What If Everything They've Been Telling You About Food Is...WRONG?
Have Our Trusted Health Authority Figures Led Us Astray? And If So...What Can We Do About It?
The last 9 months have been an exceedingly strange journey for me.
While I had already figured out the FDA food pyramid was garbage and had watched in real-time as all the federal "medical" "health" "science" agencies played a direct role in suppressing accurate information on COVID-19 and C-19 origins, treatments, vaccines, etc., it took me the better of part of 3 years to begin critically and logically examining what these self-same propagandists disguised as 'experts' have been telling all of us about food and what supposedly comprises a healthy diet.
I'd struggled with my weight since I was a young man of 24. I am soon turning 60.
I'd spent the past few years talking about losing weight and the all the issues I was dealing with from lugging around over 100+ pounds of useless bodyfat.
But I was still eating 4-5 times a day, at least two of those meals being sizable. And though I cut down on the sweets and was eating what I was told were 'healthy whole grains', the weight not only refused to go down, it kept going up.
I would go through the same cycle several times from when I was around 26 to last year: Start working out religiously, while eating what I was told was mostly 'healthy' food. I'd add some muscle, my weight would drop maybe 20 pounds or so...and then after 3-4 months, hit the wall. No changes, and despite working out, the weight crept back up. Quit working out, gain all the weight back, a year goes by...then start the cycle again.
34 years or so I ran on this hamster wheel.
When this picture was taken, I'd just started writing for The Epoch Times in mid-2018. I was 350 pounds or so. Hadn't weighed myself in a while. I was too scared to look anyway.
I had just gone through the cycle again early last year.
Working out, eating the "healthy food" chock full of carbs, various forms of sugars and toxic seed oils & chemicals, etc., etc. Then in May, I quit again.
In late June, my stepmom visited me in my new house in Florida while I was on an RV tour around the US, and when she saw how I was living and eating, she read me the riot act. She kicked me in the ass and got me not only moving again, but that visit was also the catalyst I needed to go back and re-examine 35+ years of failure and why trying the same thing over and over again wasn't working.
For years, people like me were told this was a willpower/laziness thing. You're fat and you can't lose the weight because you don't eat right/work out hard enough or long enough, etc.
So I was mentally beaten down after exhausting myself on this hamster's wheel as I was headed into decade #4 with the wrong programming in my head.
But here's the thing.
As a journalist, I'd just spent the last 3 1/2 years extensively and exhaustively covering how federal and state and county 'health' 'medical' and 'science' 'experts' had just engaged in a deliberate conspiracy to hide and censor true and accurate information from the American public.
Not to mention also covering the amount of gaslighting we were all being hit with following the blatant theft of the 2020 election from Donald Trump.
So at this time, in late June/early July of last year, I started my re-examination of around 35 years of failure with an intriguing thought:
**COULD IT BE** that the very same 'health' 'medical' & 'science' experts who'd just exposed and outed themselves as Big Pharma propagandists and business partners lying to us about COVID & many of the drugs involved in the treatment/prevention of infection…were also wrong or deliberately misleading us about....food?
One of the first things I realized, when I began examining what the federal 'health' 'medical' 'science' agencies tout as a 'healthy' diet, is that when they last changed the food pyramid in the early 1990's, the rates of both obesity and diabetes exploded in this country as people began following this 'expert' advice.
As you can see from the graphs below, an already alarming rising trend suddenly shot dramatically upward in the early 1990s.
How bad has the obesity/diabetes/insulin resistance crisis gotten in the US?
It is now so bad they've coined a bullshit term - 'prediabetes' - to try to mask the deadly seriousness of the crisis. If you are diagnosed as ‘prediabetic,’ you ARE diabetic; it's just that your insulin resistance hasn’t progressed to such an extent that they’ll officially call it ‘diabetes.’
Or as actor Wilford Brimley would say:
By giving Americans the 'expert' advice that they needed to start chugging down '6-11 servings' every day of 'healthy whole grains' and cook their food with seed oils while counseling them to also **reduce** the amount of meat and animal fats they were eating, Americans began ingesting way more carbohydrates and PUFA’s [that’s ‘polyunsaturated fatty acids, for those of you in Rio Linda…] every day than they'd been eating before.
