Your heart runs mostly on fat, awake or asleep.
Sixty to seventy percent of it, on an ordinary day.
Your brain is sixty percent fat by dry weight.
Every nerve is sheathed in fat. Without it the signal fails.
Every cell you own is wrapped in fat.
Your lungs stay open because of a fatty film.
Breast milk runs half its calories as fat, mostly saturated.
The body makes fat out of spare sugar, and makes it saturated.
Bile exists to get fat into you.
Vitamins A, D, E and K travel in nothing else.
That is the substance we spent forty years stripping out of the food.
It did not go because the body had no use for it. It went because a cheaper fat existed and needed somewhere to be.
Then watch what walked in behind it.
1972: British obesity, around 3 percent of the adult population.
1980: America issues the guidance. Cut the fat, build the diet on grain.
Today: roughly two thirds of British adults overweight or obese, and one in four obese outright.
Type 2 diabetes was a rarity your grandparents' GP might see a handful of times. There are now more than five million diagnosed in this country.
Fatty liver disease was an alcoholic's condition. It is now in a fifth of the population, including children who have never had a drink.
Nothing in that curve bends at the point people started eating more fat. It bends after they were told to eat less of it.
The body carried on building itself out of the stuff regardless.
It just had to make its own, out of the sugar we sent instead.
Nobody said a word for twenty years.
Cereal for breakfast, from a box with a cartoon tiger on it. Perfectly normal. Part of a balanced breakfast, it said so on the side.
Sandwich, crisps, fizzy drink, five days a week at a desk. Nobody rang anybody.
Chocolate bar at eleven. Another at three. Colleagues watched this happen daily and said nothing, because they were doing it too.
Takeaway on the Friday. Second takeaway on the Saturday. My mother, who now worries about my kidneys, once brought the second one to the door herself.
Pints on a Thursday, kebab at midnight, chips out of paper on the walk home in the rain. Not one intervention. Not a leaflet. Not a raised eyebrow from a single medical professional in the country.
Biscuits at every meeting I have ever attended, provided by the employer, as a kindness.
Twenty years of that and the general public looked on with total serenity.
Then I ate a ribeye with butter on it and declined the side salad.
Now there's concern. Now it's "but is that sustainable." Now somebody's aunt is a nurse and would like a word. Now I'm getting "everything in moderation" from a man who has had a Twix for lunch since 2009.
Two decades of the actual damage and the room stayed silent throughout.
Turn down a bread roll and suddenly every single one of them is a cardiologist.
@BillWiIdin What if your experience doesn't warrant a tip?
Why dont underpaid servers get better paid jobs? What would happen to the restaurant trade if everyone followed your advice?
@cam_wilson5@Moonraker_Mart Isak can't stay fit. Wirtz flopped last season, average at best. Grav is "decent", probably doest start in any other top 4 side. Barcola not a liverpool player! What a silly reply
Those of us that saw through Anthony Fauci and Chris whittys BS have been vindicated. I don’t need an apology I just need you to think for yourselves next time they try it on 👍🏻have a blessed day ❤️
@Ed_Miliband And tackle arson? Grass and shrubs just DO NOT self combust. If you dont believe me take some and put them in your oven at 200° for as long as you want, it will NOT combust!!
@jonburkeUK Go grab a handful of grass and leaves and vegetation, put it in your oven at 200°...it will not combust!! It needs and ignition...caused by humans!!! Tit!!
The Home Office claims it has removed or deported 70,000 people. Here are the facts:
35% left without officials even realising.
26% were paid to leave.
Just 25% were deportations. And 2/3 of these were Europeans.
This is not control. This is spin.
🔥 This is brilliant from Lee on LBC.
Caller Lee takes Ben Kentish to task over the climate-change-causes-wildfires narrative and completely dismantles the idea that forests just spontaneously combust in the heat.
Speaking during a discussion about the European wildfires, Lee said:
“Forests, trees and grass does not spontaneously combust because it’s hot. I actually proved it because the wife’s a bit like meh. I got some leaves, I got some grass and I put it in the oven at 220°C for an hour and it did not burst into flames. It will only burst into flames because it’s dry, if someone puts a match to it or flicks a cigarette on the ground.”
“So can we just dispel the myth that on 40°C heat that a tree will just spontaneously combust, because it won’t.”
Absolute nail on the head.
Dry vegetation burns more easily in hot, dry conditions — that’s not in dispute. But it still needs an ignition source. The vast majority of these fires are either arson or accidental.
Well said, Lee. 👏
This is what Zack Polanski has just posted on his instagram.
If I was to post anything as inciteful then I would expect to be arrested, and so should Polanski.
De sidste 5 års terror angreb i EU:
2021 - Islam 3 - Venstre 1 - Højre 0
2022 - Islam 2 - Venstre 13 - Højre 1
2023 - Islam 5 - Venstre 23 - Højre 0
2024 - Islam 6 - Venstre 17 - Højre 1
2025 - Islam 9 - Venstre 11 - Højre 1
Scorecard:
Islam - 25
Venstre - 65
Højre - 3
Men husk nu det er højrefløjs-terror vi skal fokusere på.