrators: "No more weapons for the #Ukraine comedian."
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"US & its NATO allies are advocating full-blown war against #Russia. If war breaks out, Americans should not be surprised. Biden admin & its bipartisan supporters in Washington are doing all they possibly can to make it happen..."
- - Douglas Macgregor, Col. (ret.)
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@hoe_dan74 I am not a Putin troll. Your insipid name-calling is no substitute for engaging in a discussion with relevant background, context and history. ps: Putin saved Russia from the abyss; restored life expectancy, the economy & created a middle class.
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Had Kiev recognized Russian minority rights in the East (Donbass), akin to French-speaking Quebec's federated status in Canada, there would be no war in #Ukraine. Instead, anti-Russian extremists, directed by the US, plunged the ethnically-divided country into war.
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New review 5 randomized controlled trials (RCT):
Vitamin D supplements reduced risk of death 51% & ICU admission 72% - reason to ensure you’re getting enough vitamins D, A, K2 (animal food best) + magnesium for synergy. Supplements work too. http://bit.ly/3R9nQIX
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USDA & HHS announce 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Committee members say they aim to simplify guideline messaging!
The message has been simple - and stupid - since 1980: Saturated Fat is Bad - "eat as little cholesterol as possible." Give it up!
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1 in 4 in US is are diabetic or pre-diabetic - #1 cause of amputations, blindness, kidney failure. 80% diabetics die of heart disease, why heart failure is #1 Medicare expenditure. How could this happen in the "exceptional nation"? Blackmail, corruption & fraud!
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#Russian borderlands, stupid place to expand NATO! After the USSR imploded in 1991, the Russian-speaking east (red) was trapped with nationalities that had fought with the Nazis in WW2. Since 2014 coup, Russian language is banned; now their church is banned: HOLY WAR.
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The Blue Elite and U.S. neocons such as Russian-hating Lindsey Graham have their wish:
War with #Russia...
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Aside from heavily-sprayed strawberries, Spinach, Kale & Collard greens contain highest levels of pesticides (often 2 or more). Also, unless steamed, these greens contain phytates (anti-nutrients) that interfere with mineral absorption. Avoid over-hyped green smoothies.
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At Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Defense Secty Lloyd "Raytheon" Austin met with military officials from 50 countries to coordinate the continued arming of #Ukraine - now, 50 countries' arms to take on Mother Russia. Did the U.S. start something it can't finish?
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Regarding classified documents in his home, office and garage, #Biden said, “there is no there there.” Ok, so, what about your rushed "lame duck" visit to Kiev, #Ukraine on 17 January 2017, three days before an incoming administration. Was there any there there?
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World Economic Forum #WEF used to be THE PLACE but the idea of the richest, most influential people in the world hobnobbing around a common agenda for the future of the world has lost its luster among average citizens busy right now buying pitchforks.
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Advocating for a wider war, NY Times’ “A Brutal New Phase of the War in Ukraine” is blatant propaganda, laughable, dangerous lies that increases the risk of world war. No context or history; no mention of the root cause: US-led coup d’état in #Ukraine in 2014.
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As Ukrainian fighters die in cold, wet Bakhmut trenches, Oligarch #Zelensky and Elena sell their Italian Villa for 4.5 million Euro’s https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/03/02/oligarch-zelensky-sells-italian-villa-for-4-5-million-euros/ via @veteranstoday
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For decades, the corrupt U.S. health agencies have been wrong about replacing:
butter with margarine
bacon & eggs with cereal
lard & tallow with veg seed oils
red meat with pasta
herbs & nutraceuticals with drugs
a strong immune system with vaccines
Have They No Shame?
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@rammstein_fella As his wife enjoys life in Switzerland, Zelensky has recklessly thrown several brigades into cold, wet Bakhmut trenches where Ukraine fighters are suffering trench foot, amputations & almost certain death - cannon fodder in the U.S. proxy war to weaken Russia.
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"When there’s no such thing as truth, you can’t define reality. When you can’t define reality, the only thing that matters is power."
-- Maajid Nawaz, British activist, radio host
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In Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, a formerly wealthy, now down on his luck character is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he replies, “gradually and then suddenly.” Someday we may ask how the U.S. went bankrupt and receive much the same answer.
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Question for #WEF attendee Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla: When did you know that your #Covid vaccines did not stop transmission? How long have you known that? Why did you keep it a secret? Are you concerned, at all, about myocarditis cases or the surge in sudden deaths?
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"If you think that Russians... do not care about the threat that #NATO presents on its western border, then you know nothing of Russia’s tenacity in beating back such threats. These are very dangerous times..."
-- LARRY JOHNSON, former CIA analyst
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At the #WEF in Davos, Olena Zelenska stressed the need for all counties in attendance "to form a unified front against Russia."
So, Ms. Zelenska wants to drive the world to WAR because her husband refused to implement the Minsk peace sought by Russia. High class rubbish.
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When ambassador William Dodd pestered FDR about Jews disappearing in #Nazi Germany, he was told: "It's an internal matter." 1937, as Dodd persisted, he was fired. Could have been different, but US banks & industrialists were making big money rearming Germany...
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“The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen.”
-- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
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The whole of Europe could be at risk if #Russia isn’t challenged..."
--- Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
[Let's get this straight, Mr. Rutte:
Is Russia expanding to the West or is #NATO expanding to the East?
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Alan Watson
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Who was the largest foreign donor to the Clinton Foundation for 15 years?
#Ukraine️
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As he folded the Warsaw Pact, Mikhail Gorbachev was promised #NATO would not expand "one inch to the east." Succeeding Reagan, George H. W. Bush honored that pledge. In the 1990s, Bill Clinton violated the deal, the root cause of the War in Ukraine.
https://bit.ly/3fSdP4M
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USDA says their 2023 budget seeks an increase from $3 million to $10 million to bolster the MyPlate campaign by extending its reach. Take a look below. Is there any possible reason why $7 million more in outreach will be helpful to anyone on the planet?
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Alan Watson
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1955 John Gofman, Berkeley: Excess refined carbs cause liver to overproduce Triglycerides (TG), which, in turn, reduces HDL. Never refuted and confirmed, these findings threaten cholesterol & fat as culprits - have been swept under the rug for decades.
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Latest Rasmussen poll, "Who is our enemy?"
> Democrats: Russia (31%) is our “greatest enemy,” followed by Republicans (26%) and China (16%).
> Republicans: China (35%) is our "greatest enemy," followed by Russia (33%) and Democrats (12%).
> U.S. on a slippery slope...
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“The past is indestructible; sooner or later everything comes back around, and one of the things that comes back around is the project to abolish the past.”
-- Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
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Drugs manage T2 diabetes: sulfonylureas, meglitinides, biguanides, thiazolidinediones, alpha glucosidase inhibitors, dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitors, bile acid sequestrants, dopamine agonists...
or reverse with high(er) fat, carb-restricted diet + smart supplements.
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1973: Via congressional hearing, AMA tied to suspend Atkins’ license. Crime: Warning that high grain & sugar would lead to epidemic obesity & diabetes. When a large group of his patients registered to testify in support, the sham trial failed. (Now 1 in 4 prediabetic.)
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Anthony Gotto, president, AHA 1985: “If everyone went ahead with cholesterol-lowering, we will conquer atherosclerosis by the year 2000!"
Tens of millions did; however, since year 2000, there are FIVE new specialty heart hospitals just in Minneapolis & St. Paul...
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@CFR_org @MaxBoot @DavidMSacks1 Metternich: "In a world of three, be two."
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4 April 1967, year before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King, Jr delivered a speech against Vietnam War at New York’s Riverside Church. 10 June 1963, 5 months before he was assassinated, JFK gave a peace speech at Harvard. In politics, there are no coincidences. #MLK
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Blood tests do not reveal intracellular magnesium deficiency. Dr Atkins' red blood cell testing revealed widespread deficiency among diabetics & prediabetics, concluding that #diabetes was a magnesium-deficiency disease. AMA response? Yawn... blood tests enough.
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Alan Watson
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@YURFuckinfat @Earbuds_music @bigfatsurprise Nina Teicholz's book Big Fat Surprise is excellent, as is Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories. Malcolm Kendrick's latest book, The Clot Thickens focuses on how blood clots become the #1 killer.
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@MikeSugar17 There is no cholesterol in your blood. Cholesterol-phobia is a scam. Cholesterol as culprit was staged to sell drugs. Consider researching this further via Dr. Malcolm Kendrick's excellent books or go to http://westonaprice.org search "cholesterol."
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Metabolizing excess sugar/refined carbs > magnesium deficiency > elevated glucose > hyperinsulinism > insulin resistance > diabetes > coronary disease > heart failure.
Life-shortening continuum never discussed in Dietary Guidelines for Americans (1980-2025). Why not?
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1997: Retired from University of Minnesota, Ancel Keys, AHA bd member, "godfather" of low fat: “Cholesterol in food has no effect on cholesterol in blood & we’ve known that all along.” Too bad no one bothered to inform the anti-cholesterol McGovern Committee in 1977.
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1937 Columbia University biochemists David Rittenberg & Rudolph Schoenheimer demonstrated that dietary cholesterol had little/no influence on blood levels. Never refuted, nonetheless, Dietary Guidelines (1980-2010): Limit dietary cholesterol to less than 300 mg per day.
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Not a fat, has no calories, not a source of energy, cholesterol is a sterol, high molecular weight alcohol. Different organisms require different sterols. Cholesterol: Animal sterol. The profit-driven "War on Cholesterol" has more victims than mRNA #Covid drugging.
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“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already... what is laid before him.”
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At some point during their time in office, Jack Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump sought détente, relaxation of tension, with #Russia. Agree or not, "Wouldn't it be nice if we got along with Russia" is now the lost alternative, down the lane we did not take...
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Why is Sweden refusing to share information about what they call the "gross sabotage" of the Nord Stream gas pipelines - most expensive ($11 billion) terrorist attack on civilian infrastructure in history. What is #Sweden concealing to protect whom?
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EatingWell: "Fiber is a super important nutrient...
[Fiber ("roughage" ) is not a nutrient. Also, citing two long term Harvard studies, Taubes: "Increasing fiber in the diet had no beneficial effect on colon cancer, nor did it prevent heart disease." Pages 132-33]
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"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much about how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility."
-- Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (1828-1910)
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A head of state just appeared at the #GoldenGlobes & told celebrities he's not expecting World War 3 to break out. The Kremlin said this past week it now views the U.S. a direct party to the war. When the ground freezes over in #Ukraine, are we facing the unthinkable?
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After the 2014 "regime change," #NATO-armed Kiev attacked the Russian Donbas. Among thousands of civilians targeted, this man lost his little girl; she lost her husband; however, no news media in the NATO West - not once - has reported a single incident!
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"No matter what political reasons are given for the war, the underlying reason is always economic."
-- A. J. P. Taylor (British Historian, 1906-1990)
#UkraineWar
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Feb 1997: George F Kennan, retired US diplomat, fluent in both German & Russia, implored U.S. not to expand #NATO into Eastern Europe: “Expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era.”
And so it has come to pass...
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Risk Factor Chart I made 20 years ago (thinking of people over age 50). LDL was not listed because it's not a reliable predictor of heart risk - nor is TC unless it is too low (below 160 mg/dL). Today, of course, I would include fasting insulin. [please click to view]
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"America is back ready to lead the world…" says the incoming Secretary of State Tony #Blinken.
Or…, how about minding our own business AND fixing “stuff” here in the good old forgotten United States?
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40 years of baseless accusations that tiny levels of cholesterol & saturated fats in foods like butter, eggs & red meat cause heart disease. No evidence ever - just decades of inertia indicative of a coordinated bureaucratic campaign among Govt & Medical Elite
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All of us eating butter today instead of margarine should be grateful for the research & bravery of Mary Enig, lipid biochemist. Thanks to Dr Enig, it’s now widely known that vitamin A-, K2- & mineral-rich butter from grass-fed cows promotes optimum immunity.
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AHA’s “Cholesterol as Culprit" stunt + Pharma's "fear appeal” ads made statins the most profitable, worthless drugs ever. Today, after 9 months of "fear appeal" Media stories, the Usual Suspects will make more billions as US "healthcare" reaches a stunning new low
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Dec 8 American College Cardiology: LDL WAS NOT main lipid contributor to CVD (2 studies). Risk: VLDL >40 mg/dL; TG >150 mg/dL; HDL under 40 (men) or under 50 (women). Dr Atkins reported on this 25 years ago: High Carb > Elevated Triglycerides > Elevated VLDL > Low HDL
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Beta Carotene is not infection-fighting vitamin A; must convert to A in small intestine. Conversion is unreliable, uncertain among infants, diabetics, pre-diabetics, hypothyroid (a majority). Pastured beef & butter + liver provide true vitamin A. Plant-based does not!
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Graphic shows fatty acids in “heart healthy” avocados. These SAME six fats are also found in “artery clogging” lard. Only difference? Lard contains more HDL-raising saturated stearic acid – a good thing - and less monounsaturated oleic acid – a neutral thing.
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Cholesterol is the Grandmother hormone - precursor to vitamin D & to all sex, steroid hormones. [click to view]: Hormone cascade functions optimally only with adequate vitamin A from animal foods like butter & liver. (Beta carotene in plants is not true vitamin A.)
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LDL is "bad" is wrong explains Dr Ronald Krauss. Large LDL (pattern A) is benign while small LDL (pattern B) is associated with low HDL, elevated Triglycerides & increased risk of heart disease. Benign LDL pattern A is achieved with carb-restricted higher fat diet.
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Bill Gates: “Health advocates said for years that a pandemic was virtually INEVITABLE." From his East Side snuggery, Kissinger: “The world will NEVER BE THE SAME after the coronavirus" - perhaps explaining why Secty of State Pompeo called #Covid_19 "LIVE EXERCISE."
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UK: "Free vitamin D deliveries will be offered to around 2.7 million vulnerable people by the government."
In US: "Supplements of any kind are a "waste of money" -- diverted away from the pockets of Pharma & the Medical Elite" https://bit.ly/36jWlXb
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World Economic Forum’s #Covid_19 Action Platform includes this statement:
"In fact, one silver lining of the pandemic is that it has shown how quickly we can make radical changes to our lifestyles..." Right!
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> They said go "low fat" > Sugar replaced healthy fats > Excess sugar leads to insulin resistance > Which leads to obesity, certain cancers & diabetes > Which leads to kidney failure, blindness, amputations & earlier death.
UK book: https://stopfeedinguslies.com/the-book/
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During last 40 years, USDA said fear butter (vit A), eggs (complete protein), lard (vit D), red meat (zinc). Now #Covid_19 & CDC, NIH poo-poo vitamins A & D; magnesium & zinc supplements. Result: Diabetics & Senior Home residents - Left for Dead!
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#Mexico: Main causes of mortality are associated with obesity, including cardiovascular diseases (20%), type 2 diabetes (15%), malignant tumors (11%) & liver diseases (8%). Mexicans are the largest consumers of sugary drinks in the world. Coco-Cola is everywhere!
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Yes, you can find good-quality lard in Oaxaca Mexico - always at the "Mercado" - but veg oil from the US & Canada rule - stacked up at supermarkets - Fats of Mass Destruction exported from "El Norte," helping to fuel widespread diabetes & chronic disease.
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Incidence of slow, suffocating Heart Failure (HF) has more than doubled since statin cholesterol-lowering drugs (Mevacor) were introduced in 1987. Today, HF is the #1 Medicare expenditure - #1 reason people age 65 or older are in the hospital (excepting #Covid_19).
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Employing 'brigades' of lawyers, Lobbying is an ‘industrial scale’ enterprise. K Street, lobbying HQ in Wash DC, is where legislation is written. Our politicians, useful idiots on the left & right, haven't written any bills since the mid-1990’s. Democracy or Oligarchy?
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Latest gift from the fellas at Big Pharma. They are now financing a “fact-checking” group called "NewsGuard" to make sure we are receiving the information we need to increase their drug and vaccine sales
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Simon Says is now "Science Says," but whose science? Dug in bureaucrats at CDC, FDA, HHS, NIH + Big Pharma (& Media minions) + a Medical Elite with no ethical guidelines, no interest in underlying causes - just robotic purveyors of synthetic drugs & iffy vaccines.
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CDC-FDA-HHS-NIH-USDA "experts" said replace nutritious eggs with sugar-raising cereals; vitamin A-rich butter with trans-fat margarine; red meat with tofu. They're still charge, in their fancy offices, pretending their unsound advice has nothing to do with anything
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Listening in on 2010 Dietary Guidelines (I have the transcripts), never heard any discussion about elevated blood sugar, insulin resistance & the dis-ease cascade ending in diabetes, kidney & heart failure. And to think we trust these same people on #Covid_19!
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1996 Direct-to-consumer drug ads legalized - major income stream for US Media who cannot “bite the hand that feeds them.” Major sponsors of medical education, Pharma instructs MD's how to prescribe & finances NewsGuard “fact-checking” - "Fox guarding the hen house!"
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"I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living & the kind that enables men & nations to grow & to hope & build better life for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men & women..." [killed 5 mos later]
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Aldous Huxley died 57 years ago today (same day JFK was killed by a "Magic Bullet")
As JFK sought peace, Huxley was warning that our democratic societies were ruled by a “Power Elite” – “modern technology has led to the concentration of economic & political power.”
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By researching & publishing data on the trans fatty acid composition of 500 commonly eaten foods, Mary Enig, PhD, gave nutrition-minded people a useful tool for avoiding the dangerous, "unlabeled" trans-fat-laden products that FDA was staunchly unconcerned about.
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1970s Mary Enig, PhD established link(s) between trans fats & increased cancer & heart risk & thereby became a threat to the "trans fat is healthy" lobby. At one point, a bully from P&G barged into her office & threatened her. Enig didn't back down; Trans Ban in 2018.
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Just in time for the Holidays:
The Beet: "Luckily two doctors have written a new book on how to go plant-based & get your family on board."
Suggestions: Country Croak "butter," tofu scramble, soy cheesy spread, chia eggs (not true, right?) & veggie balls... Nummy!
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Malcolm Kendrick, MD on vitamin D:
"Of those 104 subjects who took 2,000 IU of vitamin D every day, only one got a cold or influenza in the entire year." [My caveat: A + D together team fashion from food (fry liver in lard) most protective.] http://bit.ly/35HVgqh
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#Covid_19
Not listed on chart: Vietnam, 95 million people, densely populated, multi-age households, relatively poor country: only 35 deaths.
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Jan 13, 2020, amid the impeachment imbroglio in the US, #China reported they had discovered "a novel coronavirus of unknown origin" & immediately responded as though is was a bio-weapon attack. Today, fewer than 5,000 deaths & China is back to work. Why is US Media Mute?
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Why are the words "elevated blood sugar" hard-to-find in USDA's Dietary Guidelines? Because in the US, 1 in 4 are diabetic or pre-diabetic - 80% will die of heart disease - #1 killer - yielding Big Profits for Big Pharma who then shower politicians with campaign money.
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Lisa Sawyer is on Biden's “Defense” team. She believes the US is not doing enough to deter "aggressive" #Russia. She advocates sending even more offensive weapons to #Ukraine to target Russian-speaking civilians in civil war on Russian border. Who muted US media?
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Alan Watson
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Read The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz or Gary Taubes' "biblical," lengthy Good Calories, Bad Calories.
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1980 USDDA initiated a coordinated “low fat” nutrition experiment with “so very little evidence that it would do any good," wrote Phillip Handler, NAS director in 1980.
Today, the "very little evidence” of benefit has become strong evidence of unprecedented harm
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Fat is found in the membranes of all animals (humans), microorganisms & plants - present in most food. In humans, saturated fat makes up 30-70% of cell membrane lipid bilayers - true "homeland" security compromised by 40 years of official, coordinated Fat is the Demon!
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Ike was "all or nothing." After his 1955 heart attack, he went low, low fat - Doctor's orders! On low fat, he had a stroke in 1957. Today, stroke incidence is increasing. Victims in 40-50 age group have 300% higher risk of dying prematurely. Don't Be Misinformed!
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At the time of Ike’s heart attack his TC = 165 mg/dl. Afterward he was allowed little fat or cholesterol (1 egg per week). As Ike left office his TC = 259. One week earlier Keys made cover of Time for the "low fat" diet Ike had suffered 5 years with rising TC!.
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Early 1900s, Steele County MN had 26 creameries, most per square mile anywhere in world. Largest employer in MN, creameries employed skilled butter-makers. Federally mandated pasteurization in 1949 killed fresh dairy in MN, but one - Hope Creamery - survived!
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Jacobson of veg-oil-funded Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) enjoyed calling saturated fat "the greasy killer." Jeremiah Stamler was an AHA & CSPI board member. Mazola & Fleishmann's funded his book, Your Heart Has 9 Lives. Talk about corruption...
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1978: Six year after Dr Atkins first warned that excess sugar would fuel a diabetes epidemic, FDA gave GRAS status (safe) to HFCS. By 1985, HFCS had 50% of the surging sugar market. Today, 1 in 4 in US are diabetic or pre-diabetic. Defund the corrupt, inept FDA
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AHA says heart disease is largely preventable if we prioritize regular exercise & consume a "healthy diet" of beans, fruit, grains, nuts, & veggies.
No mention of complete protein, optimum fat, vitamins A, B12 & D or Carnitine, iron or zinc - monkey food will do!
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"What right has the fed govt to propose that the American people conduct vast nutritional experiment, with themselves as subjects, on the strength of so very little evidence that it will do them any good?” --Phillip Handler, NAS, response to USDA's 1980 low fat Guidelines
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said "Europe Can No Longer Rely On The US For Protection Even With Biden In Office..."
Protection from whom? (don't say #Russia!)
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Eggs are "free food" eat as many as you like. Any egg is better than no egg, but eggs from foraging chickens are best. Fry them in bacon fat, butter or lard or mix it up with omelets, quiche, etc. Eggs are concentrated source of macula-protecting lutein & zeaxanthin.
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1976 FDA gives Generally Regarded As Safe status to hydrogenated soybean oil even though lipid biochemist Mary Enig had warned FDA that trans fats, among other concerns, interfere with insulin receptors on cell membranes increasing risk of diabetes.
No Ban Until 2018!
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Cholesterol Scare Began: 1955 Former smoker Eisenhower has heart attack. TC = 165 ml/dl. Put on low cholesterol: Dry toast for breakfast; 1 egg per week. Was kept on low cholesterol. 1961 day he left office TC = 265. Had several more heart attacks; died of heart disease.
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1961: American Heart Asso adopts board member Ancel Keys’ low fat diet & distributes a "Saturated Fat Risk Handbook" free to all US physicians paid for by Mazola Corn Oil & Fleischmann’s Margarine. AHA, early on, for a fee, greasing the skids for Big Poly Oil
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Whole Foods’ plant-based "Hooray" bacon has 50% more "artery-clogging" saturated fat (coconut oil) than 60% unsaturated pork bacon.
AHA harping about "bad" coconut oil; Food Police harping about "bad" bacon. Get your falsehoods straight, boys & girls!
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AHA, AMA, FDA, NIH, USDA said cut butter, eggs, red meat -Emphasize grains, sugars, soybean oil. We did & we're sicker. Between 1980-2012, T2 diabetes increased 166%. 80 million are prediabetic; 80% diabetics will die heart disease. Defund the alphabet agencies!
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Credit Suisse Research: Fat: The New Health Paradigm, September 2015: > “Natural unprocessed fats are healthy and key to the evolution of a society that focuses on developing healthy individuals, not just on treating those who are sick.” > https://bit.ly/32EmZYM
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1955: John Gofman (Berkeley):
Excess carbohydrates (grains & sugars) cause the liver to overproduce Triglycerides (TG) which, in turn, reduces "good" HDL. Why doesn't the AHA - NIH - USDA consider this worth knowing?
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US households spend least percentage of their income on food, explaining why our - "there are no cures" - Balkanized Disease Management" is the most costly in the world. (Not referring to our trauma/emergency medicine "front line" workers).
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Timely book by Nina Teicholz
(credible reference for tweeting)
"Reducing the saturated fat in our diets has been disastrous for our health as a nation, and we can, guilt-free, welcome these whole fats back into our lives: Eggs, whole milk, meat, butter …
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Insulin Resistance > Metabolic Syndrome > #1 Killer:
Excess grains & sugars > TG up > VLDL up > HDL down > Higher % of LDL in small dense particles (Pattern B) > Sticky, clot-prone blood >Increased coronary inflammation > Heart Disease > Heart Failure
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Andrew Weil, MD on the Dr Oz show discussing science writer Gary Taubes' "biblical" Good Calories, Bad Calories:
"I think this is a very important book. I have been recommending it to my medical colleagues and students….” [Ask your doctor if she's read it!]
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Next visit Educate your doctor
(as simple as it can get):
> Triglycerides & HDL are in teeter-totter relationship.
If TG goes up - HDL goes down.
TG:HDL ratio 1 is ideal (2 is a concern)
TG:HDL ratio of 3 = risk increases
TG:HDL ratio of 4 = serious heart risk!
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As Japan prospered after WW II, % calories from fat increased 400% from 5% in 1958 to 20% in 1999 as carb calorie % went down 84% to 62%. Strokes, #1 cause death, fell dramatically; life expectancy up.
Fat to the rescue!
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Malcolm Kendrick, MD: Elderly people with the highest cholesterol levels have the highest survival rates irrespective of where they live in the world.
Ann Nutr Metab 2015;66(suppl 4):1–116
DOI: 10.1159/000381654
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Driver of weight gain leading to T2 diabetes is high carb diet - opposite of what we've been told by Fat-Demonizing-Dieticians who call carbs "heart-healthy." Following this "bad" advice, western world has become fat, fatter, fattest via Cause (carbs) & Effect (fat)
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As we bought Toyotas & Datsuns after WW II, Japan recovered, prospered. Calories from fat increased from 5% to 20% calories between 1958 & 2000. Stroke, #1 cause of death, fell dramatically during this period. Life expectancy surged - now #1 in the world.
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What your doctor calls “high cholesterol” (200-300 mg/dL) is nothing to fret; however, if your TC is declining over time (Framingham Study) and/or your TC drops below 160 mg/dl (level when "all cause mortality" increases) you are at risk for "earlier mortality"
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Between 1973 & his untimely death in 2003, Dr Atkins did intracellular magnesium testing (blood tests reveal nothing), 2-hour glucose tolerance tests (does your MD have time) & routinely reversed T2 #diabetes. Medical Elite response: Slander; Demonization!
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CNN’s international security editor Nick Paton Walsh asserted that the mandatory wearing of masks will become “permanent,” - public will need to “come to terms with it.” Is it time to defund the bio-weapons industry - Godfather of #Covid_19?
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Monday: Pfizer shares soared 16% following a bullish statement on the company's iffy #COVID-19 vaccine (90% effectiveness; preliminary results). Tuesday: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla sold 62% of his stock. Boys Will Be Boys!
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@SSage69007180 I think "his depression" was over emphasized after his death. I, of course, may be wrong, but, among journalists, he did a no-no - exposing the calamity of Palestinians...
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#McDonald's unveils new “McPlant” but "It's unclear what exactly is in McDonald’s plant-based patty from an ingredient standpoint..."
My suggestion: Try mineral- & vitamin A-rich grass-fed beef. It's tasty, nutritious and has passed the test of time...
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It's unfortunate that an Anthony Bourdain couldn't be US president - ambassador of peace, good will & "let's eat." Among journalists, he alone visited both Russia and Gaza where Palestinians are struggling to survive. Maybe that explains his tragic death...
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NATO Declares Biden White House Will Finally Confront "Assertive #Russia"
Asserting what, brains and beauty?
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80% of #Covid-19 related deaths in MN have been in Senior Care Homes, people shut in for months with deficiencies of vitamin A (no butter or liver), D (no lard, supplements or sun) & magnesium (activates D). Did they succumb to a mystery virus or to blatant malnutrition?
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NEED TO KNOW ORIGIN! #Covid_19 may have begun to spread in Los Angeles as early as December 2019, according to research from UCLA & University of Washington - before the WHO knew about the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China. https://bit.ly/38laxRe
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"If people let the govt decide what foods they eat & what medicines they take their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state [obesity, diabetes, heart failure] as are the souls who live under tyranny [coming next?]." -- Thomas Jefferson
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"Dietitian's Pantry" says Pistachios provide "better-for-you" unsaturated fats. [Unsaturated fats "better for you"?] Really? Lauric-rich coconut oil (92% saturated) & lauric-rich human breast milk (54% saturated) are complex healthy fats happily consumed for eons...
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@DietHeartNews Thanks, Mr. Watson. Where is this from?
Alan Watson
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Read Dr Malcolm Kendrick's "The Cholesterol Con" or go to his website. I also studied this in two books, pictured here:
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Global breakfast cereal market is estimated at $40 billion. Researchers point to: "Consumers’ ever-growing interest in convenient, ready-to-eat foods..."
Or is it advertising targeting children > sugar addiction? Among los ninos, T2 #Diabetes is surging in Mexico
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Dariush Mozaffarian, MD: "You probably already know the more general rules for eating for heart health, like going easy on red meat & loading up on veggies..."
How much B12 do veggies have? None! What provides more heart-healthy Carnitine, red meat or a carrot?
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During 1973 congressional hearing, AMA tied to revoke Dr Atkins’ license. Why? The audacity to challenge Ancel Key's "low fat equals good health." In his defense, a large number of his patients registered to testify. Matter was dropped; attacks did not.
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Sen George McGovern lost 1972 presidential election, but found something to do. 1977: His bi-partisan committee held 2 days of contentious hearings & then proposed 1st ever low fat guidelines, which morphed into 1980 USDA low fat guidelines. Then inertia set in...
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"I have studied saturated fat consumption many, many… many, many, times. The one thing that has always stood out, most starkly, is the complete lack of any real evidence to support the idea that it causes cardiovascular disease..."
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1984: In order to do generate office visits, do mass testing & sell drugs, AHA & NIH announced to all US physicians, Media, & "We the Patients," that TC over 200 mg/dL was a disease - millions at risk! Major problem: Figure was pulled out of thin air...
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Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy:
“Sounds of footsteps and a man’s voice, then that of a woman. Sappho Stolz and a young man - shining with a superabundance of health - known as Vaska. It was evident that he flourished on underdone beef, truffles, and Burgundy.” 1877
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Science-writer Gary Taubes' shared his winning lipid profile:
Fasting Glucose: 86
HDL: 68 > TG: 64
TG:HDL Ratio = <1 (lowest risk; 4 highest risk)
VLDL = 19 (optimum <20)
LDL Pattern A (large, fluffy variety - Separate Test)
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Carbs go to liver where VLDL > LDL originate. Fat goes to gut, reduced to molecules- reassembled - sent out to blood via lymph in Chylomicron (B48 identifier for hungry cells). As you see, fat can't "raise LDL." Excess carbs raise TG-rich VLDL - morphs into LDL.
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There are two lipoprotein systems (a) from gut (chylomicrons deliver dietary fat) & from the liver (VLDL > IDL > LDL transport liver-made fats. (HDL made in separate liver pathway.) In order to sell drugs, Medical Elite dummied this down to "good & bad cholesterol."
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Emphasize fat, you’ll burn fat, improve your lipid profile (TG:HDL ratio). Emphasize grains & sugars, you’ll make, store & lock up fat - setting the stage for diet-related heart disease - made worse in those who consume high percentage of easily-digested carbs.
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"The Beet" recommends dark chocolate "which provide antioxidants to the brain..." Cacao also provides 60% "good" saturated fat. Like 92% saturated coconut & 50% saturated palm, tropical plants, like humans, require saturated fats for membrane stability.
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Life in the Fat Lane:
Chicken fat: 30% saturated; 50% monounsaturated; 20% polyunsaturated. Beef: 45% sat; 50% mono; 2-3% poly. Lard: 40% sat; 50% mono; 10% poly. Cocoa: 60% sat; 40% mono. Coconut oi: 92% sat; 6 mono; 2 poly.
It's all good, right?
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To correct "Lipid-Ignorance," the private doctors at AHA & the bureaucrats at NIH & USDA ought to start with these books: (1) Michael Gurr's Textbook used at Oxford, & (2) MD's documenting the Coordinated "Cholesterol & Saturated Fat" Hoax! Do your homework fellas!
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Atkins/Keto > TG down > VLDL down > HDL up > LDL presents in benign large, fluffy LDL particles (Pattern A)
Excess grain/sugars > TG up > VLDL up > HDL down > LDL morphs into numerous small dense, more easily oxidized particles (Pattern B).
Same TC; risk varies!
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European heart study (MONICA): Switzerland & France, who consume lavish natural fat diets, had lowest death rates from heart disease. The Swiss, who enjoy highest life expectancy in Europe, had highest average cholesterol levels: 260 mg/dL (6.7236 mmol/L).
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Yes, says Dr Eric Westman, Duke University, Atkins was right! >“We should be talking about blood sugar and insulin…”
but the AHA and your family doctor keep harping about Total Cholesterol or the lipoprotein LDL - the least reliable indicators of heart risk!
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1980 USDA adopts AHA's Low Fat dictate: Eat grains & "sugar only causes dental carries" diet
Since 1980: 400 + daily calories of bagels, bread, breakfast bars, cereal, donuts, fruit juice & smoothies, HFCS, muffins, pasta, skim milk, soft drinks, sugar =
DIABESITY
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1949 Pasteurization Mandatory = heat-damaged milk. During WW II, inexperienced replacement creamery workers produced tainted milk. Govt blamed raw milk; not replacement workers - not dislocations of war. Bad idea: Pasteurization destroys enzymes, B12; denatures proteins.
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Dr Eric Rimm (2010 Guidelines Committee): "... there is no good human data to suggest that higher fat diets lead to obesity. If anything, higher fat diets, at 35 to 40%, lead to lower [bad] Triglycerides because it’s a lower carbohydrate intake..." - He tried!
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AHA pres. Antonio Gotto 1985: “If everyone went ahead with cholesterol-lowering, we will conquer atherosclerosis by year 2000!"
You did! Statins #1 prescribed drug. Heart failure #1 Medicare Expense. Since 2000, five new heart hospitals just in Mpls/St Paul!
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1955 John Gofman: Excess carbs (grains, sugars) promote liver-made blood fats (Triglycerides). Elevated Triglycerides > more VLDL lipoproteins needed > increased heart risk, but, no, without evidence, AHA insisted "Cholesterol is the culprit!"
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UK's smart doctor Malcolm Kendrick:
"Of those 104 subjects who took 2,000 IU vitamin D every day, only one got a cold or influenza the entire year." [My caveat: A & D together team fashion from food most protective but supplements work.] http://bit.ly/35HVgqh
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Headline: Vitamin D, omega-3 do not cut heart failure hospitalization
Last line study-designed-to-fail: "Several pharmaceutical companies provided study agents & matching placebos."
So, I guess, "Just ask your doctor what drug is right for you."
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Diet Dictocrats: “Eat red meat sparingly...”
Is that because beef & lamb are the best sources of all B-vitamins, minerals like iron and zinc, and nutrients like Carnitine - and Pharma depends on sick people?
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1910: Rendered from outdoor-living pigs, vitamin D-rich lard had 70% edible fat market. Colonel Sanders’ original recipe called only for lard! Folks made biscuits in lard; fried liver in lard. Today, 70% of the market: No-vitamin-D chemically unstable soybean oil.