And yet I recall for the past 30 years or so watching the popular culture health reporters scratch their heads and wondering what could possibly be causing the massive explosion of obesity and chronic illnesses, as well as the dropping testosterone and estrogen levels they were observing.
So the fact that the federal 'health' agencies caused much of the country to make a dramatic wrong turn that exacerbated the rising trends of obesity and chronic illness with their drastically wrong official 'food pyramid' in the early 1990s, caused me to wonder:
If they were giving the American public such rotten, terrible, horrible, no-good 'expert' instructions on what they should be eating every day, **what else** have they been telling us that is utter bullshit?
And the very first thing I stumbled over in this regard was the history of SEED OILS and how medical scientists doing animal experiments back in the 1890s/early 1900s quickly established that seed oils were toxic and harmful to growing and developing animals.
By the end of July last year, I was sharing the alarming stuff I was finding in my research with my readers on my Substack:
You have to fully grasp this. They **knew** from animal experiments on rats and cows and horses and birds **exactly** what SEED OILS did to growing and developing animals.
Many of these experiments were carried out from the late 1880s through the 1910s. Experiment results were published in books, such as this one from scientist E.V. McCollum in 1918.
There was no mystery here. The results were established and easily observable.
And yet...what ended up happening over the next 100 years?
Government 'health' experts working hand-in-glove with Big Food corporations convinced most Americans to stop cooking their food with butter, lard, and tallow, and instead use the new 'Crisco' and other highly processed seed oils and margarine. Because they claimed these new processed products were 'healthier'.
And because Americans back then were very trusting people who didn't know their government was controlled by hidden corporations and interests out to make massive profits while not caring about their health, they followed this ‘expert’ advice from authority figures they were taught to trust.
From the 1920s through today, Big Food, working in conjunction with Big Government, began creating many new highly processed foods that contained large amounts of these seed oils and myriad toxic chemicals and food additives. Our American culture is now flooded with highly processed fake ‘food’ that didn’t exist even 100 years ago. And they are inventing new kinds of fake food every year.
If they knew what seed oils would do to human beings who began eating them early in life, and ate them throughout their physical development and into adulthood - and evidence seems to suggest they did - then the only possible reason for them to do that would be to arrest the development of children, cause chronic illnesses throughout life, and ensure a premature death.
What I saw through my research was **deeply disturbing to me**.
This can't be just about profit motive, the fact they'd make a lot of MONEY creating new addictive processed sugar-and-carb-and-seed oil-filled foods. They had to also have seen the very real and OBVIOUS HARM they would be doing to their fellow citizens by introducing these heavily toxic and health-destroy products into the American food supply.
Not when you realize the wealthy elite who run everything in this fallen world behind the scenes are constantly wringing their hands and brainstorming about how to 'fix' the world’s overpopulation problem, think even the concept of human rights is a big funny hilarious joke, and that human rights don’t exist, just like God doesn’t exist.
They’ve always sat around at their big, important conferences in places like Davos and talked about culling the human herd like they’re ranchers planning for the next cattle drive. It's just that they’re starting to get embarrassed that the cows are now spying on them in the barn and figuring out what they’re talking about, their plans for the rest of us.
What more clever way could be devised than convincing people to simply EAT themselves into chronic illnesses that will guide them expeditiously into an early grave?
The rise in life expectancy rates over the past 100 years is not because people are HEALTHIER overall.
Far from it.
The rates rose because of medical advancements in keeping chronically ill people alive longer.
Were people not being tricked and misled into fattening themselves with constant insulin resistance and filling their bodies with toxins, most people would very likely be living into their upper 90s by now. Instead, life expectancy is dropping because the amount of toxic and unhealthy food Americans are eating is going up.
This cannot be overstated. With the medical/health/scientific advancements in knowledge and technology over the past 120 years, the only way this was allowed to happen and to become so widespread at this point millions of people are dying from easily preventable chronic illnesses is that...
...and I know some of you will struggle to accept this....
