What if the food industry was in cahoots with the medical industry? All these damn diseases and conditions that have become “typical” for our society……overweight, diabetes, heart disease, and the myriad of cancers as well as others too numerous to name here. They throw cheap “fillers” in the food and no one is the wiser. The more we eat, the worse we get. And hasn’t childhood cancer been on the rise? Newborns with brain tumors and other complex cancers.
What with seeds being GMO altered, how can we trust that the original nutrition is still in our crops? No one asked us if we wanted to eat that crap…..? And as for those nutballs suggesting we all eat bugs…. well, you know where you can stick that!
A friend has just been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and was told it’s common, that one in six people get it - so not to be too concerned, basically! Wait! What?
Was your friend vaxxed, especially with COVID shot? If so, with most of America getting COVID shots, the atrial fibrillation certainly could be common.
So very sorry that your efforts went unheeded, Annette Petrone. We've all pleaded with friends and loved ones, often to no avail. But at least we tried. Sometimes with great risks to relationships.
Many people didn't even try to warn others at all.
Doctors should be ashamed of themselves for not seeing and being even a little bit curious about what's happening to their patients. But then again, they're probably vaxxed to the hilt as well and insisted their patients get the jab or else.
A good friend of mine has this issue, recently diagnosed. He has never had a covid vaccine (or any vaccine since childhood). However, he smokes and drinks, so that's probably the reason (though it can be inherited from parents...his father died from cancer in his 60's, so hard to be sure there...his mother is still alive and healthy at almost 80 years old).
My friends husband had two mRNA C 19 shots and developed atrial fib. He ended up with an ablation and a defibrillator. She is convinced it was the shots.
I have an old friend who was a professionally sponsored distance runner. She ran over 40 marathons, and nearly as many half marathons. She is a vegetarian and never drank. She took 2 jabs and became ill twice. She now has tachycardia and fibrillation. She underwent ablation last Friday and is currently on bed rest. She is 76. Her cardiologist has told her she always had this condition and it just became worse as she aged.
I’ve had it for over twenty years. There are two types mine happens at random times and I feel my heart beat and pulse beating in an irregular pattern. This is called paraxamal (that’s not spelled exactly right). I’ve been on various meds over the years, some helped a bit. No one knows why it happened. Six weeks ago I had a procedure called cardiac ablation which might fix it. I’ll know it worked if I never have another episode Ask grok what it is. In the other type you never know that it is happening. It shows up on an ekg.
Medical science is wonderful except when it isn’t.
I don’t think the vax I took have anything to do with it
I've never been diagnosed with Afib but had noticed at different times the same symptoms you describe *feeling heart and irregularity. Quite some time back my now retired doctor suggested it could come from drinking too much coffee. I cut coffee with chicory now (try for half/half) and work hard to drink less. I've had EEG, EKG and did a treadmill test and no one sounded any alerts. Can't say I haven't had some of those feelings still, but they don't necessarily keep me up at night. Stress is, should be, considered a/the Big Factor.
I would imagine that caffeine affects people differently. We have a young woman here at work , 40s, who had an ablation 6 months ago for her irregular heartbeat and helped her. She did mention that the docor told her it's not always 100% effective. Best of luck with yours Joseph.
it appears I have that too, to some very minor degree. maybe once/yr with no ill effects. I just ignore it; probably not an option in more advanced cases like yours.
Reading all these negatives adds to my anxiety every time I pick up a package at the grocery store. It takes me three times longer just to read the labels.
In our area of a Chicago suburb all the independent bakeries are gone. To me personally growing up in rural Hungary and eating fresh baked bread almost daily was the most important food.
We have gone to baking our own bread and freezing it using organic Italian flour or we grind our own non-GMO wheat berries. Nothing like fresh bread out of the oven, butter and honey...yummm. It is sad there are such few bakeries around now. It would be lovely to have that option to buy.
We’ve switched as much as possible to organic, whole or frozen food, non-GMO ingredients, A2 organic milk (Costco), growing our own nutritious sprouts on kitchen counter, and reverse osmosis filtered water.
We can’t be perfect with everything we eat due to limited availability — and it’s expensive — but we do what we can. And we cook simple meals at home; going out is a rare treat (especially in a rural area).
What P-ROG says. And by the way, thanks for the A2 at Costco tip. I'd already found A2 yogurt there, but will check milk next time. My sister is insisting I learn to make/drink kefir every day!! Younger sisters, can't live with or without, doncha know!!
