Let's trust our government agencies when it comes to our health?

Our FDA and politicians are always looking out for us

SO - Perhaps you've been convinced that everything's got to be low fat. Isn't low fat what most people are purchasing at their local super market these days ?

Low fat milk, cottage cheese etc. Is it really low fat, or have you been tricked into thinking it is? Let's thank our trusted government agency the FDA for allowing many Americans to be fooled.

Don't get me wrong  -  I personally do not believe in a low fat diet - Not a chance. No need to be a rocket scientist to see what this low fat idea has done to the health of the American people. We are now the most overweight and obese major developed nation on the planet. But that's not the point. Much of the garbage being sold as low fat food is nothing but a scam that certainly is not good for our health. Much of it is nothing but watered down, sweetened chemicalized garbage. Most of it would likely shorten the life of a wild pig. If it was good for our health,  we would be a healthy nation - WE'RE NOT

The most powerful remedy for your health problems isn't a drug. It's not a cutting-edge surgical technique developed by doctors. And it's not a mysterious natural remedy found deep in the jungles of South America. The most powerful remedy for your health problems, diseases, and common illnesses is information.

We have little real science today because it's all influenced and controlled by money and politics.

The lipid hypothesis, which has driven many Americans to fear eating saturated fat, has never been proven to date - Never.
It came into being in the 1950s. It basically supposes that a reduction in blood cholesterol would lead to a reduction in coronary heart disease. Do we really need medical scientists to tell us now after decades of following this advice that this hypothesis was not correct? $

In 1988 the U.S. surgeon general's office embarked on a project to write the final word on this hypothesis. After 11 years, no clear evidence could be found to prove this hypothesis. Scientists working on trying to prove this hypothesis simply couldn't find any proof that the government and of course the factory food industry wanted. They continued taking grant money happily for years.

Unbelievably as expected, the lipid hypothesis lives on in the thoughts and actions of our world of non-profit  organizations, governments and the countless groups scarfing up grant money and donations for continuing studies trying to prove the hypothesis and of course looking for a cancer cure? Give me a break

Fatten up the pigs
Many years ago, paints and varnishes were made of soy oil, safflower oil, and linseed (flax seed) oil. Then chemists learned how to make paint from petroleum, which was much cheaper. As a result, the huge seed oil industry found its crop increasingly hard to sell. Around the same time, farmers were experimenting with basically poisons to make their pigs get fatter with less food, and they discovered that corn and soy beans served the purpose. The crops that had been grown for the paint industry came to be used for animal food. Not a natural diet. Then these foods that made animals get fat cheaply came to be promoted as foods for humans, but they had to direct attention away from the fact that they are very fattening. The cholesterol focus was just one of the marketing tools used by the oil industry and of course BigPharma. Unfortunately it is the one that has lasted the longest, even after the unsaturated oils were proven to cause heart disease as well as cancer. Study at L.A. Veterans Hospital, 1971.  Did you catch that?

Corn and soy beans were used to fatten up animals. But they wouldn't fatten us up? Notice the study that shows that these oils have been proven to cause heart disease as well as cancer goes way back to 1971 at our government run Veterans hospital. Where was the FDA? How many lobbyists and money is it taking to keep this knowledge away from the people?

Then again we can hardly anticipate our government or any big money group standing up and admitting they made a mistake a few decades ago about what a proper diet should be.

The American Journal of Medicine Volume 102, Issue 3, Pages 259-264, March 1997. Divergent trends in obesity and fat intake patterns: The American paradox. MD Adrian F. Heini, MD, DrPH Roland L. Weinsier

RESULTS: In the adult U.S. population the prevalence of overweight rose from 25.4% from 1976 to 1980 to 33.3% from 1988 to 1991, a 31% increase as pointed out previously. With a 55% increase in obesity and a 214% increase in extreme obesity.

During the same period, average fat intake, adjusted for total calories, dropped from 41.0% to 36.6%, an 11% decrease. We were doing exactly what we were told to do: eat less fat.

Average total daily calorie intake also tended to decrease, from 1,854 kcal to 1,785 kcal (-4%)

Look at that! We weren't eating any more food - but, somehow, we got fatter anyway.

There was a dramatic rise in the percentage of the US population consuming
low-calorie products, from 19% of the population in 1978 to 76% in 1991.      HELLO

Again, we were doing exactly what we were told to do: eat low-fat, high-carb products.

From 1986 to 1991 the prevalence of sedentary lifestyle represented almost 60% of the US population, with no change over time. So we weren't exercising any less, either. 

Actually, since beginning in the early 1980s, we have a couple of new billion dollar industries in the U.S. The exercise and health club industry. So, seems to me at least a few more people are exercising quite a few. Practically every small town in the country today has exercise clubs or groups. It's big business today.$ 

In other words, we were eating the same number of calories, eating dramatically more low-calorie, low-fat  health food  and exercising at least the same amount  actually more - But we got dramatically fatter along with a dramatic increase in illnesses and the apparent need for drugs. $

Thanks to George McGovern and the  United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs  for making sick millions of people via the consequences of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, cancer, dementia, strokes, osteoarthritis, and a host of other preventable maladies many of which were relatively rare a hundred years ago. $

Just for fun - I put together a chart to compare the USA with the G7 countries that are similarly developed.