During my list making I stumbled on this article
It's about historical calorie intake and workouts. People were eating way more calories, and doing less, and still had a lower body weight. We are constantly being told to lower our calories, exercise, and fight the obesity epidemic. Nothing fits by the historical records. Every suggestion is wrong.
I knew something was weird when I was told by a lower rich class guy that the poor couldn't afford real food. He meant the super expensive but not as good food at those special grocery stores.
It appears that the way this is done is
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Choose something no one knows that well.
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Have an obvious fake news that is prompted by all media.
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Make one side look stupid and lazy.
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Promote the bad side as rebellions
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Have tons of business to deal with the non existent problem both for and against
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Change the word use if people start to catch on.
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Promote laws stopping the Lazy Stupid people from being tricked by Evil. Said laws remove rights from everyone.
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Have demonstrations and big promotions against said thing for people to make money to 'battle' the problem. This is all a scam of some kind.
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The Lazy Stupid people are told they are special and beautiful. This niche is used for money laundering. No one is told it's not an actual problem.
I've seen this in obesity, Covid, videogames, global warming, hawks in England, sparrows in China, and several others. What others can you think of? Why is obesity promoted so hard, and what is the truth?
For the linked thread he presents the evidence and concludes with:
How have our metabolisms been assaulted? What's the solution? Do they give answers in the video he advertises at the end?
Naively, I would assume that despite what they claim (rich people didn't move much) we don't move around anywhere near as much as they did in the past. Also that the average weight today has been inflated by fatter minority groups who weren't part of the old studies.
I am guessing that your testosterone being less than half of what your grandfather's was has something to do with it. Whether it's the cause or merely another symptom I don't know.
Not to mention constant GMO use in crops and the drastic increase in high fructose corn syrup in 99% of everything we eat
Their calories were coming from actual food.
Not the processed chemicals laden shit we are fed nowadays.
They were also not spending 16 hours a day sitting around their lard asses on social media.
I think this is a big deal. "Empty calories" isn't a thing for real food.
It's hard to be fat in olden times. Not only do you have to constantly eat, the quantity that you have to eat is preposterous.
Go ahead, get fat on apples or oranges. See if you don't shit yourself first. Apples are 50 calories. Most people can scarf down a 250 calorie Snickers bar in one sitting. But now ask them to eat five fucking apples instead. Same calories, same sugars.
Doritos are so covered in high calorie oils that they are an excellent form of kindling.
Exercise is still absolutely a factor. When you are a farmer, you burn astronomical amounts of calories. Especially if you are a pioneer farmer, where being a lumberjack and woodworker is all part of the same job.
This is why American colonials made Bread Pudding, and seemed to be incapable of being fat.
Not to mention to preserve everything they would soak meets in lard. Fat as it is, they would burn through it.
I don't think he takes into account how modern conveniences add up, or what constitutes actual goyslop, which is far worse than just raw calories. The kind of meal you prepare for yourself isn't the same in nutritional value as you'd find in junkfood of the same caloric value. You're also not really processing these things the same way either.
Also, if you have fucking burritos and boxed foods on your receipt you don't get to complain; shit's way more expensive than the raw ingredients. Show me someone with a lifestyle where they don't have a car, someone who carries all their groceries on their back and eats nothing but pork, chicken, eggs, vegetables, and rice - and I'll show you a skinny person.
One that I found is the "leaded gas causes violent crime".
You've probably seen graphs of leaded gas sales and violent crime overlaid and wow it's a perfect fit delayed by like one generation. Amazing, right!
Well, the graphs start at like 1950 or sometime recent like that. Was looking for crime rates from other eras and noticed violent crime rate in the early 1900s (before leaded gas) was at least as high as "peak lead" violence. From memory, pretty sure the violence predated prohibition. What was causing all that crime back then?
I suspect that the lead-violence correlation is just a proxy for how the overall economy was doing.
This was when I found out that rate of lynchings by race in OK back in the 1800s was almost exactly today's murder rate by race. It seems a certain demographic has always been driving the violent crime rate, and I'm quite sure Freakonomics didn't consider that as an alternative to leaded gas.
I know that if they want to show crime rising, they start at 1945 or 1946. That was a very low crime rate with no explanation. If they want to show crime going down, they go from somewhere in the 70's because that was a high crime rate.
Might’ve been because it was at the tail end of WW2 most people were either involved in the war or worked to support families until the men came back.
Kinda hard to rob a guy that fought the Japs for your safety.
Any graph starting from the tail end of World War 2 is very clearly trying to lie with statistics.
fat cope is gay.
If you want a serious deep dive into the topic of obesity in America, then check this out this blog. They have been investigating this issue for years and doing their own crowdsourced experiments.
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/
That shows that something is up, and no one knows what is happening. That's way more accurate than the media propaganda I've seen.
Thank you.