I noticed that as well. When I was about 20 I lived near a bakery and we could go in in the we morning hours and buy bread and rolls right out of the ovens. What a treat! We would always leave a tip for the night shift bakers.
Mr. Frank----I am not sure how the bread made in Hungary compares to German or Swiss bread but.... it would be great to try it one day I absolutely hate the plain white bread that most Americans gobble down. I would rather eat paste than that white garbage. I loved all the fresh bread when I used to travel to Europe quite a lot. I love the great crust and the bread inside. At least in most grocery stores today you can find decent wheat bread that is definitely not made by the 1000's of loaves at a time. Only problem it is expensive but we still buy it. When I would stay with my grandparents in the summer I would wake up to my Grandmother throwing the bread dough down on the counter when she would make it every few days. Great stuff. My wife uses the same recipe today.
I was once advised that the first thing you do is stop eating anything made with white flour. Then when in the supermarket shop only around the outside walls. Don’t buy anything in the aisles. Then read the labels carefully. We shop mostly at Aldi’s and a large farmers market. Here’s an example. I love peanut butter. Been eating it all my 83 years. Aldi’s had a national brand that I usually buy and their own organic brand side by side. Theirs was a little more expensive so I looked at the labels. The national brand was what is described in this article, full of stuff. Aldi’s has five ingredients mostly real peanuts. It is a little soupy in consistency but tastes great. I now look at every thing we buy. It’s sickening what we are putting in our body’s. And fast food is chemical poison
You can also get organic PB at Costco. Only peanuts, salt and its own oil.
I do go into the aisles for some items. I can find organic, jarred clean sauerkraut there, dried fruit (T Joes has clean prunes), condiments, coffee, etc. Just takes time and effort to do that label look.
Hi-Try Irish Soda Bread, easy to make, delicious to eat! Irish-style flour may be available locally but definitely is online. Recipes vary - I do both a white loaf and a brown loaf. Slainte!
Suggestion Frank: get your wife into baking sour dough bread. With Einkorn flour or with fresh made flour from your own mill. It just costs some $$ for the flour mill and the bigger countertop mixer, a little education. . .
Great article and people are now learning how harmful effects of some ingredients are avoid them. I have blood work done once or twice per year because of my type 1 diabetes. My results are usually good and better than most, but my last results were GREAT. I know it is because I am slowly cutting our 'fake' food (processed and fast foods). I am very thankful for people like Dr. Malone and others who keep educating us and leading us down a better path to health.
First - I fully appreciate and support the points you raise here and your recommendations on actions to take to address the many deficiencies.
However, it brings at least one dispute to mind that we've not discussed here. It causes me to suspect there may be other similar disputes to be considered.
My concern relates to cholesterol issues. We have one group of experts recommending ever tightening measures for determining safe cholesterol levels and actions to take to contain them. We have another group, equally adamant, that hold cholesteral is a valuable contributor to good health and controls are generally not indicted and likely harmful (advice I'm personally following). So that is to say the underlying basis for consideration needs to be settled, doesn't it?
Back to the primary issues at hand. MAHA forces do seem to have a couple starts on these issues. They recommend eating real food, to the extent possible from local sources that use beneficial practices. They've identified a general need to learn to cook which I have the impression they are to some extent pursuing.
In line with the concerns you have covered here, its time for MAHA advocates to further consider the issues raised here and pull their focus together to address the larger picture. A needed topic for their round tables?
As for we, the general troops, perhaps a clearer focus on the issues to be addressed and doing what we can to better protect ourselves while supporting MAHA frontline actions.
Thanks for bring these issues to a general attention!
Not sayin the premise of the essay is wrong nor do I disagree, but I do have a slightly different take on what has happened to our food supply. Throughout the entirety of humanity’s existence shelter and sufficient calories have always been a struggle. In some/many parts of this particular dot in our galaxy those two elements are still a struggle for many. I’m old enough, as are many of us, that the dust bowl and food scarcity during WWII were not distant memories. Fresh Oranges in New England were a treat as were bags of assorted unshelled nuts.
So if "the food industry" found ways of extending the shelf life or transporting foods across the country or clear’round the world, who can blame them. Or us. Take a look at the produce displays of organic fruits and veggies vs those that are not - which, more often than not, are more appealing? People want their white bread soft, storable (for a week?) and white; the same applies to yogurt (minus the bright white part I suppose) which we were told, and still told, it should be low fat, low cat, with enough compleat protein for the day (or week). Oh, let’s not forget to make it palatable with cereal/fruit/zero cal sweeteners, etc. Almost forgot, you can even get your bread without the crust and already manufactured into a crustless PBnJ. Is it any wonder the grocery aisles are replete with as much additives as actual food.
