We’re the Most Medicated Nation in History

Good luck with your healthy lifestyle, AKA as programmed starvation.

 

I thought that you were the food moralist. I’m the guy who holds that: (A) we’re all going to die and (B) food tastes yummy.

 

All this time I never got Covid. I attribute it to my favorite lunch which is a double-decker peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a banana and a coke.

 

If I were RFK Jr I wouldn’t ban prescription drug ads, but I would limit the ad to listing side effects and wouldn’t allow the imagery of people dancing in the streets …

Alzheimer's & dementia drugs are less effective than B vitamins while causing fluid build-up and bleeding in the brain and increased death. Parkinson's drugs deplete nutrients needed for brain health.

 

Antidepressants may yield depressing results

Use of antidepressant medication linked to substantial increase in risk of sudden cardiac death

 

Murky …

What can we learn from Steve Jobs about complementary and alternative therapies? - PMC

 

I believe healthcare is entirely off the rails with regards to bodyshape which is more heritable than any other attribute, save height, and which is not a proxy for health. Sure, everyone knows someone who knows someone who’s lost 50 lbs and kept it off for twenty years but …

“As for the attempted prevention of fatness, it is likely exacerbating health outcomes across our populations. Weight loss efforts, as well attempting to maintain a weight level below inherited set point, fail. Studies that suggest health screening markers improve in patients with metabolic chronic conditions if they lose weight always avoid the punchline: 0.003% rate of success in maintaining significant weight loss out five years. And there are no longitudinal studies to show whether these attempts to lose weight actually worsen quality of life and mortality incidence in patients who repeatedly attempt to lose weight, as directly prescribed by their physician, because it will ameliorate markers that denote the presence of a risk factor for future onset of disease. And shifting markers is not the same as improving either quality or length of life either.”

Science of Fat in Context — EDI

Regarding insulin, I certainly wouldn’t suggest anyone on it go off it, but I do know that, as is the case with cholesterol and blood pressure, diabetes diagnosis threshold has been lowered, over the years and the fake disease “prediabetes” has been invented. Indeed, is diabetes a disease ?

Diabetes: Part One — EDI

 

I regard it as a form of insanity, this insistence that we know better than our body does what it wants to weigh. Conceivably, preventing weight gain is as pointless in trying to lose weight.

I read a study awhile back that showed that subjects who gained weight through adulthood lived longer than subjects who lost weight through adulthood.

The primarily American aversion to weight gain is cultural rather than scientific.

And is extra fat hard on the joints ? First, define “extra.” Second, don’t imagine that larger people don’t also have the requisite muscle to support movement.

FYI: while a trainer I noticed no correlation between bodyshape and joint issues.

Diabetes diagnostic threshold was lowered from 140 to 126 in (I believe) the 1990’s. It’s almost as if healthcare wants everyone on statins, blood pressure and diabetes meds.

Note: when I was a personal trainer I worked with two diabetics. I had to secure permission from their doctors to work with them and in bth cases, the doctors endorsed weight loss.

Kicker: both trainees allowed as how they experienced their precipitous weight gain AFTER they were diagnosed with diabetes.

 

We’re bonafide top ten in weight and #1 in aversion to weight. BTW, one reason Americans are larger than peer nations is almost certainly chronic dieting. Another would be … wait for it - medications.

 

The main reason I don’t believe we’re eating ourselves to death is because the larger we got, the longer we lived … until a slight downward blip in 2015 which was attributed to opioids … then came pan-panic in 2020.

I firmly believe our bodies are always a step ahead of us. We go on a diet. It ramps up hunger and ramps down satiety … almost as if it means to defend its weight.

Ponderously fat people die sooner but the riskiest category is underweight.