Thread by @RootCauseDoctor

💰THE CORRUPTION OF THE HUMAN DIET 💰

Think the dietary guidelines have anything to do with health? You'd be mistaken.

For the past 100 years, the narrative surrounding a 'healthy' human diet has been hijacked.

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There is a silent pandemic of obesity, metabolic disease, autoimmunity and chronic lifestyle diseases.

This has come about DESPITE the freest access to
- food
- pharmaceuticals
- intervention medical/surgical techniques

in the history of the Human species.

What happened?

The foods that facilitated our evolution from lower primates to bipedal hunters with the largest relative brain size of any mammal have been demonized.

- Animal meat
- Organ meats
- Saturated animal fat
- Unprocessed dairy

Here's why..

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS

From the late 1890s, Ellen G. White and the SDA Church actively promoted vegetarianism and discouraged meat consumption.

They believed animal foods encouraged the ‘sinful’ tendency of masturbation and promiscuous sexual expression.

John Harvey Kellogg was a devout SDA.

He made it his life’s mission to push nutrient-poor, grain-based foods on the masses through his breakfast cereal company.

Adventists would go on to found the American Dietetics Association and have significant sway on eating habits of US.

CRISCO BY PROCTOR & GAMBLE

In early 1920s Proctor & Gamble released a vegetable shortening product made of hydrogenated cottonseed oil

They marketed to housewives as a 'healthy alternative' to butter and lard

Their new 'edible' vegetable fat was simply a clever way to re-purpose industrial machine oil, a by-product of cotton production

It wasn't long before soy, corn, sunflower, safflower entered the American diet as Refined Plant Oils.

All are toxic.

ANCEL KEYS

In 1955 scientist Ancel Keys proposed the diet-heart or cholesterol hypothesis

His theory was that saturated animal fat, through its effect on blood cholesterol, was responsible for rising rates of heart disease

This hypothesis was based on poor quality epidemiological evidence and ignored a range contradictory findings

It was enough to convince the central planners that dietary cholesterol and saturated animal fat was inherently harmful and should be avoided

NIXON SHOCK

In 1971 the US effectively defaulted on its sovereign debt. President Nixon ended the redeemability of US currency for gold.

This sparked a period of high consumer price inflation, and the price of food skyrocketed.

Secretary of Agriculture Earl 'Rusty' Butz was tasked with the mission to lowering the price of food.

He did this by instituting subsidies for growing corn, forcing small family farms to consolidate large industrial cropping operations

Food prices fell, but only because nutrient-dense animal foods like rib eye steaks were replaced with nutrient-poor processed grains.

High fructose corn syrup was produced in response to the massive oversupply of corn and became a ubiquitous food additive

AMERICAN DIETARY GUIDELINES

In 1977, the first version of what would become the American Dietary Guidelines was published, written by a vegetarian Adventist on behalf of Senator McGovern.

Unsurprisingly, it dictated a plant-based, high carbohydrate diet and low consumption of saturated fat.

Future guidelines were iterations on this obesogenic combination of low fat, grain-based eating.

Countries all over the world mimicked the US.

With time, the Dietary Guidelines had simply come to recommend consumption of foods that reflected the collective financial + ideological interests of
- Big Food
- Big Pharma
- SDA Church

STATINS

In 1990s, the rise of the statin class of medications added Big Pharma to the powerful corporate backers of the cholesterol hypothesis.

Statins are used for prevention of heart attacks. They inhibit the body’s natural synthesis of cholesterol.

But cholesterol is an essential molecule that sits in every cell, with many essential functions in the body.

And tho statins play a role in a specific patient population, most who have not had a heart attack do not benefit from statins above addressing lifestyle #RootCauses

Physicians promoting statins and the cholesterol hypothesis advised against the consumption of
- red meat
- eggs
- full fat dairy

And recommended replacing with polyunsaturated seed oils, that reduce serum cholesterol but also are highly inflammatory and highly harmful

PROPAGANDA OF BIG FOOD

Since the 1990s, multinational junk food and confectionery companies like
- Nestle
- Coca Cola
- Mars
- McDonalds

have employed various marketing campaigns that emphasized a ‘calories in, calories out’ model of obesity

They continue to use fake grassroots organizations like the Global Energy Balance Network to downplay the harms of soda and junk foods

Using slogans like ‘eat less, move more’.

ROUNDUP, GLYPHOSATE AND MONSANTO

In the late 1990s Monsanto genetically engineered Cotton to survive being sprayed with the herbicide RoundUp, chief ingredient glyphosate.

The goal was to spray the whole field, killing weeds but leaving the crop unharmed. They succeeded.

RoundUp resistance was soon bred into into corn, soybeans, canola allowing these food crops to be sprayed with Round-Up multiple times during a growing cycle.

Today almost all soy, corn and canola planted in the US are glyphosate-resistant genetically modified organisms (GMO)

Several obvious problems:

1. RoundUp and glyphosate are toxic, causing a range of human diseases, notably destruction of gut microbiota and cancers including lymphoma

2. RoundUp and glyphosate enter the food chain and contaminating human (processed) foods

Widespread use of industrial pesticides and herbicides on both GMO and non-GMO mono-cropping operations continues in the United States to this day.

Meaning foods like
- canola oil
- soy lecithin
- high fructose corn syrup

all contain glyphosate at biologically harmful doses.

THE ‘CARCINOGENICITY’ OF RED MEAT

In 2015 a WHO body declared red meat as a ‘probable carcinogen' based on the interpretation of literature by 22 ‘experts'

The decision was based on a range of poor quality epidemiological studies that couldn't delineate lifestyle confounders

Further reviews of the scientific literature have discredited the notion red meat is inherently harmful.

But the popular misconception remains that people should eat less red meat to be healthy

THE WEF’s GREAT RESET

In 2020, The World Economic Forum, group of un-elected bureaucrats, declared a global move to a plant-based diet as part of its ‘Great Reset’ plan

Made in partnership with grain and plant-based food manufacturers.

WEF are attempting to re-architect society in the interests of corporate profiteering and top-down control.

Diet is simply one facet of a plan to restrict the freedom of the individual and create a micro-managed society that serves the interests of the entrenched elite.

These are small selection of events that have shifted the dietary Overton Window away from nutrient-dense animal foods and towards processed plant foods.

Estranging people further and further from their ancestral nutrition.

There are many, many more including
- influence of the American Soybean Association
- animal rights movement
- Bill Gates and the rise of the fake meat industry
- environmental attack on ruminant agriculture.

I have coined the term Medical-Pharmacuetical-Agricultural-Complex #MPAC

in reference to the corporate beneficiaries of this deliberate, top-down effort (conspiracy?) to co-opt the mainstream narrative and alter consumption habits of the people

https://twitter.com/RootCauseDoctor/status/1401367558914183168

The moral of the story is:
- be extremely skeptical when you receive top-down advice about what (not) to eat

If your ancestors didn’t eat it, you probably shouldn’t eat it. And vice versa.

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