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1970: AHA's 1961 anti-fat directive, based on board member Ancel Key's slippery science, was extended to include "infants & children." Right! Growing Children Don't Need Fat for Brain & Nervous System Development!
Really, low fat for children?
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Wm Banting published "Letter On Corpulence." He had lost 85 lbs on high fat, carb-restricted diet. British Medical Journal & Lancet said Banting's diet could be dangerous: "We advise Mr Banting & everyone of his kind, not to meddle with medical literature again."
1863...
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French lawyer and gourmand Brillant-Savarin publishes "The Physiology of Taste," in which he says he has identified the cure for obesity: "More or less rigid abstinence from everything that is starchy or floury."
1825...
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Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy:
"On the day of the races, Vronsky came early to eat his beefsteak. It was not necessary to train strictly because his weight was regulation, but he had to be careful not to get fatter & therefore avoided sweets & starchy foods."
1877...
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2020 USDA Guidelines has "saturated fat" subcommittee controlled by vegetarian activist Joan Sabaté - a fox guarding the Plant-Based hen house. Also, saturated-fat-foe Linda Van Horn, who leads a program funded by AstraZeneca for "diet-related" diseases. Ouch again!
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[not about the election]
How did China, 1 billion people, successfully contain #Covid mostly to Wuhan - 4,634 deaths? How did neighboring Vietnam, 95 million people, successfully limit Covid to 35 deaths. Anything worth learning here?
Media mute; too busy...
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Current 2015 USDA Guidelines finally reversed the decades-long, arbitrary daily limit of 300 mg on dietary cholesterol. Elsewhere the Guidelines warn us against consuming "cholesterol-rich foods like eggs, meat & full-fat dairy." What's wrong with these people?
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1984: Without valid evidence, ignoring strong contrary evidence, unholy alliance of AHA & NIH decided that cholesterol over 200 mg/dL was a disease requiring office visits & mass screening. Letter to all MD's announced the new fake threat: New Business too! [click below]
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USDA: Fiber ad nauseum, GMO high grain, plant-meat, sugar to 10% calories, skinless chicken, skim-milk, trim fat, veg-oil.
Or: Butter (cream), broth sauces, coconut oil, cheese, eggs, fatty & organ meats, lacto-fermented vegs, seafood, sourdough, unrefined salt
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"Anti-Saturated Fat" tent isn't big enough to conceal the FAILURE of AHA's fund-raising doctors & the so called "experts" at CDC, FDA, HHS, NIH & USDA to protect Americans from record levels of obesity - precursor to T2 diabetes, CHD & "Death By #Covid"
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Peter Barton Hutt, food lawyer with Wash DC law firm Covington & Burling, represented edible oil industry until he became FDA general council in 1971. How nice for "edible oil" - one of their own in a position to promote & defend "bad" trans fatty acids...
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In obeisance to veg-oil lawyers/lobbyists, FDA resisted banning trans fats for 50 years, taking action only after Dr Fred Kummerow's 2009 lawsuit. So, since 2015, in a new STUPID twist, AHA, RD's, USDA lump the now banned industrial trans with natural saturated fats
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Harvard’s Dr Fredrick Stare's syndicated column promoted P&G's "cholesterol-free” Puritan Oil. In 1969, he wrote, “To my knowledge I’ve never heard of too much polyunsaturated fat for man.” Ouch! Stare also received funding from the Sugar Industry
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Early as 1956, AHA said replace vitamin A-rich butter & vitamin D-rich lard with trans-laden margarine, chemically unstable veg oils & trans-laden shortenings like Crisco - heat-damaged "bad" fats devoid of fat soluble vitamins A & D, required for optimum immunity
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1 in 4 in US are pre-diabetic or diabetic; overlapping with the millions on kidney dialysis, have fatty liver or are dying of heart failure. Failed dietary directives from AHA & USDA: Go "Plant-Based" - Avoid, limit vitamin- & mineral-rich animal foods
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Watch out for low cholesterol! "Anyone with TC under 160 mg/dl (4.1376 mmol/l) has double the risk of brain hemorrhage & increased risk of leukemia plus cancers of the liver, lung & pancreas." -- Sherry A. Rogers, MD, author, The Cholesterol Hoax
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American heroes Dr Fred Kummerow & Mary Enig, PhD spent DECADES attempting to ban BAD trans fats. Finally in 2015, FDA ruled that veg-oil trans fats were unsafe to eat; gave Big Food three years (until 2018) to eliminate them from the food supply.
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1948 Proctor & Gamble, makers of Crisco, donated $2 million to AHA. 1968 AHA printed 150,000 flyers cautioning against use of veg-oil trans fats. P&G's Fred Mattson learned of the campaign & convinced AHA to shred them. Took 50 years for FDA to ban trans fats!
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Animal fats are saturated fats & plants provide unsaturated fats, right?
No, wrong! Like olive oil, a porterhouse steak contains more "good" monounsaturated oleic acid than "good" saturated fat.
Medical Elite & USDA are guilty of malfeasance. Enough is enough!
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AHA receives millions each year from Big Pharma, including $3 million from Pfizer, maker of Lipitor - "Thief of Memory" – explaining, in part, why AHA advises healthy older people with no history of heart disease - & seniors at risk of #Alzheimer's - to go on statins
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Elizabeth Nabel, National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, Director, 2005-2009: "We have no evidence that taking a cholesterol-lowering medication like a statin will prevent them from getting heart disease."
What will stop the statin circus?
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> "Coconut oil isn’t healthy. It’s never been healthy”
> “Nutrition experts warn coconut oil is on par with beef fat
& butter”
> "This popular health food is worse for you than lard"
but consumed in South Pacific by healthy people for a thousand years...
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Highest concentration cholesterol occurs in brain. Low cholesterol asso w/ depression, anti-social behavior & suicide. Brain membranes also contains high levels stable saturates + 11% brain is arachidonic acid, omega-6 found exclusively in animal fats like butter.
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Israel Shamir: "Russians are amazed by the madness washing over the US: Riots, looting, destruction of memorials, hardball election politics & rumors of civil war do not fit the US image in Russian eyes. The country they admired so much..."
https://bit.ly/3dSXpU0
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More than a month ago, after a thorough investigation, HHS, USDA & the heads of our 17 intelligence agencies concluded that there's no evidence to suggest that #Russia was involved in formulating our low fat Dietary Guidelines...
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Doesn't matter that the coordinated AHA - NIH - USDA anti-saturated-fat campaign violates nutrition science. It ramped up drug sales & gave Big Food cheap subsidized ingredients. By 1990's, Cookbooks & College Nutrition Textbooks had to comply Or Not Get Published.
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"Exercise & eat a low fat diet. If that doesn't lower your cholesterol enough, take statin drug for the rest of your life." Whether in tiny amounts in food, or in normal, fluctuating blood levels, vital cholesterol has become a medical criminal targeted by quacks.
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New! Omega 7 nutritional supplement "to help maintain already healthy cholesterol & blood sugar levels..."
Omega 7 is monounsaturated palmitoleic acid. A best food source is Chicken Fat! - abundant in the skin we've been instructed not to eat (or feed to the dog)
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AHA says coconut oil is "bad" fat apparently not knowing that coconut oil & breast milk both contain saturated lauric & capric acids that help the body fight bacteria, viruses & fungus. (Infant formula must include lauric acid from coconut.) AHA - wrong again!
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Lie told thousand times becomes truth:
Saturated fat (8 common in foods we've eaten for eons) is cause of 20th century coronary disease that only became public health issue after the BIG INCREASE in sugar & poly veg oils in "low fat" ultra-processed food products.
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McGovern Committee's 1977 low fat "Dietary Goals" were written by young, former labor reporter (staffer) with no scientific background. In 1980, USDA did a virtual 100% cut/paste. This started a "coordinated" chain reaction of bad dietary advice that reverberates still.
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AHA receives millions each year from Pharma & healthcare companies, including $3 million from Pfizer, maker of statin Lipitor - "Thief of Memory." Does this explain, in part, why AHA advises almost every adult to take a statin, including seniors at risk of Alzheimer's?
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Coconut oil contains 6 saturates: Medium-chain caprylic (8 carbons) & capric (10 carbons) + lauric (12 carbons), myristic (14 carbons), palmitic (16 carbons) & stearic (18 carbons).
Pushing rancid veg oils, AHA calls the Queen of Saturates "bad." How dull is that?
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USA Today: "Coconut oil isn’t healthy. It’s never been healthy." Oh ya? Eaten for centuries, coconut oil is best source of saturated lauric acid, used by body to kill or disable pathogenic viruses & bacteria. 90% saturated also means coconut oil is chemically stable.
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“Nutrition experts warn coconut oil is on par with beef fat, butter” ~ Chicago Tribune
Nutrition textbooks, Media went along with AHA demonizing our traditional foods. Nutrient-dense coconut oil, beef fat & butter are healthy - AHA's advice isn't!
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AHA fund-raising MD's advised us to eat high-trans-fat margarine because it was “more heart-healthy” than butter because it contains “no dietary cholesterol...”
Trans fat killed a lot of people. The 30 mg of cholesterol in a tablespoon of butter is good-for-you!
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French, who suffer less heart disease & enjoy longer life expectancies than US or UK, are not afraid of food, enjoy the most butter in the world & lavish amounts of cheese, goose fat & lard. Apparently traditional fats eaten for centuries are only "bad" in US & UK...
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@Christo09311961 HDL & LDL are lipid transit vehicles - lipoproteins. LDL (there are 7 subclasses) is the offspring of liver-made VLDL, carrying cholesterol & fat soluble nutrients to hungry cells. HDL is "reverse-transport." Read Mary Enig, PhD & UK's Malcolm Kendrick, MD
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1961, led by Ancel Keys, with no evidence, AHA began demonizing foods containing tiny measures of cholesterol, like 270 mg in large egg, <50% absorbed. These non-govt, fund-raising private MD's did incalculable damage to our country as FDA, NIH, USDA looked the other way
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New-fangled Fat of Mass Destruction, polyunsaturated linoleic acid, consumed in excess; highly processed heat- & solvent-derived soybean & canola oils that react to heat, light & oxygen; so they process with heat, package in clear plastic & they want you to eat it?
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Doris, former mother-in-law, had no history of liver disease - no T2 diabetes. Doris didn't drink alcohol! In nine (9) months her TC dropped from 285 to 130 mg/dl. No other change in her life. She was "Zocored." No woman ever, at any age, should go on statin drug!
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Study published in 1991 by Kern et al. detailed the effects on blood (plasma) cholesterol of an 88-year-old man’s diet of 25 eggs per day.
No effect! Eggs are "free food" eat a many as you like. Any egg is better than no egg; eggs from forging chickens are best!
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1997 Harvard study in AHA's Circulation: People with highest TG/lowest HDL (top quartile) were 16 times more likely to die of heart disease than people with lowest TG/highest HDL. Never refuted; why never discussed with patients. No drug for that! [click to view]
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Incidence of slow, suffocating heart failure has more than doubled since 1987, year cholesterol-lowering statin drugs were first deployed. Statins deplete CoQ10. Today, Heart failure: #1 Medicare expenditure; #1 reason those 65 or older are in the hospital. Toss 'em!
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Since 1980’s, we’ve had a top-down attempt at conformity to a failed narrative that cholesterol - "the lone gunman" - is the cause of heart disease, a hypothesis that has never been proven but hangs on & on as the "unintended consequences" pile on...
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Blood-sugar-raising box cereals are little more than "food chaos." Amino acids in those O's & flakes are damaged from high temperature, high pressure industrial extrusion. Final product is sprayed with synthetic vitamins & colors & coatings to make it go crunch...
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How Could She? 2010 Dietary Guidelines Carb Chair Joanne Slavin, PhD, defended HFCS saying, “A calorie is a calorie is a calorie." (Calorie of an egg is same as calorie of HFCS.) Guess what? Her nutrition dept receives financial support from Cargill & General Mills.
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RD: "Popular diets like Atkins might have you believing that packing yourself with protein is the magic bullet…"
[Sorry - do your homework - #Atkins is High Natural Fat > Moderate (complete) protein > Restricted grain/sugar. Called optimum metabolic functioning
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Mayo Clinic nutritionists apparently haven’t done their homework! Brochure (July 2018) on how to lower blood cholesterol through diet: "Lower your intake of high-cholesterol foods, such as egg yolks...” We all know, don't we, that this is bogus, even harmful advice?
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Blood-sugar-raising cereals, grains & sugars have direct, immediate effect on blood sugar & insulin levels & - per science writer Gary Taubes - "on the disruption of the entire harmonic ensemble of the human body” - promoting preventable chronic disease.
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T2 #Diabetes is epidemic. Box breakfast cereals raise blood sugar FAST, but why no warning about blood-sugar-raising grain products in USDA's Dietary Guidelines? Oh, that's right, since 1980, Big Food lobbyists broker membership in USDA's Guideline Committees.
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So called "Mediterranean Diet" is Ancel Key's failed 1961 High Grain AHA diet repackaged, spun to perpetuate deception, fraud & profits of "Low Fat equals Good Health." 21 countries on the Mediterranean: None eat a Plant-Based diet; all enjoy cheese, meat & fish.
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By weight, all children’s box cereals are >30% sugar. If the fed govt is concerned about reducing incidence of obesity & diabetes in children, why isn’t there a warning about blood-sugar-raising cereals in the proposed 2020 Dietary Guidelines?
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Eggs are a concentrated source of both Lutein & Zeaxanthin. Dr Robert Atkins lamented that the AHA > NIH > USDA anti-egg campaign - eat cereal - fueled the increase in macular degeneration after 1980. Any egg is better than any cereal.
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During 1st meeting of 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, Harvard’s Dr Eric Rimm testified he is concerned about "the artificial limit on fat" in the Guidelines. "I could be thrown off the stage for saying this!” Instead, he was met with stone cold silence...
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"The new anti-PCSK9 compound LIB003 [yes, their diagram below] substantially reduces low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol over 52 weeks in patients already taking maximally tolerated statins..."
My god - What's wrong with these people?
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1937: Columbia Univ biochemists David Rittenberg & Rudolph Schoenheimer demonstrated that dietary cholesterol had little or no influence on blood cholesterol. Never refuted, USDA ignored this evidence until 2015 - then made this meaningless revision [click]:
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1997: Retired from Univ of Minnesota, AHA board member Ancel Keys, Father of Low Fat, said: “Cholesterol in food has no affect on cholesterol in blood & we’ve known that all along.” Unfortunately, AHA, Big Food & USDA spins the lie -- even to this day!
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2010 Dietary Guidelines "Carb Chair" Joanne Slavin, PhD, Nutrition Professor, University of Minnesota - home to Cargill & cereal-maker General Mills: "25% of daily calories as sugar is okay..." How did Slavin get chosen to be on the Committee? - also Carb Chair?
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1961 Without RCT EVIDENCE - fingered by AHA as cause of heart disease - nutritious, traditional foods containing saturated fat & cholesterol were to be “lean, low fat or fat free” - repeated ad nauseum in USDA's fear-based, diabetes-promoting Guidelines since 1980.
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MyPlate: "Limit intake of saturated fats & trans fats."
It's non-science & nonsense to group natural fats in food with veg oil industrial trans fatty acids
Mary Enig, PhD: Saturated & trans fats behave completely differently in biological systems." [like human body]
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1970: AHA extends its 1961 Low Fat Directive to "infants & children." Don't growing children require fat & cholesterol for brain & nervous system development? Did AHA's diet advice, in part, fuel the surge in ADHD, Asthma, Diabetes, Autism [click] after 1980?
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1963 AHA board member Jeramiah Stamler's book "Your Heart Has 9 Lives" advocated substituting veg oils for “artery clogging saturated fats.” Stamler’s book & research at the Univ of Chicago was funded by - surprise! - Mazola Corn Oil & Fleischmann’s Margarine.
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@MicroBerto @ProfTimNoakes Amish produce high quality lard as do other small, mixed farms. Whose fault is it that we allowed veg oil to take over the edible fat market? Whole Foods and Fresh Thyme and local food coops are bringing back quality fats - let's hope people support these efforts.
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Dr Atkins: As your Triglycerides (TG = blood fat made in liver from excess sugar & grains) go >100 mg/dL (1.129 mmol/L), risk of heart disease increases in linear manner.
TG >200 mg/dl (2.3 mmol/L) = VERY HIGH! Remember, as TG goes up, "good" HDL goes down.
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Eat excess grains & sugars, even "whole grains," pancreas floods bloodstream with fat storage hormone insulin. Liver converts this excess fire of energy into "blood fats" - Triglycerides - the most reliable, IGNORED predictor of heart risk in blood work. Tell your MD!
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Only the liver, General of Metabolism - not dietary fiber - can lower blood levels of cholesterol - transport it elsewhere. Liver also decides how much cholesterol, as bile, is recycled from the colon back to the liver - up to 95% (see below). The rest is HYPE!
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70% of fat in lung surfactant layer, 16C Palmitic Acid is most common saturated fat in plant & animal food (like avocados, bacon & palm oil). Diet Dictocrats fraudulently demonize Palmitic as "bad" - helps to sell the rancid unstable veg oils that promote asthma.
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If you read "saturated fat raises LDL" ask, which one? Lipid metabolism is too complex for over-simplified, fear-based platitudes. There are 8 saturated fats, carbon chains ranging from 4C Butyric (butter) to 18C Stearic (chocolate & beef). Latter raises "good" HDL.
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Dr Andrew Freeman, National Jewish Health, says:
"More emphasis on long-term studies is needed to see if the Keto diet could hurt your heart..."
We already have one - called Paleolithic History...
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THE BEET: "Want to Lose Weight & Still Feel Full? This Nutritionist says: Just Add Fiber..."
Fiber is "roughage" - Don't fill up on something you can't digest. Fill up on whole foods containing complex fat & complete protein, like meatloaf & salad vegetables.
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THE BEET: "You can lose weight on a high-fat diet, but eventually all that fat clogs your liver & bloodstream."
Dietary fat DOES NOT clog! Excess cereal-grain-sugar Triglycerides clog - promote fatty liver, diabetes, CHD & heart failure. Fat is your friend!
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Media says "Demand for plant-based meat has continued to surge during the pandemic..."
Imitation-Meat-Pandemic: Incomplete, less-than-optimal protein, lack of fat-soluble vitamins A, D & K2, widespread B-12 deficiency.
Best Option: Grass-Based Meat
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BOGUS: "Eating too much saturated fat – found in animal products – can lead to high cholesterol."
SHOULD READ: Eating too much sugar & grain will lead to insulin resistance, elevated blood sugar & Triglycerides; low HDL; sticky clot-prone blood; inflamed arteries.
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"When we deplete our diet of carbs (like on Keto diet), we are often overcome by lethargy & get bombarded with cravings."
No, when we eat too much grain & sugar, our pancreas is overworked, our liver is bombarded with fructose & glucose, & we die before our time!
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"Heart Healthy" Avocados & "Artery-Clogging" Lard share the same six (6) fatty acids - both are dominantly monounsaturated oleic acid - same as politically correct olive oil. Perhaps the Diet Dictocrats, Food Police & Medical Elite have it wrong - at our expense.
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After 9 months of government confusion & US Media obfuscation - focusing, warring on conflicting, largely irrelevant issues - the origin story of #Covid-19 has been buried - "classified" - removed from public consciousness...
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Young #Russian women were surprised, happy to learn that their country - somehow - had chosen a favorite in the 2020 US election...
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Frank, a good citizen, heard on the evening network news that wearing glasses "might" protect him from #Covid. Nine months into the "Pandemic," Frank continues to learn a lot from the Media....
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BMC Med 2016 January 14;14:4: "In people without known heart disease, there does not appear to be a mortality benefit with statin drugs & the harms can outweigh the benefits."
"Harms" include depleting CoQ10 & vitamin K2.
Did your MD mention this to you?
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Dr Aseem Malhotra, Cardiologist, UK: Two-thirds of people who end up in hospital following a heart attack have [excess sugar/grain induced] metabolic syndrome - 75% have normal cholesterol levels - No evidence statin drugs have reduced cardiovascular deaths in UK.
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Statin drugs deplete the body's production of CoQ10, which declines as we age. Low levels of CoQ10 adversely affect cells in the heart, brain & kidneys. If you decide you must take a statin, not adding CoQ10 (Ubiquinol is best) can be catastrophic.
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Early 1980's "Unholy Alliance" of American Heart Association's fund-raising-private-doctors & the Pharma-Controlled US Natl Institutes of Health created a drug & diet "War on Cholesterol" that, in turn, created an unprecedented surge in life-shortening "Diabesity."
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American Heart Association: "Advises against self-medicating with supplements..." Just eat "low fat" (i.e., cereal, skinless chicken, margarine & egg white liquid) & ask your doctor if a TV advertised drugs (always happy, smiling faces) is right for you. [Deception...]
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Ad says "Get added heart protection with VASCEPA [prescription fish oil] when added to a statin."
Forget the statin! Eat omega 3 (weekly servings) of anchovies, pickled herring, mackerel, wild-caught salmon or sardines. Power Lunch: Eggs & sardines!
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Beyond's Plant-Based Meatballs are advertising "30% less Saturated Fat" - than real "Meatballs."
Another reason to stick with our traditional, nutritious meatball recipes. Saturated fats are chemically stable - our bodies love 'em - know where to put them.
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Beyond's Plant-Based Meatballs have "No Cholesterol" - nor do they have real vitamins A or B-12, "optimum protein" or bio-available zinc.
Beyond's outdated, fear-based marketing is same swindle as "Cholesterol Free" veg oil. Choose to eat Really Nutritious Meatballs!
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Eric Westman, Duke MD: "My understanding of how things are shifting is that we should be talking more about blood sugar & glucose. Fat in the diet does not increase blood sugar & glucose. It’s handled very differently; our body uses it in a very healthy manner..."
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"For a Fee," who said sugar-coated grains soaked in skim milk such as Lucky Charms & Cocoa Puffs were "Heart Healthy"? None other than the "Fat Free, Cholesterol Free" Liquid Egg White friendly AHA who continue 50 years of bashing Whole Food Nutritious Eggs - for a Fee!
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Consuming higher natural fat (whole foods) diet, France has 1/4th heart disease of US. Unlike US, French did not replace their traditional "Farm Fats" - butter, duck fat, lard, beef tallow - with industrially produced pro-inflammatory ultra-processed veg seed oils.
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Explaining the "French Paradox:
Nose to tail eating; Fresh, local ingredients from healthy soil; Farm Fats: duck fat from Bordeaux, lard & tallow from Alsace; Organ meats: liver, kidney & heart; Using the entire animal - wise, economical for farmer, butcher & consumer.
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Is Ornish ignorant or deliberately misleading when he describes Atkins Diet as "High Protein?"
Atkins Diet is High Natural Fat - Moderate Protein - Restricted Sugar & Grain. The Media is equally complicit - decades of demonizing the good, smart Dr Atkins.
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Media reported - after 15 minutes - that Russian trouble-maker Alexei Navalny was poisoned by Vladimir Putin - yet 9 months into #Covid - Not one investigative report in the Media whether Covid is lab-made, a "live exercise," or just the wrath of God...
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Yahoo Finance: "Kellogg’s cereal sales have gone through the roof. More bowls of [sugary] Frosted Flakes than perhaps ever before..."
"Comfort Food" -- Sugar Frosted #diabetes or nutritious Eggs - the Gold Standard of Protein?
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Over 70% in Mexico are overweight. #Diabetes, leading cause of death, has doubled since 2000. Mexicans avg 163 litres of sugary drinks a year - most in the world. They start young; 70% of schoolchildren in poor region of Guerrero reported having Coke for breakfast.
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Sugary, blood-sugar-raising Dessert for breakfast will only fuel the type 2 #diabetes epidemic - #1 cause of amputations, blindness, heart & kidney failure - first non-infectious pandemic in history. Kellogg's ought to be ashamed & Boycotted!
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Beyond Meat is building a factory in China (of all places...) to make plant-based beef, chicken & pork.
As for me, I'll stick with vitamin-A-rich grass-fed beef from my home state of Minnesota...
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Late Summer Abundance!
Sweet, spicy Argentinian shrimp with mushrooms; Langostino baked in scampi sauce; fresh organic green beans; potato (baked just right); fresh from the garden cucumber, tomato blue cheese salad; nice California red wine. "La Buena Vida, No?"
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"Manage Diabetes" handout SHOULD BE ILLEGAL
Most adults need 3-4 carbohydrate choices: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner + 1-2 snacks. Choice = 15 grams. Do the math: >200 daily grams of "sugar in the gut" for people who have elevated blood sugar!
Last section: "SKIM THE FAT"
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Healthy gut = Optimum immunity! Emphasize organic food, especially fermented cabbage (kimchi & sauerkraut). Bone broth collagen "seals" a healthy gut. Spend as much time as possible outside in sunlight - no sunscreen - no GMO soy & corn (or wheat sprayed w/ Roundup).
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If you supplement vitamin D, it's prudent, even necessary, to supplement vitamin A. (Dependent; synergistic.) High quality lard is best source of vit D, as is regular sun exposure. Butter & beef from grass-fed cows + liver provides optimum A + D = Immune Strength!
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1997, retired, AHA board member Ancel Keys - Father of "Low Fat," said: "Dietary cholesterol & serum cholesterol are not related." 18 years later, in lame 2015 USDA Guidelines: "Cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern," but "Eat as little as possible..."
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"I have studied saturated fat consumption many, many… many, many, times. The one thing that has always stood out, most starkly, is the complete lack of any real evidence to support the idea that it causes cardiovascular disease..."
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Elevated Triglycerides (TG), blood fats made in liver from excess sugar & grain, increase heart risk. To assemble & send TG into blood (via VLDL), "good" HDL is sacrificed (its proteins are recycled.) When TG goes up, HDL goes down. Below: Extremely elevated TG!
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Common denominator of obesity, diabetes, clot-prone blood & diet-related heart disease is Insulin Resistance - result of eating excess sugars & grains recommended by USDA since 1980 -- why "insulin resistance" is not discussed in USDA Dietary Guidelines...
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Infection-fighting Vitamin-A-rich butter is prohibited in "low fat" Minnesota Senior Homes - where 80% of Covid-related deaths occurred. No, these folks don't need infection-fighting A (or sunlight). Let's put cheap "No-Vitamin-A" margarine on their soggy Broccoli...
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End of summer 2020...
#Covid has hastened the death of legions in senior care & the less healthy plagued with higher-than-normal blood sugars - result of diabetes-promoting High Grain "low fat" guidelines, brokered by Big Food lobbyists & USDA bureaucrats since 1980.
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1987: Medical Elite announced phony a "War on Cholesterol" launching what became the Titanic of needless medical interventions. By decree, 25 million in US were battling a made-up new disease to be treated with worthless synthetic drugs & a failed low fat diet
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1977: Soybean-oil-schlepping Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) launched "Anti-Saturated-Fat" attack against coconut oil & butter in movie theater popcorn - Replaced by - you guessed it - trans-fat-laden partially hydrogenated soybean oil & imitation butter.
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Malcolm Kendrick, MD, author, The Great Cholesterol Con:
"The ‘anti-fat’ dietary guidelines ruthlessly promoted for the past forty years or so are complete nonsense. Although almost universally accepted, they were based on absolutely no research at all. None."
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Has your MD explained:
There are Seven (7) sub-classes of LDL, a continuum ranging from large, fluffy benign to small, oxidizing-prone dense particles. If your TG:HDL ratio is over 3 or especially 4, you have a preponderance of small, dense LDL.
Solution: Atkins/Keto
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Malcolm Kendrick, MD, Natl Health Service, England: "Release of previously repressed studies shows that if you substitute saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats, this INCREASES the risk of cardiovascular disease. My fellow doctors need to accept the evidence..."
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Dr Atkins: "Lower you bring down your Triglycerides (TG), less chance you'll have a heart attack. Applies even more to women than men."
Risk: High Grain > High Blood Sugar > Elevated TG > Low HDL. Reduce Risk: High(er) fat Atkins, Ketogenic Diet
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Seven (7) LDL sub-classes ranging from large, fluffy benign to small, dense more easily oxidized particles. USDA's High Grain diet promotes elevated Triglycerides, low HDL & forces LDL cholesterol into these numerous small particles. US cardiology: Way Out-Of-Date
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At direction of the Liver, General of Metabolism, bile, which coats our feces, is only way cholesterol exits the body. High percentage of cholesterol - as bile - is then recycled from colon back to the Liver. Sorry, Cheerios, you do not & cannot "lower cholesterol."
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Type 2 diabetes: Risk factor for kidney failure. Before diabetes is diagnosed, higher than normal blood sugar - "pre-diabetic" levels >100 mg/dl - damage kidneys. 1 in 4 in US are pre-diabetic, but are not warned in timely manner that kidney damage is underway. Why?
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No fix for this American Tragedy?
Children, teens, adults & seniors are facing all-time-high levels of chronic disease - you know what they are - in a country whose profit-driven, Balkanized health care system costs more per capita than anywhere else in the world.
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Continuing 40 years of corruption & fraud - to appease plant-based zealots - ignoring the most recent credible scientific evidence - these 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee members want to further restrict natural saturated fats from 10% to 7% of calories...
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Big Food Lobbyists control Dietary Guidelines Committees > USDA bureaucrats are willing sugar schleppers > High sugar/grain chronic disease epidemic is blamed on saturated fat > Big Winner? Big Pharma's worthless drugs > Big losers? Babies born since year 2000!
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White sugar: 50% glucose (to blood); 50% fructose (to liver). In well fed people, liver converts fructose into "bad" Triglycerides; also lowers "good" HDL. Even worse, HFCS is up to 60% fructose; 40% glucose.
Excess sugars: Life-Shortening Fatty Liver Traffic Jam
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To function, our brain & nervous system require cholesterol - key component of bile salts (digestion) - precursor to adrenal, stress & reproductive hormones. Vital for life, blocking, inhibiting, lowering cholesterol with drugs & plant-based diets is criminal behavior!
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"Politics has become substitute for life." Politicians consider their devices for wielding power more important than addressing escalating problems facing Main Street & rural America. Lawyers & Looters - not Foreign Powers - are lining up to destroy our country.
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"Saturated" = chemically stable Nothing Else because (a) all carbons in the fatty acid chain are "satisfied" with hydrogen & (b) the chain only contains single stable bonds; no reactive double bonds.
USDA: Study This Oxford Text; Revise Your Anti-Saturated Fat Lies!
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"Artery-Clogging Saturated Fat" - coined by Ancel Keys & American Heart Association (he was a board member) & Dem Senator George McGovern (father of USDA's Anti-Saturated Fat Guidelines) - is the "Big Fat Lie" the good Dr Robert Atkins warned us about as early as 1972.
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Red meat (20% fat ground beef) is dominantly Monounsaturated Fat: 6.7g followed by Saturated Fat: 5.7g & Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g. (Can vary a little of course.)
Enjoy quality ground beef knowing it contains a balance of good unsaturated & good saturated fat.
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In addition to his interlocking with Pharma #vaccine investments around the world, Gates' pet projects incl deliberate mass scale manipulation of the weather, video surveillance satellites, 5G antennas/infrastructure, artificial intelligence & sure enough Big Ag's GMO's.
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#Covid - What We Have Learned: People who are asymptomatic can, cannot, spread the virus; Accuracy of PCR antigen testing is brilliant, useless; False positive tests are impossible, common; Face masks are useless, necessary; Hydroxychloroquine could be helpful, harmful...
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Dietary Guidelines: "Butter is cholesterol-laden."
1 Tbsp = 30 milligrams (mg). At best, we absorb 50% or 15 mg per Tbsp. To meet physiological needs, our bodies produce/recycle on avg 1500 mg per day.
How many Tbsp would it take to turn off body synthesis?
100!
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Boris Johnson backs investigation into alleged poisoning of Russian Alexei Navalny, but has nothing to say about Saudi Arabia beheading Esra al-Ghamgam, mother of five, for disrespecting the Saudi dictator on her twitter account! Her husband also will be decapitated.
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Joanne Slavin, U of MN's nutrition department, who receives funding from cereal-maker General Mills, testified at 2010 Dietary Guidelines mtg: "25% of calories as sugar is OK." No, it's no OK; it's nutrition science blasphemy - enabled by lobbyists & govt corruption
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USA Today: "General Mills plants are operating at full capacity to meet demand for the company’s cereal."
Ultra-Processed Food Companies + High Grain "sugar only causes tooth decay" USDA guidelines since 1980
= #Diabetes - 1st non-infectious epidemic in history!
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USA Today: "Americans are 'craving comfort food' during coronavirus." Sales of cereals like Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Trix & Lucky Charms are booming!
[1 cup (most eat 2 cups) Cinnamon Toast Crunch = 12 grams of sugar. Worse - ultra-processed grains spike blood sugar FAST!
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Dr David Ludwig: “Dr. Goran is one of the nation’s most highly respected researchers & authorities on childhood obesity prevention.”
Science writer Gary Taubes: A great guide to help prevent obesity, diabetes & fatty liver - all epidemic!
https://bit.ly/31qyNgO
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80% diabetics die CHD (50% die heart failure). New threat: #Diabetes strongly correlated with poor COVID-19 outcomes, esp those with poor glucose control. Diabetes is easily preventable; even reversible. Cut sugar, grains, HFCS. Eat more fat https://bit.ly/31tbR0E
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USDA High Grain Pro-Diabetes Guidelines are killing people! Diabetics who get #COVID-19 are most likely to be hospitalized & 2.5 times more likely to die. Those with poorly controlled blood glucose have 10 times mortality rate as those with well controlled glucose.
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Cholesterol is so important, every cell (except nervous tissue) can make it - so important 90% of the cholesterol in bile is recycled back to the liver. Big Pharma says lower it with a side-effect-laden drug...
Who can you trust - Pharma or the Wisdom of the Body?
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NY Times's Jane Brody's "High Carbohydrate Way" amplified USDA's "6 to 11 servings of grain daily" - propaganda in favor of dietary changes not supported by common sense or scientific evidence. Result: life-shortening type 2 #diabetes now a metabolic pandemic.
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Illustrated History of Heart Disease 1825-2015:
Twists & turns of absurd dietary advice - originally published in 2012 by patient advocate Alan Watson
https://bit.ly/3j0Fjkm
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In double-think wonderland fashion, USDA somehow maintains that it's obesity & diabetes-promoting anti-saturated-fat guidelines are the "Cornerstone of US Nutrition Policy." Or are they the "Gravestone of Common Sense" for promoting health & preventing chronic disease?
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USDA: Without solid RCT evidence, to blame natural saturated fat, eaten for a millennia, always in a mix with monounsaturated fat in common food like meat, for causing 20th century CHD, associated with the surge in sugar & veg oil consumption, is the height of hubris.
