Here is a graphic of the driving force of premature death in the U.S.

Eliminate these and the covid scam ends in 3,2,1....not to mention heart disease, obesity, diabetes, most cancers, autoimmune disorders, anxiety, depression...basically all the chronic conditions that our decrepit society depends on to support the Food/Medical-Industrial Complex.

This is why we need $$$$ research dollars into GM technology to rebuild our staple crops to provide nutrients, flavor, hardiness, and yield.

2600 bro wrote:

This is why we need $$$$ research dollars into GM technology to rebuild our staple crops to provide nutrients, flavor, hardiness, and yield.

You completely missed the point. What we need is nutritious animal-based foods with 100% bioavailability, sustainably pastured, to replace the crop-based, toxic flours, sugar and oils. This has to change from the grass roots, with people boycotting the junk that is killing them, by educating themselves on proper nutrition rather than following government and corporate dogma and advertising.

None of these modern engineered foods existed 120 years ago, and there was essentially no heart disease, cancer or obesity, regardless of other factors like activity level.

FrankenFood wrote:

None of these modern engineered foods existed 120 years ago, and there was essentially no heart disease, cancer or obesity, regardless of other factors like activity level.

Flour, sugar, and oil didn't exist 120 years ago?

White flour has been used for about 150 years in a form somewhat similar to the modern form. How many people had access I have no idea.

NTSA wrote:

FrankenFood wrote:

None of these modern engineered foods existed 120 years ago, and there was essentially no heart disease, cancer or obesity, regardless of other factors like activity level.

Flour, sugar, and oil didn't exist 120 years ago?

The seed oils did not. Crisco was the first industrial seed oil product introduced in the 1920s. In the 1930s heart disease rates began to climb. Later on seed oils like canola were created as well as hyper processed corn, peanut, sunflower etc., which resemble a natural oil like olive oil in name only. They are essentially industrial waste products weaponized and utilized to jack up profitability while infiltrating almost every food product in modern society. Read any typical food with over three ingredients and you will find sugar and seed oils in there where they were in in in our great-grandparent's time.

Flour and sugar were around of course, but were not essentially free to the food industry due to subsidies introduced in the 1970s. Also in the late '70s the federal government essentially condemned the most nutritious human foods: meat, eggs and dairy which contain saturated fat and cholesterol, which are essential to human health. This was based on skewed research and the "beleif" of those calling the shots that these foods were "bad for human health". This shifted food production to a "low saturated fat/high carb" ratio of equal parts refined carbs and seed oils, which created and promoted hyperpalatable foods with essentially no satiety (i.e. are insatiable to humans). Read on the linked website for more info on how these modern foods undermine your body a the cellular and systemic level.

Killing for profit. An old story with new and insidious means.

I'll have mine to go, please.

We already have healthy food to eat. People choose not to eat it and eat donuts and pizza instead.

Free to choose

Not free to choose consequences of choice.

I feel like people use to be taught this concept when they were kids.

The last thing we need is people living longer.

Social Security is already strained as it is.

Do you want payroll taxes to cover everyone for another 5-10 years?

[quote]X-Runner wrote:

The last thing we need is people living longer.

Social Security is already strained as it is.

Do you want payroll taxes to cover everyone for another 5-10 years?[/quote

Fear of an early death is used by the media to sell you things you don't need.

Eliminating Leap Years would be a start.

But one less day every four years for big Pharma to steal your wealth.

Left sheeple dropped on my head as a baby

"Snake oil" "cures everything" too..

There were people gullible for this type of sales pitch 120 years ago, and there still many today who are gullible enough to believe this crap.

LRC, by putting a link to this near the top its home page*, is identifying itself as being run by fools.

*as of 14:50 California time Sep 04.

FrankenFood wrote:

Killing for profit. An old story with new and insidious means.

This attitude is what will bring down our country.

Blame your failures on someone else. Right, Coke, McDonald’s and Dominos go to people'shouses and make them eat their food at gunpoint.

NTSA wrote:

FrankenFood wrote:

None of these modern engineered foods existed 120 years ago, and there was essentially no heart disease, cancer or obesity, regardless of other factors like activity level.

Flour, sugar, and oil didn't exist 120 years ago?

Dont tell him that the primary caloric source for early hunter-gathers was... plants.

2600 bro wrote:

NTSA wrote:

Flour, sugar, and oil didn't exist 120 years ago?

Dont tell him that the primary caloric source for early hunter-gathers was... plants.

LOL In your Disney snowflake fantasy. Humans were the most effective hyper-carnivore on the planet. Nitrogen isotope evidence shows that we ate all trphic levels of animals, including other hyper-carnivores like lions, hyenas, bears. For vast stretches of the Pleistocene, animals were the only available food sources in the higher latitudes. Our primary energy source was fat, and still is for many hunter gatherers, even in tropical altitudes, such as the Inuit and Hadza, and Masai pastoralists. Still the case for often over half the year.

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Our digestive system is that of a carnivore (no caecum, pH of stomach 1.0-2.0 compared to 4 and above for herbivores).Human spears, lances and arrows were the most effective canine"teeth" ever devised.

If you are not eating meat, you are starving on some level, hence the unlimited appetite.

BuckleUp wrote:

Our digestive system is that of a carnivore (no caecum, pH of stomach 1.0-2.0 compared to 4 and above for herbivores).Human spears, lances and arrows were the most effective canine"teeth" ever devised.

Yay, the caecum guy is back! Buckle up for some entertaining, crazy nonsense.

FrankenFood wrote:

None of these modern engineered foods existed 120 years ago, and there was essentially no heart disease, cancer or obesity, regardless of other factors like activity level.

There is good news.

Heart disease remains an epidemic, but deaths from heart disease have been cut by greater than half over the past 50 years. Perhaps by the shift to less saturated fat but more likely due to medical advances, most notably the advent of statins among other major developments.

Cancer is still a major cause of death. Cancer has been around forever, it was described the ancient Egyptians. Whether it increased is hard to discern. Over the past 150 years people are living longer, less likely to die of other things, and more likely to be diagnosed correctly.

But the good news is cancer survival rates have gotten much better and cancer death rates in the US are falling.

Not really any good news on obesity. It continues to increase all over the world. In the US we've cut sugar over the past few decades, but obesity continues to rise. The overall macronutrient composition has remained about the same for 60 years, we just eat more overall. The rest of the world is getting more money, eating more meat and fat, and getting fatter. The only skinny countries now are where they're too poor to afford anything but rice or a few prosperous Asian countries who haven't changed diet all that much.

NTSA wrote:

BuckleUp wrote:

Our digestive system is that of a carnivore (no caecum, pH of stomach 1.0-2.0 compared to 4 and above for herbivores).Human spears, lances and arrows were the most effective canine"teeth" ever devised.

Yay, the caecum guy is back! Buckle up for some entertaining, crazy nonsense.

It’s funny on this website, whenever someone who knows what they’re talking about shows up there is always some idiot posting “oh look so and so is here, got my popcorn ready to go”. Letsrun, where there is always someone who knows less than you and pretends to be smarter because of it.

X-Runner wrote:

The last thing we need is people living longer.

Social Security is already strained as it is.

Do you want payroll taxes to cover everyone for another 5-10 years?

So your solution is to have people die prematurely rather than, say, working longer. Brilliant.