‘Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food'.
— Falsely attributed to Hippocrates
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In a wonderful little movie called, Mom and Dad Save the World, a couple is transported to a “planet full of idiots.” One little snippet involves the idiot army finding a Light Grenade. The writing on it says, “Pick me Up.” Everyone knows that when you do that, it lights up and you disappear. When they first find one, the Sergeant says, “Careful men, it’s a Light Grenade.” One of his men says, “Where?” whereupon he picks it up and, of course, disappears leaving a pile of clothes. Sometimes it feels like our governments are treating us as though we need to be warned about Light Grenades.
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In 1972, British scientist John Yudkin wrote an expose called Pure, White, and Deadlyand it wasn’t about cocaine. The subtitle was How Sugar is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It. Ancel Keys, the famous physiologist, ridiculed his book and told us the problem was really dietary fat. He had been on the cover of Time Magazine in 1961 and one of his big accomplishments was to invent military K rations (K for Keys). Besides eating too much fat, Keys also told us that Americans eat too much of everything (about 3,000 calories at the time. In fact, there was a scandal in the 60s about the sugar industry paying researchers to point away from sugar toward fat.
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The Centers for Disease Control has noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused major stresses for both adults and children. On top of that, politicians continue to find ways to stress us out. Stress is dangerous and links to heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, and depression. In addition, Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn has studied how stress leads to a shorter life. In her 2017 book (with Elissa Epel), The Telomere Effect, she reviews studies that have found that stress affects the length of telomeres which, in turn, affect how long we will live.
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COVID isn’t our only pandemic, millions of state, local and federal regulations are also causing misery.
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Over a 40-year period between 1880 and 1920, America had men’s clubs that consisted of men that the El Paso Daily Times called ‘The Fats.’ Members had to be a minimum of 200 pounds to join their local eating fraternity. They drank, ate, played baseball, and fought. It all ended when, around 1920, doctors and insurance companies began to warn about the effects of obesity. Today, 200 pounds is only 4 pounds over the average male weight in the U.S.
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