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Ultra-processed foods surged in 1950's (you know what they are). Asso w/ with wide range of health problems, incl: Obesity, Type 2 diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Hypertension, Cancer. Emphasize unprocessed meat, fish, vegetables, fruit in season [ignore "margarine"]
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[if you're interested (don't get mad)]
Some Masks Are Much Better than Others; properly fitted N95, surgical, & polypropylene masks are best, layered cotton masks are good, bandanas are not great & neck gaiters may be worse than wearing no mask. https://bit.ly/329QHDC
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Rich in minerals, containing 19 amino acids & great for your brain & gut, Bone Broth is a feature of myriad healthy traditional diets. USDA Guidelines have never mentioned collagen/gelatin-rich "Bone Broth." Why not? Oh, that's right, its not plant-based!
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Today's medical colleges are streamlined. All students learn same thing: Prescribing synthetic, patented drugs. The Pharma-controlled system churns out doctors who know little or nothing about nutrition or herbs. It's called High Profit “sick care” - They Have No Shame!
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B12 & Folate food sources incl Egg yolks, lamb, beef, liver, poultry & fish; ONLY ANIMAL FOODS!
Found in the urine, Methylmalonic Acid (MMA) is often asso w/ early stages of B12 deficiency. Consider testing MMA & B12 if you symptoms (incl numbness in fingers & toes).
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"Fortification" of refined grains = 3 synthetic B-vitamins & "reduced iron." Reduced iron because the excess ferrous sulfate originally used could promote "iron storage disease." Ouch! Best to get your iron from liver & onions. Avoid food requiring "Fortification."
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@RDValerie Spent some time recently in the Boundary Waters Wilderness (Minnesota-Canada border). AMEN!
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"Grain Chain" Lobby: “Enrichment & fortification of grain foods have made lasting contributions to public health...”
including obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease & heart failure.
Processed, refined grains deplete magnesium; turn into sugar in the gut!
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The Beet website: "When you eat healthy fat, also known as unsaturated fat..."
Problem: Healthy nutritious whole food eaten for eons is always combination - mix - of monounsaturated, saturated & polyunsaturated fat (in that order).
Always!
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The Beet website: "Diets lower in saturated fats (meats, cheeses, butter, pastries, lard, ghee) promote health & reduce risk of heart disease."
French & Swiss consume most saturated fat in Europe & live the longest; their flaky pastries made with butter or lard.
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Secty of State Mike Pompeo says that "we want good outcomes for the Belarusian people..."
Last year US financed 34 known projects & organizations in Belarus [on Russian border].
Why not spend that money for better outcomes on our US financially-strapped Main Streets?
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French eat more cheese than any one else - 57 lbs per capita, followed by Iceland (55 lbs), Finland, Germany, Estonia, Switzerland, Italy - all with less heart disease than US where Diet Dictocrats demand we ditch healthy food eaten by diverse cultures for 10,000 years
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Heart disease was rare in US early 1900's. Between 1920-1960, incidence of heart disease surged - became #1 killer - as butter consumption plummeted from 18 lbs per person per year to 4. France today: 1/4th heart disease as US; consume 18 lbs butter per capita
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"Saturated" as in dietary fat means chemically stable - NOTHING ELSE! All carbons in the chain are "saturated" (satisfied) with hydrogen. Chemically stable saturated fat always occurs in food - like meat - with less stable monounsaturated fat. Balanced Nutrition!
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The Beet: "When you eat healthy fat, also known as unsaturated fat..."
What? Saturates incl stearic acid (beef, cocoa bean) promotes HDL; lauric (coconut, human milk, palm) kills microbes; palmitic (butter, chicken, pork) 70% lung surfactant.
Do your homework!
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CDC: 116 million in US are diabetic or pre-diabetic. 80% diabetics die of CHD overlapping with the 50% who die of Heart Failure - #1 Medicare expenditure. Diabetes > Heart Risk are a continuum - Sugar Kills - but the corrupt Medical Elite target natural saturated fat!
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1983 FDA ruled High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) was safe. At that time, we consumed about 5 lbs per capita. Today in US we consume >60 lbs per capita. HFCS: about 60% fructose (to liver); 40% glucose (into blood). Add in sugar & refined grains = fatty liver traffic jam!
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Ancel Keys' weak epidemiological findings - NO RCT EVIDENCE - led to 40 yr War on Saturated Fat. Collateral damage: Alzheimer's, Diabetes & Heart Failure affecting millions. Not alarmed, Medical Elite are busy managing illness. Profit Matters & they're "Having a Ball."
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In our Agriculture, Nutrition, Medical World - from AHA elites to USDA bureaucrats - alternative opinions are not welcome, cannot exist, since there's just a long-held opinion irrepressibly asserting - despite the contrary evidence - "Low Fat equals Good Health"
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No traditional folk ate skinless chicken breasts or egg-white omelets. No traditional society ate a vegan diet (except South India; avg life expectancy 45 yrs). No traditional diet is high in soybean oil. How about bringing back, just choosing from, the "4 Food Groups"?
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85 million in US are pre-diabetic (fasting glucose > 100/mg/dl). MD's are not letting these folks know their high(er) blood glucose is damaging capillaries, promoting chronic inflammation, nerve damage (tingling, numbness) & kidney harm. Only try worthless DRUG!
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Soybean Oil Lowers Cholesterol!
Sure, in response to eating polyunsaturated veg seed oils, cholesterol leaves the blood ("lowering blood cholesterol") to stiffen, protect membranes (increasing body cholesterol) from excess unsaturated fat. Body knows best!
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"Cheerios May Lower Cholesterol" is a fabrication. Cheerios are high glycemic - raise blood glucose FAST! Over time high glucose leads to elevated Triglycerides/low HDL - most reliable predictor of heart risk. Limit, restrict, avoid Ultra-refined dry box cereals!
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Covid Winners: Big sales increases among Kellogg’s blood-sugar-raising cereals like Frosted Flakes & sugary snacks like Pop Tarts.
Losers? Those sitting around indoors all day in their pajamas getting addicted, posting "I can happily live on cereal..."
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Kellogg's & General Mills are saying cereal sales are booming as people - during Covid - are eating breakfast at home. These heat-damaged ultra-processed box cereals elevate blood sugar - call for insulin - deplete magnesium - & fuel life-shortening #diabetes.
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Ancel Keys' scientific fraud, Big Food money & plant-based zealotry are guiding 2020 Dietary Guidelines Committee. No more stupid policy can be imagined than 5 more years of "Low fat equals Good Health" - root cause of life-shortening diabetes-related heart disease
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USDA Pyramid Scheme!
Excess grain/sugar > Elevated blood glucose > High Triglycerides > Low HDL > Insulin resistance > Inflammatory damage in arteries > Unstable plaque > Sticky clot-prone blood > Coronary Artery Disease > Sudden death > Heart failure...
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Healthy gut protects us from #Covid-19. Eat only organic whole food. Emphasize fermented cabbage (kimchi & sauerkraut). Vitamin D: Spend as much time as possible outside in sunlight; no sunscreen. Butter & eggs! No GMO Roundup soy & corn (or wheat sprayed w/ Roundup)!
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So far in this election cycle, Adam Smith, Democrat representing Washington's 9th congressional district - Chair of the House Armed Services Committee - has received $376,650 in campaign contributions from the defense industry. Time to end the lobbyist corruption!
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Infectious disease expert Dr Michael Callahan refers to #Covid's “magnificent infectivity...” which sits “like a little silent smart bomb in your community.” So, does that suggest this virus is lab-made? First things first; where did it originate?
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Kellogg's CEO says the 2nd quarter - with #Covid rising - "beat expectations." He attributes it to people sticking with "things they trust" during a crises - like blood-sugar-raising Frosted Flakes - certain to increase your risk of #diabetes-related heart disease.
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Proposed 2020 Guidelines: Restrict alcohol to 1 glass per day. With 1/4th heart disease of US, French avg 3 drinks for women (wine), 4.5 for men. French also enjoy more butter, cheese, eggs, lard, fatty pâté, etc. Perhaps USDA ought to EXIT nutrition guidance!
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Mayo Clinic: "Health experts now suggest eating as little dietary cholesterol as you can..."
Present in all cell membranes, cholesterol is defining molecule of human (animal) life. Cholesterol-rich eggs: Gold Standard of Protein, so Mayo Clinic suggest cereal instead!
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Mayo Clinic: "If you like eggs but don't want cholesterol use only egg whites."
Without lipid-rich yolk, egg white protein is poorly utilized.
Egg yolk - not white - is best source of highly bio-available Lutein & Zeaxanthin.
Mayo Clinic: Do some homework!
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@TheNothingarian Right on my friend: TG:HDL ratio is most reliable indicator of heart risk!
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Older people with higher cholesterol live longer. PERIOD!
Population studies in Japan show that people of all ages with higher cholesterol live longer. This is proven true in France, Switzerland & beyond. Even true for people with heart failure. https://bit.ly/2WZEiRa
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Pushing side-effect-laden statin drugs since 1987, AHA recommends LDL less than 100, <70 for patients at very high risk like Tim Russert. Careful reading of this chart (5 year UCLA study) suggests this is spittle to sell dangerous drugs.
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"Life in the Fat Lane" - Butter/ghee (vit A); Beef tallow (stable high heat); Chicken, duck fat, olive oil (antimicrobial, taste); Coconut oil (lauric acid); Lard/bacon (frying, vitamin D); Macadamia nuts (palmitoleic acid); Palm oil (sustainable); Sesame (stir fry)
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Doris, age 72, went to MD. Her TC = 285 mg/dL. MD said Zocor. I said, "Doris don't take it!" She said, "Al, you're not a doctor." I said, "That's why you should listen to me!" 9 months later, Doris hospitalized w/ Liver Failure. Last TC reading before death: 130 mg/dL
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Heart requires abundant CoQ10. Statin drugs inhibit body's synthesis of CoQ10 just as levels decline with age. No surprise incidence of heart failure has doubled since statins were introduced in 1987. What happened to "First, do no harm"? [click]
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Reported in Israeli Media:
As early as November 2019, US military intelligence warned NATO, White House officials & the Israeli military that a contagion was spreading in China's Wuhan region. Why were we - US citizens - kept in the dark for several months? #Covid-19
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Neither Joe Biden, 77, nor Donald Trump, 74, served in the military (both fellas had medical deferments).
Both pledge: “US will have strongest military in the world.”
For the next generation, why not the most nutritious food in the world or the best health care?
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Excess sugars & processed grains lead to mineral & nutritional deficiencies, elevated Triglycerides, insulin resistance & oxidative stress. Add excess poly-unstable veg oils (related omega-3 deficiency) & you have inflammation & plaque in your coronary arteries
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HealthDay: "If you want to live longer, you should choose beans over beef for your protein..."
Right - ignorant people don't need complete protein; don't need vitamin B-12; don't need L-Carnitine; don't need vitamin A - just fill your gut with beans...
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1980 USDA Guidelines: "No convincing evidence that sugar causes heart attacks or blood vessel diseases."
And, 1980, no convincing evidence that saturated fat caused coronary diseases but Big Sugar prevailed & embedded itself in the revolving-door, corrupt USDA.
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Seniors: Dump Your Side-Effect-Laden Statins!
American Journal of Medicine: People over 70 years of age with total cholesterol below 160 mg/dL had twice the risk of death compared to those with cholesterol levels between 160-199 mg/dL. https://bit.ly/3eZ8UIy
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"Salt is bad for you" USDA Guidelines say limit sodium to <2,300 mg daily, but Koreans consume >4,000 mg daily yet have lowest rates coronary heart disease in world, followed by France & Japan who also consume high(er) salt & enjoy higher life expectancy than US.
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US govt policy prohibits whole milk & vitamin A-rich butter in school lunches. Too fatty, too expensive! Our poor kids get rancid margarine on their soggy broccoli. Nor do we serve locally-sourced whole foods! Greece does, Spain does, France does (below)...
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The late Sylvan Lee Weinberg, MD:
"Low-fat, high-carb diet may well have played an unintended role in the current epidemics of obesity, lipid abnormalities, T2 diabetes & metabolic syndrome. This diet can no longer be defended..." BUT STILL IS NONETHELESS!
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A "free food," eating eggs isn’t going to give you heart attack. All 13 essential nutrients eggs contain are found in the yolk. Egg yolks: Best source of choline, needed for neurotransmitter production, detox & producing healthy cells. Get & Stay Healthy; Get Crackin'
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Heart Disease Has Not Gone Down As Promised!
About one million in US suffer heart attack each year; CVD causes 1 in 3 deaths. 1 in 3 have metabolic syndrome: Overweight, elevated TG, low HDL, insulin resistance. Cause: AHA & USDA's War on Cholesterol!
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Pre-Diabetes + TG:HDL ratio >4 = Risk Sudden Death!
According to his MD, Tim Russert had elevated TG (>150 mg/dL) low HDL (37 mg/dL): TG:HDL ratio > 4. Pre-diabetic, his fasting glucose >100 mg/dL. On statins, Russert's last LDL was LOW, LOW <70 mg/dL!
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Parkinson’s is associated with history of exposure to toxic chemicals: Pesticides, solvents & heavy metals like lead, etc. Dr Ray Dorsey's book Ending Parkinson’s Disease outlines the solution: Proper detox as well as dietary changes.
https://nyti.ms/3jtqHew
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Cardiologist Eric Topol says pre-diabetes (fasting glucose between 100-125) is no big deal because not every pre-diabetic develops full-blown diabetes. Here's the problem: Life-shortening vascular damage occurs when blood sugar is outside of optimum range: 70-84 mg/dl
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In spite of it all, don't forget to Have a Nice Summer!
Want to thank you for your tweets & retweets in support of America's traditional whole foods high(er) fat diet. Heading to Boundary Waters Wilderness on the Minnesota Canadian border for a breath of fresh air!
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USDA dietary guidelines: "Saturated fats are empty calories." Really? Fat in animal foods - which include saturated fats - provide fat-soluble vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin K-2 - not found elsewhere. Perhaps it's time to defund USDA - Stop it causing harm!
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Heart disease is multi-factorial. Low vitamin C can play a role. Glucose & vitamin C compete for same receptors; the more sugar & refined carbs people eat, the less vitamin C can be assimilated. Excess glucose out of blood is body's priority. Excess sugar = Double harm!
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Medical Elite & Food Police minions claim that avocados, fish & olive oil are "heart-healthy" because they are dominantly monounsaturated fat, BUT demonize red meat (beef, lamb) also dominantly monounsaturated fat.
What's wrong with these people?
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90% tested kale has residue from at least two pesticides. Almost 60% of samples showed residual Dacthal, likely human carcinogen. Don't eat kale raw; organic Kale should be steamed to neutralize anti-nutrients such as Oxalic acid that can promote kidney “stones.”
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Idiotic Food Police say restrict saturated fat, but fat in food is ALWAYS combo; Red meat contains mono (highest %), saturated & poly fat (lowest %). Food Police apparently want us to liquefy, spin red meat in a centrifuge to remove the <50% nutritious saturated fat!
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If you read "Kale is a Nutrition Superstar," ask how so? Comparing infection-fighting vitamin A, chicken liver = 3,290 mcg vs Kale = 0 (per 100 grams). Vitamin B-5, chicken liver = 6.2 mg vs Kale 0.1 mg. B-12, chicken liver = 16.6 mcg vs Kale = O. Liver = Superstar!
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Gamopilafo: Mediterranean Diet dish - rice & various meats such as goat, lamb, veal, chicken & pork. Meat is cooked separately; the broth is later used to cook the rice - which is additionally flavored with lemon juice & generous amounts of butter.
Bon Appétit!
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22 countries surround the Mediterranean Sea - each with unique, exotic cuisine, but always emphasizing animal food.
There is no "plant-based" Mediterranean Diet.
A deception - just a PR firm's repackaging of USDA's failed "low fat equal good health" bad advice.
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Eat Like A Greek!
At the local "taverna," local free-range lamb & pork dominate, though kid goat is also a favorite. In Greece, fresh cheese = joy. Creamy, delicious feta kept in big barrels of brine, or graviera, a hard golden-white cheese, eaten cubed or fried.
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Google's "Eat like a Greek: According to Dietary Guidelines, this plant-based diet - filled with fresh fruits & vegetables, whole grains... can help prevent chronic disease..."
Greeks love charcoal-grilled & spit-roasted meats. Souvlaki, chunks of skewered pork...
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"I have studied saturated fat consumption many, many… many, many, times. The one thing that has always stood out, most starkly, is the complete lack of any real evidence to support the idea that it causes cardiovascular disease..."
https://bit.ly/3iPerVh
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USDA: "When you choose milk, select low-fat or fat-free milk or fortified soy milk..."
Restrict pasteurized, heat-damaged low- or non-fat milk & soy milk. Consumed for 10,000 years, fresh whole milk should be raw (enzyme-rich) & from grass-fed cows on pasture.
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1863 After losing 85 lbs on high fat, carb-restricted diet, William Banting published Letter On Corpulence. British Medical Journal: "Banting's diet could be dangerous! We advise Mr Banting & everyone of his kind, not to meddle with medical literature again..."
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Boost Your Immunity: Eat vit A-rich liver about once a week. Fry it in vit D-rich lard. Daily butter & eggs. Saturated fats protect lungs. Coconut oil attacks viruses! Gelatin-rich bone broth. Fermented veggies like sauerkraut. Plenty of sun exposure, exercise, sleep
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Saturated Lauric acid makes up 45% of the fatty acids in AHA-condemned coconut oil. Lauric acid (digested as monolaurin) has activity against wide variety of bacteria, fungi, & viruses, including Candida, staph, H. pylori, influenza, Epstein-Barr, measles & HIV.12
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We've had anti-fat, high grain "sugar only causes tooth decay" Guidelines since 1980. Result: 88 million people 18 years or older in US are pre-diabetic. Medical Elite: No cure, eat a low fat, high grain diet & we'll manage your disease until you die before your time.
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We don't suddenly wake up & have diabetes - it develops slowly over time. Why aren't doctors looking at trends in glucose, insulin, etc., then warning people, "You are aging prematurely!" No time for that, but later you can ask, "Doc what drug is right for me?"
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USDA Dietary Guidelines saturated fat subcommittee is controlled by vegetarian activist Joan Sabaté & saturated fat foe Linda Van Horn, who leads program funded by AstraZeneca for "diet-related" diseases. Plant-Based & Pharma corruption over latest objective science.
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Who said eating sugary, highly processed grains soaked in skim(med) of nutrition milk is "heart-healthy"? First, American Heart Asso awarded their “Low Fat” seal of approval to junk foods such as Lucky Charms, Trix & Cocoa Puffs. 1980, corrupt USDA followed suit.
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High(er) fat = Less Inflammation
Obesity Reviews Journal: 17 low carb trials involving 1,140 obese patients. Low-carb asso w/ significant DECREASES in body weight, Triglycerides (HDL up), fasting glucose, blood pressure, plasma insulin & CRP, marker for INFLAMMATION.
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Once again, 2025 US Dietary Guidelines are being influenced by biased "experts" more than half of whom have ties to food industry; i.e., 2010 Carb Chair Joanne Slavin, who rec'd funding from Cereal Makers, had testified that up to 25% of calorie as sugar perfectly OK!
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Egg yolks: Best source of choline, a B-vitamin that plays crucial roles in neurotransmitter production, detoxification & maintenance of healthy cells. Due to decades of AHA scapegoating eggs as "cholesterol bombs," up to 90% in US don’t get enough of this vital nutrient
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Even though it's not govt agency, statin-pushing American Heart Asso has stranglehold over US cardiology. For decades for a fee, AHA's Heart Check Seal of Approval was awarded to processed low fat foods like Pop Tarts, laden w/ refined carbs & rancid, unstable Veg oils.
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Approved in record short time in 1987, statin drugs have not reduced or prevented heart disease. Today 1 in 3 US deaths are heart-related & the incidence of Heart Failure has doubled since 1987. Statins are a scam - put 'em in the trash!
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Best dietary source vitamin D, lard is excellent frying fat (high smoke point) contains both HDL-raising saturated stearic acid & saturated palmitic acid (70% of lung surfactant). Local lard could help restore local farm economies. (1910 lard = 80% edible fat market.)
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@Herd851 TG:HDL ratio is not "internet noise." First study confirming this was published in AHA's Journal Circulation (1997) - then ignored. Dr Atkins' clinical success: Reversing this ratio to 1-2 range! [CLICK TO FULLY VIEW]
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Dr Marcia Angell, editor, NEJM for 20 years:
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgement of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion..."
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Elevated Triglycerides (TG = liver-made fat) - especially over 150 mg/dl - and low HDL (below 50) = TG:HDL ratio of 3 or more - is the most reliable predictor of coronary heart disease. Let your statin-prescribing-doctor know - Big Pharma's salespeople won't!
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@RockyBB7 @ProfTimNoakes What other ingredients are you talking about - vitamin D?You should read "Know Your Fats" - you will be shocked...
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For decades, Food Police & Medical Elite said don't eat "artery-clogging" chicken skin - believing they were targeting "bad" saturated fat. Chicken fat (skin) is 70% unsaturated - why nutritionally savvy people prefer the more chemically stable fat in beef & lamb.
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Ignorant Food Police say avocados contain "good fat" while lard contains "bad" fat, but lard & avocado contain the same six (6) fatty acids -- both are dominantly monounsaturated oleic acid (lard 45%; avocado 50%) - the most common fatty acid in food & in our bodies
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Like nutritionally correct olive oil, demonized red meat is dominantly monounsaturated fat. Mono & saturated fats are always found COMBINED in our traditional nutrient-dense foods. Ignorant Food Police are wrong; fat in red meat does not cause any disease. Bon Appétit!
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Cholesterol is defining molecule of human (animal) life - so essential every cell (except nervous tissue) can make it. Cheerios do not "lower cholesterol" - where would it go? - 95% of cholesterol (in bile) is recycled from colon back to the liver. Boycott 'em!
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Anna Lappé: “We are teetering on the edge of an era of massive extinction, propelled in large part by the very pesticides & practices used with genetically engineered crops like the soy destined for Impossible Burgers.”
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“Eat our fake food & you’ll be healthier & save the planet!” Impossible & Beyond Meat fake meat are flakier than their bland predecessors: New highly manipulated proteins, factory starches, artificial flavors & other questionable ingredients.
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ALIVE Mag: "Plant-based meat is ready to takeover." Chick pea isolate & soy protein will "save the planet" - help "You live way longer."
So, let's remove farm animals to zoos: We don't need vitamin B-12 & fat soluble A, D, K2 - all found only in animal food!
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Pharma-controlled “sick-care” does not help us prevent disease, nor is it set up to intelligently reverse conditions after symptoms appear. Nutrition Ignorance by your MD is no excuse & suppressing symptoms with drugs is quasi-criminal behavior that shortens lives.
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People who have followed anti-fat Govt advice since 1978 (thanks George!) are much more prone to obesity, diabetes, heart disease & to be hospitalized & die from #Covid-19. Seniors, of course, are more likely to suffer USDA diet-related disease. USA: Wise Up!
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MyPlate "tip of the day" - "Use the grill to cook vegetables and fruits..."
Why?
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Wikipedia says the late Dr Robert Atkins was the "Apostle of protein gluttony..." No - not true - Do Your Homework! Atkins advocated HIGH fat, Moderate protein, Restricted grain & sugar diet. As a physician versed in nutrition, he would not recommend "protein gluttony"
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Densely populated (95 million) relatively poor Vietnam has a long border & extensive trade with China, but only 352 confirmed #Covid-19 cases & zero deaths! Vietnam has lifted virtually all domestic containment measures. Is it too late to learn from them?
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MyPlate: "1 cup of fruit or 100% fruit juice or ½ cup of dried fruit - 1 and 2 cups each day."
Bad Advice: 1 cup grape juice = 23 g sugar. Dried fruit spikes blood sugar!
Why not: "Consider seasonal fruit like berries in summer (in heavy cream)."
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USDA MyPlate: "Try main dish salad for lunch. Go light on the salad dressing." Really?
Demonstrated many times; adding fat-based dressing onto salad vegetables improves mineral absorption.
Doesn't the purpose of eating include mineral nutrition?
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Most in world, French consume per capita >18 lbs butter compared to 6 lbs in US but have 1/4th heart disease. French school children get butter - cheap rancid margarine & sugar-flavored milk is served in US schools. Our children don't need infection-fighting vitamin A.
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US Medical Elite warn "Fear Salt" while Japanese have the highest salt intake in the world & highest life expectancy. Salt production is important; coastal communities have age-old techniques for producing this vital mineral from seawater. What's our problem?
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1910: After sending the cream to local creamery, US Pioneer dairy farmers (like my grandpa) fed the skim milk to his pigs (producing lard; later winter food). Today Industrial Ag confines, separates farm animals & the skimmed waste is fed to our children! Progress?
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"Dairy" = misnomer. Enzyme-/vitamin A-rich raw milk from cows on pasture - available in Europe (vending machines in Italy) is completely different food than low fat pasteurized milk from cows living on cement floors force-fed grain. Anti-Dairy = Food Ignorance
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"Food Police" urged Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee to remove dairy (nutritious butter, cream & cheese, etc.) from its 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Plant-Based zealots lobbying corrupt US politicians. What could go wrong?
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US order 81 stipulates that all Iraqi farmers must use #Monsanto’s GM seed for all crops planted in the country. The use of any heritage Iraqi seed stock now totally prohibited...
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Despite all, don't forget to "Have a Nice Summer!"
Your retweets, "likes" & pithy comments are appreciated (more than you may ever know).
[the "North Coast" of Minnesota - far from the "Maddening Crowd..."]
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1910 Lifetime Risk T2 #diabetes = 1 in 30; Today 1 in 3!
Combination of excess blood-sugar-raising refined grains & sugars plus the widespread use of chemically unstable vegetable seed oils (like con-ola & soybean) have led us down this road to ruin.
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Early 1900's, vitamin D-rich lard (skim-milk-drinking, outdoor-living pigs) enjoyed 80% of edible fat market. No one consumed vegetable seed oils. Today, highly processed, chemically unstable, pro-inflammatory USDA-promoted soybean oil = 80% of the market.
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3/4 cup Cocoa Puffs = 9 grams of SUGAR; 1 gram of incomplete protein. Egg = 6 grams of complete protein & zero grams of sugar. Do kids need sugar or complete protein? Also, would you feed these colorfully-boxed Kids' sugary cereals to your dog! Probably not!
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Harvard's Top Foods for Heart Health:
Emphasize "Colorful fruits & vegetables" - foods with no fat-soluble vitamins A, D, K-2 - no vitamin B-12 - little bio-available iron, zinc or Carnitine - all vital nutrients for heart health. FRUIT? How bears fatten for winter!
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Harvard Medical School's "5 Foods for Heart Health"
include "Barley to reduce cholesterol."
False! Cholesterol ONLY exists body as component of bile (coats are feces). Most cholesterol in bile is recycled back to liver. [Bottom right of graphic]
Barley? Baloney!
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Harvard Medical School: "Extra-virgin olive oil can lower LDL (bad cholesterol)..."
Low Density Lipoprotein is not cholesterol; LDL is a liver-made lipid delivery vehicle. Payload includes fat-soluble nutrients like vitamin A.
Can't live without "good" Lipoproteins
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Did George Floyd Die of a Drug Overdose?
George Floyd's blood tests showed Fentanyl concentration three times the fatal dose. (Fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin.) He also tested positive for Meth & Morphine! https://bit.ly/2BmIeTY
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20 Years' Food Fraud (1980-2020)
More than 1/2 members of 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee have ties to processed food industry - folks who promote rancid soybean oil, MSG, mineral-depleting sugars & pesticide-laden GMO blood-sugar-raising refined grains.
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So called "telemedicine" is perfect for in-a-hurry MD's & greedy Drug Companies. No exam - just a few questions - then your MD will let you know what drug is right for you - delivered "No Contact" to your door. Covid or not, drug-schlepping is looting our health.
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When our bodies use vitamin D, we use vitamin A - why it's prudent to consider A + D together, especially if supplementing; i.e., 10,000 IU of A require 1,000 of D-3. Only Animal foods provide fat soluble vitamins A + D + K2 - nutritional synergy from pastured foods.
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"Plant-Based" hoopla apparently doesn't apply to herbs, long pronounced a waste of money - snake oil medicine - by the Medical Elite. No discussion ever how German-made Ginkgo Biloba Extract sharpens the brain & Milk Thistle silymarin extract protects the liver.
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Any time, 13% of our blood is in the liver (blood hog). Fatty Liver traffic jam - excess glucose (raises blood sugar); excess fructose (raises Triglycerides) - is asso w/ carb-driven obesity & diabetes (leads to heart disease). Cut carbs; eat liver; supplement example:
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Least inflammatory of macro-nutrients, fat should constitute 50% or more of calories - emphasis, of course, on saturated & monounsaturated fat, always combined in red meat. As an example, porterhouse steak is about 50% saturated, 50% monounsaturated. Bon Appétit!
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Cheerios, Raisin Bran, etc., & all kids' box cereals are "High Glycemic" - FAST call for insulin raising blood sugar. Eaten in majority of US households, these over-advertised crap foods increase risk of myriad chronic diseases. Nutritious Eggs = level blood sugar
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Dr Atkins routinely reversed T2 #diabetes - even among the "insulin-dependent." His approach: High natural fat - moderate but complete animal protein - grain & sugar restricted (emphasis on salad vegetables). His reward? Relentless demonization
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On China's border, #Vietnam has recorded zero #COVID-19 deaths despite a population of 96 million. The so called "communist" government expects the economy to grow by 5% this year despite the global recession. How we doing? https://bit.ly/3hFPivM
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Case for wearing any mask is strong!
Cambridge & Greenwich Universities study: Masks could prevent 2nd wave. PNAS study of Wuhan, NY, Italy: Masks could be deciding factor in determining pandemic's course. German study: Masks could reduce transmission by 40%.
N-95 best
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No scientific (or anecdotal) evidence that eating blood-sugar-raising oats or so called "whole grain" cereals decrease risk of heart disease; instead, grains & sugars are root causes of insulin resistance, coronary inflammation & life-shortening metabolic syndrome.
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Crap Food: Esterified Propoxylated Glycerols (EPGs): Fats/oils are split into glycerol & fatty acids. Then, glycerol is reacted with propylene oxide to produce glycerol with propylene glycol units inserted on its hydroxyl groups. Next, propylene glycol is substituted...
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FDA just approved a "plant-based" poison!
Imitation butter & fake egg beaters have killed many. Now we're dealing with Esterified Propoxylated Glycerol (EPG) - "plant-based oil" being incorporated into everything from chicken nuggets to fake dairy & potato chips. Yummy!
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Healthiest Fats In The World:
Butter, ghee (vitamin A); beef tallow (stable at high heat); chicken, duck fat (antimicrobial, taste); coconut oil (lauric acid); lard, bacon (vitamin D); macadamia nuts (palmitoleic acid); palm oil (sustainable); sesame (stir fry)
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If you replace nutritious eggs - gold standard of protein - with highly processed blood-sugar-raising Cheerios, you not only increase your risk of diabetes-related heart disease, but also you're giving up the most concentrated source of both Lutein & Zeaxanthin
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Liver from wild fish/game & pastured animals - outdoor-raised beef, pork or chicken - is best nutritional support for your liver: Optimum vitamin A, folate, iron, choline, vitamin B-12, CoQ10, Carnitine & trace minerals. (Liver deactivates toxins; doesn't store them.)
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Maybe it's time to discuss closing some of our 800 military bases found in 70 countries. We could use the money here - in the US - for education, housing, health care, infrastructure, & restoring our soil, traditional food & job training for traditional farming.
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1961 AHA: "Eat only imitation Margarine"
1980 USDA: "Replace butter with margarine"
AHA + USDA = corrupt money laundering
Complex vitamin A-rich butter = 12 fatty acids, incl short-, medium- & long chain. From pastured cows, butter is Gold Standard of nutritious fats.
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Dry box Cheerios are classified "High Glycemic." In lay terms, Cheerios raise blood sugar FAST - faster than white sugar! How can highly processed food product with a rapid sugar response "reduce the risk of heart disease?" It can't - it's a false claim - deception!
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Senior Homes do not serve infection-fighting vitamin-A-rich butter, nor do they serve synergistic vitamin-D-rich lard. Compared to plastic margarine & chemically unstable, rancid soybean oil, antimicrobial traditional fats are too expensive for "Golden Age" folk!
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"Winners & Losers" - apt title for book about #Covid19 America. Losers: Legions of older people on statin drugs trapped in senior homes whose "low fat regime" - vitamin & mineral deficiencies - left them vulnerable to respiratory failure. Yes, it happened here!
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Malcolm Kendrick, MD:
"104 subjects took 2,000 IU vitamin D daily for year. Only one got a cold or influenza entire year."
A & D from animal food team fashion most protective, but Medical Elite say "shun supplements" - Food Police demonize A- & D-rich animal foods.
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AHA since 1961, McGovern's 1977 "Dietary Goals" & USDA Dietary Guidelines since 1980 - all said - "Don't eat highly saturated fat coconut oil."
Scapegoating best source of lauric acid - also found in human milk & butter - has killed more people than #Covid-19
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After decades of "Low Fat = Good Health," how are people over 65 doing?
40% are obese. 65% have high blood pressure. 60% suffer from at least two chronic diseases. 40% take five or more worthless prescription drugs.
Guide to doing better: https://bit.ly/3eHb5Rq
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1961: AHA adopts board member Ancel Keys' High Grain Anti-Fat Diet - 2 pages, 2 sketchy references. 1977 Geo McGovern's Dietary Goals rubber stamps Keys diet.
1980 USDA converts Dietary Goals into decades of obesity, diabetes & heart failure promoting Guidelines
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June 2020: As #coronavirus of unknown origin lurks, USDA Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is set to announce 5 more years of diabetes-promoting "anti-saturated-fat" fraudulent guidelines. So do we have to loot & riot to end 40 years' of Medical Elite corruption?
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"Sixty years of mainstream nonsense" has led to the first non-infectious epidemic in history: Type 2 #Diabetes - the very people most vulnerable to death from #COVID19!
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Lowest Heart Risk:
Achieve via: Atkins/Carnivore/KETO/Paleo continuum
* Fasting Glucose under 100 mg/dl (optimum = mid-80s)
* Triglycerides under 100 mg/dl;
* HDL over 60 mg/dl (men); over 70 (women)
* TG:HDL ratio ideally 1 - no more than 2
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USDA Guidelines: “Eat only small amounts of solid fats…” [Like butter & coconut oil.] "Solid fat" doesn't mean anything unless you're pushing chemically unstable, pro-inflammatory veg oils as USDA has for 40 years! Butter Everything! Ignore USDA Ignorance!
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One (1) Tablespoon of butter contains 30 mg cholesterol- a tiny measure (1 milligram = 1/1000 gram.) You absorb 50% at best or 15 mg. To satisfy physiological requirements, your body synthesizes - at minimum - 1200 milligrams per day. "Please pass the butter!"
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@JTMarlin77 read Know Your Fats by Mary Enig, PhD, lipid biochemist or go to http://westonaprice.org and search "butter"
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Fatty acids (there are 12) in complex butter promote so called "good" HDL while lowering "bad" Triglycerides. 20% water, Butter contains 15-17% low- & medium-chain saturates that do not enter the general circulation but go directly to fuel the liver & kill microbes.
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Poorly absorbed, 50% at most, Cholesterol in food is measured in tiny milligram amounts (1 mg = 1/1000 gram). One pound of butter = less than 1 gram of cholesterol! Why did Food Police condemn nutritious butter - best daily source of infection-fighting vitamin A?