You wanna eat healthy? Walk down the refrigerated produce aisle and you can get your fruit/veggie preprepared - and it has to look fresh for the evening shopper or tomorrow morning.
Now don’t get me wrong, tho my response is dripping with snarkiness over what we allow, I still enjoy my Oreo and drumstick ice cream treats. Mostly tho, I limit myself to what the food industry may view as anathema: I mill my own flour and make what is def not "white" bread, I cooked up a kilo of beans the other night, the same day I made another liter of yogurt, using the same blend of bacteria I’ve been using for years. I don’t believe I’m unusual, just not that common.
We’ve traded convenience for simplicity and the food industry has responded appropriately.
We mill our own flour and also buy the organic Italian flour to use when feeling lazy. The 1/4 cow comes delivered from the rancher cut like we like. Farmers market on Saturday is the weekly grocery run. It takes more work but it is worth it, as you well know.
BTW, I tried Oreos a few months ago and after one bite it went into the trash. It did not taste anything like I remembered, so sad.
Oreos: try the HFCS-free ones from Costco - there’s something "better" about that formulation. Problem is that you’ve got to buy a Costco sized Oreo box. The dark chocolate variety is pretty good while there are varieties I won’t touch again. Although, you’re probably (well, no probably about it) better off avoiding Oreos and their kin.
One of these days I’ll buy another ¼, ½ cow - did so a number of years ago and it was split amongst several households. But I’d have to free up freezer space.
I find milling my own flour to be quite satisfying. Have a manual mill I bought a few years back: I can mill everything from wheat berries through beans AND I can make peanut butter - which I haven’t done yet. Depending on my mood I can use the flour as is, sift out the larger bean bits, or remill the sifted out the bran bits to a very fine texture and add back in. That ability is important for soft wheat berries as I have to mill at a courser texture otherwise it feels like the milling plates get gummed up; rye berries are kind’a in between.
I’ve read that letting the freshly milled flour rest a bit, days to a week, allows the flour to oxidize which is better for gluten formation but I prefer to use my flour w/in a day to retain the enzyme’s activity
Your 1st paragraph is the reason that "bio-regional" sourcing became a thing in the 1970s. But the relatively wealthy really wanted their imported delicacies, but it is still something to keep in mind if we do go into another great depression.
Bio-regionalism (mine is north western Wisconsin where there were a number of hippie communes and "back to the land" people who were the ones thinking about and trying to promote that in most regions every thing you need to live is available close by. Gardening and crop growing = you can grow what you need with the available growing season. You don't need to import anything from out of your area or growing zone. If you are too far north for oranges, you can grow berries and rose hips are also a great source of vitamin C. Maybe you don't have the fish or shrimp you are used to, but the rivers have crayfish. Fish for trout and bluegills instead of shipping in salmon and sea bass etc. No oysters? Clams. You get the idea. They were thinking back to what people on the land did for eons. and what in hard times one could do to survive and thrive.
Nice use of "entropy;" entropy by who - consumahs or industrial producers? Both 🤷♀️
I’m on the side of both: people found the convenience of "drive thru fast food" enticing, the producers wanting a piece of that action provided the fast food equivalent in the freezer aisle. And the long slide down the slippery slope began.
Just had a funny thought: remember "TV dinners," rubbery turkey slices/meatloaf on an aluminum tray you baked in the oven. We got those once or twice a year, pot pies a little more often, but they were a rare special meal (oh how our parents suffered) vs a daily affair today. Back when my son was a lad I finally found a TV dinners AND a Jiffy Pop package. While I haven’t had a TV dinners since, I am still fond of the pot pie, top&bottom pastry, whether it’s store bought or one that I make. Jeepers, now I’m actually thinking about finding some of those single serving pies next I go shopping 🤣
yep, same with us. Only occasionally did we hit those packaged dinners but, like pizza, it all worked great when under the gun as the time ticks past 7pm!
Since, my wife makes her own. Like you, NOW I am really thinking one of those pot pies sounds great! I will lobby her. . . ha!
