As someone who struggles with male-pattern blobness (although I’m a long way from being the fine figure of a man in the picture above) I am only too well aware of the dangers of a poor diet.
The other day, on one substack or another, a couple of people were talking about vaxx Nazis and how disgusting they were, demanding we, as free thinkers, should pretty much just die, or be killed. They then went on to discuss how obese people normally have worse covid outcomes. After that came the implications that that's ok, the obese need to die. After all, it's their own fault. --- Sound familiar? Sounds like the vaxx Nazis about the rest of us, huh? I pointed this out to them. No return comments from anyone. I do not know if they continued to comment, with or without others, in this vein or not, as I was disgusted by their hypocrisy, which was lost on them, and left the site. --- I hope today's discussion doesn't go the same way as that one did.
One of my favorite series of children's books is the "Boy, Were We Wrong About _____" collection by Kathleen V. Kudlinski. I'm hoping that in the next 50 years we will see the blank filled with words like "Bacon," "Skim Milk," "the Sun," and (forgive me for wanting to be right about this even considering what it means for humanity) "Covid Vaccines."
In any case, some people-- when studying the history of science-- are filled with humility and the realization that without debate and dissent, we humans are capable of believing some pretty stupid stuff-- and worse, acting on it. (And yes, I am absolutely thinking of that tub of fat free ice cream I devoured back in the nineties, patting myself on the back for watching my waistline.)
I see both the pandemonium and the saturated fat demonization campaigns as brought to us by people working the "Poisoner" racket. People who poison others to gain advantage over them, to better rule them. I call them "Poisoner Oligarchs". Is this a very old strategy, maybe hundreds or thousands of years old?
The other day, on one substack or another, a couple of people were talking about vaxx Nazis and how disgusting they were, demanding we, as free thinkers, should pretty much just die, or be killed. They then went on to discuss how obese people normally have worse covid outcomes. After that came the implications that that's ok, the obese need to die. After all, it's their own fault. --- Sound familiar? Sounds like the vaxx Nazis about the rest of us, huh? I pointed this out to them. No return comments from anyone. I do not know if they continued to comment, with or without others, in this vein or not, as I was disgusted by their hypocrisy, which was lost on them, and left the site. --- I hope today's discussion doesn't go the same way as that one did.
One of my favorite series of children's books is the "Boy, Were We Wrong About _____" collection by Kathleen V. Kudlinski. I'm hoping that in the next 50 years we will see the blank filled with words like "Bacon," "Skim Milk," "the Sun," and (forgive me for wanting to be right about this even considering what it means for humanity) "Covid Vaccines."
In any case, some people-- when studying the history of science-- are filled with humility and the realization that without debate and dissent, we humans are capable of believing some pretty stupid stuff-- and worse, acting on it. (And yes, I am absolutely thinking of that tub of fat free ice cream I devoured back in the nineties, patting myself on the back for watching my waistline.)
Everything we thought we knew is wrong.
I see both the pandemonium and the saturated fat demonization campaigns as brought to us by people working the "Poisoner" racket. People who poison others to gain advantage over them, to better rule them. I call them "Poisoner Oligarchs". Is this a very old strategy, maybe hundreds or thousands of years old?
I actually learned about the Seven Countries Study in the context of "really bad, biased experimental design" ginned up by a pop-culture book.
For the greater good... one of my favourite YouTube videos of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxaPt_4ANk4