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Our cholesterol pool is vital; No cholesterol - No life. Most cholesterol in our cells was made in the body, recycled by our body & regulated by our body. Anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you crap food product or a dangerous drug. Just Eat Real Food!
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How Cholesterol Exits Body:
As primary component of bile acids that, among other things, coat feces as it transits thru to colon, most cholesterol is recycled back to the liver. Body regulates cholesterol loss - "False Claim" food products like Cheerios do not!
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3/4 cup Blueberry Cheerios = 21 grams blood-sugar-raising extruded-under-high-pressure oats + 8 grams of sugar. (2 grams of incomplete protein.) This crap will not "lower cholesterol" and - even if it could - it would come at the expense of shortening your life
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Poorly absorbed, 50% at most, Cholesterol in food is measured in tiny milligram amounts (1 mg = 1/1000 gram). 3 eggs = <1 gram cholesterol (1/2 absorbed) but 1 cup of Raisin Bran = 17 grams of sugar. So why did the Food Police condemn eggs - Praise Cereal?
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Causes of Fatty Liver? Excess sugar (esp fructose), refined grains + veg oil leading to obesity (low-grade inflammation) associated with excess belly fat, Insulin Resistance, high insulin, type 2 diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome = Earlier Death
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Human Liver is General of Metabolism - Old English for "life." With two blood supplies, liver, largest internal organ, is blood hog! High blood pressure? May be fatty liver. Restrict sugar, grain, veg oil. Restore liver function with Milk Thistle & pastured animal food.
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1980 Framingham Study at 30-years: Men with TC under 190 mg/dl were three times more likely to get colon cancer as men w/ cholesterol over 220; they were twice as likely to get any cancer compared to men w/ cholesterol > 280 mg/dl. Lower not better!
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Vietnam, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan: Lowest deaths per million due to Covid. Densely populated, relatively-poor Vietnam (95 million people): 350 infections - 0 deaths.
Fewer Underlying Conditions? Faster Govt response? Society over Individual? Mask Wearing?
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NY Times: "We cannot claim to care about humane treatment of animals while continuing to eat meat regularly..."
Really? Removing pastured animals is Humane? So Big Ag can plow, plant & spray your chickpeas & GMO soybeans? No - won't happen... ever!
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Seniors & Cholesterol- Lowering
Among hospitalized patients with infectious diseases, those with lowest LDL had highest risk of developing sepsis. Those with the highest risk were on statin drugs. [Guirgis FW, Donnelly JP, Dodani S et al. Crit Care. 2016;20:408]
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Cholesterol-lowering endangers seniors!
Meta-analysis of 19 studies/68,000 elderly followed several years: Those with highest LDL-cholesterol lived the longest. Explanation: Low cholesterol predisposes to infection! https://bit.ly/2SJYDaK
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If product can "lower [blood] cholesterol," where does it go? Into body? (25% body cholesterol is in brain). Blood levels fluctuate. Cholesterol is transported for many reasons, incl to make stress & sex hormones. Liver decides how much exits as bile or is recycled.
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Only the Liver decides serum levels of cholesterol - oats formed under high pressure into cute shapes only raise blood sugar! Cheerios are not "heart healthy." Claim that a box cereal that raises blood sugar "may help lower cholesterol" is indefensible hype...
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American Heart & USDA: "Saturated fats raise bad cholesterol." Ask which one? Of 8 saturates in food, chemically stable stearic acid - abundant in red meat & dark chocolate - promotes HDL, what Medical Elite call "good" cholesterol!
pick your poison!
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Rendered Lard (from a pig) contains the same fatty acids as avocados. Exact same! Yes, of course, what pigs are fed matters; nonetheless, lard & avocados share same fats & both are dominantly (about 1/2) monounsaturated oleic acid. Both are "heart healthy..."
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The Hill: "USDA Guidelines should Include warning not to eat bacon..." Really?
Healthy folks in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, UK Love Their Bacon! https://bit.ly/2Tmn9Px
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Proposed 2020 USDA Guidelines perpetuate mistakes of demonizing saturated fats & animal foods such as eggs, butter, whole milk, cheese, organ & fatty meats like bacon - animal fats for cooking. Nutrient-dense traditional food supplies immune-strengthening nutrients
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Covid #Vietnam: 95 million people - zero deaths - fewer than 300 cases. Govt acted swiftly, sternly. Immediate Lock down. Closed border. High testing. Abundant supplies. Citizens complied; put collective good ahead of personal liberty. Masks in public - No riots!
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Butter = 30 mg cholesterol per tbsp; we absorb no more than 50% or 15 mg (per Mary Enig, PhD), but Food Police say "Don't eat cholesterol-laden butter!"
[To satisfy body needs, our livers make up to 1800 mg cholesterol daily. How much butter can you eat?]
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20 litres of whole milk is needed to produce 1 kilogram of butter. So in earlier, thinking times, remaining 18 litres of skim milk was used to fatten the resident hogs, source of lard & winter food. Now school kids fatten on powdered skim milk with added sugar!
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Most complex of all food fats, eaten for 10,000 years, vitamin A-rich Butter = 8 different saturated fats, incl 15-17% short- & medium-chain saturates that fuel the liver. 20% water, Butter is the "lower fat" spread! 1910: Farms & creameries: Large, local employers
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French consume 18 pounds of butter per capita - most in world. Served in schools! In US, we consume about 6 pounds per capita - not served in schools - Too expensive! French have 1/4th the coronary heart disease as US.
French Butter: Higher in nutritious fat!
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Beta carotene (plants) must convert to vitamin A. Conversion is uncertain, variable. Those with high blood sugar - diabetics & prediabetics - 1/4th population - do not make the conversion. Only animal foods have true infection-fighting vitamin A. Liver best source
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100,000 healthy people in San Francisco followed 15 years. Those who had low cholesterol at the start had been admitted more often to hospital because of respiratory or other infection. Low cholesterol asso w/ vulnerability to infection. J Epidemiol 26, 1191–202, 1997
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Huff-Post: "As coronavirus brings about meat shortages, it seems like an especially wise time to be a vegetarian."
Yes - if you don't want an immune systems fortified with optimum levels of vitamins A, B-12, D, K-2 & zinc - only available abundantly in animal food.
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@detroitigerz Try http://swansonvitamins.com. (No - I don't sell or get fees) Search "Concentrace mineral drops" - 39% ionic magnesium, 61% trace minerals. Easily absorbed. Use 40-60 drops a day mixed in water. Reasonably priced. (I have used 20 years - mixed in water!)
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POLITICO: "Major reason why nutrition science field is in turmoil is because the science itself is so complicated."
Or are Big Ag, corrupt researchers, food company PR, Pharma lobbyists & govt bureaucrats obfuscating the proven value of our Traditional Foods?
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1978: McGovern Committee Anti-Fat findings.
1980 USDA converts to Anti-Fat Guidelines.
1980 to 1999 - as #diabetes surged - flour/cereal intake rose 36%. 85% of grains consumed in US today are mineral-depleted refined grains that SPIKE BLOOD SUGAR!
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@lacliae TG:HDL ratio most reliable predictor of heart risk! One is optimum - four is highest risk.
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People with Higher Cholesterol live longer. Low Cholesterol is associated with colon cancer, suicide & depression. People with heart failure live longer with higher LDL. Incidence of heart failure has increased 2X since statins came out in 1987. FRAMINGHAM:
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LEARN from Tim Russert's sudden death, June 2008, age 58. On cholesterol-lowering statin; his LDL was BELOW 70!
NY Times: His Triglycerides were elevated; HDL low - TG:HDL ratio over 4 - "Highest Risk." Don't let the perverse focus on lowering-LDL shorten your life!
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For decades, Food Police: "Don't eat vitamin-A-rich butter; replace it with poly-unstable No-Vitamin-A margarine." Calling butter "artery-clogging," FP were apparently also ignorant of the myriad antioxidants in dairy fat, like selenium, missing in cheap, GMO soy oil.
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Beginning in 1961, AHA called eggs "cholesterol bombs." Large egg = 190 mg cholesterol; at most we absorb 50% or 95 mg (Mary Enig, PhD). To meet bodily needs, we synthesize up to 1800 mg daily. Do the math; AHA did not. Eggs are "free food" eat as many as you like!
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Google News: "Arch enemy of healthy cholesterol is LDL cholesterol."
Cholesterol, so important, every cell (except nervous tissue) can make it. Most cholesterol in colon (as bile) is recycled back to liver.
Major study: 3/4 heart patients had LDL below 130 mg/dl
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Carnitine plays crucial role in energy production - esp for the heart, fueling mitochondria (cell furnaces). Highest food source? Only animal food, especially red meat; lamb and beef are best. (Redder the meat, higher the carnitine content.) What's for supper?
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Along with oysters, Red Meat - lamb & beef - are best food sources of highly assimilated zinc - required for optimum immunity (known for decades). The Medical Elite & Food Police said restrict, limit these foods, & zinc supplements are a waste of money! Really?
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"Forbidden food" in US, Tonkatsu, breaded & deep-fried pork cutlet, is one of the most popular pork dishes in Japan. Pork is more popular in Japan than beef or chicken combined, esp among lard-loving Centenarians of Okinawa.
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@Meanjean2300 Whenever possible, buy from Amish, from farmer's markets, from local butcher... (When I had kids at home & dogs, I purchased 1/4 or 1/2 beef & multiple chickens from below farm in southern MN.) Shortage is industrial meat; let's restore local more nutritious farm meat
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When Big Govt tells us what to eat, it's been idiotic fear-mongering: "Don't eat nutrient-dense bacon, beef, butter, cheese, chicken skin, coconut oil, eggs, lamb, liver or pork - Bad Advice, Bad Policies that defy common sense, nutrition fats & traditional wisdom.
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We are learning #Diabetes is an "underlying" risk factor for increased #Covid risk, but Dr Atkins warned decades that "sugar diabetes" is risk factor for amputations, blindness, heart & kidney disease. Chronic high blood sugar inflames arteries & damages proteins.
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Why are there dozens of drugs for type II #diabetes? Because they don't work! They manage "numbers" but drive metabolic imbalance into life-shortening disease! Atkins routinely reversed type II diabetes without drugs - You Can Too! Get a used copy of this book!
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1972: In response to AHA-Ancel Keys "Fear Fat" anti-cholesterol diet - & based on his successful clinical data - Robert Atkins, MD warned of impending obesity & diabetes epidemic: #diabesity. Response from AMA: Unsuccessful attempt to take his license + Demonization!
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Current USDA Dietary Guidelines:
"Individuals should eat as little dietary cholesterol as possible while consuming a healthy eating pattern."
1961-2020 -- Still No Evidence -- USDA continues to demonize our traditional, healthy foods. Result: Widespread Disease!
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The Blame Game started in 1961 - American Heart Asso blamed our traditional foods like bacon, butter, chicken fat & skin, eggs, roast beef, liver & onions on heart disease. No evidence then - no evidence now! The bullying US Blame Game has unintended consequences!
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Slow Rush to Judgement!
#COVIDー19 has now been confirmed in France on December 27 - earlier than 1st reported case in China. Covid may been circulating undetected in Europe as well as in the US earlier than thought - infections misidentified as flu or pneumonia.
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Where's Love of Country?
CDC, Congress, FDA, NIH, USDA - turned a blind eye as Big Ag, Big Food, Pharma & Pharma-controlled Medical Elite led us down a road to ruin. [Chart is #Alzheimer's - can apply to all chronic diseases after 1980!]
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Since 1980 Fear Fat - Anti-Cholesterol - High Grain, "sugar only causes dental carries" Guidelines, incidence of Autism, Alzheimer's, Asthma, Autoimmune diseases (now >100) - just A's - have surged! Over 1,200 Pharma lobbyists make sure Wash DC politicians are mute
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2020: No Infrastructure money - Long Lines at food banks - N-95 Mask shortage - Small Businesses failing...
2014: Assist Secty of State Victoria Nuland boasted the US had spent $5 Billion - money needed here - to topple the democratically-elected govt of #Ukraine!
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Any egg is better than no egg, BUT foraging "Earth Chickens" know best - don't need antibiotics! Enhance your health & immunity - purchase eggs from small, mixed farms & farmer's markets. Support your local community food supply. The choice is ours...
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By 2018, there were 152 failed #Alzheimer's drugs. In 2018, Federal govt granted $1.8 billion for Alzheimer's research. Is money to study prevention? No! Search for new drugs! Click to view: Dramatic increase after 1980 USDA Anti-Fat Guidelines.
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Awakening Post-Corona, realizing our "exceptional nation" has not treated us as "essential people." Excess drugs, excess imitation, skimmed-of-nutrition food & excess poly-unstable oils rendering our children prey to "mystery illness" leaked from labs or bat shit!
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Red Meat: Dominantly monounsaturated (Oleic & Palmitoleic), followed by saturated (most commonly Palmitic & Stearic) & in the least amount polyunsaturated (Linoleic & Alpha Linolenic). Meat from pasture: Ideal above balance of nutritious unsaturated & saturated fat.
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Terrific Blog from Malcolm Kendrick, MD:
"Of those 104 subjects who took 2,000 IU of vitamin D every day, only one got a cold or influenza in the entire year." [My caveat: A & D together - in team fashion - from food - most protective.] https://bit.ly/35HVgqh
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@DietHeartNews: Meta-analysis (19 studies) involving 68,000 elderly people followed several years, those with highest LDL-cholesterol lived the longest. Why? Low cholesterol predisposes to infection! Age of corona - Ditch statins!
British Medical Journal: https://bit.ly/2SJYDaK
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Wit & Wisdom:
"#Vaccine you say sir, of course, I shall have one ready & done in 4 months, start to finish … safety sir, did you mention safety? No need for such things, vaccines are always safe, never caused anyone any harm. Never a single case of any problems.’
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Lard (pastured pigs) = up to 1000 IU infection-fighting vitamin D per tablespoon; also provides antimicrobial palmitoleic acid. Team Lard with vitamin A-rich Liver or Cod Liver Oil. Important: Vitamins A & D work best in team fashion. Butter: Daily source of A.
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Corruption of science, falsification of science...
"#Monsanto used all of the plays in the playbook developed over 60 years by the tobacco industry to escape the consequences of killing one of every five of its customers." [Monsanto in post-coup Ukraine]
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Corrupt medical research has led to sick population: Autoimmune, cancer, diabetes, heart & kidney failure. Medical/Pharma pretend not to know the cause of anything - just "ask your doctor" which synthetic drug or untested vaccine is right for you...
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May 2020 Scientific American on #Alzheimers: 1 sentence on diet & prevention: Eat "plant-centered diet low in sugar, trans & saturated fat." Really? What do sugar, trans fat & natural saturates - in nutritious food we've eaten for eons - have in common? Not helpful!
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Originating in US in the decades after 1980, Type II, once called "Adult-Onset" #Diabetes, is 1st "non-infectious" epidemic in history, leading cause of amputations, kidney failure & heart disease - now afflicting children! After Covid, let's "shut down" diabetes
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1961 With only iffy, scant evidence, AHA endorsed board member Ancel Key's "Fear Fat" - High Grain - "Sugar only causes tooth decay" Guidelines. 1978 - No Better Evidence, McGovern did cut/paste. Today: Highest incidence chronic disease in world. Evidence Matters!
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Francis Collins, director, US Natl Institutes of Health, said that without causing detectable outbreak, the virus may have been spreading in humans much earlier than late 2019. He is suggesting it's premature to determine the origin(s) & seeding of #Covid-19.
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Canada’s early #COVID-19 cases came from US, not #China: The National Post asked for data on origins of travel-related cases in Ontario, Quebec, B.C. & Alberta. Result: American travelers, not Chinese, brought the virus to Canada. https://bit.ly/3diXIWJ
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Bruce Aylward, MD, St. John’s, Newfoundland, WHO Intl Mission:
“In face of a previously unknown disease, #China... rolled out probably the most ambitious, & I would say, agile & aggressive disease containment effort in history..."
Listen to Science or the Street?
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December 31, 2019 #China notified international authorities of an infectious disease of "unknown origin" & then placed Wuhan - China's fifth largest city - under lock down to stop the spread of the disease.
what did US Secretary of State Pompeo miss?
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1984: AHA, NIH Cholesterol "Consensus Conference"
Decision to lower definition of "high cholesterol" from 250 to 200 mg/dl was made by nine doctors, eight of whom had ties to drug companies. Conference Report was written in advance - dissenting views IGNORED!
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Don't Drug Down cholesterol - so important - every cell can make it (except nervous tissue). To satisfy body needs, we synthesize up to 1800 mg daily (& recycle most). Along with our brain, Adrenal gland stores the most cholesterol - where stress hormones are made!
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Co-factor (synergy with Food Sources vitamins A & D), zinc-rich foods support immunity. Best sources: Red meat (esp lamb) & oysters. Nutrient-dense support: Whole raw milk, quality cheese & butter & eggs from local farms. Going ahead nutrition in toxic times.
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#1 protection vs. viruses;: Vit A-rich liver (& onions) 1X week. Fry liver in lard - best source Vit D. Mineral- & Gelatin-rich bone broth ups immunity. Fermented veggies like sauerkraut = Vit C. Saturated palmitic acid in animal fats protects lungs (70% surfactant).
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#Remdesivir was originally developed to treat Ebola but was ineffective. It also had shown promise against wide range of viruses, but "25% of patients receiving it have severe side effects, including multiple-organ dysfunction syndrome..."
https://bit.ly/3c2PrGj
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Pompeo: "Chinese Communist Party did all that it could to make sure the world didn't learn in a timely fashion about what was taking place."
January 3, 2020, director #China’s CDC personally called director US CDC to warn of “pneumonia of unknown origin” in Wuhan.
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Dr Marcia Angell:
Pharma is “primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefits, using its wealth & power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way, including Congress, the FDA & the medical profession itself...”
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NY Times: "In 1976, 15% of US adults were obese. Now it’s nearly 40%. No one really knows why bodies have changed so much..."
We know: "Eat Pasta to Lose Weight" columnists like Jane Brody in the NY Times spewed anti-fat panic...
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April 22, citing anonymous “intelligence sources,” NY Times reported: “Chinese agents helped spread messages that sowed virus panic in US.”
Looks home grown to me...
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HAVE HALF-MEASURES WORKED?
Asking what are the best, preventive measures to take by entire US GOVT to protect Americans, incl seniors in nursing homes, when - as early as November 2019 - Pentagon was warning NATO allies (including Israel) of an impending pandemic?
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2013 Sweden replaced "low fat" with higher fat, traditional Food Guidelines. Underlying #Covid risk factor #diabetes in Sweden 7%; much higher in US. Ten million "Swedes" vs. 330 million diverse in US. Would China's immediate, strict LOCK DOWN worked better in US?
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What explains the surging #Autism cases after 1980? Is it the absurd - "fear cholesterol" - Anti-fat Dietary Guidelines enacted that year? Too many vaccinations spaced too close together? GMO-glut? Can't be genetics. Why no answers from the Medical Elite?
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April 17: #Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova drew attention to the number of US funded bio-labs in former Soviet republics, saying: "Moscow cannot ignore that a dangerous biological potential is being formed in close proximity to Russian borders..."
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Anxiety, excess refined carbs & stress of all kinds deplete magnesium NOT calcium. Routine blood tests fail to reveal "intracellular" deficiency. Atkins' red blood cell testing revealed widespread deficiency. Photo of book (click) & guide: https://bit.ly/2SpugpZ
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#Gates Foundation donated hundreds of millions to drug companies in which his foundation holds stocks & bonds, incl Pfizer $16.5 million, Novartis $11.5 million & Merck $9.4 million. Obsessed with vaccines, Gates describes his approach as “creative capitalism”
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MD's tell women to supplement 1,200 mg calcium daily; don't mention magnesium. Unopposed calcium ends up in soft tissue - not bone. If you supplement - make it magnesium. Eat variety of whole foods for your calcium & trace minerals. Dietary fat aids mineral absorption.
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Animal foods Govt says "don't eat" protect our arteries!
Vitamin K2 prevents calcium buildup in arteries (in soft tissue); puts calcium into bones where it belongs. Best sources: chicken, goose & duck fat, lard, butter, egg yolks, cream, whole milk & cheese.
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Nationally mandated in US school lunches: No butter or whole milk. Hearty beef stew? Too fatty!
France: Cucumber, tomato salad; Veal marinated with mushrooms, broccoli. Cheese. Apple tart & butter for the bread. Sourced locally - made from scratch. Bon Appétit
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"Plant-Based" advocates warn, "Don't eat butter because 10% or more of us are lactose intolerant..."
Milk contains lactose (milk sugar); butter does not. Butter = 80% fat; 20% water. Fortunately, the "lactose intolerant" can enjoy & benefit from creamy butter!
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Most complex food fat - containing 12 different fatty acids - Butter from grass-fed cows is best daily source of infection-fighting vitamin A. "Plant-based" imitations have NONE! Fat soluble true vitamin A also provides key minerals; helps the body ABSORB minerals.
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"1 tbsp of butter contains 31 mg of cholesterol,” explains Dotsie Bausch, Executive Director of Switch4Good. She asks, what does this cholesterol do to a person?
[Precursor to vitamin D & all sex & steroid hormones. Also, cholesterol "waterproofs" our cell membranes]
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Forbes article touting "plant" butter: "We’ve known for decades that butter consumption is linked to higher risk of heart disease..."
France: Butter use highest in world (18 lbs per capita); 1/4 the heart disease of US where butter use was < 6 lbs per capita in 2018.
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Patrick Lawrence, columnist, essayist, critic & lecturer:
"The facts of #Covid–19 need to be sorted, and it would be reassuring to think cool heads will get this done after the world has drawn together to defeat it..."
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3 years... Deep State blamed Russia because Casino Guy won. Jan 2020: As #coronavirus spread in US, it was "Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine." Now both political parties are "jumping the gun" - blaming #China - for a worldwide #coronavirus of "Unknown Origin." What's next?
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Follow Up?
July 11, 2019: Fairfax County VA: 54 people had become ill with "mystery illness;" upper respiratory symptoms (cough to pneumonia) at Greenspring Retirement Home in Springfield, VA. Two dead. Today Fairfax County leads the state with 2,745 cases.
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@IndependentText Thank you - my out of print book "21 Days" - blue cover 2002) was a "history of heart disease" - sold 10,000 self-published copies. 2nd edition (red cover) was published by someone else who did not promote it & screwed me out of royalties...
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Condemned for decades - stigmatized as "cholesterol bombs" - ridiculous scare! - eggs, Gold Standard of Protein, are the most concentrated source of both lutein & zeaxanthin - nutrients that protect the macula - light-sensing area of the eyes. No fear- Get Crackin'
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Feed your Lipid Bi-Layers: Coconut oil, responsibly-sourced palm oil, grass-fed butter. Cooking: Beef tallow & lard (high heat); Extra Virgin Olive Oil (medium heat); Sesame (stir fry). Omega 3: Wild-caught sardines & salmon. GLA: Evening Primrose, borage oils
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USDA Bureaucrats Enable Food Fraud!
75% individuals formulating USDA's 2020 Dietary Guidelines (#DGAC) have food industry ties; 55% have ties to an intl "Big Food" trade group (ILSI) funded by Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald’s, General Mills, Cargill, Monsanto, etc.
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As obesity > diabetes > heart disease are killing #coronavirus patients, USDA must replace all current #DGAC members with Gary Taubes, Nina Teicholz, Jason Fung, Cate Shanahan, Mark Sisson & Nora Gedgaudas - Core Group + others to write health-promoting 2020 guidelines
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Drugging-down serum cholesterol (also lowers CoQ10) is exclusive focus of AHA & US Cardiology. In reality, 75% of heart attacks are "sudden-death" caused by electrical storm in the heart, not by cholesterol-induced blockage of coronary arteries. [Circulation 2001]
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ABSENT until early 1900's, solvent-derived, chemically unstable soybean oil use rose dramatically after WW II. Today we get about 20% calories from this one oil - creating inflammatory bodies; explaining in part why cancer & heart disease have not gone down as promised.
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USDA-promoted - Reactive to heat, light & oxygen - chemically unstable veg-seed oils (like soybean) are the 20th century "Fats of Mass Destruction." Solvent-derived, heated during processing, heated in the fryer - these "bad" oxidized fats inflame arteries, gut, colon.
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20% water, Butter = 15-17% short- & medium chain saturated fats that directly fuel the liver (via portal vein). Butter provides butyric acid - promotes "good" gut bacteria. Any butter tops veg-oil imitations, but butter from grass-fed cows provides most vitamin A.
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With 1,274 lobbyists, Pharma "owns" both US political parties. Pharma funds most drug studies; controls the "raw data." Pharma uses "Relative Risk" statistics to inflate a debatable 1% benefit into a headline-grabbing "50% risk reduction!"
going on for decades...
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Emphasizing "Made in China" drugs, Pharma-controlled “sick-care” eats 90% of healthcare dollars targeting easily preventable conditions like #diabetes, that shorten life & render us vulnerable from viruses, lab-made or otherwise! #Coronavirus over, get a pitchfork!
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US Amb to Mexico Landau is demanding that Mexican workers go back to work for PENTAGON "supply chains." Landau: “There are risks everywhere, but we don’t all stay at home for fear we're going to get in a car accident." Landau wants Mexico Natl Guard to be deployed!
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In midst of crises, US Undersecretary of Defense Lord's major concern: Disruption of arms-maker supply chains from Mexico where workers are protesting unsafe conditions & Back-to-Work orders. 16 workers or more have died from #corona & hospitals are overflowing.
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Lockheed Martin CEO Marilyn Hewson boasted the corp pulled in $2.3 billion in cash during last quarter. Asked whether she had any qualms about her $1 billion stock buyback in midst of a crisis, she replied, “We’re very different..." [yes, from struggling people]
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As local businesses & ordinary people struggle to survive, Undersecretary of "Defense" Ellen Lord said $3 billion had already been funneled to arms makers in the form of early payments for existing contracts in addition to the billions more approved by Congress.
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To feel SAFE, do we need to squander trillions more on OFFENSIVE military weapons or more on better defensive healthcare? Supporting doctors, nurses, hospital workers, EMT staff & caregivers is vital in defending against surging metabolic disease & viral pandemics.
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#Diabetes is life-shortening accelerated aging. T2D surged after 1980 USDA High Grain, "sugar only causes tooth decay" Guidelines. T2D is #1 cause amputations & kidney failure; 80% diabetics die heart disease. Pharma drugs are worthless; it's all about NUTRITION!
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1900 Lifetime risk T2 #diabetes 1 in 30; now 1 in 3. Preventable/reversible, T2D is 1st non-infectious epidemic in history. Atkins routinely reversed T2D w/ high(er) fat diet, minerals (esp magnesium) lost by excess sugar & restricting culprits: sugar/refined carbs
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Before subsidized grain-glut in early 1950's, we ate "Super food" grass-fed beef - best source vitamin A, all B-vitamins, immune-supporting minerals like zinc & "heart-healthy" Carnitine + favorable omega 3/6 ratio. We were healthier & our farm animals loved us!
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Obesity & diabetes increase risk of death from all causes - not just #coronavirus. "Anti-Fat = Good Health" since 1961 (AHA) & 1980 (USDA) caused widespread "diabesity." Reliable, local "supply chains" of nutritious food from small(er) mixed farms = #1 priority
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July 12, 2019: Fairfax County Health Dept says 2 more people hospitalized following respiratory outbreak at Greenspring Retirement Community in Springfield, VA.
54 sick & 2 deaths. Sending samples of "mystery virus" to CDCgov. What was the "mystery illness"?
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Daniel Lucey, MD, Georgetown University:
> Wuhan Seafood Market provides fresh fruits, vegetables, meat & fish - Did Not & Does Not Sell Bats.
> 13 of first 41 people diagnosed with #coronavirus in #China had no contact with Wuhan market.
> Origin Still Unknown
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Maybe it's time to make gut-healing, collagen-rich, immune-strengthening Bone Broth: Animal bones & other parts attached to bones (meat, joints, tendons, ligaments, cartilage) simmered in water for extended time periods. Click for free recipes: https://bit.ly/2yrilRF
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Poultry fat (eat the skin), lard & macadamia nuts are best sources of antimicrobial mono- fatty acid palmitoleic. Antimicrobials prevent growth, spread of unwanted microbes, incl disease-causing viruses (like the flu). Be smart - fry your chicken in lard!
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48% monounsaturated (40% saturated fat), Lard (pastured pigs) = up to 1000 IU vit D/ Tbsp. Used for centuries as cooking fat, lard is stable at high heat; high smoke point (370 degrees F) makes it excellent for frying. Amish donuts in lard! (once in a while!)
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Infection-fighting Vitamin A ONLY available in animal food. (Beta carotene must convert to A. Conversion is uncertain, often poor, variable). Necessary for red blood cell formation, Vit B-12 only available in animal food. Stock up - get to know a real farmer!
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France 24 TV Journalists tracked down 5 of 6 most-shared videos of "Chinese eating bats." Findings: None of the videos were filmed in Wuhan or in #China. All 5 videos were filmed in locales in Palau or Indonesia where bats have traditionally been consumed as food.
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“Mysterious illness" with #coronavirus symptoms occurred in late June, early July 2019 in Springfield, Virginia retirement home. 3 people died & more than 80 elderly & staff got sick. https://abcn.ws/2XAPqWO
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Sally's Anti-Virus Nutrition:
Vit A; liver once a week. Vit D works with A; sunshine + cod liver oil, highest quality eggs, butter, lard. Coconut Oil for MCT oils. Mineral/gelatin-rich bone broth. Vit C; kiwi, sauerkraut. Saturated fats & whole raw milk protect lungs
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1980 Govt: Replace nutritious butter w/ trans-fat margarine; replace protein-rich eggs w/ blood-sugar-raising cereal.
2020: 1 in 4 now diabetic/prediabetic - folks at most risk from 2015 "predicted pandemic" our bickering, fragmented govt did not prepare for.
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Shuttered factories! Who moved our jobs to #China? What politician spoke up? Why are most antibiotics, Pharma drugs, toasters & wedding dresses "Made in China"? Now shrill Media hacks - not virologists - figured out the still undetermined origin(s) of #coronavirus...
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B12 Deficiency & Diabetes:
Growing evidence points to significant association low vitamin B12 & diabetes risk. B12 only found in nutrient-dense ANIMAL foods: Organ meats (liver & kidney), clams, sardines, red meat all also offer immune support minerals (zinc).
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#Ketogenic diet boosts HDL (recycler); damps down Triglycerides (liver-made fat). Brain glucose absorption declines with age; brain ketone absorption does not. Coconut & MCT oils derived from coconut, butter, raw milk boost brain energy for young & old alike!
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Rats fed an "isolate" (test tube) can "prove" that a saturated fat "can increase cholesterol." Hopefully, not your idea of evening dinner...
Moreover, fat in food is always combo: Mono-, saturated & poly-. 1961: AHA board member Ancel Keys weaponized "fat."
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@EpigeneticWhisp @MarkBski @Libertas2008 Atkins, Carnivore, Keto, Paleo help maintain lower Triglycerides (under 100 mg/dl) & promote HDL (over 60 mg/dl). LDL does not reliably predict anything, unless too low (cancer) & in this study, low LDL, at the so called safe level below 130, was asso with heart risk.
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@Libertas2008 @EpigeneticWhisp With only test tube evidence, Medical Elite has repeated "Saturated Fat increases Cholesterol" for decades. Lipid biochemists like Mary Enig & Michael Gurr (author of Oxford textbook) & many others argue this is simplistic at best & bad advice leading to widespread diabetes.
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Malcolm Kendrick:
Elevated Triglycerides (TG) signals you have excess insulin & blood sugar not responding in normal ways to insulin. This "insulin resistance" is step closer to T2 diabetes & greatly increases your risk of heart disease & death.
Tell your MD!
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Your MD says "Saturated Fat increases Cholesterol" ask which one? 18C Stearic acid, 16C Palmitic acid, 14C Myristic acid: 12C Lauric acid, 10C Capric acid, 8C Caprylic acid, 6C Caproic acid, 4C Butyric acid
Varies! But all saturated fats reduce TG; promote HDL!
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Excess table sugar, fructose & refined cereals, grains increases Triglycerides (TG) & reduces HDL - most reliable predictor earlier death.
Emphasize natural fat (butter, coconut oil, lard) + beef, chicken, eggs, fish, pork to maintain ratio below 2 (values as mg/dl)
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Peter Attia, MD:
"Eating cholesterol has very little impact on the cholesterol levels in your body. This is a fact, not my opinion. Anyone who tells you different is, at best, ignorant of this topic..."
Ignorant for decades: AHA, FDA, MD's, NIH, RD's, USDA...
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70% of lung surfactant is palmitic acid - common saturated fat. Palm oil (50%) & traditionally-raised animal foods - beef, butter, cheese & lard - best sources. Poor in palmitic, high in chemically unstable linoleic acid, excess soybean oil inflames lung membranes.
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Lipid Police:
Chemically-stable 90% saturated Coconut Oil is best source of antiviral lauric acid. Containing 8 saturated fats, complex Butter is best source of infection-fighting vitamin A. Chicken fat (skin) & Pork sources of antimicrobial palmitoleic acid.
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Sen Josh #Hawley (R-MO) is introducing bill which would "hold Chinese Communist Party responsible for causing the #COVID-19 global pandemic…"
> Evidence gathered by virologists must have precedent over xenophobic political finger-pointing. Grow Up!
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Conflict of Interest? USDA says No Problem!
DGAC member Jamy Ard recd $431,883 from Nestlé as Medical Director for Nestlé’s Optifast food-replacement product. Ard has served on advisory boards for Pharma companies who make drugs for nutrition-related diseases.
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2014: Obama's Assist Secty of State Victoria Nuland boasted that the US had spent $5 Billion - MONEY WE COULD USE NOW - to overthrow the democratically-elected government of #Ukrane - giving #Monsanto & DuPont, Inc., access to despoil Ukraine's rich farmland.
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Would you believe Barbara Schneeman, Chairman of HHS/USDA's 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, is also on the Advisory Board of #Monsanto - major producer of pesticides & genetically modified grains. No conflict of interest there...
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Gary Taubes, Jason Fung, Nina Teicholz, Cate Shanahan, Mark Sisson, Nora Gedgaudas (photo) + many others incl Ken D. Berry, Sally Fallon Morell understand that Diabetes, Obesity, Heart Disease are a continuum - Metabolic Syndrome - conveniently ignored by 2020 DGAC
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Yes to Drugs - No to Real Food!
DGAC member Linda Van Horn leads AHA program funded by drugmaker AstraZeneca that makes drugs for people with diet-related diseases. Van Horn told CNBC that people should replace animal foods with plant-based meat alternatives...
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Cause & Effect?
Surge in #autism (see chart), asthma, Alzheimer's autoimmune diseases (now over 100), diabetes, obesity & heart failure parallels USDA's fear-fat, grain-schlepping use chemically unstable Veg oils Dietary Guidelines.
What could go wrong?