I checked out the availability of pot pies locally via Google shopping and there’s way more than expected - including one brand under my son’s name. I prolly shouldn’t but next time I’m out supporting the economy I’m gonna pick up an array of the offerings that brand produces. Tho that makes me feel like a traitor- having grown up on Banquet pot pies. I wonder if Jiffy-Pop is still available.
Thanks, Dr. Malone! I’ve been at church camp so a lot of catching up to do as the days go by. Keep sounding off the truth. My dear husband was so right about butter! When we married, it became one of our staples for cooking. I even leave one out of the refrigerator! Hmm ! Those were the good old days of real food!
Right there with you about the butter. Grew up with margarine, son’s mom and I used "healthier" soft spreadable blends in a tub for years/decades. What’s funny, even tho we’re no longer married, we both did a 180 concerning margarine-butter about the same time a few years ago. I make my own ghee from 2lb unsalted Amish butter rolls and buy 8oz bricks of butter at Costco on sale. The butter portion I’m using stays out on the counter, yes covered, while the rest is either in the fridge or freezer. I was using salted Amish butter, cutting the roll up into 8oz portions but I found it harder to spread and it tended to go bad too quick - that was weird.
If properly made, gently cooking butter until the milk solids have browned (not burnt - done that! 🤢 ), you’re left with a natural long lasting, shelf stable, lactose free, high temperature cooking oil - suitable for sautéing and stir frying. By leaving the milk solids in the butter to brown (after they sink to the bottom of the pan - gotta go slow) and not skimming off the foam, you’re left with a subtly flavored cooking oil, or a nutty flavored spread.
I use it in rotation with olive oil, tallow and bacon grease.
It’s so easy to make your own ghee that buying the clarified butter they call ghee is foolish - just gotta take your time. Not dissing clarified butter, it’s just not ghee.
Touched on something I have preached for ages..there are not studies on whether these additives exhibit negative additive/synergistic effects with one another. And the more additives added,the more likely it is of such ill effects occurring and the more difficult it is to find them
and the more additives the more likely confounding variables of interaction rise up.
The KISS method wins again.
It kills me how they can have SOOOooooooo many ingredients in pharma vaccines and drugs. It seems like it would be impossible to assure efficacy and safety. . .. oh. yeah.
(A bit of a long winded tangent). As I was reading this, I wondered why some people naturally wean themselves off questionable food and drug items without any prodding from outside sources. Surely there is an inside indicator that is not used or known about. My inside indicator has become strong enough to influence me even when I don't consciously ask. Not that this is the only source of direction, but used in conjunction with information from reliable sources. Hopefully we have a "hundredth monkey" awareness evolving. In my younger days, before I was aware of all the propaganda about the safety and effectiveness of traditional drugs, it was a hit or miss decision making. These days with practice listening inside to that "still small voice" and knowing the difference between fear talking and wisdom, my success rate in choosing healthy options is much greater.
I rarely go into a big grocery store anymore. Last time I did just the smell coming off the packaged cereals, cookies, etc. I found to be just awful. I can't imagine eating those items now. Years ago I wouldn't think twice about picking up a package of cookies and now I can't even take the smell. Things really do need to change and this household has changed, for the better. The responsibility falls back on the individual to not purchase the garbage being pumped up. If the processed food items are not selling things will change.
Sorry for the pessimism sasha but things won't noticeably change. We here are FAR in the minority, most humans are NOT informed because they refuse to read, are not being taught to think critically, and are bombarded with BS from every direction with no internal BS sensor.
P-ROG. I Am noticing larger crowds at Sprouts, Whole Foods, Vit Cottage, so it seems a change has come in the way more people shop. We all just need to shout louder. When I go to Costco/Kroger, I always ask a manager to advocate for more healthy food, less preservatives and additives.
Totally agree on the amount of digging down and researching for most people agendas. I think 'word of mouth' is the standard, but it Can work.
I agree but there are changes. Like LB says below there are more people shopping healthy. It is getting more and more crowded at the Farmers Market we go to. There is a line for picking up raw milk and that is becoming normal when in the past it was unusual. Alas, it probably will not be in our lifetime. I'm pretty old too ;-)
In the end, doesn't this essay advocate for rather severe government regulation of the food industry? And if I'm getting that right, then this is essentially an anti-free-enterprise recommendation. Now, there are plenty of people who are fine with industry being leaned on by government agencies - even nationalized. But most "conservatives" consider this anti-freedom. So: What's the real answer here?
