Nearly 50 percent of American children and almost three-quarters of adult Americans are obese or overweight. Forty percent of 18-year-olds have a diagnosed mental health issue. Autism incidence has risen from 1 in 150 to 1 in 36 since 2000—in California it is 1 in 22. Americans aren’t just sick. They’re being destroyed.
That’s the conclusion that Calley and Casey Means draw in their #1 New York Times bestselling book, Good Energy. In the book—as well as in a fascinating interview with Tucker Carlson—the Means lay out a case against Big Pharma, Big Agriculture, and Big Government. And their work has caught the ear of both Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) and Donald Trump, who are now running on a unity ticket to make America healthy again.
Things are about to get very, very interesting.
high fructose corn syrup is likely a YUGE contributor to this problem. Corn subsidies first implemented to make this goop in order to try to reduce the cost of food, later diabolically expanded to make EtOH for motor fuels "to reduce need to import foreign oil". If only some presidential administration would promote domestic energy production we might be able to become a net exported of gas and crude oil. . . . . . . . . . OH WAIT !!!
ReplyDeleteI came to the same conclusion a couple of decades ago. Change of diet, throw away the meds, and ignore everything the government says, along with most of what the medical establishment preaches. I'm 72, 6'4", 185 pounds, and I feel healthier now than I did in my 40s.
ReplyDeleteThis is an excellent article, they didn't mention the idiotic " food pyramid " and all the genetically modified crops, especially corn, which seems to find it's way into everything we eat.. Monsanto...
ReplyDeleteAlso since I got on Medicare it's rediculious the amount of useless tests suggested and
" medical advice " my insurance company sends me.. They seem shocked when I tell them I will go to a doctor if I feel I need to so go away..
JD
As awful as those stats are, I believe the situation is even worse. Obese and overweight numbers for adults are extrapolated from self-reported height and weight measurements. I, personally, have never met a woman who admitted to her true body mass, or a short guy who told the truth about his height. It may be so that the stats for children are reasonably accurate, if they are collected from school physicals. But anonymous self-reporting by everyone else? Fuhgeddaboudit.
ReplyDeleteNot only that, but 'obese' and 'overweight' thresholds are usually determined by BMI, which is a fatally flawed measure. Using the same mathematical formula for men and women means that I, at 6' 2" and 225 pounds have a BMI of 28.9 (overweight, nearly obese) whereas my wife, at 5' 5" and 155 pounds has a BMI of 25.8 (barely overweight). As a lifelong gym rat, I've got shy, but visible abs. My wife is a chunky monkey, sadly recalling that she was 118 pounds on our wedding day.
I'm an inch taller and 10# heavier with basically the same BMI. If I'm on the verge of obese, what are these 5'5, 350# blobs?
DeleteThe BMI was created during the Depression, when, overall, people were skinnier due to being poor and being far more active. It is not a good measurement of reality.
DeleteCertainly seems plausible. Factor in the massive increase in serving sizes and acceptance/normalizing of morbid obesity, and it’s fairly easy to see how this all falls together
ReplyDeleteI can remember JFK's campaign to make kids healthier in the 60s. It didn't work then and it probably won't work now. Health is a personal issue and not a political one. The best thing you can do for your health is to eat right, exercise, and stay away from doctors. We used to recite the old adage, 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away' - little did I know how prescient that sentiment would be.
ReplyDeleteKenneth, aren't you "outraged" about this
ReplyDeleteOut of my 45,000 readers, how does it feel knowing you're the pettiest little bitch of them all?
DeleteAnd what is your fetish of using my proper name? Is it supposed to bother me? Or are you wanting to fuck me?
It's called progress. When I was a youngin back in the fifties we had no internet or social media. All we had to do after school to occupy us was ride our bikes, play basketball, football or baseball and eat fresh snapped peas and beans, potatoes, chopped meat or franks cooked by our housewife mothers while our fathers were working. As it turned out we were kind’a thin but our parents thought that was normal. Incidentally, Polio was rampant, doctors made house calls, but autism and ADHD didn’t exist. Bullying was accepted as just another ritual of teens. My father always told me if bullied fight back and if you lose don’t come crying to me. How did we ever survive?
ReplyDeleteI had a teacher and one guy in a class ahead of me that had polio.
DeleteAlso I had a female friend that had a younger brother that had Down Syndrome. No one had nut allergies and being on the spectrum wasn't invented yet. As a point of reference I graduated in 1976
JD
Kenny, thank you for this lead. Article nailed it in a short and to the point analysis, and shared that some doctors really want to help people get well, not just take meds to cover the food and pharmacy damage to our bodies.
ReplyDeleteIf we elect Trump with Kennedy behind the curtain the CDC, FDA and pharmaceuticals will be in trouble. MAGA and MAHA!
Richard in Colorado
Informative interview is worth a watch!
ReplyDeleteEvery time the .gov "helps" with something like this... just stop the welfare payments and make people earn a living.
ReplyDeleteLets see about curing stupidity first, next install a touch of humility and caring for their fellow humans instead of hate then almost all of the other problems will solve themselves.
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