@KenDBerryMD Effexor and bupropion. No they did not nor would they assist me to get off the meds. I had to do it myself. Took me a year and a half but I did it. Now off 6 months without symptoms. Thank God!
This has to be one of the biggest public health failures in modern history.
For years we were told butter was the villain while supermarket shelves filled up with low fat, high sugar, ultra processed products stamped with government approval. Then obesity, diabetes and metabolic disease exploded, and somehow the public got blamed instead.
The same experts who mocked anyone questioning the advice now expect applause for quietly changing it. Amazing how certainty melts away once the evidence becomes impossible to ignore.
Maybe next time people should be allowed to ask questions without being dismissed as conspiracy theorists. Science is supposed to follow evidence, not protect reputations.
In 1965 the sugar industry paid Harvard professor Mark Hegsted to write a review blaming fat for heart disease, and twelve years later the government made him the architect of the guidelines that told America what to eat.
His name is D. Mark Hegsted. The paper is called Dietary Fats, Carbohydrates and Atherosclerotic Disease.
By the mid 1960s new research was starting to link sugar to heart attacks. The sugar industry's trade group, the Sugar Research Foundation, needed that idea dead before it spread any further.
They found their man at Harvard. Frederick Stare ran the nutrition department and already had close ties to the food industry. He brought in two colleagues, Hegsted and Robert McGandy, and the foundation paid them $6,500 to write a literature review. That is close to $48,000 today.
The brief was blunt. Go through every study connecting sugar to heart disease and take it apart. A foundation executive named John Hickson picked which papers they would cover and read the drafts before publication.
In one letter Hegsted told him the team kept reworking a section every time researchers in Iowa published new evidence tying sugar to heart disease. He called it a rebuttal, not a review.
The paper ran in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, split into two parts. It tore apart every study that pointed at sugar. It gave the fat studies a free pass.
It concluded there was no doubt that cutting cholesterol and saturated fat was the only dietary change that mattered. Sugar barely got a mention. Nowhere did it say who paid for the review. Journals did not require that disclosure back then.
It carried real weight because it came from Harvard. Doctors trusted it. Textbooks cited it. For the next fifty years low fat sat at the center of nearly every piece of official nutrition advice in America while sugar consumption kept climbing.
Walk into a grocery store from the 1980s and you would have seen it everywhere. Low fat cookies. Low fat yogurt. Low fat everything, most of it stuffed with sugar to make up for the taste the fat used to carry. Obesity and diabetes climbed through those same decades.
Nobody connected the two because nobody knew there was anything to connect.
Hegsted's career kept climbing with the paper. In 1977 he became the lead scientific adviser to the Senate committee that wrote the first Dietary Goals for the United States.
In 1980 he ran the USDA office that wrote the first federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the ones that told the whole country to eat less fat. The man who took sugar money to protect sugar's name became the person deciding what every American put on their plate.
Nobody knew about the payment until 2016. A UCSF researcher named Cristin Kearns was digging through the Harvard archive and found the paper trail. Letters between Hickson and Hegsted, laid out over months, showing exactly how the review was steered and checked before it went to print.
She published it in JAMA Internal Medicine with Stanton Glantz and Laura Schmidt.
By then Hegsted, Stare, and McGandy were all dead. Nobody could ask them a single question.
For fifty years you were told to fear the egg, not the soda. That belief cost $6,500 to build. It might still be the cheapest trade in the history of nutrition science.
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has dropped truth bombs:
The FDA pushed low-fat diets for decades while suppressing data showing the low-fat group had higher heart attack rates.
Result? People ditched fat, loaded up on sugar, and Big Pharma sold more drugs.
RFK Jr. is ending the war on real food and declaring war on added sugar.
‘Those days are OVER. We are telling people the truth about food.’
@NYCMayor Judge a man by the company he keeps. You understand optics. Having a Hamas terror supporter in Gracie Mansion the day after an Islamic terror attack in front of Gracie Mansion is as disgusting as it gets.
India is frequently presented as evidence that vegetarianism works.
A country of 1.4 billion people, with a large vegetarian population, a tradition of plant-based eating stretching back millennia, and, the implication runs, a health profile to match.
Let's look at the health profile.
India has the highest number of diabetics of any country on Earth: approximately 100 million diagnosed, with estimates suggesting a further 130 million in the pre-diabetic range. This is a population where type 2 diabetes is not a disease of the old or the obese in the Western sense: it strikes Indians at lower BMIs, at younger ages, and with more aggressive metabolic consequences than in comparable Western populations.
India has among the highest rates of cardiovascular disease in the world, again emerging at younger ages and lower body weights than typically seen elsewhere.
India has significant rates of micronutrient deficiency: B12, iron, zinc, vitamin D, the precise nutrients found most abundantly in animal foods.
India also has the highest consumption of seed oils per capita of any major nation. It is the world's largest consumer of refined vegetable oils, predominantly soybean and sunflower.
The vegetarian diet is the mascot. The seed oil is doing the damage.
Nobody is talking about the seed oil.
I am in tears. This young man with a “Persians for Trump” shirt on just said the people of Iran will be forever grateful for what President Trump did
Fake News Media will never show this
TRUMP FREED IRAN
BREAKING: RIGHT NOW in Ottawa—thousands of Iranian Canadians marching to the US Embassy, chanting “Thank you, USA!” and waving flags of hope!
After fleeing tyranny, they’re finally seeing real change for their families back in Iran. Tears of joy, not fear.
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