For a market to be actually "free," the buyers (consumers) must be fully informed about the goods they intend to purchase. In a world with thousands of products containing thousands of ingredients, the average consumer is simply overwhelmed and resorts to buying decisions based on obvious markers, like price, taste, appearance, availability. And really, the government agencies involved with these industries are overwhelmed, too.
What is being proposed here is that the government become an advocacy organization for the public good, rather than a barrier for companies to overcome in order to get their products to market. In the first case, government would be in the information business. In the second case, it becomes the target for various forms of bribery.
If we really want freedom on this planet, then that must include the freedom to try doing things that could very easily get you sick or dead. I don't see any way around that. But what we need from our government is not reassurance that what we are doing is safe, but clear and accurate information about all the potential consequences of our purchasing choices.
So, I say: Don't let industry ("enterprise") any where near government, but let government study the hell out of the products we are presented with, and give us the best information it can come up with about the risks involved with the use (consumption) of all the various products we are confronted with.
Today, the "rascals" of this planet don't go around robbing people at gunpoint (well, they still do this in some places); they try to sell us junk, claiming it will help us live a better life, for often significant profit. It's a safer racket than being a highwayman, but it can be just as dangerous to the public.
Government is supposed to protect out basic human rights. No one told us how it should accomplish this. The regulation game, apparently, has failed. Perhaps we need a different approach.
I’m old and have eaten most of the junk, soda, diet soda, canned food, sugary cereal, pizza, bread that takes 2 weeks to go bad and have been told how bad all this stuff is for the past 20 years and I look and feel better than 90% of the people I know. Everything is a trade off, the world population has gone from the brink of starvation for most of history, dying young from disease, war, food borne illness and crime to a world where food is abundant life expectancy has expanded and overall health has never been better. I’m not saying it shouldnt be better but the quest for perfection is unrealistic. I’m way more concerned about the millions killed by Fauci and our government and why he’s still alive.
I'm 71, but I ate WELL when I was a kid. We had a stay-at-home mom who cooked from fresh ingredients.
But I do think that something else is going on here, besides food and drugs getting more dangerous.
One theory I have is that as new generations come up, they become less and less connected to the original intention to move to America (or even to Earth for that matter) and so begin to feel more lost and directionless. If we had a colony on Mars, I bet a bunch of our younger people would volunteer to go, just because it would be their own decision.
Here's my "AI" result: "One-quarter of Americans are interested in living in a Mars colony for the rest of their lives, while 62% are not interested in long-term living on Mars. Support for a manned Mars mission is higher among younger adults aged 18 to 34, with 45% expressing interest."
Going to Mars is TOTALLY CRAZY, but almost half of young people would do it. Why? Maybe just because it would be their own decision.
As a society we listen to what we are told, we vote for the two choices picked for us, and we line up, pay out taxes and salute the flag only to be lied to, have or hard work squandered, and labeled as racists. Liberty requires diligence, virtue, sacrifice and the effort to simply access the greatest volume of knowledge/data ever available in history. We are not being represented by the very government we pay for and the facts are indisputable and easily available to all 8 billion of us 24/7/365. So I choose to put the food isn’t perfect problem well below the glaring political corruption, currency debasement and Covid/Russia hoax, J6 hoax, soaring debt and redaction addiction we all know is out of control. I buy the best food I can find most of the time but I’m not trying to be perfect.
I am flattered that anyone would think this might be a better idea. Right; Consumer Reports.
Somehow I don't think such an arrangement would stop Corporate from trying to meddle. And they still have us in their hip pocket when it comes to weapons development and related technologies. But we have to find some way of discouraging Corporate from trying to take over government. We're paying for it so it should belong to us.
Anyone remember cold potato soup? It was called vichyssoise that killed hundreds of people because of botulism poisoning. I think that scared the food processors who wanted to be sure that nobody dies from their product. Consequently, they overcompensate.. In turn the FDA just believes that the research the manufacturers conduct are solid for Gras items.
FDA got at least 19 white papers warning them that Carregean is not good for the G.I. track and causes inflammation and nothing has changed over 20 years ! They should check out Splenda too!
Thanks for once again honing in on the true root of the problem.. Part of the 100 year plan to destroy America? You have such a professional way of defining the problem.
I used to believe what you are saying. I changed my mind to something more nuanced. I now believe we need full disclosure of all ingredients in food from large companies without any barriers to the consumer. I also believe this full disclosure is not needed for locally produced and consumed foods. If it is local, a person can ask and give feedback if necessary.