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In order to PREVENT - not promote - chronic disease, this group of educated, qualified people should have written the 2020 Dietary Guidelines, but Big Food, Medical & Pharma lobbies & govt bureaucrats, once again, stacked the committee with anti-fat, plant-based zealots
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Red meat - beef & lamb - are ½ monounsaturated oleic acid & ½ saturated fat. There are 8 common saturates; none we eat isolated in a test tube. (We're not lab rats, yet!) Food fats = always MIXTURE. Assertion: "Saturated fats raise cholesterol" is impossibly wrong!
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#Diabesity - accelerated aging - makes it more difficult to survive #coronavirus. 1 in 4 in US are diabetic/prediabetic. High Grain USDA Guidelines promote high blood sugar, insulin resistance, diabetes & heart disease. When we "reopen" - gut USDA Guidelines!
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Ft Detrick bio-lab in MD was shut down last July. "Inventories of pathogens were not completed." Rooms that were supposed to be sealed had cracks. “Large amount of biohazardous waste” was potentially exposing unprotected personnel..."
https://bit.ly/2JXBtJs
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1997 in retirement, Ancel Keys, Father of "Low Fat," acknowledged "dietary cholesterol & serum cholesterol are not related." Took 18 years for USDA Guidelines (2015) to say "Cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern," but then they add, "Eat as little as possible..."
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AHA, Cereal Boxes, College Nutrition Texts, Registered Dieticians, School menus, USDA Guidelines - ONE VOICE - amplify failed mantra, "Low Fat equals Good Health." Whether at Mayo Clinic or VA waiting room, been to both, it's all the same, "Cholesterol-is-the-Culprit"
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#Coronavirus infections growing in Cuba - approaching 600. Essential medical supplies - test kits, masks & respirators - donated by Chinese businessman Jack Ma to #Cuba - were intercepted - en route - by US sanctions.
Esta infección no respeta fronteras, ¿no?
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Finding #coronavirus "Patient Zero" is critical to understanding, curbing transmission. Not POLITICS - SCIENCE. Kristian Andersen, Scripps Institute evolutionary biologist: It's "entirely plausible" that infected persons brought the virus into the Wuhan seafood market.
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CDC did nothing after Jan 3 WHO #coronavirus warning. CDC blocked testing after thousands had died. CDC has reluctantly admitted earlier cases in US had been wrongly diagnosed as flu. CDC & Corp Media refuse to discuss "Patient Zero." Why is CDC "Top Secret?"
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Daniel Lucey, infectious disease expert, Georgetown University: 1st #coronavirus infection occurred in November 2019, (not in Wuhan), suggesting the virus originated elsewhere. He added: Western media’s origin stories about SARS, MERS & ZIKA have also been wrong!
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2020 Dietary Guidelines Same As "Bad" 1980 Guidelines:
6 daily servings of [blood-sugar-raising] grains, 27 g [chemically unstable] soybean oil, 10% of calories as sugar perfectly ok; Cap on healthy natural saturated fats like butter or coconut oil to 7%. #Diabesity
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#coronnavirus targets cells that protect alveoli (air sacs). 70% of this lung surfactant is saturated palmitic acid - demonized as "bad fat" by AHA, Medical Elite & USDA for 40 yrs. Traditionally-raised animal foods are best sources of membrane-protective fatty acids.
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Amid fear he might get #coronavirus, Michael Avenatti has been granted tempy release from New York City's Metro Correctional Ctr, as a clearly failing Julian #Assange, with a lung condition, never convicted of a crime, remains in prison with 19 who have tested positive.
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Pharma-controlled US "Disease Management" is not "Health Care" - was not prepared to defend us against a novel #coronavirus & does not concern itself with the poor processed-food, GMO-grain-diets that result in poor health now requiring high profit #vaccines.
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Robert F Kennedy Jr‘s April 9 2020 Instagram post:
For #BillGates, vaccines are strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (incl #Microsoft’s ambition to control global vac ID enterprise) & give him dictatorial control over global health policy."
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Fed govts under Bush, Obama & Trump have failed "We the People." Spending trillions in Libya, Syria & Ukraine on so called "regime change," there was no plan/provision for viral attacks, lab-made or otherwise, long-recognized as a serious threat by US Intel agencies
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CBS Interview: Bill Gates told host Anthony Mason that mass gatherings might have to be prohibited in the age of #coronavirus unless & until a wide scale vaccination program is enacted.
Or, perhaps all weapons biolabs, including several in Ukraine, ought to be closed.
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Alexander Hamilton: “Every nation ought to endeavour to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply."
> Conveniently ignored principle of a "Founding Father" so US corporations could profit from "cheap labor."
> "As you sow, so shall you reap."
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I read: "China controls the production of medicines essential to keeping Americans alive..."
Whose fault is that?
And, why isn't "keeping Americans alive" EMPHASIS on traditional organic, pastured food - raised here - not Pharma synthetics made in China?
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Dr David Ludwig: #coronavirus
> Highly contagious
> New - few have immunity
> Can cause infection without symptoms
> Latches onto lung receptors causing severe pneumonia
10X more frequently than seasonal flu
> Obesity/Diabetes increase risk
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@davidludwigmd on #coroonavirus:
> More contagious than the flu
> New - few have immunity
> Obesity, diabetes increase risk
> Can cause infection without symptoms
> Can latch onto lung receptors causing pneumonia 10X
more frequently than seasonal flu
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@davidludwigmd on #coronavirus:
> Much more contagious than the flu
> New (few have immunity)
> "Diabesity" underlying risk factor
> Can cause infections without symptoms
> Latches onto lung receptors causing severe
pneumonia 10X more frequently than flu.
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Per Dr David Ludwig, Boston Children's Hospital:
"More than half of critically ill #coronavirus patients near Seattle have diabetes..."
Grain-schlepping USDA High-Grain Dietary Guidelines (1980-2020) promote obesity, insulin resistance, hyperinsulinism & #diabetes.
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Association or Cause & Effect? Steady increase in #autism parallels USDA GMO grain-emphasized - "sugar is ok" - replace butter with trans-fat-margarine & rancid hexane-solvent-derived chemically unstable excess omega 6 soybean oil. Sorry, What could go wrong went wrong!
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USDA's anti-saturated-fat "cholesterol as culprit" Dietary Guidelines began in 1980 - as did steady increase in obesity & T2 #diabetes - lifetime risk now 1 in 3. Result: Amputations, coronary disease, fatty liver, kidney dialysis - Govt-driven Metabolic #Pandemic.
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Final mtg 2020 Dietary Guidelines was in March. 5 more years: 6 servings of grains, 27g soybean oil, 10% calories as sugar OK per day - lowering saturated fats to 7%! Need more evidence of Govt CORRUPTION - this is it! We have the Worst govt at the Worst time!
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Henry Kissinger: Permanent conflict between Washington & China could lead to “catastrophic outcome." “It’s no longer possible to think that one side can dominate the other..."
[first] "US must protect its citizens from disease while... planning for a new epoch."
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Funding 800 military bases, we can spend $1 trillion year on what's called "Defense," but we can't explain the surge in autism (below) or Alzheimer's, asthma, autoimmune diseases (now about 100), etc. When #coronavirus is over, maybe discuss what's most important.
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Since 1961, American Heart Asso's dietary advice was based on the fraudulent epidemiology of AHA board member Ancel Keys. AHA defended "bad" veg oil trans fats for decades. Time for AHA's fundraising private MD's to stop dispensing "bad" dietary advice to US public
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When #coronavirus is over, new "normal" needed. What's normal about grain-emphasized "sugar only causes dental caries" Dietary Guidelines that promote diabetes - an underlying condition that makes people more likely to die of viral infections? USDA = Sick!
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http://westonaprice.org diet for sick infants & older folk to maintain strength may be helpful for the rest of us. This nonprofit, traditional food think tank provides invaluable comprehensive backup information for "normal times" too!
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90% saturated - antiviral, antibacterial - coconut oi is the King (or Queen) of saturated fats. Chemically Stable unlike rancid poly oils! Of course, has been demonized by AHA & USDA for decades. Get some! [No trolls, not saying it kills #coronavirus! Keep quiet.]
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Soybean Oil Is Processed with chemical solvents, steamers, neutralizers, de-waxers, bleach & deodorizers. Most common solvent: neurotoxin hexane, byproduct from gas production. Some hexane remains in the oil, but FDA requires zero testing for residues.
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1910 Best source of vit D, stable saturated palmitic & antimicrobial palmitoleic, lard (outdoor pigs) = 80% of edible fat market. 2020: Chemically unstable polyunsaturated GMO soybean oil - lacking all of the above - has 80% of the market. Best for our lungs?
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Next 2-3 weeks good time to detox your hardworking liver, largest organ (other than skin) with two blood supplies. Best thing to do: Eat nutrient-dense high quality eggs, liver & meat; bone broth & full fat dairy (raw milk best source of antioxidant glutathione).
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As we know, #coronnavirus targets cells that protect alveoli (air sacs). 70% lung surfactant is palmitic acid - the "bad saturated fat" demonized by Medical Elite & USDA Guidelines for 40 years. Animal foods (bacon) & palm oil are best sources of this protective fat.
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At this menacing time - #coronavirus threat to tens of millions worldwide - international solidarity, to say the least, is vital. There are no "others." Imposing sanctions on countries like #Venezuela - blocking food & medical supplies - is barbaric, unconscionable...
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Your first meal of the day: "High Glycemic" blood-sugar-raising Cheerios - elevate "bad" Triglycerides - (and you'll be hungry again soon) or complete protein, complex-fat eggs -- promote so called "good" cholesterol - & prevent unwanted blood sugar fluctuations?
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Masks reduce contagiousness of viral infections including #coronavirus. True for homemade masks. Masks sewn from cotton t-shirts are 70% effective; masks sewn from tea towels are 83% effective. 70% reduction in contagiousness will halt the virus! Several Youtube videos.
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Sen Dianne Feinstein of California & three of her Senate colleagues reported selling off stocks worth millions of dollars in the days before the #coronavirus outbreak crashed the market. Most ordinary Americans were not so “lucky..." Timing is everything, isn't it?
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Daniel Lucey, infectious disease specialist, Georgetown University: Wuhan Market WAS NOT the origin of #coronavirus in China. If not natural, who made it? If made in a lab where "leaks" occur; was it accidental, deliberate or stolen? To end the madness, we need answers.
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US intelligence warned Fed govt in early January what was coming. 219 CEOs stepped down in January 2020. Corporate insiders sold off billions of dollars of shares in their own companies just before the market imploded.
They didn't warn us, did they? #coronavirus
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1990: AHA & NIH invented "BAD CHOLESTEROL" when, in fact, no such thing. It was a way to continue selling worthless statin drugs - approved in record short time in 1987. "BAD CHOLESTEROL" - a fabrication - besides, cholesterol levels have no effect on heart disease.
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AHA: "One Third of Americans" have high cholesterol" - meaning anything over 200 mg/dl.
European MONICA Study: Average cholesterol among the Swiss = 260 mg/dl (US measure)
How is a disease in US associated with longevity in Switzerland?
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Dr David Katz was paid $3,500/hr (expert witness) to defend Chobani Yogurt's high sugar content (36% more sugar than protein). He also received $731,000 grant from Hershey to study #diabetes - Industry hiring quislings to obfuscate the truth hurts people...
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Yahoo Lifestyle: "Saturated fat ... raises your risk for heart disease."
Not in Europe... [please click to view] and not in the US or anywhere else on the planet!
Yahoo! Wrong, wrong again!
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Yahoo Lifestyle: “It’s the totality of what you eat that influences cholesterol levels. If you overdo it..."
"Dietary cholesterol & serum cholesterol have no connection - & we've known that all along."
-- Ancel Keys, 1997
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Yahoo: "Saturated Fat are animal-based fats; cream, cheese & marbling in beef & chicken. Saturated fat ... raises your risk for heart disease."
90% saturated coconut; not an animal. Beef = dominantly mono oleic acid. Chicken = 70% unsaturated! Do some homework!
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Daniel Lucey, infectious disease specialist, Georgetown University: Wuhan Seafood Market wasn't the origin of #coronavirus in China. Of the first 41 patients in Wuhan, 12 had no links to the market.
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US Secty of State Pompeo at State Dept press conference: “The Wuhan virus is a killer & the Iranian regime is an accomplice.” He didn't mention that US sanctions have made it impossible for #Iran to buy basic medicines & medical supplies. #coronavirus
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Peter Attia, MD:
Up-to-Date #Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19) Information via podcasts, patient memos and videos.
Updated frequently: https://bit.ly/3aasD6B
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Dr James Hamblin on STAYING PUT:
“The thing is if shutdowns and social distancing work perfectly and are extremely effective it will seem in retrospect like they were totally unnecessary overreactions.”
There not!
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Yale's Mari Armstrong-Hough regarding STAYING PUT:
“You won’t ever know if what you did helped. That’s the nature of public health. When the best way to save lives is to prevent a disease rather than treat it, success often looks like an overreaction.”
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Maybe it's time for the so called shrinking "Great Powers" to discontinue testing & threatening all of us with hybrid war & “weapons of mass destruction”- Atomic, Bacteriological, & Chemical - A-B-C's - that as tensions rise - are getting out of hand... #coronavirus
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So called "fortified" refined grain products contain "reduced iron" & three synthetic B-vitamins, incl folic acid that, according to @SallyB12Movie's research, reduces B12 function - crucial to optimal functioning of the brain & nervous system. What could go wrong?
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Wuhan Market played a role spreading #coronavirus, says Daniel Lucey, infectious disease specialist, Georgetown University, but he says other data suggest it wasn't the origin. Of the first 41 patients in Wuhan, 12 had no links to the market. Origin still unknown!
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1910: Butter consumption 18 lbs per capita. Heart disease mortality below 10%. (Complex food fat, butter contains 8 different saturated fats.)
2000: Butter consumption fell below 4 lbs per capita. Heart disease mortality 45%.
Don't blame saturated fat for heart risk!
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@SallyB12Movie reports that vitamin B12 function may be diminished by excessive synthetic folic acid that - by law - is found in all refined so called "fortified" flour & grain food products recommended by USDA for past 40 years
https://bit.ly/3d6Yl6p
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@SallyB12Movie Critical vitamin B12 function may be diminished by excessive synthetic folic acid - by law - hidden in all so called refined "fortified" food products. Known for a long time; ignored by refined-grain-schelling USDA. https://bit.ly/2WpTvvd
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2010 USDA Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Mtg 2:
U of MN prof Joanne Slavin, self-appointed "Carb Chair," who had received funding from cereal companies:
+ 25% of calories as sugar is perfectly OK..."
+ Calorie of HFCS is no different than any other calorie...
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> Saturation: As needed, body converts monounsaturated oleic acid into saturated palmitic acid.
> Desaturation: As needed, body converts saturated palmitic acid into monounsaturated oleic acid.
> Fuss about saturated fat has no basis in science.
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DUMB QUESTION: Are saturated fats good or bad?
Human membranes minimally 50% saturated fat
Lung surfactant (protects) = 70% saturated palmitic acid
Cushion/emergency fuel: Heart is covered in saturated fat
Always a mix, animal fats are not "saturated fats"
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Palmitic acid: Most common saturated fat in food & in our bodies. Oleic acid: Most common monounsaturated fat in food & in our bodies. Food Fat is always a combo; i.e., Porterhouse Steak contains bit more oleic than palmitic. Inform your "bad fat" MD: "It's all Good"
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53% decline in Monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico this year. Protector of the Monarch's pine forest habitat, Homero Gómez González, was beaten to death in January by illegal-logging gang members. If you see a Monarch this summer, say a prayer for Homero González.
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Most reliable predictor Cardiovascular Death - including sudden death (no prior symptoms)?
Elevated Triglycerides (TG) and low HDL!
TG:HDL ratio >3; esp >4
How long have we "known" this? Over 20 years!
[Gaizano et. al. Circulation 1997; 96: 2520-2525]
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Poland's general Jaroslaw Mika tested positive for #coronavirus after returning from a conference in Germany involving "Defender-Europe" military exercises. In attendance, US Commander Lt General Christopher Cavoli may also have been infected. What about US troops?
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Eat a lot of bread, cereal, grains, pasta, you get a lot of sugar in your blood. Liver converts excess sugar into fat - Triglycerides - now you have a lot of fat in your blood. Keep it up: Fatty liver traffic jam, inflamed arteries, low HDL & deadly blood clots.
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"March Madness" - decision to go-ahead with US/NATO’s biggest war games in Europe since WWII - 30,000 troops from US already on the way - but no Final Four back home because we must stay indoors...
#coronavirus
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@GaneshPuttu @ManjuRajputMSEd Communists... Where is your toaster made? Need an antibiotic? They're likely made in Capitalist China. I agree; there's no excuse for what happened at Tiananmen Square, but that didn't stop Bill Clinton from trade agreements that sent our manufacturing jobs to China.
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Please review carefully:
AHA/UCLA 5-year Study. 541 hospitals; 136,905 heart attack patients. RESULTS: 75% heart attack patients had LDL below 130 mg/dl -- supposedly the "safe level" -- 50% had LDL below 100 mg/dL.
Buried - Ignored - take your statin!
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"Cholesterol-Denier" Thomas J. Moore, - September 14, 1989 - in the Atlantic. As true today as it was 31 years ago. It's way past time to gut "Cholesterol-as-Culprit!"
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@LDLSkeptic OMG! Another "cholesterol-denier." Neuroscientist & Cardiovascular Disease researcher David Diamond, PhD, Biology, is - like Dr Malcolm Kendrick - "skeptical of LDL cholesterol as a cause of CVD..."
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Friends, believe what the Medical Elite tells you - take your statin drug - limit eggs to one per day - or you will be associated with "cholesterol-deniers" like Dr Malcolm Kendrick who stubbornly adheres to the Hippocratic oath: "First, do no harm."
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So called T2 #diabetes is not disease; it's accelerated aging - amputations, blindness, coronary inflammation, kidney & heart failure - promoted by AHA & US govt bureaucrats' advice to overload on blood-sugar-raising cereal, grain, sugar & chemically unstable veg oil.
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For the first time, a normal level of a normal, vital substance is a disease." -- Malcolm Kendrick, MD
Among other things, Statin drugs lower CoQ10 - predisposing you to heart failure. Cholesterol-reduction is a scam - will not lengthen your life! [click to view]
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Just when you think world & #coronavirus news could not get more bizarre - read this:
"30,000 US Soldiers Arrive In Europe Without Masks"
https://bit.ly/2veF95F
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"... I have told anyone who will listen that, if you have a high cholesterol level, you will live longer. Equally, if you have a low cholesterol level, you will die younger. This is a fact. The older you become the more beneficial it is to have high #cholesterol."
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1980 Framingham Study: Men whose TC levels were under 190 mg/dl were more than three times as likely to get colon cancer as men w/ cholesterol over 220; they were twice as likely to get any type of cancer compared to men w/ #cholesterol > 280 mg/dl
> Lower not better!
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Dems say Pres Trump, 73, is slipping cognitively. Biden, 78, is slipping cognitively. Both take statin cholesterol-lowering drugs. Cholesterol: Precursor to stress hormones. 25% cholesterol is in brain. Is it wise to drug-down cholesterol in seniors at the Apex of Power?
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No evidence that arbitrary, restrictive limits on saturated fats since 1980 has prevented CHD; ipso facto, official emphasis on cereal, grain, sugar & veg oils has promoted unprecedented obesity & costly, related diabetes, fatty liver & heart failure epidemics.
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"For the first time, a normal level of a normal, vital substance is a disease."
Dr Malcolm Kendrick, of course, is referring to #cholesterol present in all cell membranes. But, like Dr Atkins, the elite are trying to cast Dr Kendrick into "the outer darkness."
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US medical elite has assessed that cholesterol - a defining molecule of human life - and natural saturated fat - nourishing us for countless centuries - is the cause of 20th century, modern & recent, coronary disease!
I'd say confused "barking up the wrong tree..."
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Faring forward:
Emphasize highest quality food along this continuum:
[Atkins - Carnivore - Keto - Paleo]
Supplement as needed, esp magnesium
Get plenty of sun, fresh air & exercise
Protect your liver from flour, sugar & veg oil
Avoid drugs, esp CoQ10-lowering statins
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[Not Political Tweet]
Pres Bill Clinton met Russian Pres Yeltsin 18 times - often in Moscow - but the #NYTimes isn't castigating Clinton as a Russian stooge. Bernie #Sanders made one "outreach trip" to Russia 40 years ago & he's Putin's puppet.
US JOURNALISM IS DEAD!
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Is this a bioreactor where laboratory-based "meat" is made or is it a bioreactor where viruses are weaponized?
Perhaps this is the "meddling" we should be most concerned about...
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The Guardian: “Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming & save the planet.”
Mike Rupprecht, Earth-Be-Glad organic farm, southern MN: “I’ve always believed we need to take care of the soil for future generations...”
Who can "save the planet"?
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Dec 2019 New England Journal of Medicine predicts one in two in US will be obese by 2030. This Slippery Slope: Obesity > Hypertension > T2 diabetes > Coronary Disease is PREVENTABLE, but Dr Atkins' documented clinical success is ignored; his good name forever demonized.
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If there are components in #Coronavirus related to HIV, it could not have occurred naturally. If Coronavirus did not occur naturally - but was produced in a lab - who made it? If “leaks” from these labs occur; was this deliberate or accidental? Will we ever know?
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It was revealed last month that in recommending that #glyphosate - world’s most widely-used pesticide - was safe, EU’s food safety watchdog copied & pasted pages of a report directly from Bayer-Monsanto, the pesticide manufacturer: Never-ending-Corruption...
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Gates Fdn & Cargill's Toxic Ag top-down mega project to “develop soya value chain” in southern Africa entail GM soy monocrops & agrochemicals while displacing indigenous people - unleashing toxic cocktail of weedkillers, insecticides & fungicides in their food & water.
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Anger, anxiety, constant haste!, impatience, Hot/Freezing weather & metabolizing refined carbs cause magnesium excretion - not calcium. As calcium replaces magnesium in soft tissue, health & longevity suffer. Research Magnesium - Supplement Needed!
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Blood tests do not reveal intracellular magnesium deficiency, a root cause of heart attacks. Industrial Ag has depleted magnesium in soils = low-magnesium in food. Reverse osmosis removes >90% of magnesium.
Magnesium Testing Research: https://bit.ly/3ctnvMl
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Dr Robert Atkins: "So much evidence has been amassed linking refined carbs to sugar/insulin disorders & these to heart disease, hypertension, & stroke that any medical advisory board member who remains silent on this matter is guilty of malfeasance."
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INCIDENCE of Alzheimer's, asthma, autoimmune diseases, cancers, Crohn's, coronary inflammation, heart failure, T2 diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome [could go on] = ALL TIME HIGH. Is it time to re-introduce the pasture-based quality cookery Martha served at Mt Vernon?
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For decades, "nonprofit" heart asso & govt bureaucrats (NIH, USDA) advised us to replace nutritious butter, eggs & pastured meat w/ imitation butter, box cereal, flour, pasta & sugar. Epidemics followed the betrayal & now our children will pay the steepest price
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Bevy of concerned tweeters took issue with my hypothesis that robust animal nutrition can be of help in #autism (included in a list of other conditions). One response: "It’s genetic." With all due respect, can genetics explain this chart?
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Like Rome, we have "Greatest military in the world," but our Medical Elite don't know (pretend not to) root causes of autism. Alzheimer's is decimating "golden years," but again "sorry." 1 in 3 have fatty liver; experts say Eat Grain! In decline, Rome fell in 476 AD.
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John Ioannidis' "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" has never been refuted. Dr Ioannidis: "The best scientists don't always get funded & most clinical research is useless." In other words, much of what the so called experts say about nutrition is nonsense!
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Science Behind "low fat" is weak evidence that provides little or no certainty; Observational studies that cannot determine causation; Limited because of confounding variables (incl bias); Lack of study design accuracy; reliance on sketchy food frequency questionnaires
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Alzheimer's, autism, asthma, autoimmune diseases, cancers, Crohn's, CHD, congestive heart failure, T2 diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, clinical anxiety, depression not fixed by Pharma Drugs nor prevented, reversed by "low fat" Guidelines. Infants & the ailing need food!
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1957 Greasing The Skids: JAMA ad described Wesson oil as “cholesterol depressant.” Harvard's Dr Fred Stare encouraged up to 1 cup of corn oil a day. AHA's Dr Antonio Gotto promoted Puritan Oil to practicing MDs - printed on Baylor College of Medicine letterhead. [click]
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#Cholesterol is the precursor to Pregnenolone (please click to view). Statins deplete Cholesterol (and CoQ10). What could go wrong? It has gone wrong!
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True "Homeland Security" - waterproofs all cell membranes - Grandmother to all steroid hormones, vital to brain & nervous system functioning, #cholesterol is the defining molecule of human life. No cholesterol; no life!
Since 1961, American Heart Asso has it wrong!
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1961 AHA endorsed brd member Ancel Keys' "anti-fat is good health" diet: Two (2) typewritten pages; two (2) references - none to Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT). His reward: Keys made the cover of TIME & ignited a decades-long war against a vital molecule.
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Food Police praise Avocados as "good fat" - demonize lard as "bad fat," BUT Lard & Avocado contain SAME 6 fatty acids; both dominantly monounsaturated oleic acid (lard 45%; avocado 50%). Vit D-rich lard also contains more HDL-promoting saturated stearic acid.
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@nmlinguaphile Not the flu! Appears to be a "manufactured" virus. Has a patent. (Can't patent the flu.) Reaction varies depending on where you find yourself. Chinese govt has reason to believe corona is a "bio-weapon." To Asians in particular, this is not the flu!
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Dr Alan Cantwell: “... scientists have been genetically engineering animal & human #coronaviruses to make disease-producing mutant & recombinant viruses for over a decade.”
> 2019 Swine Flu decimated Chinese pork industry; Bird Flu decimated Chinese chicken industry.
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Ancel Keys' 1961 AHA anti-fat - High Grain - "excess sugar only causes dental caries" diet morphed into 40 years of chronic-disease-promoting USDA Dietary Guidelines (1980-2020) brokered behind closed-revolving-doors by a plague of lobbyists & corrupt govt bureaucrats.
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25% US adults have fatty liver; 25% diabetic/pre-diabetic. 80% of these will die of coronary disease or Heart failure - #1 Medicare expenditure. Blame AMA/AHA, your MD, Govt corruption (FDA, USDA), Big Ag & Big Food, Pharma-controlled Medical elite & citizen apathy!
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1 pound Vit-A-rich Butter has <1 gram cholesterol (960 mg). We absorb <50%. Our body (incl liver & brain) must produce on avg 1500 mg day. Help your liver! You can't eat enough butter and/or eggs to satisfy the body's daily requirement for life-preserving cholesterol
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Unintended Consequences?
In the much ballyhooed 1957 Anti-Coronary Study - as in Framingham & in five other NIH Studies - people consuming Ancel Keys' High Grain "anti-cholesterol, anti-saturated fat" Veg oil diets died before their time!
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Five Best Beef Liver Superfood Recipes from @KetoAurelius: Including liver meatballs & bacon-wrapped liver. Bon Appétit!
https://bit.ly/2T0Gg0z.
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In team fashion, Vitamin & Mineral Nutrition from animal foods plays stronger role in saving lives from heart attacks than anti/blocker synthetic drugs. Vitamins require minerals to function; mineral sufficiency is best achieved emphasizing highest quality animal food.
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Beef liver: Most concentrated source of folate (supplement is synthetic folic acid). FOOD BETTER! 3-ounce (85-gram) serving of beef liver = 212 mcg folate (54% of RDI). Beef liver also best source of vit A, vit B12 & offers COMPLETE PROTEIN. Liver is "Heart Healthy"
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Last time I looked, Spain was on the Mediterranean Sea.
Here's a store in Spain that promotes an authentic #Mediterranean Diet - Spain-style!
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Bogus Mediterranean Diet: "Majority of each meal: Fruits & vegetables, whole grains, beans, seeds, a few nuts & heavy emphasis on extra virgin olive oil."
[No B12! No fat-soluble vits A, D, K2. No choline, little zinc.
Beans, Fruit, Grains: Elevate blood sugar.]
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Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories:
> JFK was killed by a "lone assassin..."
> Arteries are injured by a "lone molecule..."
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Ike's cardiologist Paul D White, founder of AHA: "Heart attacks were rare in early 1900s" - (heart disease mortality was less than 10%.) Avg life expectancy low due to high infant mortality & lack of public health measures. (Infections killed most people.)
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1956 Eisenhower's cardiologist, Dr Paul D White, speaking during a televised panel discussion hosted by AHA:
"Back in the myocardial-infarction-free-days [heart attack] before 1920, the fats were butter & lard & I think we would all benefit from that kind of fat."
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1863 After losing 85 lbs on high fat/carb-restricted diet, William Banting published Letter On Corpulence To The Public. British Med Journal: "Banting's diet could be dangerous! We advise Mr Banting & everyone of his kind, not to meddle with medical literature again."
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2020: In terms of public health policy, highly processed, chemically unstable, hexane-derived (solvent) GMO soybean oil is a "bioweapon" - a Fat of Mass Destruction - recommended by AHA since 1961 & by Federal Govt bureaucrats & guideline committees since 1977.
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"Mediterranean Diet has been rated as the healthiest diet on the planet. Red meats are rarely on the menu..."
Except in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey & the rest of the middle eastern & northern African countries bordering the sea!
Give us a break, will you?
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@PierceOCinneide You will have to do your own research. I will, however, hope you carefully review this attached photo
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#Cholesterol-as-culprit & War against Saturated Fat deserve impeachment! Quid Pro Quos among Medical Elite, Univ Nutrition Depts, Food Lobbyists, Govt Bureaucrats, Pharma & Guideline Committees ABOUND! Where to start?
1961 AHA adopt Keys' No Fat High Grain Diet?
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1997 Ancel Keys in retirement: “There is no connection whatsoever between cholesterol in food & cholesterol in blood. And we’ve known that all along..."
Why, then, do 2015 USDA Guidelines say: "Eat as little dietary cholesterol as possible"?
CORRUPTION!
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YAHOO Lifestyle: "Plant foods should make up large percentage of what you eat..."
If you're a cow, yes! If you're human, only animal foods provide vitamins A, B12, carnitine, choline, D, heme iron, K2 + complete protein - all essential aminos in the right amount.
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Thomas Moore, MD: "Lowering your cholesterol is next to impossible with diet..." yet General Mills continues to market sugary cereals with false, fear-oriented "health & wellness claims." 2013: Even AHA removed their Honey Nut "Low Fat Seal of Approval..."
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Ancel Keys in retirement: “There is no connection whatsoever between cholesterol in food & cholesterol in blood. And we’ve known that all along..."
Doublespeak 2015 USDA Guidelines FINALLY came clean on dietary cholesterol, BUT READ THE BOTTOM LINE!
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If you see a monarch this summer, say a prayer for Homero Gomez Gonzalez, tireless protector of the monarch butterfly & the pine, fir forests in Mexico where they winter. Gonzalez was beaten to death by gangs involved in illegal logging & clandestine avocado farming.
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Dr Atkins: "So much evidence has been amassed linking refined carbs to sugar/insulin disorders & these to #diabetes, heart disease, hypertension & stroke that any medical advisory board member who remains silent on this matter is guilty of malfeasance..."
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French & Swiss, respectively, have highest saturated fat consumption in Europe, yet lowest rates of heart disease. As Japanese prospered after WWII, their low, low cholesterol rose 20%; rate of strokes - #1 killer - fell 600%. French/Swiss/Japanese = healthy aging!
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Food sources of vitamin B12 include liver (highest), red meat, raw milk (pasteurization destroys most B-12), fish, clams, oysters & eggs. (There are no plant sources of B12; soy products increase body's B12 requirement.) Best Supplement: Methyl lozenge under tongue
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CONUNDRUM: It's "Nutritional Supplements Don't do Anything Time." Yes, FOOD FIRST, but if someone is beset with heart failure - RECOVERY URGENT - Ubiquinol form of CoQ10 - up to 600 mg daily - can be life-saving (take w/ magnesium). Statins deplete CoQ10!
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CONUNDRUM: It's "Nutritional Supplements Don't do Anything Time." Yes, FOOD FIRST, but if someone has elevated Triglycerides, L-Carnitine - 2,000 mg/day on empty stomach - will bring them down. Best food sources of Carnitine: Demonized Red Meat, especially Lamb!
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Just published in Endocrinology:
Researchers discovered that soybean oil had "pronounced" effects on the hypothalamus region in brain that regulates weight, body temp & metabolism. Coconut oil did not. Study done on mice - similar mechanisms
https://bit.ly/39jNt2F
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Industrial seed oils (soybean oil = 7% calories in US diet) were not consumed in US until years after 1912. Today, these chemically unstable poly oils - 80% edible fat market - are the "Fats of Mass Destruction" in refined, processed & restaurant foods. #Parkinsons?
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For decades, Experts: "Don't Eat Eggs!" So now, in record incidence, children are being diagnosed with "Adult-Onset #Diabetes" - accelerated aging - because, in part, large numbers start their day with blood-sugar-raising dry box cereal in skimmed of nutrition milk
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Even though politics has become substitute for life - #2020election - Battle of the Ages - we must rivet our attention on demanding - for once & for all - that the Medical Elite & Govt bureaucrats officially gut "Low Fat = Good Health" - root cause of #diabetes
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FACT: Higher LDL may be protective in the elderly; higher #cholesterol is asso w/ lower risk Parkinson's & #Alzheimers. Besides, "Older people with high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) live as long & often longer than those with low levels of LDL..."
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With all due respect, Joe Biden is slipping (not just in polls). At 78, he's on cholesterol-lowering drug, as are Pres Trump & Bernie Sanders. Aging bodies - 25% in brain - need cholesterol. Stress hormones come from #cholesterol. >70: Is statin-drugging safe, wise?
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Yale "Expert Witness" Dr David Katz was paid $3,500/hr to defend Chobani Yogurt's high sugar content (36% more sugar than protein). Katz also endorses KIND "healthy snacks" that contain up to 12 grams of sugar.
Excess Sugar = Elevated TG = Heart Risk!
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Triglycerides (TG) = blood fats, result of excess dietary carbs, esp fructose. High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) recycles lipids.
Most Reliable Predictor Heart Risk: TG:HDL ratio, ideally 1. How to achieve safe ratio no more than 2?
Atkins/Paleo/#Keto NOT DRUGS!
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Finally admitting elevated Triglycerides (TG) CAUSE heart disease, new drug Apolipoprotein C-II is being tested in mice. Just replacing cereal/toast with eggs fried in butter or lard will lower TG/Boost HDL. White coats at Pharma know this; your MD may be confused!
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Vitamin B-12 is crucial to brain & nervous system function; is involved in red blood cell formation - helps create, regulate DNA. Metabolism of every cell in body depends on B-12.
Nutrition matters, but #KFC plant chicken & fake Beyond Meat has zero B-12.
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Report for 1984 "Consensus Conference" on cholesterol - sponsored by AHA (private doctors) & govt bureaucrats (NIH) - WAS WRITTEN IN ADVANCE. MDs & researchers in attendance who disagreed with "Cholesterol-as-Culprit" were officially SILENCED...
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CNN: "If Sanders wins Iowa... & if he wins the first two states... we could be talking about South Carolina as the last hope FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT to keep #Sanders from the nomination."