Thanks for the link.
something definitely is going on. Everyone is fat in the USA. Everyone. And this didn't use to be the case at all. It was unusual to be 200lb avg height man. A woman at 170 was essentially a social outcast.
our food supply has changed quite a bit from the 50s. but also so many people are on these weird mood-modifying drugs that mess with hormones. they probably do more damage than just killing your sex drive. also men today have less than half the T of men in the 50s. that's a big deal and that is going to lead to all kinds of health issues.
Every country I have been in thinks it's just them.
A big difference is animal products. The switch to everything vegetable instead of animal is a contributing factor.
Don't discount vaccines though. Right around when health started going to shit was also the time vaccine use started growing. We look at countries today that are poor and say that's why they aren't fat because they can't afford to eat but those are also countries without prevalent vaccine use. I think the impacts of vaccines are not being properly measured and there could be something to it.
Still, I would chalk up most of the issue to processed foods. The 1950s was still when women stayed home to cook and grocery stores were only starting to become commonplace. I think having women in the workplace had led to the obesity epidemic because people started buying quick processed foods in the grocery stores instead of making everything from scratch.
But the reason I bring up vaccines is because a lot of people argue the reason people can't seem to lose weight despite "eating healthy" is because of "genetics" but if 100% of your population gets vaccines and then there appears to be some sort of "issue" with people that can't be explained by anything except "genetics" that actually could be a vaccine issue.
I still think our food supply is terrible but I think there's some other weird factor going on which is why I point to vaccines. Maybe it's not vaccines and it's birth control in the water turning frogs gay or something but I believe there's definitely something.
A lot of modern food-making techniques for mass production like pasteurization of milk and certain breadmaking techniques have led to lower quality food and although it seems subtle it may be having a large impact.
I recommend most people switch to a pure animal-based diet or as close as they can get to that. Try to eat the whole animal too not just the breast but the liver, bone marrow, brain (mad cow killed this), kidneys, etc... Use tallow and butter for all cooking and never touch a vegetable oil again. Drink raw milk if available. etc... Almost all of the modern thoughts on "healthy food" is wrong. Sugar is fine, especially if it's from fresh fruit or just plain white sugar. Try to avoid high-fructose corn syrup. Vegetables are much less healthy than people realize. Nightshades are the worst and root vegetables the best.
Sugar. Processed foods with high fructose corn syrup as a major or main ingredient.
Try to find a jar of jam in the grocery store not made with HFCS. You'll find it but it costs twice the price of a jam with that poison sugar in it.
Most fitness Youtubers/Instagrammers are frauds.
But protein supplements aren't cheating, though. It's just a convenient way to up your protein intake, without having to eat vast amounts of food. It's also used in medical treatments to accelerate the repair of bedsores in the elderly or in other situations.
The Dark Side of Steroids.
Fair warning - graphic imagery. If you're one to be squeamish at autopsy photos, don't watch.
Anyone who's interested in taking steroids should watch it, though. It'll kill the urge to do so completely.
Classic Problem-Reaction-Solution. Just you've been noticing it in everything
Everything is fake and gay.
"Bad cholesterol" was a media blitz by the Eisenhower administration to convince people eggs were bad so they would stop buying them so they wouldn't notice the insane inflation happening.
"Milk" is milk in the same way gatorade is fruit juice. Inner city brewers had the incredible idea to lock cows in stalls and force feed them old mash as a means of disposing of it. As a side gig, they sold milk as coming from a more "convenient" source than the ranchers outside of the city. Lo and behold, this milk was basically poison. Instead of paying more for healthy milk from ranchers with generations of expertise, people insisted the government fix the cheap, poisonous milk. Electric refrigeration hadn't been invented yet, so pasteurization was the solution. Pasteurization breaks down useful proteins and renders the milk basically nutrient-free. Producers then mix in artificial nutrient supplements to make a sort of Frankenstein approximation of the real thing.
Due to shitty mega-ranch practices in the mid 20th C, the US milk supply overwhelmingly comes from A1 cows. A1 milk is less digestible than A2 milk and A1 milk correlates with chronic diseases.
Polio probably doesn't exist as defined in the medical literature. There is a nerve disease cluster that collectively is known as polio, but the causative agent is basically unknown. The evidence for the existence of poliovirus is scant and the big polio epidemics of the 20th C were due to vaccines.
Where does one get A2 milk? Everything at every grocery store is pasteurized.
Each paragraph was a different topic. A2 milk is still pasteurized, but it's supposed to be easier on your gut. Most chain grocery stores carry it.
Unpasteurized milk is illegal in a lot of places. If it's not, a dairy might sell it, especially a family dairy.
The way they established the existence of poliovirus was to put feces in a blender and inject it into the spinal column of apes. No modern method of "virus isolation" has ever been used to re-verify this highly scientific process.
Mind sharing your diet or point to the resources you use?
So basically no carbs?
How is rice though? Is it safe? You'd think it is because it's basically what fuels Japan and they are all lean over there.