“The Real Healthcare Crisis”
Excellent presentation. Well worth the hour spent watching it. There is a transcript for those who prefer to read along.
“The Real Healthcare Crisis”
Excellent presentation. Well worth the hour spent watching it. There is a transcript for those who prefer to read along.
Disagree with his first point. Humans are not fatter and sicker than they ever have been in history. They on avereage live longer and do not die of many infectious diseases.
(Not sure what happened to my first comment).
Living longer with more pharmaceuticals and mechanical interventions done earlier. Yes we are sicker and fatter. The average person over sixty has at least 3 perpetual prescriptions. That’s not healthy. My grandparents lived into their 90’s, though overweight, without pharmaceuticals or surgery. Why? I would say because of lack of processed foods or seed oils.
Thanks for posting that. I’m glad to hear I’m not average, by that standard.. I’m on no prescriptions and my doctor says I’m healthy for my age (not much over sixty.)
I’m not on any prescriptions because I don’t have a doctor. Unless I lose an arm or something I’ll stay that way.
In 1900 the average American lived to be 47. It had risen to 68 in 1950 and is now 79.
You have to be careful with those numbers because they include infant mortality, wartime deaths and death by accident/misadventure. Mark Steyn has pointed out that when you remove infant mortality, human life expectancy tends to vary around ~70 years.
Life expectancy hides so many factors in a single number that it’s almost useless.
Side note about the ketogenic diet: It’s also arguably the oldest and most effective way to treat epilepsy, with an efficacy rate as good or better than every other available anti-epilepsy medicine. (Didn’t work for our son, but others have had great success.)
Have yet to listen to the entire talk – my only caution: I would say most people respond to either Carnivore or Keto as reset diets and they aren’t necessarily the long term solution for everyone depending upon genetics and epigenetics. One of the more interesting experiments is the people with Alzheimer’s or dementia who reverse their symptoms using the Carnivore diets. The heavy implication is that removing sugars and seed oils from their diets along with all the other junk they’re exposed to causes a big change in their metabolic health.
The constant worry about what is or is not healthy, is not healthy. Too much of damn near anything is unhealthy.
Can someone tell this octogenarian just why seed oils are unhealthy? I have been consuming them in many foods for decades and apparently they have not killed me as of yet. How long do I have if I continue such abuse?
“Too much of damn near anything is unhealthy.”
Indeed. And that includes obsessing over fitness and health. Anyone buying into those Peleton ads or paleo diets should have their heads examined.
Seed oils are similar to margarine in that they wouldn’t be used for human consumption without the intervention of government, government-connected corporations, and media propaganda.
Rapeseed oil, for example, was a lubricant for naval machinery and its production spiked during WWII. Once the war ended, there was no longer much of a market for it. As a result, canola oil was created in a lab that could be mostly digested and processed by humans. The name “Canola” was trademarked as CANadian Oil Light Acid.
People can not fully process seed oil, and its deleterious effects build up over time. There are many health issues believed to be caused by seed oils, and entirely unnecessarily. If not for cartels such as the dairy cartel, and targeted taxes and subsidies artificially affecting prices, one could replace seed oils with butter or tallow at similar or lower prices.
Most people have caught on to the toxic effects of both aluminum and fluoride (neither of which should ever be consumed in even the tiniest quantities) but people are only lately also learning about the danger of seed oils.
I have outlived most of my age related peer group and I have not exactly been a fitness freak. Never overweight, drank too much over the years, according to my doctor. Still play golf, still drink beer and still eat plant oils apparently.
Going to a celebration of life tonight, a friend who was about 7 years younger than me, I will have a few pints in his honor.
All the power to you, VOWG. That said, it isn’t about fitness, it’s about not harming yourself.
Even if you don’t add years to your life, you can add life to your years by avoiding seed oils. Much like you’re still better off not sniffing glue or drinking paint, though it’s your choice to make.
Now if only I could make my old bones and muscles 30 years younger. Apparently I am difficult to harm, could that be the reason for my longevity? One day it will be over and I will not be surprised.