> NOT CHOOSING SIDES! But Please, no more talk about our "sacred democracy"
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@dwilliam9940 @HatHooi 2 February 2020 -- 75th Anniversary of the defeat of the German 6th army at the epic Battle of Stalingrad - turning point of WWII. The hill with the remains of 35,000 Red Army soldiers -- sacred soil for patriotic #Russia...
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"Liver" is Old English LIFE. Largest organ, liver has 2 blood supplies. In China, hypertension is seen as liver issue - fatty liver! Cut sugar; juice fasting won't help. Assist your liver: Butter, egg yolk, liver & mineral-rich bone broth. Side effect: Healthy Aging!
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Not "Blue Zone"
Okinawan longevity: "Eat fat, live long." Diet is centered around pork, incl fatty pork skin & esp pork belly. Liver, kidneys, stomach & intestines are popular. Sweet potatoes, cabbages, carrots & tofu fermented for several months round out their diet.
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Happy the "blamed-for-everything" Russian people don't hold grudges, McDonald’s has announced plans to increase investment in Russia by 40% this year - adding to the 680 Mcdonalds already visited by more than 1.5 million customers every day. Fast Food Diplomacy!
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“Eat Less & Move More” - choose a USDA plant-based "dietary pattern" - Lower "bad" cholesterol with cereal!
How does that work? It didn't! Cholesterol-lowering & "Low Fat = Good Health" gave us epidemics of Alzheimer's, Obesity, #Diabetes & Congestive Heart Failure
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Founded by "sugar-expert-witness" Dr David Katz, True Health Initiative (THI) touts plant-based nutrition including "chips, breakfast cereals & granola bars" - processed grains that elevate blood sugar - & meatless products made of fermented fungus...
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Dr Atkins routinely reversed T2 #diabetes, incl insulin-dependent, with high(er) fat, sugar & grain restricted diet + supplements, esp magnesium. Worth knowing? Response from AMA & Media: Demonization! "Information Suppression" USSR-style plagues our nation!
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#1 reason US families go bankrupt? Unpaid medical bills; or, healthcare costs are #1 economic threat to US households. Hypothetically, #coronavirus could spread faster here because infected people may hesitate going to an emergency room because they can't afford it...
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Ideal vector for disease? Keeping large numbers of animals crammed together indoors. Way to destroy living soil? Repeated applications of pesticides on govt subsidized GMO grains. Managing resulting chronic diseases with worthless drugs? Bloated profits!
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Yale’s Dr David Katz calls #Keto a fad diet - like the grapefruit diet. Apparently Katz is bothered by Keto because it restricts food groups that promote elevated blood sugar & #diabetes - growth industries for the Medical Elite, Pharma & US Processed Food Industries
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1973: Congressional Hearing - #Atkins' FAD DIET:
Fred Stare's testimony: "The Atkins diet is nonsense... in my opinion dangerous... malpractice." Stare's Harvard Nutrition Dept received over $1 million from General Foods, makers of sugary Post Cereals & Kool-Aid
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Dr Cristin Kearns: 1960s Harvard's Dr Fredrick Stare & Mark Hegsted worked with Sugar Trade Group to counter early research linking sugar to CHD - deflecting blame to cholesterol. They were paid ($48,000 in 2016 dollars). Funding source was never publicly disclosed.
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Dr David Katz was paid $3,500/hr (expert witness) to defend Chobani Yogurt's high sugar content (36% more sugar than protein). He also received $731,000 grant from Hershey to study #diabetes - "Information Suppression" - Industry hiring quislings to obfuscate the truth
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Pre-diabetes > insulin resistance > metabolic syndrome > #diabetes EASILY REVERSED, but Pharma's decades-long "Information Suppression" is strangling the truth. Reviewing Akins' clinical data, Duke's Dr Eric Westman confirmed: Dr Atkins routinely reversed T2 Diabetes
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Map shows #Ukraine, like former Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia, was cobbled together w/ folks who don't like each other! So why has $6-7 Billion in US tax dollars been sent here to fuel CIVIL WAR that has taken over 15,000 lives, mostly civilians in the #Russian east?
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Beyond Meat's "Chicken nuggets look like chicken!" KFC's Andrea Zahumensky: "If only Colonel Sanders were still alive to see this stuff..."
[Stuff fried in rancid veg oil? The Colonel would gag! His original recipe: lard, 11 spices & chicken!]
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Detailed in Dr Mercola's "Why Your Doctor's Advice May Be Fatally Flawed"-- 72% of retracted drug studies are due to data falsification, fabrication, unethical conduct & plagiarism -- Only 28% of retracted drug studies were retracted due to actual errors.
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Anna Lappé points out there has been a 1,345% increase in the amount of glyphosate used on GMO crops like soy between 1990 and 2014 (from 8 million pounds in 1990 to 250 million pounds used in 2014). Monsanto's latest frontier: Post-2014 coup d'état #Ukraine.
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Anna Lappé: “We are teetering on the edge of an era of massive extinction, propelled in large part by the very pesticides & practices used with genetically engineered crops like that #soy destined for Impossible Burgers...”
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In an ersatz age burdened with "beyond meat" & “plant chicken” phony concepts of sustainability, let's not forget where we came from...
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"All reformers would do well to be conscious of the law of unintended consequences."
Staff director Alan Stone to Gary Taubes in 2006 interview. McGovern staffers had no scientific training, but wrote the 1977 Dietary Goals that morphed into 1980 USDA Guidelines
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1961 AHA brd mbr Keys' anti-fat diet (2 pgs; no RCT, just Keys' weak epidemiology)
1977 Pritikin "low fat" clinic attendee McGovern already believed "dietary fat caused killer diseases"
1980-2015 USDA Anti-Fat AHA Guidelines
2020 Diabesity Heart Failure epidemics
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Stents entered clinical practice 40 yrs ago without any RCT
evidence in their efficacy. Eventually such trials were done; found little or no difference in outcomes between stents & medication, but established practice is slow to change... https://lat.ms/2uBIpr1
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"All reformers would do well to be conscious of the law of unintended consequences..."
Alan Stone, staff director, McGovern's 1977 Senate Committee, to science writer Gary Taubes in 2006 interview
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1961 AHA endoress Keys' anti-fat diet (2 pages)
1977 McGovern Committee cut/pasted Keys' diet
1980 USDA cut/pasted McGovern diet
1984 AHA/NIH say TC >200 is a disease
1992 Food Pyramid: 6-11 servings grain daily
Fraud in 1961; politics - $$$ - thereafter!
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We made a lot of progress in 20th century; ie, now even women can vote (even if for the lesser of two evils), but we reduced the "goodness" of our food supply & "anti-fat" Govt directives since 1980 created widespread obesity & record levels of chronic disease.
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Lard: NOT from confined pigs in bldgs under fake light fed antibiotic-laced GMO soybeans. Lard is rendered without damaging the 40% unsaturated fat. Pigs like to root in the ground, drink skim milk & eat a variety (acorns) as they did on traditional US dairy farms
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Longevity = Sunlight, movement, stress reduction + organic, non-GMO, pasture-raised, grass-fed, traditional foods properly prepared. No to poly veg oil & "dirty" glucose; Yes to animal protein, "clean" healthy fats - foremost dietary sources of #ketones.
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Saying "Don't eat eggs" since 1980, USDA current 2015 Dietary Guidelines say it’s OK to eat 1 egg per day!
> A "free food" - eat as many eggs as you like. Fry or scramble in butter or lard. Lutein & Zeaxanthin in eggs reduce risk of macular degeneration.
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1920-1960, as butter use fell from 18 lbs per person per yr to 4, incidence of CHD rose precipitously. Same period, lard went from 80% of edible fat market to single digits. 1961 AHA, supported by Veg-oil-makers, blamed CHD on vit A-rich butter & vit-D-rich lard.
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#Ukranians love lard. Pork belly is everywhere. Raw lard & onion sandwiches are popular. Ukrainians add extra chunks of lard to their cured, fermented meats. Salo (photo) is a Ukrainian delicacy made of cured pork fat. No lean protein in the "borderlands."
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1910 Butter consumption was 18 pounds per capita; Heart disease mortality was <10%
>Year 2000 Butter use fell below 4 pounds; Heart disease mortality was 45%
>Assertion that vitamin A-rich butter is linked to heart disease has always been nonsense!
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Animal fats are stable, don't oxidize; provide fat-soluble vitamins like K2 - prevents buildup of calcium in the arteries; puts calcium in the bones where it belongs. Eat chicken, goose & duck fat; lard, butter, egg yolks, cream, whole milk & cheese - grass-fed red meat
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Meeting 2, 2020 DGAC, Lobbyist,
Intl Food Info Council Foundation:
"We encourage you [the committee] to keep the pulse of the consumer central to your discussions."
Consumers? No, we're people! Optimal health; reducing disease-risk BETTER BE central to discussions!
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"Grain Chain," Mtg 2, 2020 #DGAC:
“We believe it is premature to recommend low-Carbohydrate Dietary Patterns to US population. Research data for low-carb diets is inconsistent for both diabetes & weight loss or maintenance outcomes.”
> "Premature" - really?
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Depleted in nutrients & containing harmful additives, refined flour raises blood sugar, insulin & risk of #diabetes. Most whole-grain flour has also been milled to a fine particle size - bit of germ & bran added back. Depleted whole grain increases diabetes risk
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“Grain Chain" Mtg 2, 2020 #DGAC:
Endorsed carb intakes up to 65% of calories [really?] & "at minimum 6 daily servings of grains... maintaining at least 3 servings of enriched grains”
[Grains elevate blood sugar; "enriched" (refined) grains are as bad as sugar!]
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1910, when heart disease mortality was <10%, lard had 80% of the edible fat market - soybean oil 0%. Today, when heart disease mortality is >40%, soybean & other poly-chemically-unstable veg oils (like Con-ola) have 90% of the market...
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Manufacturing consent for US Elite - elections, health, medicine, & issues of War & Peace - is the POWER of news media corporations like Multinational AT&T who own Time Warner own #CNN. How they try manipulate our hearts & minds would make Dr Joseph Goebbels proud!
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Dr Michael Gurr: "... suggestions that saturated fatty acids [15 of them] differed in their cholesterol-raising capacities were already apparent in the 1960s when AHA condemned all saturated fats as bad." ONLY 3 of 8 common saturates have that "POTENTIAL"
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Michael Gurr, PhD, lipid biochemist, textbook author:
"Dietary saturated fatty acid - plasma lipid relationships - have been grossly oversimplified. Old simplistic statements, such as 'saturated fats raise plasma cholesterol,' need to be reappraised..."
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Dr Andrew Weil on science-writer Gary Taubes' book
Good Calories, Bad Calories:
"He raises big questions... One of them is that there is absolutely no scientific evidence for the belief that fat is the driver of obesity."
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> USDA Home/Garden Bulletin #1, 1950:
"Best quality proteins have all the important amino acids & worthwhile amounts of each. You get top-rating proteins in foods from animal sources as in meat, poultry, fish, eggs, milk & cheese."
USDA since 1980: Eat Grain!
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"I'm not a proponent of the Atkins diet, but I think we have to thank Dr Atkins for drawing our attention to the role of carbohydrates in obesity."
Andrew Weil, MD
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AHA & NIH obsession with TC levels has led to the overmedication of tens of millions with statins & diverted attention from the most reliable risk factors: Elevated Triglycerides (creating small-dense, oxidizable LDL) & low levels of "good" HDL cholesterol.
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Spaniards brought pigs to America, but Nicoyans were already raising a native breed (chuche) & ate eggs, fish, poultry, turtles & wild game. Spaniards - #Mediterrean diet "meat eaters" - brought chorizo & dry-cured ham - very popular today in "Blue Zone" Costa Rica.
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Traditional Costa Rican food from Nicoya Peninsula is very fatty: Lots of pork lard, “bone soup,” organ meats, fresh milk straight from the cow, eggs, chicken skin, salted fish, shellfish & fresh corn tortillas. Average age of centenarians: 107! [Photo: Pork Casado]
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Gina Baker has lived in Costa Rica 20 yrs. She visited the Nicoya centenarians who revealed their traditional fare: "Fried pork, pork brains & lots of lard" - not the "mostly vegetarian diet" described in “Blue Zones" - repackaged, "low fat = good health" non-science!
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NOT IN BLUE ZONES Okinawan saying: “Every part of a pig can be eaten except for its hooves & its oink."
Crunchy side dish made of pig’s ear, Mimiga is served thinly-sliced, boiled or steamed in vinegar & served with mayonnaise, ponzu sauce or peanut dressing.
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Surrounded by the sea, Okinawa is best known for pork dishes. "Rafute" is succulent pork belly slowly simmered in a local wine & soy sauce. The meat melts in your mouth - a favorite among Okinawan women as it is rich in collagen (enhances beautiful skin).
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Long-lived, healthy people of Okinawa eat a pork-based diet - many foods are fried in pork lard. Okinawans consider pork organ meat a food-based natural remedy. Pork is so vital to Okinawan culture that Okinawans often refer to their land as the “Island of Pork.”
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"Declining total cholesterol values in nursing home residents [put on Statin Drugs] - losses greater than 45 mg/dl per year - increased the odds of mortality by more than six times."
[Bill Sardi, "The Cholesterol Conundrum," Nutrition Science News, Sept 1998]
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Dietary Guidelines (incl Big Food), Pharma "owned" evening news, FDA & AHA keep "lower is better" alive even though low #cholesterol means you're more likely to die earlier (all causes) & very low TC is observed among those with depression, suicidal & violent behavior!
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Framingham Hrt Study: "At 30 years (about 1980) participants whose cholesterol had declined over the first 14 years ran a greater risk of dying from all causes than those whose cholesterol had increased over time."
[Thomas Moore MD, Atlantic Monthly, Sept 1989]
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For Longevity emphasize butter/cream; animal fats (lard, tallow, chicken schmaltz & duck fat); tropical oils (coconut, palm kernel & palm oils); tree nut fats (like macadamia) & extra virgin olive oil. The more saturated the fat, the greater conversion to #ketones
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CoQ10: Primary antioxidant to protect mitochondria (cell furnaces) - most abundant in brain, heart, liver - cells that require the most CoQ10. Statins deplete CoQ10; why statins are asso w/ widespread organ toxicity https://bit.ly/309hKhe
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All traditional cuisines valued meat & fish stock. 1910 US, stock went into gravy, soups, stews. Nothing went to waste: Bones, hooves, knuckles, carcasses & tough meat went into the pot. Today culinary wisdom has been replaced by dribble & boneless chicken breasts
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Put our animals back on pasture eating grass! Pasture-based grazing maximizes soil fertility; hastens creation of topsoil. Beef animals thrive without any grain; only need water. Grass-fed beef is nutritious, sustainable; pesticide-ridden grain monoculture is not.
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Dr David Katz: "Hallmarks of a 'best' diet incl balance, maintainability, sustainability, healthfulness."
MISSING: Animal protein, esp eggs; Mineral sufficiency, esp zinc in red meat; Vit A + B12, only in animal food; Fat: butter/cream, cheese, coconut, fish, lard!
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17 Years Ago: FALLUJA, #Iraq, Nov 23, 2003 (Reuters)
"Braving snipers, Falluja residents walked past demolished homes to an aid distribution center on Tuesday but American granola bars and Frosted Flakes cereal failed to raise hopes for a brighter future..."
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Stanford's Christopher Gardner, judge on the US News panel, said "fruits, beans/legumes & whole intact grains" have been "consistently recommended as being healthy." [even though they do not contain complete protein & in excess raise blood sugar promoting #diabetes
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CNN: Yale’s Dr David Katz called Keto a fad diet comparing it to the grapefruit diet. Katz is bothered by #Keto because it restricts food groups that promote elevated blood sugar & #diabetes - growth industries for the Medical Elite & Drug companies.
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CNN: "Experts say the keto diet isn't sustainable..."
Experts said "Don't eat Eggs!" - gold standard of protein - all essential amino acids, including vital sulfur-bearing cysteine & methionine + most concentrated source of macula-protecting lutein & zeaxanthin!
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1987 Merck's cholesterol-lowering Lovastatin approved in 12 weeks. AHA brd member Dr Scott Grundy - paid consultant to Merck - wrote "thumbs up" 9-page article in New England Journal of Medicine. Private MD's helped make US "War on Cholesterol" Big Pharma's success
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Cured meats - jamon, chorizo, salchichón - are ubiquitous in #MediterreanDiet Spain. Emphasis is on quality, flavor; what the pigs are fed (like acorns), type of pig (mostly free range) & the curing process. Chorizo, a sweet, spicy cured sausage, is a favorite!
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Generic, homogenized "colorful fruits & veggies" whole grain #MediterraneanDiet is pathetically trite Media hype - obfuscation to conceal decades of failed "Low Fat is Good Health." 21 countries border the sea - variation is the rule - please stop the moronic idiocy!
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US News #1 Diet: Mediterranean: Great News!
>Spain: Wide variety raw cheeses, cured ham, butter/eggs used in abundance.
>Italy: Organ meat popular (liver, tongue, kidney). Red meat, raw milk
>France: Butter, lard, pâté (liver).
>Greece: Lamb, full fat feta cheese
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To protect its "partners," AHA will not admit that weight gain, obesity, diabetes & coronary heart risk are all linked to high glycemic index/load of carb-based diets, esp cereals, grains & sugar. After 5 years' research, Gary Taubes concluded: Atkins was right!
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For a fee, blood-sugar-raising Pop Tarts & cereals like sugar-laced Cocoa Puffs could earn AHA's "Low Fat" Seal of Approval. Even children have adult-onset T2 #Diabetes! Has Medical/Business elite put their financial interests above the health of "We the People"?
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1987 AHA board member Dr Scott Grundy - paid consultant to Merck (Lovastatin, 1st statin) - wrote a favorable 9-page article about Lovastatin in the New England Journal of Medicine. Private doctors from AHA helped make the "War on Cholesterol" a profitable success.
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1987 Statin drugs approved in just 12 weeks as the "War on Cholesterol" was launched by the unholy alliance of the AHA, federal Heart Institute & even the Cereal companies joined in. 30+ years of deception & bad math
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2019: ADA endorsed low-carb/keto diets for prevention & management of T2 #diabetes stating that carb-restriction lowers blood pressure, controls blood sugar, lowers Triglycerides, raises HDL & reduces the need for drugs. 2020: #USDA Guidelines must follow suit!
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Feliz Año Nuevo from the pristine Pacific coast in beautiful #Oaxaca Mexico. Great people; great organic food; endless sunshine. (No Cartel!) Lunch option: Tasty, nutritious Enchiladas
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Comprising 12 different fatty acids, complex Butter is 80% fat; 20% water. French eat much more cream & butterfat & yet have about 1/4th the heart disease than US. So what do US Dietary Guidelines say: Don't eat butter- "its a solid fat" [whatever that means].
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Since 1961, AHA has demonized vit A-rich butter. 1 lb = 960 mg cholesterol. At best we absorb 50%, say 500 mg. To satisfy needs, our livers synthesize, on avg, 1500 mg day. You must eat 3 lbs butter to turn off the body's daily synthesis. Butter everything!
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Amer Hrt Asso: "Decades of sound science has proven saturated fats can raise your “bad” cholesterol..."
> No such thing "bad cholesterol"
> Saturated fats raise "good" HDL!
> Bet that's margarine & corn syrup on the pancakes...
> AHA sound science? Fundraising!
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#1 killer Metabolic Syndrome (Insulin Resistance) is present in 40% of us over 50 (as heart attacks ramp up) - a Grim Reaper AHA, AMA, Big Food, USDA fostered via High Grain, "wink at sugar" Anti-Saturated Fat Diets. No reversal, no cure - just costly Synthetic Drugs
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No Time to Squander: For up to 50% of all coronary heart disease (CHD) patients, sudden cardiac death is first, last & only manifestation of CHD. No warning; be proactive: Fasting Glucose <95 mg/dl; Triglycerides <95 mg/dl; HDL >60 men (>70 women). Atkins/Keto/Paleo
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Q: Why does American Heart Asso, US Cardiology, USDA Guidelines & your MD ignore the TG:HDL ratio?
A: Because the High Grain, Anti-Saturated Fat diet they have recommended for decades promotes "bad" Triglycerides & in teeter-totter fashion reduces "good" HDL!
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Let's learn from Tim Russert's sudden death: For yrs he had been pre-diabetic (fasting glucose >100). He had "long history of elevated TGs." His HDL had even been <30. Elevated TG & low HDL is a strong predictor of heart risk. Tell your MD: Statins = Bogus treatment
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@outofsocks Dr Atkins discussed this in his newsletters - never has been refuted; high TG and low HDL is reliable; LDL is not.
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@outofsocks From AHA journal Circulation. Also google "TG:HDL ratio" and find additional evidence of the predictability of this ratio
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BLOOD WORK: Most reliable predictor of heart risk? Ratio of Triglycerides to HDL: TG:HDL ratio, ideally 1; no more than 2. You want TG <100 (<95 better); HDL >60 in men (>70 in women). Don't let your MD zero in on LDL; bring a black marker to cover it up!
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Lower LDL isn't better:
Sunday without Tim Russert! Fatal heart attack age 58. He had high Triglycerides; low HDL - "high risk" TG:HDL ratio >4. His MD's were targeting LDL with statin. (His LDL was BELOW 70 mg/dl) Don't let this happen to you.
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"Cardiologists recommend Mediterranean diet"
OK!
>Spain: Wide variety raw cheeses, cured ham, butter/eggs in abundance.
>Italy: Organ meat popular (liver, tongue, kidney). Red meat, raw milk
>France: Butter, lard, pâté (liver).
>Greece: Lamb, full fat feta cheese
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1863 After losing 85 pounds on high fat, carb-restricted diet, William Banting published Letter On Corpulence. British Medical Journal: "Banting's diet could be dangerous! We advise Mr Banting & everyone of his kind, not to meddle with medical literature again..."
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Avocado is 28-29% saturated fat (see chart - palmitic & stearic); Lard is 40% saturated, including 12% HDL-raising saturated stearic acid - an advantage over avocado fat (oil) which has very little "very good" saturated stearic acid.
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@cabocush Avocado is just 28-29% saturated. Lard is 40% saturated of and is 12% HDL-raising saturated stearic acid - an advantage over avocado fat (oil).
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Required for membrane stiffness, Tropical plants require stable saturated fat. Complex butter = 12 fatty acids (8 saturates). Beef/Palm/Human membranes = 50% saturated (Mary Enig PhD). Not listed, Pork is 60% & chicken 70% unsaturated. Poly oils: too unstable!
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Purpose of The Game Changers film: Advocating plant-based diet. Film plays fast, loose with food & nutrition science. Veganism propaganda, albeit slick, well-done. Don't get suckered; THINK TWICE before going vegan! https://bit.ly/39ivbiZ
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Dr Malcolm Kendrick on Latest Lancet Study:
"After an acute myocardial infarction, in people with acute decompensated heart failure, normally caused by a previous MI – the higher the LDL level, the lower the overall mortality." https://bit.ly/39iFMdF
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Most plentiful protein in our bodies, Collagen is ONLY available in animal foods; i.e., found in large amounts in chicken skin (& bones) - building foods the Food Police say "Don't eat!" Eat the skin & learn to make bone broth (include gelatin-rich chicken feet).
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Lipid Delivery Systems (intestinal Chylomicrons for dietary fat) & VLDL, LDL, HDL for liver-made fat) arrived early in evolution; amphibians, birds, insects, fishes & even roundworms have so called "bad" LDL - Low Density Lipoprotein - they just don't fret about it!
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Fatty acids are universal, shared by plants, animals & microorganisms; i.e., Beef is 45% monounsaturated oleic acid; olive oil 70%. Mono oleic acid is the most common fat in creation - ALWAYS in combination with saturated fat in the animal food we've eaten for eons.
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Food Police say Avocados contain "good fat" & lard contains "bad fat" BUT Lard & Avocado contain same 6 fatty acids; both dominantly monounsaturated oleic acid (lard 45%; avocado 50%). Vit D-rich lard also contains more HDL-promoting saturated stearic acid.
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>1910 Butter consumption was 18 pounds per capita; Heart disease mortality was <10%
>Year 2000 Butter use fell below 4 pounds; Heart disease mortality was 45%
>Assertion that vitamin A-rich butter is linked to heart disease has always been nonsense!
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USDA recommends "Light buttery spreads made with a blend of vegetable oils like Canola, soybean, olive & sunflower."
[Eaten for thousands of yrs, Butter is best daily source of infection-fighting vitamin A, but - No - USDA recommends fake butter - No vitamin A!
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USDA doublespeak: "Dietary Guidelines serve as the Cornerstone of federal nutrition programs & policies, providing food-based recommendations that help prevent diet-related chronic diseases & promote overall health..."
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Cereal companies continue to sell box cereals contaminated with troubling levels of glyphosate - cancer-causing ingredient in Bayer-Monsanto's Roundup - detected in 21 oat-based cereal & snack products sampled in the latest (ignored) round of testing.
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HFCS= 55% Fructose/45% Glucose. Glucose enters blood raising blood sugar (then to liver). Fructose is shuttled to the liver & in well fed people - most of us - is converted into fat, measured in blood work as Triglycerides. HFCS & sugar = fatty liver traffic jam!
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The tail - corruption in #Ukraine - is now wagging the dog - political chaos in the US. Since the 2014 coup, $1 billion in US tax dollars are missing & we are arming one side in a terrible civil war. Meanwhile Monsanto & Co. have set up camp. How will this end?
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1956 AHA fundraiser on all 3 major networks recommending corn oil, margarine, chicken & cold cereal replace butter, lard, beef & eggs. No evidence, but that has never bothered the Medical Elite. AHA fake food malfeasance continues. Time for Class Action?
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> Cocoa Butter: 60% saturated, 33% monounsaturated & 3% polyunsaturated fat.
> Beef fat (Ribeye): 46% saturated, 50%monounsaturated & 4% polyunsaturated.
> Former praised "Heart-Healthy" - latter condemned!
thanks to @fire_bottle!
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Optimum dietary zinc helps prevent immune dysfunction & increased susceptibility to infections, like flu! Eating high phytate grains/legumes inhibits zinc absorption. Best food sources: Oysters, Lamb, Beef - foods the Food Police say restrict! I say Bon Appétit!
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AHA's hopelessly outdated 1970's-era "Dietary Patterns" supports one group - the Processed Food Industry. Excess polyunsaturated, chemically unstable fat + excess refined carbs inflame arteries - that's the RED I am seeing!
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ANTI-FAT HAS FAILED THE TEST OF TIME!
1 in 4 in US diabetic/pre-diabetic. Coronary Disease has not gone down as promised. Heart Failure is #1 Medicare expenditure. Alzheimer's is epidemic, but Ancel Keys' anti-fat delusion still haunts the American Heart[less] Asso
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"Saturated" fatty acid means chemically stable - nothing else. 70% protective lung surfactant is palmitic acid - most common saturated fat in plants & animals. Fist-sized human heart is covered in saturated stearic acid - emergency fuel supply.
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Lipid ignorant, "Don't eat chicken skin," warned the Food Police, not understanding that chicken fat (skin) is only 30% chemically stable saturated fat - why leftovers get smelly in the fridge in 2-3 days.
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Bacon fat: 50% monounsaturated, mostly oleic acid (valued in olive oil). About 3% is monounsaturated antimicrobial palmitoleic. About 40% is saturated - why bacon fat is relatively stable, unlikely to go rancid. Remaining 10% is polyunsaturated. It's all good!
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In #Ukraine, locals have one ingredient that prevails in almost every traditional dish - salo - pork fat found under the skin in the abdomen & kidneys - delicious in soups, roasts, sausages & potatoes, or alone as a snack. https://bit.ly/2PLSybQ
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#Ukraine is "the borderlands" between what is Russia & what is not #Russia. Ukrainians & Russians share a million family ties, languages & Orthodoxy going back 1,000 years. Peace will come to Ukraine when DC politicians stop making this region a political war zone.
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Prescription fish oil #Vascepa claims 25% relative risk reduction for cardio deaths. Company shares soared $3 to $20. On box: "Effect of Vascepa on cardiovascular mortality & morbidity... has not been determined."
Stick w/ sardines, mackerel, wild-caught salmon!
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@ElamBend @ProfTimNoakes Germany, Russia, Ukraine love black bread, onion & lard sandwiches. Photo from #Ukraine
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Fat in chocolate (cocoa) is high in "good' saturated fat - 1/3 is HDL-raising stearic acid; about 1/3 is saturated palmitic acid (70% of protective lung surfactant). Balance is monounsaturated oleic acid. Cocoa butter & Porterhouse = share the same fatty acids!
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Food Police: Avocados contain "good fat" while lard contains "bad" fat. > Lard & Avocado contain same 6 fatty acids; both dominantly monounsaturated oleic acid (lard 45%; avocado 50%). Vitamin D-rich lard also contains more HDL-promoting saturated stearic acid.
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Trump Admin lawyer Donald McGahn granted waiver of conflict of interest rules to allow Kailee Tkacz, lobbyist for snack foods & Corn Refiners Asso (HFCS), to advise the USDA about the forthcoming 2020 dietary guidelines. How does this help the American people?
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#POLITICO: Why is nutrition science in turmoil? "Because the science is so complicated."
[No, the science is straight forward; i.e., French know what to eat. It's US corruption from 1970s onward when 4 Food Groups was replaced by Ancel Keys' anti-fat Guidelines!]
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Age 72, walking to work, Dr Atkins slipped on an icy sidewalk outside his New York clinic: Severe injury, coma; he did not recover. Duke U's Dr Eric Westman had reviewed Atkins' clinical data. Westman's conclusion: Demonized Dr Atkins "had been right all along..."
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1963: Atkins read about low-carb in JAMA: "Cause of weight gain wasn’t fatty foods but carbs like pasta." Weighing > 200, Atkins tried it; lost 28 lbs in 6 weeks. 9 YEARS LATER Atkins' book Diet Revolution. JAMA then dismissed Atkins Diet as a Dangerous fad...
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Sugar is ok" Joanne Slavin, Nutrition Prof, Univ of MN, who receives funding from Cereal Makers, was on 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (not 2015). As Carb Chair, she stuck to Big Sugar's "all calories are the same" subterfuge. 2020: More corn corruption!
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Gen Mills sponsors Intl Food Info Council Foundation, who brag about "long-standing relationship" with USDA, part of a "Dietary Guidelines Alliance," a "public-private partnership" focused on getting Food-Industry-Friendly members on Dietary Guideline committees
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During the 2010 USDA Dietary Guidelines meeting #1, Univ of MN professor Joanne Slavin - sponsored by General Mills - testified that "25% of calories as sugar is OK." She went on to defend corn syrup because - as we all know - "a calorie is a calorie is a calorie..."
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#Diabetes (accelerated aging) was once rare. 1934: Only 2 or 3 of every 1,000 in US had diabetes. Today we're approaching 1 in 4. 2015: General Mills funded Nutrition Professor Joanne Slavin - Carb Chair - kept "Sugar" off topic in USDA Guideline deliberations.
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Chris Kresser: Greenhouse emissions
Transportation (14.5%) vs. Feedlot beef: (3.9%) US
> Number above is feedlot beef - Not holistically managed, regenerative beef operations that not only don’t contribute to GHG emissions, but sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
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Sugar's harmful effects do not stop at diabetes, metabolic syndrome, hyper- and hypoglycemia, GERD & heart disease. Sugar & cancer are locked in a death grip, yet oncologists refuse to link tumors' appetite for sugar with cancer. https://bit.ly/2PArYlA
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1985: Medical Elite launch Natl Cholesterol Education Prog "to educate public & medical professionals about benefits of lowering cholesterol." Great marketing gig for Cereal Makers who then falsely imply their blood-sugar-raising products reduce heart risk. They don't!
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EU confirmed it will ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos citing the risk of brain damage to children. US EPA was also poised to ban chlorpyrifos, but after Dow donated $1 million to Pres Trump’s inauguration, EPA ignored its own scientists & aborted the scheduled ban.
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Carolyn Dean, MD: Stomach acid deficiency due to stress results in decreased absorption of magnesium. Stress or trauma of any type — physical, mental, emotional, environmental — can also cause magnesium deficiency.
https://bit.ly/38jnsR7
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You don't want calcium replacing MAGNESIUM in soft tissues; i.e.,"hardening of the arteries." (Calcium more abundant in food; Magnesium has been reduced in soil.) Bad idea to supplement unopposed calcium. IF - IF - you supplement both: Mag/Calcium ratio: 2:1
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Dr Atkins did red blood cell tests for magnesium. His discovery: #Diabetics & pre-diabetics had low "intracellular" levels not revealed in blood tests; that the diabetic condition was, in part, magnesium (& mineral deficiencies) & supplements hastened recovery.
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Eggs: Concentrated source of both lutein & zeaxanthin, nutrients that protect the macula, key to preventing macular degeneration, leading cause of blindness in people over 50. Egg also provide sulfur-containing aminos important for detoxification. Box cereals: None!
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Overturning "anti-fat equals good health" & "ask your doctor for a failed drug" - may seem impossible, but we can't leave things as they are - even as our tweets fall on deaf ears. Our strength: We are determined, we know the truth - & we're now inseparable friends!
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Corporate Media's "Russia, Russia, Russia" for the last 4 years is akin to Corporate Media's "Cholesterol, Cholesterol, Cholesterol" for the past 4 decades: Insidious adolescent blaming - Lies & Deception - to protect & sustain War industry & Big Pharma profits.
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In The News: A $1.2 trillion industry, people are snacking more today, esp millennials. “On a given day, the avg adult today is having more snacks than full meals." Exactly what Dr Atkins warned us about:
Carb-created constant hunger leading to #diabesity.
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Pasture feeding of beef cows was the norm until 1950s grain surplus. Govt subsidies took cows off pasture. Pigs on early American dairy farms were fattened on the skim milk - now given to children. Traditional agriculture is not creating a modern climate crises!
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Dietary fat does not makes us fat; excess carbs do, esp cereals/grains/sugars. Liver converts these excess carbs to fat, measured in blood as Triglycerides (TG). As TG goes up, HDL goes down, heart risk goes up & roller-coaster glucose causes sticky, clot-prone blood
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You can't fix T2 #Diabetes w/ synthetic drugs. Root issue: Excess consumption of starches & sugars. Constant blood sugar fluctuations place exhausting demands on endocrine glands resulting in accelerated aging. High(er) fat, optimum nutrition (esp minerals) = cure
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Climate crises, "Eat less meat," experts warn!
US had 12 million beef cows in 1920 compared with 32 million today. 1920, a few million cars on the road; today, 276 million - over 1 billion worldwide. So let's blame our most nutritious food - not belching cars
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No infection-fighting true Vit A in plant foods. Plant foods contain carotenoids that are poorly converted to Vit A. Healthy person must eat >4 pounds of carrots to get the amount of Vit A provided in 3 oz beef liver. Those with diabetes & young kids? No conversion!
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So, how are the children doing? Natl avg of special education = 13%; Staten Island, NY 25%. Anxiety, bullying, depression, learning disabilities, mental illness: Unprecedented! School nutrition? No whole milk, no butter, no nutritious beef stew - all too fatty...
