Today is the fifth anniversary of "15 Days to Stop the Spread." Talk about a Grim Milestone.
The President of the United States has just declared war.
On carbs.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested President Trump has lost 30 pounds, while commenting on the unhealthy foods the president eats.
Kennedy, during an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity, said he saw Trump the day before, adding, "I think he's lost 30 pounds." His comment came after the news host said the president "is getting healthier."
"He looks great. And he told me, he's not using ... for example, if he has a burger now, he usually doesn't have it with a bun," Hannity said.
Kennedy replied, "Oh, I didn't know that he was actually changing his diet."
"I have to say this ... and even with all the -- can I say -- crap that he eats," the recently confirmed secretary added.
The interview took place at a Steak 'n Shake in Florida after the company announced it would be using beef tallow instead of seed oils to make its french fries, a swap Kennedy has been promoting for health purposes.
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They joked that Trump likes McDonald's, KFC, pizza and Diet Coke, which prompted Hannity to ask Kennedy if he has an issue with sugary drinks or diet sodas.
"Yes," the secretary said.
Hannity asked, "But, again, you're not going to ban it."
"I'm not going to take them away from people, but we shouldn't be subsidizing them," Kennedy said. "We shouldn't, as you said, 10 percent of food stamps, which are federally funded, taxpayer-funded program ... is going to the poorest neighborhoods."
On that point, the American Health Association -- a grifter organization that will say anything is healthy if you just pay them enough money -- appeared in Texas to argue that people should be allowed to use SNAP vouchers on cookies and soda.
Why Does The Heart Association Favor Subsidizing Cookies, Potato Chips, and Sugary Soda? Guess.
You would be forgiven to assume The American Heart Association would top the list of organizations supporting restricting government subsidies for cookies, potato chips, and sugary drinks.
You would be wrong. The AHA flew its top lobbyist to Texas to testify against a very simple bill that would restrict SNAP recipients from using their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits from purchasing these products. After all, the largest percentage of the assistance goes to buying sodas, one of the biggest sources of non-nutritious calories in a child's diet.
Texas Senate Bill SB 379 is very short and to the point. It doesn't cut benefits, doesn't even restrict most processed foods; it just bans purchases of sugary drinks, candy, cookies, and potato chips using SNAP benefits. And since SNAP is supplemental--intended to increase the amount available to purchase food for lower-income folks, it doesn't even prevent such people from purchasing these products with their own food budget.
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Frankly, you shouldn't be surprised. The AHA is part of the "blob," and the blob is all apart ensuring that the current establishment remains fat and happy. It's stated purpose is to promote heart health; its real purpose is to perpetuate a system in which its donors and partners make as much money as possible.
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I looked up who funds the AHA Nutrition Forum, and as you would guess, it is filled with big food industry corporations including Cargill, PepsiCo, and seed oil companies. And even more troubling is that the VAST majority of Heart Association funding comes from Big Pharma.
Conflict of interest, much?
It's so much worse than that. The American Health Association lets companies print their "Heart Healthy" seal of approval on the most unhealthy foods.
They still think it's the 1970s and that they can get away with telling you that health beef tallow is bad for your heart -- but seed oils are good, healthy subsitute.
I'm not at all down with banning foods. But I would like to see the real science promoted by the government. Not what Kellogg's and Pepsi pay NGOs to claim to be healthy.
In some GAINZZ news:
Spot reduction does work?
For fifty, maybe one hundred years, the accepted science has been that spot reduction doesn't work, at all. When you lose fat, you lose it globally, and you cannot influence where it it lost from.
This new study, which hasn't been confirmed yet, says that if you perform cardio exercise getting your heart to about 70% of its maximum for about 25 minutes, and then do abdomen exercises, your body will burn fat selectively from the fat stores nearest the muscles being taxed, that is, from your belly.
Is it true? No idea. We need to fund bigger studies. Very basic nutritional science and exercise science never gets tested appropriately, with big test groups and over the course of, say, six months, because such large-scale tests are expensive.
No one can make money off an exercise or dietary protocol. The kind of "studies" that get funded are by corporations testing products and pills.
That's why we need the government to do this kind of basic science -- literally no one else will fund a test for something you can't sell to the public at the end of the day. And the most important health interventions are the free ones, the one that Big Pharma can't make a trillion dollars off of.
Below, "What I've Learned" makes the case for an all-carnivore (or mostly-carnivore) diet.
I'd like to see some real testing for this.
I've seen it noted by many, many people in nutrition science that the entire field is dominated by vegans, who essentially rig tests to prove that their religion of veganism is right. All government health advice for the past seventy years claims that we must eat lots of bread, pasta, and vegetables, and minimize meat, because the vegans have huge influence in the field.
Since the New Year, I've gotten back on keto. Not super-strict but mostly keeping clean. I've lost about eight pounds. Maybe ten. Not a lot but it's something. I just chowed down a pizza yesterday so I probably added a pound back.
What about you? Got any GAINZZZZ?
And does anyone have any experience with allergy shots? I just got tested because for five or six years I've had really bad spring allergies, grass and tree pollen, mostly, I think. Every spring is miserable for me now. (I never had allergies until recently.)
I'm hopeful that the shots will fix this.
Have you had positive results from allergy shots? I want to know where to set my expectations.