No food is safe for everybody. Some food innovations are beneficial to some. The choice needs to be the consumer's. Some small companies produce real food, and I buy some. Also, some good food companies have been bought out by other companies that then reduce the food quality and make money off the previous companies reputation.
Dr. Malone, you are so right. The Processed Food Industries' products have helped in lowering the health of all consumers. Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (2400 BC) said, "Let Food be your Medicine; and Medicine be Your Food." His prescription to his patients was to eat the right natural (unprocessed) food. He produced CURES. The long shelf-life processed items sitting on supermarket shelves are health destroyers. It is mind-boggling that so many people don't see. a connection, between food and health. The mouth was designed for eating unprocessed natural food with a life force in it... to energize and nourish the body...and putting anything else in it will break it down.
Trying to eat healthy is an extremely difficult task when you live a busy life and eat many meals out at restaurants. Even if you don’t eat out the complexity of the modern food system discourages people from making a serious effort to sort it all out. Trying to fix the problem is just as difficult. We can’t even pass something as sound and that has the broad support of the Save America Act. Our Supreme Court just said it is ok for our enemies to fly to the U. S. to have their babies so they will have duel citizenship. However, it appears to me that the Trump administration is making headway. Three steps forward, two steps back. We are going to need at least three presidential terms to fix a meaningful amount of the problems this country is plagued with. There is no easy and quick fix. It’s going to be slugging it out over every little thing for years to come. Somehow we have to be prepared for the long haul. Our grandkids and great grandkids may never know it but they need us to finish this fight. I’m hoping we can do it.
It is interesting how fake meat has so far been soundly rejected, while fake most everything else flies off the grocery store shelves.
Brainwashing and indoctrination has produced an epidemic of ignorance
What if the food industry was in cahoots with the medical industry? All these damn diseases and conditions that have become “typical” for our society……overweight, diabetes, heart disease, and the myriad of cancers as well as others too numerous to name here. They throw cheap “fillers” in the food and no one is the wiser. The more we eat, the worse we get. And hasn’t childhood cancer been on the rise? Newborns with brain tumors and other complex cancers.
What with seeds being GMO altered, how can we trust that the original nutrition is still in our crops? No one asked us if we wanted to eat that crap…..? And as for those nutballs suggesting we all eat bugs…. well, you know where you can stick that!
A friend has just been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and was told it’s common, that one in six people get it - so not to be too concerned, basically! Wait! What?
Was your friend vaxxed, especially with COVID shot? If so, with most of America getting COVID shots, the atrial fibrillation certainly could be common.
OpenVAERS shows 13,747 eports with “Fibrillation” in the narrative or symptoms for COVID shots: https://www.openvaers.com/vaersapp/reports.php?symptoms=fibrillation&covid_only=Yes&srch_narrative=Yes&srch_symptoms=Yes
We wish your friend all the best.
He was injected with Moderna poisons. I see these reports are Pfizer. Same poison, though? Same debilitating results?
YEs! Vaxed to the hilt. Two ahots and a booster AGAINST all my pleadings to not succumb
So very sorry that your efforts went unheeded, Annette Petrone. We've all pleaded with friends and loved ones, often to no avail. But at least we tried. Sometimes with great risks to relationships.
Many people didn't even try to warn others at all.
Doctors should be ashamed of themselves for not seeing and being even a little bit curious about what's happening to their patients. But then again, they're probably vaxxed to the hilt as well and insisted their patients get the jab or else.
This evil vaccine insanity has gone on for centuries, as almost anyone will discover if they read Unbekoming (https://unbekoming.substack.com/), A Midwestern Doctor (https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/), or any number of excellent books written on the subject (https://tinyurl.com/yyhzecps).
I wonder about the shedding of vaccine to the unvaccinated. Likely by design..... compliments of the de-pop globalists.
A good friend of mine has this issue, recently diagnosed. He has never had a covid vaccine (or any vaccine since childhood). However, he smokes and drinks, so that's probably the reason (though it can be inherited from parents...his father died from cancer in his 60's, so hard to be sure there...his mother is still alive and healthy at almost 80 years old).
My friends husband had two mRNA C 19 shots and developed atrial fib. He ended up with an ablation and a defibrillator. She is convinced it was the shots.
