RFK, Jr. - Secretary of HHS, Trump latest unqualified nominee

If processed foods are making us fat why did it take them 75 years to make us fat ?

 

COVID broke a lot of these people’s brains, apparently.

It truly isn’t “food safety” as just being anti-govt. Raw milk exposes this as raw unpasteurized milk obviously isn’t a food safety thing, quite the opposite. It’s eliminating food safety. It caught on in the far right because some farm in PA was raided by the feds and thus championing raw milk became a cause.

Personally I don’t give a crap if someone wants to drink raw milk or sell at a farmers market or whatever. Not the general idea anyway, seems silly that it would be “illegal” anywhere provided the risks are appropriately labeled. But the farm that was raided had links to an e.coli outbreak. So if you go on selling contaminated product that’s a bit of a different scenario from just the mere idea it’s being sold at all.

 

Because there’s more processed food and people are eating more of it

 

Rule of thumb: when ever you see Pasteur, as in PASTEURized, remember you’re talking about a huckster of his time who believed that microbes entered through the ears, of otherwise sterile persons, and made them sick.

 

Arguing from the consequent.

 

And you’re arguing just to argue

 

To the contrary, I’m calling into question a tenuous supposition.

 

The average American woman is 50 lbs. heavier than in 1970. Possible factors aside from diet …

Aging population, cessation of smoking, prevalence of medication such as psych meds and especially chronic-dieting.

 

In the 1980's politicians pushed heavily for additional corn and soybean subsidies. We've been paying farmers to grown more corn than we need for much too long. As a result scientists figured out how to manipulate corn and soybean into various additives and various sweeteners. If you look at American obesity it was pretty flat until the early '80s and went on a steady increase

 

In defense of sugar and HFCS …

Junkfood Science: Science of sweets

 

It didn't take 75 years

 

because that 75 years also coincided with increasingly sedentary lifestyles.

sedentary lifestyles are more negatively impactful than crap foods

 

In the late 60' while I was in high school there were only 4 girls who were bigger than a C Cup- now there a large number of girls with more than a C Cup= it has to be what is in our food and also in thefood given to our livestock

 

And the silicon

 

In 1998 BMI was adjusted so as to produce millions more obese Americans.

 

US life expectancy increased inexoarbly, until very recently, after processed foods exploded …

https://kottke.org/cdn-cgi/image/fo...us/misc/images/2020-life-expectancy-graph.jpg

 

I had not noticed that

 

LOL, let's hope not.

"Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic luster, and is a tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor. It is a member of group 14 in the periodic table: carbon is above it; and germanium, tin, lead, and flerovium are below it. It is relatively unreactive. Silicon is a significant element that is essential for several physiological and metabolic processes in plants. Silicon is widely regarded as the predominant semiconductor material due to its versatile applications in various electrical devices such as transistors, solar cells, integrated circuits, and others. These may be due to its significant band gap, expansive optical transmission range, extensive absorption spectrum, surface roughening, and effective anti-reflection coating.[1]"

Silicon - Wikipedia