...the real owners of the world out there **wanted** this to happen. They demanded it.
There's no way they don't know. So if they know...and nothing's been done to stop it? It’s not just about money. There's what looks like an exceedingly nefarious agenda at work here.
Sometimes in my more paranoid moments, I wonder if....
Nah. Couldn't be....
So the first two things I discovered in my new research starting in the middle of last year:
1. The food pyramid was a massive 'mistake'...or was it?
2. Seed Oils are toxic and harm human development and shorten the human lifespan Yet they were allowed to proliferate into the American food supply by accident...or was it really an 'accident'?
Next, I discovered that the conventional 'expert' findings about animal fat were wrong.
For decades I'd been endlessly told and had read that too much dietary animal fat caused health/heart issues. Cut down dramatically on the red meat, the eggs, the butter, replace the fat with 'healthy' food...
And yet what do you actually **FIND** when you examine the medical research?
You find when people dramatically reduced their animal fat intake they still got FATTER and more CHRONICALLY ILL. After all, one of the biggest reasons for creating a 'new and improved!' food pyramid back in the early 1990s was to convince people to CUT the amount of meat and animal fat they were eating and replace them with 'healthy' carbs.
For people who were supposedly becoming more 'healthy' by following the new food pyramid's 'expert' advice, Americans seemed to be getting fatter, heavier, and more unhealthy.
It's been noticed for some time now that people in America in the 1940s and 1950s sure do look pretty darn healthy, even though we were constantly being told by our modern 'health experts' that those poor folks were eating WAY too much animal fats and red meat and eggs and [gasp!] butter.
I mean...there's just NO WAY that Americans back then eating all that bad stuff were healthier than US today, right?
🤔
Why, that very idea would be absurd! They didn't know any better! They didn't have our advantages!
Hey...maybe it's time for us to stop, go back and look, and rethink this all out again...
Because SOMETHING clearly isn't working.
We're **supposed to be** far healthier than those poor fools back in the 1940s and 1950s...but we're NOT.
Why is that?
If you commit yourself to finding the truth and facing it unflinchingly, no matter where it leads...you can find it.
The brutal truth is…people here in America have been misled. Just about EVERYTHING the 'health' and 'diet' 'experts' have been telling them all their lives is....SURPRISE!...wrong.
It’s not your fault. It is THEIR fault. They either didn't know what they were talking about when they were teaching you how to eat, or they had a hidden agenda.
Either way...NOT YOUR FAULT.
Its not that you lack willpower. Or that you're lazy. Or that you don't work out enough.
Its that what the 'experts' taught you about how to eat a proper diet wasn't true. You were not getting accurate information.
You were steered towards unhealthy seed oil/sugar/carb-filled processed foods because authority figures you trusted gave you terrible advice.
You were given bad information by government and medical authority figures on 7 dietary subjects:
1. Cholesterol levels
2. Salt/mineral levels
3. Protein levels
4. Animal Fats
5. Fiber
6. Seed oils
7. Meal frequency
My research has led me to conclude that we need to go BACK to how our ancestors ate. A mostly meat diet where we do not eat large meals of highly processed fake foods several times a day with snacks in between.
We're not designed to put food into our stomachs 3-6 times a day, constantly spiking our insulin levels and hormonal system, developing lifelong insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome-related chronic illnesses and diseases.
Especially not the kind of food we're surrounded by in our popular culture, the highly over-processed stuff that didn't exist 100 years ago that are now chock-full of toxic seed oils, sugars, and chemicals.
Sure, people back in the 1940s and 1950s were eating 3 squares a day, but look at **what** they were eating compared to what we are surrounded by now. Until around 120 years ago, most people lived on farms, and even if they didn’t, most of the food they ate came almost directly from a farm.
Have you heard stories about people who travel to Europe and visit places like France and Italy where they eat all the bread and pasta, drink all the wine they want, etc. and don't get fat? Know why that is?
