At ninety-eight, Fred Kummerow sued the Food and Drug Administration.
He was a biochemist at the University of Illinois, born in Germany, and he had been trying to get someone to listen for a very long time.
In 1957 he took samples from the arteries of people who had died of heart attacks and identified what was clogging them: trans fat, the artificial kind made by pumping hydrogen through cheap vegetable oil to turn it solid. The margarine and shortening the new dietary advice was busy recommending in place of butter and lard were full of it. He published the finding in Science. He fed the stuff to pigs and watched the lesions form in their arteries too. And he said so, plainly, for decades, while the food pyramid pointed the other way and the money stayed with the cheap solid fat that never went off on a shelf.
The scale of it is worth stating plainly. By the time the ban finally arrived, artificial trans fats were being linked to something on the order of tens of thousands of American deaths a year. Kummerow was heckled by industry men at scientific conferences for daring to say so. Here was one biochemist, armed with a hospital's worth of diseased arteries and a lab full of pigs, up against an entire manufacturing sector whose cheapest and most convenient fat he was trying to condemn, and the sector had the ear of the regulator while he did not.
They did not listen. The oil was profitable and convenient and the story had already been sold. So in 2009, aged ninety-four, he filed a formal petition asking the FDA to act. Three years passed and they did not answer it. So in 2013, a few weeks short of ninety-nine, he took the federal government to court for ignoring him.
Two years later the FDA finally moved to ban artificial trans fats from the American food supply. Kummerow lived to see it. He died in 2017 at the age of a hundred and two, of the arteriosclerosis he had spent sixty years warning the country about.
The fat he identified stayed in the food for another half century after he found it, because taking it out cost money and leaving it in did not.
He was right in 1957. They agreed with him in 2015. Nobody has ever explained the years in between.
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Joe Rogan fell into stunned silence as Dr. Casey Means rattled off one disturbing health stat after another.
“We are getting destroyed, and it’s very recent, and it’s accelerating,” she warned.
• “74% of Americans are overweight or obese.”
• “Young adult cancers are going up 79% in the last 10 years.”
• “25% of men now under 40 have erectile dysfunction.”
• “50%, now, of American adults have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. These were diseases where there was 1% of Americans in 1950 had type 2 diabetes. Now it’s 50% of Americans have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.”
• “Alzheimer’s, dementia are going through the roof.”
• “Young adult dementias have increased, like, three times since 2012. So early onset dementias.”
• “One in two Americans are expected to have cancer in their lifetime now, one in two.”
• “One in [31] children has autism now, in the United States. That was one in 150 in the year 2000.”
• “In California, where I live, [Autism rates are] one in 22. One in 22 with a lifetime neurodevelopmental disorder.”
• “Infertility going up 1% per year.”
• “77% of young Americans can’t serve in the military because of obesity or drug abuse.”
• “Autoimmune diseases. Some studies are saying they’re going up 13% per year.”
• “Heart disease, which is almost totally preventable, is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing around 800,000 people per year.”
“It’s basically like all of us are a little bit dead while we’re alive,” Dr. Means said.
These aren’t unrelated crises. They share the same biological pattern — a body stuck in survival mode.
And once you understand what’s keeping your body there, the path to real healing finally makes sense. 🧵
Towel Thrown In:
Terry Smith of Fundsmith revealed plans to incorporate momentum factors into the investment strategy and reduce buying quality companies during temporary setbacks. The letter highlights recent sales such as Intuit and potential interest in high-momentum stocks like GE Vernova.
Mike Rowe says he visited a Texas data center and met three “debt-free” electricians under 30 making “north of $240,000/year.”
All three have been “poached” three times in the last 18 months because the demand for electricians is crazy high.
ROWE: “I was in Plano, Texas… got a tour of a data center.”
“I ran into three electricians, all under 30, all making north of 240 grand a year, all debt-free.”
“Now here’s the craziest part. All three had been poached three times in the prior 18 months.”
“The shortages are so acute that the companies don’t have time to train. They have to poach.”
“Great news for an electrician. But it’s a little weird for the economy overall.”
NEW 🚨: El Salvador’s President Just Issued a Challenge to Trump—“You Have 350 Million People to Liberate.”
This wasn’t a photo op. It was a mission briefing.
At the White House, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele looked President Trump dead in the eye and said:
“You have 350 million people to liberate.”
Bukele isn’t just talking tough—he has the results to prove that it can be done.
“We turned the murder capital of the world—that’s what the journalists called it—into the safest country in the western hemisphere,” he said.
Critics complain about mass arrests.
Bukele fired back:
“Sometimes they say we imprisoned thousands. I like to say we liberated millions.”
Trump grinned: “That’s very good! Who gave him that line? Do you think I can use that?”
Then Bukele hit the heart of the problem:
“To liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some. That’s the way it works, right? You can’t just free the criminals and think crime’s going to go down magically. You have to imprison them—so you can liberate 350 million Americans asking for the end of crime and the end of terrorism.”
No fluff. No fantasy. Just facts.
This is what happens when real leaders speak truth.
America is finally ready to listen.
Remember the 9/11 Commission's conclusion, that 9/11 happened because of three 'failures of imagination?'