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Blood clots asso w/ >80% of heart attacks. Dietary cause sticky, clot-prone blood? Excess sugar & refined grains elevate blood sugar, deplete magnesium. Other triggers: chronic "fight or flight" & emotional stress. What helps? Exercise, fresh air, play & sunlight!
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"Liver" derives from Old English "life." Largest internal organ, liver has 2 blood supplies. In China, hypertension often viewed as liver issue. Assist your liver? Forget juice fasting; instead, fuel your liver day-to-day w/ butter, egg yolk, liver, bone broth.
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We need Optimum Health for as many as possible - via nutrition, prevention & cures for dis-ease - not #Medicare. Example: T2 #Diabetes is easily reversible - caused by Govt Guidelines - but Govt Medicare only offers drugs, failed diets: Costly, hopeless disease mgmt
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We've made a lot of progress since 1910, but we have not improved the food supply. We need organic whole food high(er) fat diets for all - not everyone-on-Medicare taking drugs to manage excess-carb-related surging chronic disease.
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This is why 1 in 4 US adults have type II diabetes & don't know it: 40 years of Grain-emphasized "sugar-only-causes tooth decay" USDA Dietary Guidelines!
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Foods providing Vit K2 insure less calcium in arteries = better blood flow. Only Vit K2 - animal form - provided this benefit. Where did I read this?
J Am Heart Asso 2019 Apr 2;8(7):e01196) - same folks who condemned poultry fat/liver & aged cheese for decades
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Butter (grass-fed cows) best daily source of infection-fighting Vit A. Lard (outdoor-living pigs) best daily source of Vit D. Aged cheese, fat/livers of ducks/geese & egg yolks best sources of Vit K2. In team fashion, fat-soluble vitamins support for optimum health
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Most complex of all food fats & 20% water, butter contains 12 different fats - 8 different saturates, incl 15-17% short-/medium-chain saturated fatty acids (go directly to the liver via portal vein). Best daily source of Vit A, how is it possible to eat excess butter?
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For 70 yrs, Medical Elite demonized nutrient-dense foods containing saturated fat/cholesterol. Beginning w/ Ancel Keys, flawed research created the myth that grain-based diet is "heart-healthy." US govt caved in - betrayed us - & now diet-related disease is epidemic.
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#Ukraine loves lard! Slabs of lard at the butcher. Best daily source of vitamin D. Lard & onion sandwiches are popular daily fare. Ukrainians add extra chunks of lard to their cured, fermented meats. No lean protein in the disputed "borderlands."
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Been camping here & there since September 5th. (Less news = good news.) Love #Texas state parks! - especially Goose Island in Rockport. Thanks HEB grocery stores for our daily fare - grass-fed hamburger & tasty old fashioned sausage in sheep casings- no MSG!
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"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing."
> Nancy Astor, US-born British politician (1879-1964)
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Stop any aluminum from passing the natural barriers of skin & digestive tract. Maintain protective membranes with adequate organic sulfur from egg yolks, meats, seafood & vegs from onion & brassica families plus optimum zinc from red meat, shellfish & liver.
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2018 Study Keele Univ UK examined brain tissue from deceased individuals w/ #autism; found some of the highest values for aluminum in human brain tissue yet recorded. Their conclusion: Highly probable source: vaccines. Aluminum in food poorly absorbed (<1%)
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Cheap industrial chicken is actually expensive. Main food for industrial chicken: Govt subsidized genetically-modified corn/soy. USDA's 2016 payments to industry = $8 billion. After WWII, industrial chicken became fatter quickly on antibiotics. Buy from a farmer!
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Emphasize apricots, bananas, beets, bread, carrots, cereals, fruit juice, grains, pasta, potatoes, yams, etc., your endocrine system is plagued with sugar. Avoid fat - crave carbs - repeat often - your body is unable to maintain homeostasis. Dis-ease roller coaster!
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1997 AHA's Circulation: Gaizano et al. 1997;96: 2520-2525
TG:HDL ratio - not TC or LDL - most reliably predicts risk of coronary heart disease. One (1) optimum; over 3 = risk. 4 highest risk. Never refuted, why is Medical Elite focusing only on non-predictive LDL?
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UCLA 5-year Study. AHA database: 541 hospitals; 136,905 heart attack patients. RESULTS: 75% of heart attack patients had LDL <130 mg/dl -- 50% had LDL <100 mg/dL. NO ASSOCIATION between elevated LDL & risk of heart attacks! Just the opposite!!
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Tim Russert's last LDL number was <70 mg/dl
Paul Rosch, MD, Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal:
“We have been deceived for decades. Lowering LDL, lowering cholesterol... ultimately provides you with absolutely no benefit to your health."
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BBC: "High-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol travels to the liver, where it’s broken down & removed from the body..."
[Not cholesterol, HDL is a lipoprotein that transports cholesterol & other lipids between tissues & liver. It is recycled - not broken down!]
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Don't fall for "LOWER IS BETTER"!
It's Sunday... no Tim Russert. His MD's focused on lowering his LDL. He was on a statin (& aspirin). At age 58 he died following heart attack. His Triglycerides were high; HDL was low. TG:HDL ratio >4. HIGH RISK ignored by his MD's.
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Porterhouse Steak - enjoyed at the Porterhouse Restaurant in Hot Springs, AR! "Heart-Healthy." Porterhouse is about 50% monounsaturated (oleic acid as in olive oil); 50% saturated, especially HDL-raising stearic acid. Add a salad & bottle of wine...
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Yes to Hot Springs, Arkansas: Bathing in hot springs, embracing sunny porches, walking the trails, dining on juicy steak - an American tradition once enjoyed by the likes of Al Capone. Early evening jazz/blues in the lobby bar of the Arlington Hotel. La Buena Vida
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While things may be changing, French never abandoned their traditional healthy fare - beef, butter, cream, eggs, lamb, lard, liver & - as a result - they have 1/4th heart disease mortality compared to anti-fat-US.
2020 guidelines must embrace all of the above foods
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Testifying before a US Senate Committee in 1997,
George F. Kennan (1904-2005), American diplomat & historian - "our Russian expert" - who served throughout Europe during WWII, warned:
"Don't meddle in the #Ukraine."
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US shenanigans in #Ukraine run deep thru both US political parties. A cesspit of US meddling -- incl $1.6 billion in military aid since 2014, when a US-engineered coup overthrew the democratically-elected govt, leading to civil war that has taken 14,000 lives.
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Medical Elite: "Science is settled, eggs are cholesterol bombs that raise the risk of heart disease."
> Eggs are Gold Standard of Protein. Dietary cholesterol has no relationship to serum cholesterol. Choline-rich eggs are "free food" - eat as many as you like.
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Nutrient-Dense Coconut Oil Smoothie.
Combine 1/2 cup fresh/frozen berries in blender/food processor to make a puree. Add 1 cup plain whole yogurt or kefir, 2 raw, pastured egg yolks &, if you choose, maple syrup to taste. Slowly add 1 tablespoon warm coconut oil.
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#Alzheimer’s affects 5 million - 30% of those >85.
(10-15% lower brain glucose uptake among elderly.) As brain glucose uptake decreases in seniors, ketone uptake does not. #Ketones can replace brain glucose energy deficits in elderly. https://bit.ly/2p1RtCL
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Body can utilize 90% saturated coconut oil more rapidly, efficiently than any other fat. Enjoy with butter, cream, lard, egg yolks & meat fats to provide vital nutrition to every cell in the body - supporting optimal brain, hormonal, immune & metabolic functions.
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Lard-loving #Ukraine farmers markets sell blood sausage, liver, kidney, heart + raw milk! Ukrainians eat organ meat up to 3 times per week. NO BEYOND BURGER! Also popular: Whole, fat stewing hens incl head, neck, feet, liver, stomach & egg yolks in various stages!
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#Ukraine loves lard! Pork belly for sale everywhere. It's popular to eat raw lard & onion sandwich. Ukrainians add extra chunks of lard to their cured & fermented meats. Salo (photo): Ukrainian delicacy made of cured pork fat. No lean protein in the "borderlands."
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#Ukraine should not be framed as 2020 election issue. After 2014 coup, civil war has taken 14,000 lives. Ukraine is divided by language; it borders Russia. (Hitler invaded Russia thru Ukraine.) It is best for all involved "Not to Meddle in Ukraine" - PERIOD!
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1954 Stalin dead. Ukrainian Khrushchev gave Crimea & eastern region to Ukraine. (Crimea had been Russian since late 1700s.) 2014 #Ukraine coup d'état; Russian language banned. Crimeans voted to rejoin Russia. Ukraine army attacked eastern Russian-speakers = CIVIL WAR!
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No vitamin A-rich butter in school lunches or in Senior Care facilities. Butter (grass-fed cows): Best daily source of infection-fighting vitamin A. Medical elite decided our young & old don't need vitamin A.
Just give 'em a worthless, synthetic flu shot
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Nourishing foods help prevent heart attack:
Highest quality butter, cheese (raw milk best), egg yolks, organ meat, pastured lard, shellfish, oily fish, cod liver oil.
Why? Optimum levels fat-soluble vitamins. Add variety buttered organic vegetables; fruit in season.
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Camping in Prince Edward Island: Cooked up some Lamb steak with local herb-spiced butter, garlic, & P.E.I. potatoes. #Canada's government recommends a plant-based diet, but the people I met never heard of such nonsense!
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Month in Atlantic #Canada - P.E.I., Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick - safe haven from U.S. politics. Daily decision: Whether to eat haddock, lobster, smoked mackerel, seafood chowder, grass-fed beef, or fatty pork. Loved the wild blueberries too!
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In 1997, retired US diplomat George Kennan, who served in both Germany & Russia during WWII, and was fluent in both German & Russian, made a final [& ignored] testimony before a Senate Committee in Washington DC:
"Don't meddle in the #Ukraine."
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By its own admission, between 2000-2014, US govt - Republicans & Democrats - spent $5 billion toppling the democratically-elected govt of #Ukraine - unleashing a civil war that has killed thousands of civilians, including hundreds of children. Fish rot from the Head!
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"Plant-Based" is an ideology, a bit like Communism, whereby a minority decide that for the "common good" (saving the planet), a sub-group, in this case grass farmers, cows on pasture, foraging chickens, pigs rooting in the ground for iron, DON'T BELONG HERE ANYMORE!
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Excess sugars/grains > blood sugar up > call for insulin > Triglycerides up > HDL down. Repeated over time? Mineral deficiencies, Insulin Resistance (worn out cells) & inflamed arteries. epidemic Metabolic Syndrome - caused by AHA, Medical elite, NIH & USDA
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Fatty acids are shared. Red meat is 45% monounsaturated oleic acid; olive oil 70%. Fat in lard - fat in avocado: Dominantly oleic. Most common fat in plant & animals, monounsaturated oleic (red) is always found with saturates in food we've eaten for eons.
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"I feel very much at one with the idea underlying the Nobel Foundation, the idea that culture is supranational & international & under obligation to serve not war & destruction but peace & reconciliation.”
Hermann Hesse, Nobel Prize Literature 1946
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Samuel Adams: “It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men.”
Thank you for tweeting an end the decades-long, Medical Elite's failed "War on Cholesterol"
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Repatha: "Antibody that knocks out a protein (PCSK9) that affects LDL receptors in the liver. By knocking out this protein..."
Gee, what could go wrong? No evidence that Statins, Zetia or PCSK9 inhibitors help you live longer. They don't...
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60 yrs since AHA's failed anti-fat, high grain Guidelines (1961), AHA is doubling down on "Cholesterol-as-Culprit" - their media minions chanting "lower is better, lower is better." Along with side-effect-laden Statins, AHA says now you also need unproven Repatha!
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AHA: "LDL cholesterol levels should be lowered as much as possible to prevent cardiovascular risk."
[False! Triglyceride levels must be reduced as much as possible - below 100 mg/dl - to prevent & reverse cardiovascular risk.]
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SALON: "Studies [not referenced] consistently show meat-heavy diet increases one’s risk for cardiovascular disease & cancer."
CHD/cancer surge in 20th century: Parallel w/ greatly increased consumption of sugar, grain, trans fat veg oil NOT NUTRITIOUS RED MEAT!
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Don't fall for "LOWER IS BETTER"!
It's Sunday... but no Tim Russert. He died at age 58 following heart attack. His Triglycerides were high; HDL was low. TG:HDL ratio >4: HIGH RISK, but he was on a statin. His LDL was BELOW 70 mg/dl. Aspirin didn't help either.
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LIPID LIMBO -- LOWER ISN'T BETTER!
AHA 541 hospital data base - 5 year UCLA study - 136,905 patients with known lipid values. Of those who suffered a heart attack, 77% had LDL below 130 mg/dl - 50% had LDL below 100 mg/dl - supposedly desirable levels
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1960s After several scientific articles were published linking sugar to CHD, Sugar Asso paid $49,000 to #Harvard scientist Mark Hegsted -- who was picked later to author USDA's 1980 anti-fat Guidelines -- to deflect blame onto dietary fat -- where it remains today
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Decades ago, Mary Enig, PhD, lipid biochemist:
"Trans fats & saturated fats behave totally differently in biological systems...”
Yet the Medical Elite & our current Dietary Guidelines continue to lump them together as "Bad Fat." What is their problem?
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If you read, "Cholesterol is a waxy substance..." it's an illiterate "cut & past."
Cholesterol is so important every cell (except nervous tissue) can make it. It waterproofs our cells. You can't move without it! Fear not...
Cholesterol defines "human life"
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Hailey Crean RD: "Soluble fiber [in beans] binds to bile salts in digestive tract, ushers them out of the body. Removing more bile from the body ultimately results in less cholesterol in circulation."
> Sorry: 95% bile is recycled back to liver (below, right)
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Abundant or exclusively in animal food: Vitamins A, B-12 & D; carnitine, heme iron, bio-available zinc, & collagen - most abundant protein in the body - major building block of bones, skin, muscles, tendons & ligaments.
"Plant-Based" = widespread systemic deficiency
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1910 US did not consume soybeans; they were grown, plowed under to fix nitrogen into soil. Chemically stable lard had 70% edible fat market. Today highly processed, chemically unstable soy oil has 80% market. Bad govt - Ag subsidies - created our unhealthy oil crises
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40% US adults have pre-diabetes or diabetes - fueling >800,000 yearly CHD deaths. Root Problem: 1973 USDA shift that prioritized massive grain production. Our sugar/grain health crisis is result of bad govt policies. "Plant-Based" imitation meat will fix nothing.
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> 1978 To attack "Killer Diseases," Sen McGovern declared War on Dietary Fat
> 1984 To attack Heart Disease, AHA & NIH declared War on Cholesterol
>2019 Our longest wars have created widespread Vascular Disease & lucrative "Vascular Disease Management" industry
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In our post-Ancel Keys world, we were instructed to eat 6-11 servings of grain daily & cereal for breakfast - not eggs, Gold Standard of Protein. Not based on solid science or common sense, it's a curse, & "Curses are like chickens; they always come home to roost."
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In our post-Ancel Keys world, neither facts nor common sense matter. Red meat is 50% monounsaturated - olive oil is 70% - but former is "bad" & the latter "good." We've eaten nutrient-dense grass-fed red meat for eons, but now we must stop to "Save the Planet."
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> Land (on left) to make imitation Frankenfood
> Land (on right) to make traditional Real Food
Which one do we pass on to future generations?
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> Congestive Heart Failure - #1 Medicare Expenditure
> Incidence of Heart Failure has more than doubled since 1987 - year statin anti-cholesterol drugs were introduced.
> Statins inhibit liver from producing CoQ10
> Heart Failure Death rates 2014-2016 below:
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1910 Lifetime risk Type 2 diabetes 1 in 30. Today: 1 in 3. 1st non-infectious diet-related (anti-fat) disease in history, fed govt, AHA, & Big Food are responsible. Millions w/ carb-induced lipemia, but "Disease Mgmt" only offers worthless drugs & anti-fat-lies.
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The First American Printed Fried Chicken Recipe:
"Virginia Housewife" Mary Randolph:
"Cut them up as for the fricassee, dredge them well with flour, sprinkle them with salt, put them into a good quantity of boiling LARD & fry them a light brown..."
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Chicken fried in lard is health food. Lard has high smoking point & 60% saturated fat - provides chemical stability for higher heat frying. (Lard also contains antimicrobial palmitoleic acid.) Colonel's original Fried Chicken was prepared in tasty, stable lard
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1970 Margaret Albrink, Peter Kuo, Lars Carlson, Joseph Goldstein: Elevated Triglycerides (TG) were more common in heart disease than TC. Their conclusion: Majority of people with heart disease have what John Gofman (below) called "Carbohydrate Induced Lipemia."
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As War on Butter & Lard ramped up, margarine & veg shortening (Crisco) became major sources of trans fats in US diets. Margarine, veg shortening (Crisco) & veg cooking oils (purple) contain excess omega 6 linoleic acid - fat of mass destruction - unsafe at any meal
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1956 John Gofman: Majority with heart disease had elevated Triglycerides (TG) & depressed HDL - result of excess sugars/grains. Gofman blamed heart disease on “Carbohydrate Induced Lipemia,” but the "Cholesterol-as-Culprit" bandwagon had already left the station.
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1950 Using newly invented one-of-a-kind centrifuge, Univ of CA researcher John Gofman discovered several fat-like substances circulating in blood, incl LDL & VLDL. 70 yrs ago Goffman reported: Total Cholesterol was a "dangerously poor predictor" of heart disease.
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Beyond Meat & KFC are launching "plant-based chicken" - Chicken-less chicken! Nummy pea protein plus nineteen (19) other ingredients.
Coming soon - blow the trumpets! - fish-less fish at Red Lobster! "Investors are excited!"
Finally -- Age of Food-less-Food!
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Isn't it time for vegans/omnivores to push back against confinement feedlots? Get dairy cows off cement floors? Join forces to overturn mandatory pasteurization that destroys B12 in fresh raw milk? All society loses when "Us vs Them" creates rival powerless factions!
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USA TODAY: “Every step you take toward more whole plant foods is step toward greater health for you & the planet.”
1st Step: No Vitamin A - only in animal food. 2nd Step: No Vitamin B12 - only in animal food. 3rd Step: No Vitamin D - only in animal food. 4th...
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1910 Rendered from pigs who lived outdoors, Vitamin D-rich lard had 70% of edible fat market. Today no-Vit-D soybean oil has 70% of market. Replacing lard w/ soybean oil has created widespread vit D deficiency, but the experts say, "Supplements are waste of money!"
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>1910 Butter consumption was 18 pounds per capita; Heart disease mortality was below 10%
>Year 2000 Butter use fell below 4 pounds; Heart disease mortality was 45%
>Assertion that vitamin A-rich butter is linked to heart disease is AHA pitiable nonsense
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To help the poor, Banting charged nothing for 1st two editions of his book. Banting’s "high fat" diet was ridiculed by a medical elite anxious that their position in society not be undermined. Banting - Father of Low-Carb Diet: https://bit.ly/2KTd9cJ
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1863 After losing 85 pounds on high fat, carb-restricted diet, William Banting published Letter On Corpulence. British Medical Journal: "Banting's diet could be dangerous! We advise Mr Banting & everyone of his kind, not to meddle with medical literature again..."
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1825 French lawyer & gourmand Brillant-Savarin publishes The Physiology of Taste, in which he says he has identified the cure for obesity:
"More or less rigid abstinence from everything that is starchy or floury."
[Known for almost 200 years!]
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Reader's Digest:
"High-protein, low-carb foods have become popular thanks to trendy diets like ketogenic, paleo & Atkins."
[No! Atkins is High fat, MODERATE protein, restricted sugar, grain. And protein is poorly utilized - sloughed off - without adequate fat.]
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15 of the 20 current Dietary Guidelines members have direct industry ties or nominations from industry-supported groups. This level of corruption - industry influence - has occurred whether the administration is Democratic or Republican. #Betrayal since 1980!
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Nine of 20 current Dietary Guidelines members were nominated by American Society for Nutrition whose sponsors include: Pepsi, Kellogg, General Mills, Mars, Nestle, Monsanto, Cargill, DuPont, Pfizer, Cattlemen's Asso, Sugar Asso & National Dairy Council. #Betrayal
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For decades - in context of what to eat for health - US corporate media has operated in narrow authorized spectrum of high grain, anti-fat. Result: Epidemic of #diabetes - 80% diabetics die of heart disease - #1 killer - Billion Dollar Industry for Medical Elite.
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Ketones: Efficient energy source not to be confused w/ ketoacidosis. #Ketogenic diet (& exercise) can help body clean out damaged, senescent cells & regenerate new ones. This cellular clean-up (autophagy) helps prevent inflammation & promotes longevity.
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During WWII, experienced, skilled creamery workers went to war. Inexperienced replacements produced tainted milk killing some people. 1947 various states began enforcing mandatory pasteurization. What could go wrong?
Let's blame fresh food - not dislocations of war!
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What food causes highest # of outbreaks each year in US?
Bagged lettuce, followed by other fresh fruits & vegetables, seafood, peanut butter & pasteurized milk.
Can't choose raw milk? Milk free may be your best option.
http://realmilk.com
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"Dairy" needs elaboration. Butter or cream = 80% fat/20% water - no protein (casein) or carb (sugar). Don't tolerate milk? You will thrive on butter. Problem w/ milk? Pasteurization destroys 100% enzymes (hard to digest) & most B-vitamins. Good Milk = fresh, raw!
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Georgia Ede, MD:
Plant foods do not contain animal cholesterol. Plants contain their own special forms of cholesterol called “phytosterols.” Phytosterols are toxic to human cells. Our intestines wisely refuse to absorb them.
A MUST READ! https://bit.ly/2ZbWKJc
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In patients w/ early age-related macular degeneration, patients supplementing w/ lutein & zeaxanthin 48 mos produced significant increases in visual acuity (light-sensitive cells producing electrical impulses).
EAT EGGS!
Am J Ophthalmol 2012 Oct:154(4):625-634
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Medical Elite: "Don't eat eggs" - best source of both lutein & zeaxanthin & "Nutritional supplements are waste of money." Macular degeneration: #1 cause of vision loss. Adults with lowest levels lutein & zeaxanthin are at greatest risk - THANK YOU MEDICAL ELITE!
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Am Hrt Asso’s science advisory "warns against patients self-treating their high triglycerides using over-the-counter supplements."
[Atkins, Carnivore, #Keto, Paleo high(er) fat diets - Real Good Food - reduce TG & boost HDL - improving vital TG:HDL ratio!]
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"Unintended consequence" of Ancel Keys' specious argument that saturated fat - eaten for millennia - is the cause of CHD: Epidemic levels of #Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Insulin Resistance & Congestive Heart Failure.
Root cause: Anti-Fat; High Grain, High Sugar
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> No statin RCT has ever shown a benefit for women.
> Women - at any age - do not benefit from statins.
> Dr Atkins 20 yrs ago: "Elevated Triglycerides most risky in women; greater muscle mass in men reduces risk."
>Below: Framingham TG Study (yellow women)
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Sugars/grains > Liver converts to Triglycerides; makes VLDL to transport TG > As liver synthesizes VLDL, it cannibalizes HDL for proteins. Excess sugars/grains elevates TG - elevates VLDL - reduces HDL = root cause of Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Syndrome & CHD
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American College Cardiology: "Going too low-carb might be linked to an irregular heartbeat."
"... the research only shows an association..."
[Association = Unproven Hypothesis. "Might be" is meaningless. I would suggest a Randomized Controlled Trial]
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1997 AHA published this in their journal: TG:HDL ratio - not TC or LDL levels - most reliably predicts risk of coronary heart disease. One (1) is optimum; 4 is high risk. Never refuted, why is this life-saving advice ignored by the Medical Elite & your MD?
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[on a box of Fruity Fruits cereal]:
"Canada's Food Guide recommends 5 to 12 servings of grain products every day - Try a different cereal type everyday"
1 cup (30g) of Fruity Fruits = 16g of sugar - over 50% sugar by weight. #Canada recommends this?
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Dr Atkins: Obesity, Diabetes & CHD increase in linear manner as fasting blood sugar & Triglycerides go >100 mg/dl. Carbs, esp refined sugars & grains, promote this "Metabolic Syndrome." How long will the Medical elite ignore, suppress this vital information?
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Harvard: "1st step to lowering your cholesterol is having a bowl of oatmeal or oat-based cereal like Cheerios for breakfast."
Liver alone regulates cholesterol; oats don't!
"High GI" oats raise blood sugar - require insulin - elevate Triglycerides - depress HDL.
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Cholesterol = Single Molecule - not "good" or "bad."
For financial gain, Medical elite continues to hype this fear-based nonsense. Excess sugar/grain elevate TRIGLYCERIDES - depress HDL - promote excess insulin - injure/inflame arteries - promote heart disease.
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Medical Elite: "No cure for #Diabetes" - but "Mgmt" is $300 billion business (incl 230 amputations per day)! 2017 Medicare spending on insulin was >$13 billion. Dr Atkins high(er) diet (+ supplements) will reverse diabetes, but that is just a "conspiracy theory."
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Dr Marcia Angell's "The Truth About the Drug Companies" was a shocking critique of Big Pharma’s decades-long unethical practices, but with 1,200 lobbyists in Wash DC, Pharma effectively controls the US Congress - "investing" $283 million just in the 2018 elections!
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Normal range blood cholesterol US: 160-350 mg/dl.
After 1984 NIH (AHA) "consensus conference" >200 mg/dl = disease. At time, most common number - top of bell-shaped curve: 220 mg/dl. Overnight, majority of adults had new disease to be treated with drugs/margarine
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Like fake butter & Veg oil pushers before them - To gain market share (& now save the planet!) - Imitation meat & Agri-food companies are demonizing real meat, real eggs. Expect more lies, paid-media propaganda & 1984-style downward spiral in choice, health freedom!
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BEEF versus Water, Pea Protein, Expeller Pressed Canola Oil, Modified Corn Starch, Modified Cellulose, Yeast Extract, Virgin Coconut Oil, Sea Salt, Natural Flavor, Beet Powder (Color), Ascorbic Acid (Color Retention), Onion Extract, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder
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#Bayer's Monsanto went all out attacking book authored by Reuters Journalist Carey Gillam - Talking points for 3rd parties on how to criticize the book - Directing industry & customers to post negative reviews - Paid Google to promote critical search results...
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#UN climate report calls for plant-based diet to save the planet...
Today: 1.2 billion vehicles gridlock world roads. No worries - not an issue! Number is growing fast - 2 billion belchers by 2035, but - no - cows on pasture - last 10,000 years - is the problem...
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Cows are designed to eat grass (4 stomachs). Before WWII, cows were on pasture. 1950s USDA began dumping excess subsidized grain on cows in confinement. Small(er) mixed farm morphed into antibiotics-laced feedlots. Big Ag & USDA are problems - not cows on pasture
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US farmland suffering "Insect Apocalypse" -- #Bayer's Imidacloprid & clothianidin & thiamethoxam (from China) are the 3 neonicotinoids that since mid-2000s have contributed to the sharply increased toxic load in US farmland, incl honey-bee colony collapse.
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2013: US EPA raised allowable limits for Bayer's glyphosate in our food. Today, #glyphosate is found in almost every food tested, incl all cereals marketed to children (also loaded with sugar & food colors).
PS: Bayer spent $3.6 million lobbying - just in 2018
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On "low fat," says award-winning science-writer Gary Taubes, what we have now is the test of time. "And the idea that eating less fat makes for a healthier & longer life has only become less compelling over time..."
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While US govt did not deliberately mislead us in 1980 with "Anti-Fat = Good Health," subsequently USDA, NIH & Guideline Committees have succumbed to Lobbyist pressure not to re-examine evidence & reverse course as we in US suffered a surge in diet-related disease.
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Vitamins/Enzyme systems REQUIRE minerals to function; therefore, mineral sufficiency is the nutritional foundation for longevity. Traditionally-raised farm animals - foraging chickens, pigs rooting in the ground for iron & grazing cattle - is NOT NEGOTIABLE!
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B-vitamin-, Carnitine- & mineral-rich red meat is 50% saturated/50% unsaturated fat. Raised on pasture, red meat is Impossibly Perfect Food. Providing optimum nutrition, pasture-raised red meat also preserves the soil, landscape & environment for future generations.
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According to AHA & USDA, 16-carbon palmitic acid - the most common of all saturates - is "bad" fat! Just Terrible!
Did someone make a mistake?
Palmitic is the dominant saturate in human mother's milk, olive oil & in animal (human) lung surfactant.
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SATURATED FAT RAISES CHOLESTEROL = Baloney!
No food is saturated fat. Our food is mix of saturates (8 common), monounsaturates (2 common) & to lesser extent poly omega 3/6/9. Mono oleic acid = most common fat in food & in our bodies. Ignore USDA Non-Science
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Would you believe it?
Cupcake Pop Tarts are "Cholesterol-Free" -
Said so on the internet!
Don't have 10 minutes to prepare nutritious eggs?
No worries!
Pop Tarts are "Travel-Ready" -
"Stow 'em in lunch boxes, totes & backpacks."
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#CoQ10 (ubiquinone, or in its reduced form, ubiquinol) decreases with age. Congestive Heart Failure has been linked to low levels. Statin drugs interfere with CoQ10 synthesis. CoQ10 protects against oxidative stress & promotes heart's ability to generate energy.
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Statins do not benefit women of any age
Statins do not benefit people over 65
Statins reduce CoQ10 in dose response manner
Statin use parallels unprecedented Heart Failure epidemic
#Statin benefits reported in "risk reduction" statistics
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For decades, Diet/Medical Mafia advised us to replace nutritious, wholesome eggs/butter (natural foods) with highly processed - blood-sugar-raising - box cereals & chemically unstable linoleic acid-based-margarines.
BLOWBACK: #Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Failure
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With sugar/grain-related chronic disease at all time high, is it finally time for "We the People" to stop accepting as “normal” deeply flawed, anti-fat Dietary Guidelines whose staff/committee members were manipulated - since 1980 - behind closed doors?
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What our world is coming to, so it seems...
Class War, Election War, Finance War, Food War, Gender War, Hybrid War, Immigration War, Nuclear War, Oil War, Political War, Race War, Sanctions War, Space War, Trade War, World #War...
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Finnish Blogger Virpi Mikkonen Starts Eating Meat Again After Early Menopause - said her decade of following mostly vegan diet led to health concerns: Rash, period loss & early menopause. https://bit.ly/2yD4UL7
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Human breast milk = 5 saturated fats (capric to stearic) 60% saturated overall. Human cell membranes - about 60 trillion - are optimally 50% saturated. Combo of saturated & monounsaturated are normal, healthy - always together - except in fraudulent USDA guidelines
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Summer 2019. Politics is now a substitute for life, but don't believe the next election will change much. Dems & Republicans are flip sides of a worn coin. Unlimited lobbyists funds - foreign & domestic - have created a hidden, malign conformity of thinking in DC.
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Summer of 2019. Like never before, Seniors (on statins) suffer Alzheimer's, Heart failure, Parkinson's, suicide. US children are beset with asthma, autism, ADHD, bipolar, diabetes. But GMO soybeans, bamboo fiber, Glyphosate & imitation eggs will save the planet...
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Bayer - World’s largest seed & pesticide company, facing mounting lawsuits over its Roundup weedkiller - is anxious to enter the fake "meat" market...
"Glyphosate with your pea protein isolate, sir?"
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Consumer Reports: Numerous studies have linked diets that swap red meat for plant proteins (beans & nuts) with better heart health.
[CR did not reference a single study. CR ignored how zinc-rich red meat provides highest value complete protein.
Bon Appétit!]
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FDA has approved a medical device (sends electric current to the brain) for children with "ADHD." So instead of focusing on poor nutrition, vaccine injury, drugs, bullying or stress, let's give children a "shock treatment" tested on 62 children for 4 weeks!
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Butter [best daily source "true" Vitamin A], Red Meat [best source of all B-Vitamins & minerals, incl heme iron & zinc] & Cheese [long-lived French & Swiss eat a lot!] are bad for us according to the US govt & medical authorities like American Heart[less] Asso...
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20 vets commit suicide everyday. Many VA centers are at or near peak capacity. (As a Mpls VA patient, I have lunched with friends confined to wheelchairs.) Politicians left & right promoting endless war need to spend some time in a VA spinal cord injury unit
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New AHA Jrn study (2019, Apr) linked higher Vitamin K2 status with less calcification in arteries & better blood flow. Only K2 animal form provided the cardiac benefit > found in poultry fat, poultry liver & aged cheeses - foods AHA & USDA said to avoid or limit
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As a soldier, Tulsi #Gabbard knows: "When you’re taking flak you're over your target." Gabbard’s closing statement critiquing US foreign policy was so powerful she had the draft-dodging "Old Boys Club" attacking her.
Go Soldier Go! - Speak the Truth!
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Finance News: "Beyond Meat joined forces with Dunkin' Donuts with its sausage substitute, giving both companies' stocks a boost."
[Like ancient Rome, U.S. will fall from within. The barbarians are already within the gates.]
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LA resident Kasey, 23, says her family history of heart disease is what spurred her to start eating plant-based meat.
[No evidence linking nutritious red meat to any disease. It's a lie propagated by govt bureaucrats, politicians, lobbyists & AHA fundraising MDs]
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Q. What’s been most vital for optimum “Health Health” - animal or plant-based foods?
A. There would be no "Human Health" - no large (if shrinking!) brains - or human reproduction - without animal foods.
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Real Eggs: Highest biological value protein.
Fat: 30% saturated, 38% monounsaturated, 14% polyunsaturated. Eggs from foraging chickens are best, but any egg is better than no egg. Eggs are a best source of vitally important choline. Get crackin’!
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NON-POPULAR FACTOID:
Annual US Military spending = $727 billion.
European contributions to US-led NATO = $240 billion.
Russia’s annual military spending = $66 billion.
Who's spending enough & not too much?
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Bipartisan-Supported Military Budget:
FY 2020 = $738 billion + FY 2021 = $740 billion =
$1.4 trillion.
Extremely wasteful, obscene spending orgy for a country whose population - young & old - is suffering unprecedented widespread chronic disease...
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Fake - imitation - plant-based "Egg-Free" Eggs have arrived! So the age-old "Gold Standard of Protein" is being replaced because it contains cholesterol - "Defining Molecule of Human Life." Age of Real Nutrition is ending...
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1961 AHA adopts bd member Keys' anti-fat diet - Cut/pasted in 1977 by McGovern committee. Converted into grain-emphasized anti-fat USDA Guidelines in 1980. Maybe it's time for localities, individuals & families to decide for themselves what to eat!
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Condemned by AHA, NIH & USDA:
Beef = more "good" monounsaturated oleic acid (bit >50%) than "good" saturated Stearic/Palmitic acids (bit <50%)
Balanced diet our Dietary Guidelines (1980-2015) can't seem to figure out!
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#Alzheimers has increased dramatically since 1980 when USDA 1st recommended 65% of calories as "plant-based" grain: Blood-sugar-raising carbohydrate
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Harvard meta-analysis suggests eating "plant-based diet lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes" - surging along with obesity after 1980 when USDA 1st recommended up to 65% of calories from PLANT-BASED carbohydrates
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As our Balkanized, lobbyist-controlled federal govt did nothing, #Pharma has pumped nearly 100 billion Oxycodone & Hydrocodone pills into nearly every zip code across US - Associated with record levels of clinical depression & deaths of despair...