Because it's ILLEGAL over there in many European countries to add in the toxic chemical crap they put into US processed food on this side of the pond. Look at the following links for just a HINT of how bad this issue is. Why are European governments taking better care of their people’s health than our supposedly superior US government?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-food-additives-banned-europe-making-americans-sick-expert-says/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/28/bread-additives-chemicals-us-toxic-america
https://foodrevolution.org/blog/banned-ingredients-in-other-countries/
So, when I began changing my diet again in 2023, I switched to a [O]ne [M]eal [A] [D]ay program [OMAD] where I ate only once time in every 24-hour period.
I adopted a 4-hour 'feeding window' from 4 pm to 8 pm.
I also cut out most of the processed foods I had been eating - including the Weight Watcher's stuff. I increased the amount of meat I ate from around 1/3rd of my diet to 2/3rds.
From late June through early September, I went from 345 pounds [my stepmom made me get on the scale with her watching. I expected to see around 320. Ulp!] down to 320.
And then I got stuck. The weight stopped coming off and I fluctuated between 317 and 320 for around a month and a half.
Then my 'little sister from another Mister,’ investigative journalist and head editor of Uncover DC, Tracy Beanz, shared some pictures and testimony about her husband William, who had lost over 160 pounds on a Carnivore Diet in one year. He not only lost a massive amount of unhealthy body fat, but he also had several chronic health issues evaporate.
So....in early November, I decided to cut out the bread and the potatoes and the 'healthy' cereal I was still eating and stay only with raw milk and unpasteurized cheese for my carbs, and the rest of my diet was Amish-farm raised beef, bison, chicken, turkey, and fish with large brown eggs.
The weight started coming again...slowly. I went from 320 down to my current weight of 295. I've gone down to 293, but 295 is what I saw the last 2 times I weighed myself.
So. I learned a lot in the last 8 months. I wanted to share some of what I learned in this thread.
I am not telling or advising anyone to do what I'm doing. I'm providing information and asking for people to check this out for themselves and make up their own minds.
A key part of The Great Awakening is, I am convinced, teaching people how to get healthy and stay that way. And if people have been getting wrong and perhaps even deliberate disinformation from 'health experts', the more people who realize that and start reassessing what they've been told over the past few decades?
THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING.
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Welcome to the party, pal! When I got up on Jan 6, 2023, I couldn't walk. I've been struggling with weight for decades, as well, but my inflammation got so bad, my hips had so much pain, that I could not walk. I had been having trouble standing up, and walking, haven't been able to run or do stairs without extreme pain in my hips for 4 years. I figured I would probably need hip surgery, but I'm 55. I was too young. I knew it was inflammation, so I researched anti-inflammatory diet, and found Dr. Baker, Dr. Berry, Dr. Bright, Steak and Butter Gal and many more in you tube, and started watching. I decided that day to go 100% carnivore immediately and informed my husband, but he was somewhat skeptical. We loved bread, and pizza, and he was slightly unwilling. I told him I wanted to do it for 30 days to see what happened. But within 2 days, not only could I walk, but I could run with no pain. I was doing stairs and walking like a normal human. He was convinced, and we've been in that journey ever since. My hair has grown back thicker and fuller, I sleep better, my skin is better, my cognitives are better, my bloodwork is better, we don't fart anymore because we don't Ferment carbs in our bellies. And I've lost 70 lbs. My doctors and nurse practitioners have seen what I've done and have changed their own lives, their families' lives, and their patients' lives. No more sugar, no more carbs, no more veggies, no more fruit. Just delicious, wonderful, meat, and animal products, and salt. My life has changed so much for the better. Both of our lives. Every so often, we have a few bites of something we used to love, and the negative effects are sometimes immediate, and terrible. God led me to it, and I'm so grateful. The number of lies they tell us for money is criminal and they're killing us all. They should be in prison forced to eat what they've sold is healthy. I just celebrated my one year Carniversary. I couldn't be happier! Congrats, Brian!
Did anybody happen to notice that as people began to reduce the amount of fat in their diet, Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's and other degenerative disease rates started going UP? Also, did you know that eating healthy fats minus accompanying simple carbs will make your cholesterol counts go DOWN? I just proved that again in my latest physical exam. That food pyramid would be more accurate if it were turned upside down.