I seriously wonder if anyone in the administration has the imagination to accept what we're up against. I can't state it any more plainly than this: Iran is run by delusional people who actually believe (and that's the key- they're not just saying it for emotional effect) that their God is commanding them to destroy the world.
This delusion has two effects: first, there is no middle ground, no ability to negotiate with people who believe something like this. They will not stop until they destroy the world. Everything they do is done with that complete motivation in mind.
Second, their total and complete belief in what their God is commanding them to do has also deluded them into an absolute belief that their God won't let them fail.
That level of fanaticism can't be negotiated with. They will never come to the point where they sit back and say, "Hey, we're constantly getting the shit kicked out of us. Maybe, just maybe, we're wrong about what Allah wants us to do."
The only thing we can do to end this war, IMHO, is to remove this insane regime. That should be the goal. Anything less than that will simply lead us nowhere. We need to take out the IRGC, who are driving the military attacks, and then either destroy the Shi'a leadership or send them into permanent exile.
BREAKING: Iranian state media says that Iran will strike "enemy targets" at a ratio of at least two-to-one after the US launched new strikes on Iran.
President Trump also says that the US may target Iran with more strikes tonight.
I hope everyone will read Dave Ramsey’s comments about going cashless. It’s a two minute read. No one has explained it better. He brings up several situations I'd never considered.
I took this picture of my receipt in my beautiful town Kerrville Texas. I support this and I can see how this could affect our kids by having gaps in work ethic, financial literacy, and community connection.
Dave Ramsey repost:
HERE'S WHAT NO CASH ACTUALLY MEANS:
A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled. I think those who support a cashless society aren’t fully aware of what they are asking for. A cashless society means:
* If you are struggling with your mortgage on a particular month, you can’t do an odd job to get you through.
* Your child can’t go & help the local farmer to earn a bit of summer cash.
* No more cash slipped into the hands of a child as a good luck charm or from their grandparent when going on holidays.
* No more money in birthday cards.
* No more piggy banks for your child to collect pocket money & to learn about the value of earning.
* No more cash for a rainy day fund or for that something special you have been putting $20 a week away for.
* No more little jobs on the side because your wages barely cover the bills or put food on the table.
* No more charity collections.
* No more selling bits & pieces from your home that you no longer want/need for a bit of cash in return.
* No more cash gifts from relatives or loved ones.
What a cashless society does guarantee:
* Banks have full control of every single penny you own.
* Every transaction you make is recorded.
* All your movements & actions are traceable.
* Access to your money can be blocked at the click of a button when/if banks need ‘clarification’ from you which will take about 3 weeks, a thousand questions answered & five thousand passwords.
* You will have no choice but to declare & be taxed on every dollar in your possession.
* The government WILL decide what you can & cannot purchase.
* If your transactions are deemed in any way questionable, by those who create the questions, your money will be frozen, ‘for your own good’.
Forget about cash being dirty. Stop being so easily led. Cash has been around for a very, very, very long time & it gives you control over how you trade with the world. It gives you independence.
If you are a customer, pay with cash. If you are a shop owner, remove those ridiculous signs that ask people to pay by card. Cash is a legal tender, it is our right to pay with cash. Banks are making it increasingly difficult to lodge cash.
Please open your eyes. Please stop believing everything you are being told. Almost every single topic in today’s world is tainted with corruption & hidden agendas.
Pay with cash & please say no to a cashless society while you still have the choice.
🚨#BREAKING: A Texas man heard little girls SCREAMING inside a burning house...
...so he punched clean through a GLASS DOOR with his bare hand, wrapped a bandana over his face, and walked straight into the fire to carry them out.
He carried out one little girl.
Then he turned around and went back into the flames for the second.
His name is Leon Segura, two little girls are alive today because of him.
Leon was just driving home when he saw a house on fire and heard children screaming.
He ran towards front door, but it was too hot to get through.
So he ran to the back of the house, and with his BARE HAND, he punched through a glass door, shredding his arm and hand, tied a bandana over his face against the smoke, said,
"Lord, help me,"
and RAN into the fire!!!
He found two young girls inside and one by one, he carried them out.
Just as he pulled the second girl to safety, the back of the house collapsed behind him.
Those two girls are in the burn unit right now, fighting for their lives.
He didn't know them, but he risked his life anyway... that is what a hero looks like.
GOD BLESS Leon Segura!!!!
Peter Wang was in study hall when the shooting started on February 14, 2018.
He was a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. He was also an Army JROTC cadet who dreamed of attending West Point and serving his country.
As panic spread through the corridors, he moved towards the exit. Not to flee, but to hold the door open for his classmates to escape behind him. He was shot and killed in a third floor hallway.
He was found still wearing his JROTC uniform. He was only 15 years old.
For his actions he was posthumously awarded the ROTC Medal for Heroism by the US Army, and also posthumously admitted to the United States Military Academy at West Point for the class of 2025.
The West Point class of 2025 voted to give Peter their Honorary Graduate Award, because as one cadet put it, he embodied duty, honor, and country before he ever had the chance to wear the uniform for real.
He never made it to West Point, but he already lived everything it stands for.