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1987 AHA bd member & paid consultant to Merck Dr Scott Grundy wrote glowing 9-page article about Merck's statin Mevacor in NEJM. MD's like Grundy were lieutenants in Pharma's War on Cholesterol!
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1970 AHA's anti-fat diet (since 1961) now applied to anyone over age 2, including:
"infants, children, adolescents, pregnant & lactating women, & older persons."
WHY? Because brain & nervous system are fully developed by age 2...
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1987 "Like some ponderous prehistoric beast, Natl Cholesterol Education Program slowly surfaced from the bureaucratic swamp at the heart institute" - "Titanic" of harmful medical interventions...
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1977 Fed govt adopted AHA's anti-fat diet: Bacon, butter, chicken skin, coconut oil, egg yolk, Vit D-rich lard & red meat were fingered as the cause of "killer diseases." NOTHING IS FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH
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#Atkins: HIGH FAT, Moderate (complete) Protein, Restricted Sugars/Grains (salad vegetables)
"Lean Protein" = less Usable protein. Animal foods come with fat - eat the fat - use fat-rich gravy & gelatin-rich bone broths.
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"This study clearly establishes that lower levels of total cholesterol & lipoproteins were asso w/ impaired survival in patients with heart failure..."
Journal Amer College Cardiology Vol 42, No 11, 2003
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On "low fat," says science-writer Gary Taubes, what we now have is the test of time. "And the idea that eating less fat makes for a healthier & longer life has only become less compelling over time."
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FALLUJA, Iraq, Nov 23 (Reuters)
"Braving snipers, Falluja residents walked past demolished homes to an aid distribution center but U.S. granola bars & Frosted Flakes cereal failed to raise hopes of a brighter future..."
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1987 FDA approves Mevacor (lovastatin) in 12 week clinical trial - Most rapidly approved drug in FDA history. AHA, NIH, Pharma knew statins reduce CoQ10 & AFFECT BRAIN but they DON'T CARE
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Dominantly monounsaturated oleic acid - same as Red Meat - chicken fat (skin) is 30% saturated. So why do the anti-saturated-fat (clueless) Diet Dictocrats insist we only eat skinless chicken?
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#Cholesterol is needed for the proper function of serotonin receptors in the brain. Low blood cholesterol has been linked to aggressive & violent behavior, depression & suicide...
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> Journal American Geriatric Society 1996:
"Declining Total Cholesterol in nursing home residents -greater than 45 mg/dl per yr - increased the risk of mortality more than six (6) times."
> But Pharma/AMA/AHA are targeting seniors in nursing homes with statin drugs
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No reason to "manage" cholesterol. No such thing "bad" cholesterol. Saturated fat doesn’t raise LDL because we don’t eat saturated fat. WE EAT FOOD with fat that is always mix of different amounts of Monounsaturated/Saturated/Polyunsaturated:
Look at Lard!
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Drug Industry now controls “health care.” Antidepressants, opioids, statins – Trifecta of dependency. No cures; only symptom management. Healing hurts revenue. Diet & supplements: “quackery.” MD's who don't adhere: Reprimanded, shunned or lose their license
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Wall Street Journal: "8 oz of protein daily are enough in balanced diet that includes fruits, vegetables, grains."
>Fruit, Vegetables, Grains = Carbs + Carbs + Carbs
> Biochemical Individuality = Protein requirement varies!
> Y'all forgot Cheese, Eggs, Fish, Meat?
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Non-#GMO Food = Growing Business. Under Putin, Russia has become #1 non-GMO exporting country. Russia's agricultural production, food processing & related industries are booming. Looking East, agricultural & food product trade to China rose 30% in 2018 to $5 billion.
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BBC: "Too much saturated fat raises cholesterol levels in the blood."
We're not lab rats yet! We don't eat saturated fat; we eat food. Typically mix of monounsaturated/saturated fat, including Red Meat!
RISK: Excess sugars/grains elevate TRIGLYCERIDES; lower HDL
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Both the Republican & Democratic Parties are owned by Big Ag, Big Food, the Disease Management Industries & Big Pharma. For that reason, fund-seeking politicians of both parties have a history of avoiding a key issue common to all Americans: Staying Well!
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Kathy Wiemer, RD, testifying at DGAC Meeting on behalf of the "Grain Chain"
"Grain food manufacturers are constantly innovating to improve the nutritional profile of their products & deliver more health benefits to consumers."
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Hark - the cut-and-paste Mediterranean diet!- oily fish & hard-to-digest nuts - doctor, doctor,
is it right for me?
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BBC:
"The evidence suggests the healthiest diet is one with plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains & unsaturated fat-rich sources like nuts & oily fish."
In Minnesota, Mom asks Dad:
"Is this the 'Mediterranean Diet' we've been hearing so much about?"
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A fella said he would get blowback from twitter's #Keto tribe saying:
"#Ketogenic diet is long on enthusiasm & short on evidence."
[Duke University's Dr Eric Westman reviewed Atkins' clinical data, saw strong EVIDENCE type II diabetes reversal - got ENTHUSIASTIC!
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Kathy Wiemer, RD, General Mills' Bell Institute testifies at 2020 DGAC:
“We believe it's premature to recommend low-Carb Dietary Patterns to US population."
[sure "it's premature" to limit grain - only 1 of 3 adults are prediabetic - let's wait until it's 1 in 2]
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SWITCH - deflect blame from "empty calorie" refined sugars & grains
BAIT - blame traditional animal foods consumed for millenia.
CREATE - huge profits for doctors, hospitals, Pharma, testing equipment
DEFEND - "Coordinating Control" to defend Status Quo...
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Cholesterol: Defining Molecule of Human Life...
Every cell (except nervous tissue) can make - WATERPROOFS OUR CELLS -
True, real "Homeland" security!
AHA-AMA-NIH-USDA senselessly targeting cholesterol is Felonious Deception...
War on Unsuspecting People!
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1985 AHA's private MDs - in unholy alliance with NIH - decreed that blood levels cholesterol >200 mg/l were now DISEASE. By 1987 1st statin introduced record short time as Big Food piled on "Low Fat" for profit.
2019 Coronary Disease #1 Killer, #1 Medicare Expense
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#Keto advocate MD Antti Heikkila:
Facing persecution in Finland for publishing a book describing how Diet-Related Heart Disease is caused by excess processed sugars/grains - not fat! Like John Yudkin before him, Heikkila's crime is advocating disease PREVENTION!
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the World was Desolate, Humans had Vanished, but there was...
fake-bleed burgers, imitation eggs, fat-free cheese, "it's not butter" butter,
plant milk, meatless mondays, cholesterol-free vegan wheat-balls...
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> Consumer Reports asks, "Should You Stop Taking Supplements?"
> CR Answer: "Probably - unless your doctor specifically recommends it."
> Mr Doctor, "What is difference between L-Carnitine & Acetyl-L-Carnitine?"
> Answer: [see photo]
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"All of the nutrition experts Consumer Reports spoke with agreed... eating a diet with fruits & vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy & heart-healthy fats like olive & canola protects against heart disease."
>Made me hungry for some Marinated Greek Lamb Souvlaki <
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Meta-analysis published in Annals of Internal Medicine concluded:
"Neither diet nor vitamin supplements help prevent heart disease."
[So, eat a "Plant-Based" diet - let your pre-diabetes fester - & do the
"Statin Shuffle" for the rest of your shortened life.]
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Clinical trials may demonstrate statistical significance w/o providing clinically meaningful results: 2009-2013 almost all cancer drugs approved for treatment in Europe showed upon follow-up no clear evidence they improved survival or quality of life...
April 2019
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Richard Horton, Editor, Lancet:
"… much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue... studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses & flagrant conflicts of interest... science has taken a turn towards darkness."
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To preserve, protect longstanding elemental freedoms, we non-vegans must oppose being corralled into accepting a Nutritionally Deficient - One & Only - "Plant-Based" regimen propagated by AMA, AHA, NIH, USDA & their Corporate Media political collaborators...
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Nutrition Science Gone Wrong
1950s AHA bd member Ancel Keys - to PROVE he was right - "selected data" & knowingly confused association (epidemiology) with cause/effect
1961 AHA adopted Keys' Diet (2-pages; weak references)
1980-2015 USDA adopts Keys' fear-based diet
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When Framingham Heart Study results (20 years) failed to support Ancel Keys hypothesis, the damning data was packed away in NIH basement - later discovered/published by NIH statistician Tavia Gordon, but the cholesterol-as-culprit train had already left the station
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In the much ballyhooed 1950s Anti-Coronary Study - just as in the Framingham Heart Study & Five (5) other NIH Studies - people consuming Ancel Keys' fear-based "anti-cholesterol & anti-saturated fat" High Grain, Veg oil diets - - died before their time!
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No shred of evidence – despite NIH funding Five studies costing several hundred million dollars - that dietary cholesterol & saturated fat - in traditional American food - increase risk of heart disease.
#1 Issue: Decades of Delay Identifying Multiple Factors
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Q. Where did the homogenized, politically correct same-for-everyone everywhere Mediterranean Diet come from?
A. None other than AHA board member Ancel Keys - who retired in cheese-loving Italy after thoroughly demonizing America's traditional animal fare...
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21 countries surround Mediterranean. Italy alone: 21 regions with varying traditional fare (i.e., more fish on southern coast; more raw dairy in Alps).
Beef, Cheese, Dairy (raw milk), Eggs, Fish, Lamb, Pork abundant!
U.S. Homogenized Version = Perverse Myth
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@stardazer111 first thing in morning with water - I use this (don't sell it). 60% ionic magnesium + 40% trace minerals. One good option!
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Largest organ in body, Liver is General of Metabolism. Two blood supplies: Portal vein from stomach/intestines (nutrient-rich blood) & hepatic artery from lungs (oxygen-rich blood). It's enemy: Sugar, refined grains.
Friends: Egg yolk, liver, Milk Thistle
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Increasing risk heart disease, esp in women, fatty liver disease is epidemic - 70 million in US - caused by overabundance of nutrient-poor refined grains/sugars & banishment of choline sources like liver (organ meat) & eggs. Reverse with Atkins/Carnivore/#Keto/Paleo
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NO ONE SIZE RECOMMENDATION FOR SUPPLEMENTS
If you're overweight, pre-diabetic, on drugs (statins), at risk of heart disease, nutritional supplements, incl CoQ10 (Ubiquinol), L-Carnitine, Magnesium, Hawthorn Herb, may be life-saving. "Stitch in time saves nine."
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News: "Supplements Are Waste Of Money"
Eat whole foods (pastured animal, organic vegetables, seasonal fruit) & supplement wisely. Example: Leached from soil, Magnesium supplements are life-saving (widespread deficiency). Supplement need varies; study required!
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"Cardiologists recommend Mediterranean diet"
>Spain: Wide variety raw cheeses, cured ham, butter/eggs used in abundance.
>Italy: Organ meat popular (liver, tongue, kidney). Red meat, raw milk
>France: Butter, lard, pâté (liver).
>Greece: Lamb, full fat feta cheese
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Is Pharma "Health Care"?
Largely due to SHAREHOLDER pressure, prices for drugs rose sharply in 2019. More than 3,400 posted higher prices. Avg price hike: 10.5% - 5 times inflation. Best option:
Be proactive - Ask your MD to wean you of costly, risky synthetics
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Q. Would we have large "Human Brains" without animal foods?
A. No
Q. Have anti-cholesterol drugs reduced coronary artery disease mortality?
A. No
Q. Will Pea Protein Isolate save the planet?
A. No
Q. Will USDA 2020 guidelines fix anything?
A. Bang head into wall...
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1973 Cholesterol-Resin CHOLESTYRAMINE causes excess "traumatic deaths"
1987 Incidence Heart Failure more than 2X since 1st statin MEVACOR intro
2002 Cholesterol-blocker ZETIA promotes "plaque progression"
2015 PCSK9 INHIBITORS costs $12,000 year, BUT... nothing
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Drummond Rennie, prof medicine, U of CA
"Pharma companies, by their arrogant behavior & naked disregard for the well-being of the public, have lost our trust. Spinelessly knuckling under to every whim of the drug companies, FDA has thrown away its high reputation..."
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1977 At his Committee Hearing, Senator McGovern: We know that saturated fat raises cholesterol & causes heart disease. We don’t need any evidence... Because they didn’t have any evidence - not even today!
Dr Malcolm Kendrick calls this “Monumental Stupidity!”
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Like Dr Robert Atkins, @ProfTimNoakes is a nutrition hero.
Here's recent crap Professor Noakes has to put up with:
"Your low carb high fat diet is dangerous advice. I have an MSc in food science..."
[MSc in food science = Anti-Fat Squawker..]
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How Stupid Do They Think We Are?
There's "Good & Bad" Cholesterol" NOT TRUE! or
"Everyone's cholesterol must be <200 mg/dl" NO!
or "Limit eggs to 2 per week" NO! -
But there's always another absurdity like...
We must eat pea protein isolate to "Save the Planet!"
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Sequestering carbon, animals on pasture provide complete protein. Beans do not. So add rice - biggest source of methane in agriculture. Soy requires nitrous-oxide-releasing fertilizer - 300 times more potent than CO2.
Gen 29:7 "Water the sheep, and go, pasture them."
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Climate Crises: "It's the cars, not the cows..."
Besides: "Beef, eggs & dairy are unquestionably superior to the refined carbohydrates & plant oils at the center of the American diet," writes Paul John Scott, Rochester, MN science writer.
http://strib.mn/2JvrTfY
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@rafikttk @KPFoodAuthority I agree - Best to get a comprehensive analysis
(chart I did in 2002; needs fasting insulin)
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2015 Dietary Guidelines: "Plant-based diet is best for human health & environment" - That document also
> Lumps together as BAD not-found-in-nature trans fats with natural saturated fats found in food we've eaten for millenia.
> Below: Their Scientific Acumen!
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Headline: "Science says plant-based diets are better for you & our planet."
> Since 1961 "Diet "Science" can't be trusted.
> Plants lack fat-soluble vitamins, B12, key minerals & high value protein
> Planet is "home" to animals - The Audacity To Decree Otherwise!
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Only brain-dead "cut & paste" diet-health journalists would refer to LDL as
"bad cholesterol!" WRONG! Continuing to spin "cholesterol as culprit" while remaining ignorant of basic lipid biochemistry & the role of grains/sugars in insulin disorders is unpardonable
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Dr Robert Atkins:
"So much evidence has been amassed linking refined carbs to sugar/insulin disorders & these to heart disease, hypertension, & stroke that any medical advisory board member who remains silent on this matter is guilty of malfeasance."
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HealthDay: "Watching your cholesterol intake has gotten easier..."
Why would anyone "watch their intake"? Since 1937, we've known dietary cholesterol has no impact on blood levels! In retirement, even Ancel Keys said so. Instead, be "Watching" out for bad advice!
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"Beans & oats have a magic bullet—soluble fiber, which helps flush cholesterol out of your system."
[The liver regulates cholesterol PERIOD. As bile - 95% of cholesterol is recycled from the colon back to the liver.]
NO FLUSHING - no magic bullet - JUST HYPE!
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Headline: "Low Levels of 'Bad' Cholesterol May Have a Downside" -
Yes, of course! Called earlier death!
All cause mortality increases when total cholesterol falls below 160 mg/dl - known since 1992 - published in AHA's journal Circulation
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Extruded (High-Damaging-Heat) Box Cereals like Cinnamon Toast Crunch are HIGH GLYCEMIC - elevate blood sugar FAST - elevate blood sugar faster than sugar itself. CRUNCH calls for a SURGE of insulin (fat storage hormone).
Box Cereals = "Junk food" in every bite!
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Will any facts elicit doubts amongst “saturated fat is culprit” gang?
If being wrong for years hasn't convinced them otherwise, what argument will? Expect more hot air as the anti-fat Diet Dictocrats continue mocking the truth & floating their non-science fantasies!
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2002: Linda Stern, internist, Philadelphia VA, to science writer Gary Taubes:
"As a physician, I was trained to mock anything like the #Atkins diet..."
AHA, AMA, NIH went "below the belt" - employed mockery over science -
to protect their lucrative status quo
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1961: Not tested clinically, AHA launched Keys' anti-saturated fat, anti-cholesterol diet. Five subsequent NIH-funded studies costing several hundred million dollars failed to link eating fat & heart disease. Nonetheless 1980 USDA cut/pasted Keys' High Carb diet
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1980 Phil Handler, Nat Acad Science Response to 1980 USDA anti-fat Guidelines: "What right has fed govt to propose that the American people conduct vast nutritional experiment on themselves on the strength of so very little evidence that it will do them any good?"
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Dr Atkins' 1972 Diet Revolution promised weight loss & reversing T2 #diabetes eating bacon, eggs, hamburger, steak, lobster & butter because it was bread, bagels, cereal, pasta, rice & sugars that caused obesity & diet-related heart disease. Worked for Maria!
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The American Medical Establishment - AMA, AHA & NIH - spent 30 years ridiculing, demonizing Dr Robert Atkins - accusing him of quackery & fraud - only to ruefully discover that the unrepentant "Mr Cheeseburger" was right all along...
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> Funded by Fed govt, studies of isolated nutritional supplement are,
ipso facto, designed to fail.
> Funded by Pharma, studies of synthetic drugs are, by virtue of raw data sequestering & "relative risk" statistics, designed to deceive.
> Don't trust' em...
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Originating 200 million yrs ago, neuroprotective Ginkgo is world's most ancient tree. Ginkgo (GBE) is a German-made extract. Include in a "comprehensive program" to enhance blood flow to the brain & peripheral circulation. https://bit.ly/2Nnf6kX
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"Large 2008 federal study definitively showed Ginkgo biloba does not protect against memory loss & dementia."
> Institutionalized participants incl Parkinson's
> Elderly likely w/ multiple nutritional deficiencies
> Ginkgo: #1 prescribed "Preventive" Herb in Germany
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"12,500 people at risk for heart trouble daily omega-3 supplements did not protect against heart disease."
> Study: Designed To Fail
> Cereal for breakfast? Fasting blood sugar? TG:HDL ratios?
> Magnesium deficiency?
> Nutrients work TEAM fashion: So Eat Fish!
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1999: 14 yrs Harvard Nurses Study: 3,000 nurses had developed cancer. Study leader Walter Willett: Less fat nurses ate, greater their risk of cancer - “Saturated fat seems to be protective." BUT lobby-bitten Amer Cancer Society continues to blame fat & red meat!
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Early 2009, 2010 Guideline revision in their gunsights, so called health care industry spent $263 million to "protect their Fiefdoms." Hospitals, MD groups, device makers - "Disease Management Parasites" - getting rich feeding off high incidence of chronic disease.
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With the 2010 Dietary Guideline revision in their gunsights, Corn Growers Asso is spending $30 million on 18 month TV ad campaign "targeting mothers" w/ reassuring message that HFCS is OK for toddlers & children - whose lifetime risk of #diabetes is now 1 in 3.
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@jvcderby @GuyNAustin again - she is referring to so called "civilized" folks - 2000 years - let's not quibble - we all know meat - nose -guts - tail - is the ancient cornerstone of our human diet!
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Award-winning food writer Joanna Blythman:
Meat has sustained populations world-wide for 2000 years, yet it’s increasingly denounced globally as bad for animals, bad for the planet & bad for our health.
"A must read!"
https://bit.ly/2XcgRBe
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"Realistic alternatives to 'environmentally damaging meat' are now big business..."
US military's world-wide "forward defense" is largest user of oil in the world - purchasing over 225,000 barrels a day - but, no, let's blame the "climate crises" on grass farmers!
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Finnish blogger/cookbook author Virpi Mikkonen championed plant-based eating until, she said, it was ruining her health.
"I felt I had run out of fuel... I was empty.”
Now she is recovering with nourishing bone broth & the "gold standard of protein" - Eggs!
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Impossible foods CEO has a goal.
He wants to end all beef production by 2035. This goal is a...
War on People, War on Small, Mixed Farms, War on Rolling Pastures, War on Farm Animals, War on Soil, War on Soil Microorganisms -
so we eat more of his crap!
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Impossible Foods CEO says we should tax meat to boost veg-based diets
OK, lets tax "building" foods we've eaten for millenia - foods that gave us large (now shrinking) brains - so our pastures are turned into deserts & our children will have transistorized brains
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2013 AHA invited 33,000 cardiologists to their annual conference in new
"4 Star" hotel in Dallas generating $80 million for the city. No surprise; AHA is fundraising superstar w/ assets > $1 billion while incidence of Heart Failure more than doubled since 1987
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Amidst splendors of June, hope you're having a nice summer - walking barefoot, getting sun exposure & perhaps enjoying fresh-picked berries in heavy cream. Thanks too for tweeting your support for wholesome high quality food, family farms & keys to optimum health
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You wouldn't feed "Trix" to your dog, would you? Would your dog eat it?
Along with oats, sugar, corn meal, corn syrup, artificial flavor, red 40, yellow 6, blue 1, there's also a bit of Monsanto's Roundup - a systemic herbicide & crop desiccant.
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> Sugar, Cereal, Grain (sugar in your gut) promote elevated Triglycerides
(liver-made fat); depress 'good' HDL = Coronary Artery Disease.
> For decades, Sugar Industry used Tobacco Industry Tactics to suppress the truth.
Gary Taubes: https://bit.ly/2XublOL
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Science Writer Gary Taubes shared his "blood work."
> Fasting Glucose = 86 [optimum]
> Triglycerides = 64 [well below ideal of 100]
> HDL = 68 [TG:HDL ratio = 1 ]
Optimum Results - lowest risk heart disease!
Focus on TG:HDL ratio
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Acquaintance "blood work." MD's Letter: "Your results are normal."
> Fasting Glucose = 107 [Pre-diabetes = 100-125 mg/dL]
> Triglycerides = 189 [> 100 is a concern!]
> HDL = 52 [TG:HDL ratio = 3.6]
Is Dumb MD waiting for "High Risk"?
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By 1976, before his Bipartisan Committee had conducted a single day of hearings, aware there was NO SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS, Sen McGovern, a politician, had decided in advance that cholesterol & fat - not grains & sugars - was the culprit behind cancer & heart disease.
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Statin "Side Effects" incl Hepatotoxicity, diabetes, myopathies, insomnia, memory loss, confusion, peripheral neuropathy, impaired myocardial contractility, autoimmune diseases, rhabdomyolysis, erectile dysfunction & mitochondrial dysfunction. https://bit.ly/2xa8DyX
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Mark's Daily Apple: 8 succinct Comebacks For Keto Criticisms
https://bit.ly/31Ux022
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Carnitine transports long-chain fatty acids into mitochondria so they can be burned to produce energy & transports toxic compounds out to prevent their accumulation. Carnitine is concentrated in muscles - LIKE THE HEART!
Supplements work; red meat is best source!
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1976 Nathan Pritikin opens “low fat” Longevity Center. A pudgy Senator McGovern attends, convinced by Ancel Keys that fat made us fat & was responsible for "killer diseases." Pritikin committed suicide in 1985 when "low fat" failed to protect him from leukemia.
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1974 Framingham Study (24 yrs) challenged "Gospel according to Keys." Men w/ cholesterol below 190 mg/dl were 3X more likely to get colon cancer as men w/ cholesterol over 220 mg/dl. ALSO:
Strong asso between low cholesterol & premature death.
IGNORED/BURIED
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1988 After 20 yrs researching carbohydrate metabolism, Gerald Reavan, MD, identifies Syndrome X (Metabolic Syndrome): High blood sugar, high insulin, elevated Triglycerides, depressed HDL. Culprit:
Excess sugar; excess easily-digested carbohydrates - NOT RED MEAT
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@gpdiarist Statins are not a deficiency; maybe needed by some middle age men who do nothing at all for their health. Better option, be proactive, supplement magnesium, walk 30 minutes a day, eat pastured meat, fish, eggs. And who needs CoQ0 reduction? Not anyone I know.
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@ShariqShamimMD @IMWHorvitz coronary artery disease is multifactorial & your cholesterol-as-culprit isn't one of them!
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1986 FDA ruled: “No conclusive evidence” sugar causes chronic disease.
Since then, FDA/NIH/USDA have not funded any major studies to test their assertion. Even in 2010 Dietary Guidelines, up to 25% of calories as sugar is OK.
No nutrients - No problem!
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1976 FDA gives "Generally Regarded As Safe" to hydrogenated soybean oil – even though lipid biochemist Mary Enig warned NIH/FDA that, among their many dangers, trans fats interfere w/ insulin receptors on cell membranes increasing the risk of now EPIDEMIC diabetes
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1972 Dr Atkins sells million copies Diet Revolution in 6 mos.
1973 Calling his diet “dangerous fraud,” AMA tries to take his license.
> Hundreds of Atkins' patients ready to testify - Atkins prevails -
but Ancel Keys/AHA demonization continues to this day
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1961 Pete Ahrens (Rockefeller Univ) & Margaret Albrink (Yale):
> Elevated Triglycerides were asso w/ increased risk of heart disease
> Low fat, high carbohydrate diets elevated Triglycerides
> Excess carbs increased risk of heart disease - not fat.
> Ignored...
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Unholy Alliance - AHA, Natl Institutes Health, USDA – joined by Big Ag, Big Food, Big Pharma - Perpetuated self-serving, extended war on our traditional foods & farming now asso w/ record levels of debilitating chronic disease.
“So, how are the children doing?”
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Fear-Based Shackles
Health Authorities persuade us that the menace we face - cholesterol & saturated fat - is so fearsome that the only way to ease our danger is to test for, limit & reduce the threat w/ synthetic drugs, grains & rancid oils
no dog would eat
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1955 John Peters, Yale School of Medicine, using the new analytical centrifuge, was able to quantify the Triglyceride concentration in VLDL, confirming Gofman's ignored discovery: Excess carbs > elevated Triglycerides > more VLDL =
increased risk of heart disease.
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1950 Using newly invented centrifuge, Univ of CA medical scientist John Gofman discovered several fat-like substances circulating in blood, incl LDL & VLDL.
69 yrs ago Goffman reported:
Total Cholesterol is a "dangerously poor predictor" of heart disease...
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Google News:
Scientific study just proved that ‘brain supplements’ are completely useless.
Why Not This Google News?
Large number of scientific studies were manipulated to conceal the uselessness (& dangers) of statin cholesterol-lowering drugs.
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We've known since 1937 (Rittenberg & Schoenheimer) that dietary cholesterol has little if any effect on blood levels. We've known since 1950s (Goffman) that grains/sugar elevate Triglycerides/Depress HDL - best predictor of heart disease.
WHO BLOCKED THESE FACTS?
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1966 Jeremiah Stamler, Northwestern University professor, AHA board member, & staunch supporter of Ancel Keys, promotes the switch to vegetable fats in his self-help book, Your Heart Has Nine Lives, funded by makers of Mazola Corn Oil & Fleissmann's Margarine.
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Late 1950s Margarine now outsold butter; became major source of trans fats as heart mortality steadily increased. Butter: Best daily source Vit A; margarine none. Margarine, veg shortening & cooking oils = excess omega 6 linoleic acid -
fat of mass destruction
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1949 Milk Pasteurization Mandatory. During World War II, tainted milk produced by inexperienced replacement creamery workers killed a number of people. Fed govt blamed raw milk; not replacement workers & not dislocations of war. High-Heat Damages Value of Milk!
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1937 Columbia Univ biochemists David Rittenberg & Rudolph Schoenheimer demonstrated that dietary cholesterol had little if any effect on blood levels. Never refuted, it took Fed Govt until 2015 to finally acknowledge "dietary cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern."
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1910: If you survived birth & childhood & you didn't fall of your horse - you were just as likely to reach age 75 as you are today. 1910 AVERAGE Life expectancy was reduced by very high infant mortality & the death of young women giving birth. Helene was 23...
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1910 From pigs raised outdoors, lard had 70% of edible fat market.
Lard: Best source of Vit D & contains bacteria/virus-killing palmitoleic acid. Today solvent-extracted, chemically unstable soybean oil (no Vit D) =
70% of the market. https://bit.ly/2Zx46CQ
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Elephant in the Fryer:
Since 1910 there's been an unprecedented increase in our intake of chemically unstable plants oils (esp soybean) & substantial decrease in our intake of stable fats from animal sources.
Fat in our diets as % of calories: About the same.
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Of 1,074 infant/toddler dinners, snacks, juice products - one in three contain at least one source of added sugar. On avg, sugar constitutes 35% of infant/toddler calories. Big Food Lobbying prevents FTC from restricting advertising of sugary products to children
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When the direct-to-consumer drug ad says, "Ask your doctor if __________
is right for you," remember Big Pharma spent $24 Billion advertising to the doctor you're going to ask...
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2013 Headline: New Doubts About Ginkgo Biloba - "Clear evidence ginkgo causes carcinogenic activity in livers of mice."
Mice were given 900 mg Ginkgo per pound/body weight equivalent to
175 pound human taking 157,500 mg per day.
Recommended dose: 60-120 mg day
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CSPI's Michael Jacobson to The Daily News.
"Dietary supplement industry is full of snake oil salesmen,"
[CSPI, who received donations from soybean oil industry, was a staunch promoter & defender of 'bad' not-found-in-nature - industrial - trans fatty acids]
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"No Benefit From Beta Carotene"
When researchers study isolated nutrients - Surprise! They Fail!
Nutrition only works in team fashion & QUALITY matters! Of course -
SYNTHETIC beta carotene will not prevent cancer or heart disease!
What's wrong w/ these people?
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Human blood volume = 5-7 liters (50-70 dl). If blood cholesterol =
200 mg/dl = 10,000-14,000 mg of cholesterol transiting in the blood.
Eat 4 large eggs (215 mg cholesterol each) absorb 50% = 430 mg -
increase of 0.2% in blood.
No worries!
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#Statin's hidden "side effect" is not detailed on the warning label. Your doctor may have neglected to warn you or doesn't even know about it. Statins deplete your body of CoQ10. Within 30 days, your CoQ10 levels can be lowered by half.
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Pharma's synthetic side-effect-laden drugs are neither safe nor glamorous. Don't "ask your doctor!" #Statins (or is it Satan's) cholesterol-lowering agents lower - inhibit - CoQ10 - needed in largest amounts by your 1 pound metabolically active "heart of gold."
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Headline: LAB-GROWN MEAT IS COMING - LIKE IT OR NOT!
Grown in vats, so-called “clean meat” is allegedly "better for the planet" - sustainable, "cruelty-free." Laboratory cultured tissue to replace animals on pasture. New wave of industrialization! What could go wrong?
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CDC refers to #diabetes - 1st non-infectious epidemic ever - as "runaway-train." Lifetime risk now 1 in 3. (1 in 4 in US pre-diabetic.)
Duke's Dr Westman analyzed Dr Atkins' clinical data reversing T2 diabetes.
His conclusion: "Atkins was right all along..."
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Isn't it time for us as patients [& patient advocates] & our doctors [MDs Speak Up!] to question the wisdom of relying on a hyper-lobbying, for-profit industry for our health, longevity & well-being?
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#1 Lobby, Pharma sets up drug trial. Pays those to collect results. If drug harmful, trial buried. Everyone reminded of confidentiality. If trial can be made to shows drug “works,” Pharma spins "Ask your doctor" - using, exploiting, creating illness for capital gain.
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Association or Cause/Effect? U.S. sugar, rancid veg oil, processed food sales all-time high.
&
Suicides highest ever (farmers #1). 1 in 6 on psychiatric or antidepressants drugs. More die from Opioids than in car accidents. Alcoholism up. Life expectancy down.
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When I emphasize animal food, I'm only recommending food prepared the old fashioned, perennial way: Cows on pasture, hogs rooting in the ground for iron - foraging chickens as much as possible. Post WWII GMOs, chemicals & feedlots have compromised our food supply
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Tyson Foods debuting its first "meat free" plant-based nuggets:
[incomplete] Pea protein isolate, egg whites {no yolk!], flaxseed & bamboo fiber.
The nuggets (cute name) provide 5 grams of fiber per serving.
Now we can all enjoy bamboo roughage with pea isolate!
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DUMB QUESTION: Are saturated fats good or bad?
Human membranes minimally 50% saturated fat
Lung surfactant (protects) = 70% saturated palmitic acid
Cushion/emergency fuel, our hearts are covered in saturated fat
Always a mix, animal fats are not "saturated fats"
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Red Meat, eaten for millenia, provides the combination of stable monounsaturated/saturated fat optimum for cell membrane structure/integrity providing cellular "Homeland Security."
For longevity, restrict - limit - unstable polyunsaturates
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Regarding food fats, American Dietetic Asso (ADA) - renamed The Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics - has been a major supporter of the processed food industry's hydrogenated veg oil propaganda.
ADA's 1998 website
DOES NOT MENTION
"Trans Fatty Acids"!
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1961 AHA High Carb, Anti-Fat Diet + 1977 McGovern Committee =
1980 USDA High Carb, Anti-Fat Guidelines:
Ancel Keys' diet-fraud morphed into politicians doing something, even if wrong, as Big Food, Pharma & slew of Lobbyists cash in on widespread chronic dis-ease.
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1966 AHA bd member Jeremiah Stamler's "Your Heart Has 9 Lives," advocated replacing butter & "artery clogging” saturated fats with trans-fat-laden veg oils - paid for by Mazola Margarine. Stamler encouraged Americans to make switch "before final evidence is in..."
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Ignored, ridiculed for decades, Biochemist Fred Kummerow 1st reported a link between trans fats & heart disease in 1957! In 2009, he petitioned FDA to ban trans fats. NO RESPONSE. 2013 he sued FDA. 2015 FDA agreed to phase out trans by 2018. Who was FDA protecting?
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1950s AHA & its bullying board member Ancel Keys are responsible for falsely demonizing animal fats as the culprit behind rising rates of heart disease. Keys cheated - selected data - but Fed Govt rubber stamped the fraud & Big Food cashed in. Nothing has changed
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Early on CSPI promoted industrial trans fat. Jacobson's 1988 book “Saturated Fat Attack” urged restaurants to replace stable beef tallow with trans-fat-laden partially hydrogenated soybean oil. Decades later, like the cat who ate the canary, CSPI coyly backpedalled.
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Maria's - RD Provided - Carb-Loaded - Diabetes Food Plan:
Breakfast: 3-4 carb choices
AM snack: 1 carb choice
Lunch 3-4 carb choices
PM snack: 1 carb choice
Dinner: 3-4 carb choices
Eve snack: 1-2 carb choices
15 Choices @ 15 grams each = 225 grams daily carbs!
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"Cholesterol is the Culprit! Replace red meat with fish."
But salmon has a bit more cholesterol than a steak - 6 oz = up to 140 mg. Steak favors a monounsaturated/saturated mix you can eat everyday; more polyunsaturated salmon is best once or twice a week
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1910 Dairy - fresh raw milk, cream, butter & cheese - largest US employer.
Skilled creamery workers came from Europe. Pigs on dairy farms lapped up the "skimmed milk" leftover from butter-making - now fed to our children.
Veganism: Death knell of a once "Good Life"
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