I have an old friend who was a professionally sponsored distance runner. She ran over 40 marathons, and nearly as many half marathons. She is a vegetarian and never drank. She took 2 jabs and became ill twice. She now has tachycardia and fibrillation. She underwent ablation last Friday and is currently on bed rest. She is 76. Her cardiologist has told her she always had this condition and it just became worse as she aged.
Will we ever know the truth?
doctors will protect the vax and other pharma drugs!
We DO know the truth. But will the public ever know?
I had only two also and have a minor case. Never had an episode before the jabs.
I have just ignored it. With no apparent "ill" effects. . . not worried at this point.
Huge association of a fib with Covid shots.
I’ve had it for over twenty years. There are two types mine happens at random times and I feel my heart beat and pulse beating in an irregular pattern. This is called paraxamal (that’s not spelled exactly right). I’ve been on various meds over the years, some helped a bit. No one knows why it happened. Six weeks ago I had a procedure called cardiac ablation which might fix it. I’ll know it worked if I never have another episode Ask grok what it is. In the other type you never know that it is happening. It shows up on an ekg.
Medical science is wonderful except when it isn’t.
I don’t think the vax I took have anything to do with it
I've never been diagnosed with Afib but had noticed at different times the same symptoms you describe *feeling heart and irregularity. Quite some time back my now retired doctor suggested it could come from drinking too much coffee. I cut coffee with chicory now (try for half/half) and work hard to drink less. I've had EEG, EKG and did a treadmill test and no one sounded any alerts. Can't say I haven't had some of those feelings still, but they don't necessarily keep me up at night. Stress is, should be, considered a/the Big Factor.
I have a friend who has the same condition and his cardiologist told him to cut back on the coffee. He said it took care of his problem.
Never heard that one. I don’t drink one cup a week.
I would imagine that caffeine affects people differently. We have a young woman here at work , 40s, who had an ablation 6 months ago for her irregular heartbeat and helped her. She did mention that the docor told her it's not always 100% effective. Best of luck with yours Joseph.
it appears I have that too, to some very minor degree. maybe once/yr with no ill effects. I just ignore it; probably not an option in more advanced cases like yours.
I have often thought the same regarding food and medical industries.
So how do we go about changing the system ?
Reading all these negatives adds to my anxiety every time I pick up a package at the grocery store. It takes me three times longer just to read the labels.
In our area of a Chicago suburb all the independent bakeries are gone. To me personally growing up in rural Hungary and eating fresh baked bread almost daily was the most important food.
We have gone to baking our own bread and freezing it using organic Italian flour or we grind our own non-GMO wheat berries. Nothing like fresh bread out of the oven, butter and honey...yummm. It is sad there are such few bakeries around now. It would be lovely to have that option to buy.
We’ve switched as much as possible to organic, whole or frozen food, non-GMO ingredients, A2 organic milk (Costco), growing our own nutritious sprouts on kitchen counter, and reverse osmosis filtered water.
We can’t be perfect with everything we eat due to limited availability — and it’s expensive — but we do what we can. And we cook simple meals at home; going out is a rare treat (especially in a rural area).
same with us big E!
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What P-ROG says. And by the way, thanks for the A2 at Costco tip. I'd already found A2 yogurt there, but will check milk next time. My sister is insisting I learn to make/drink kefir every day!! Younger sisters, can't live with or without, doncha know!!
P-ROG -- had to think about that one 🤣You're welcome for the Costco tip; hope you find it at your local store.
Oh, we just did a search for where to find A2 milk and came up with some links that might help:
-- https://www.a2milk.com/find
-- https://amosmillerorganicfarm.com/product-category/a2a2-diary/a2a2-raw-milk-and-diary/?v=34f435c6b599
-- https://www.farmmatch.com/
Know exactly what you mean about younger sisters.
I noticed that as well. When I was about 20 I lived near a bakery and we could go in in the we morning hours and buy bread and rolls right out of the ovens. What a treat! We would always leave a tip for the night shift bakers.
Mr. Frank----I am not sure how the bread made in Hungary compares to German or Swiss bread but.... it would be great to try it one day I absolutely hate the plain white bread that most Americans gobble down. I would rather eat paste than that white garbage. I loved all the fresh bread when I used to travel to Europe quite a lot. I love the great crust and the bread inside. At least in most grocery stores today you can find decent wheat bread that is definitely not made by the 1000's of loaves at a time. Only problem it is expensive but we still buy it. When I would stay with my grandparents in the summer I would wake up to my Grandmother throwing the bread dough down on the counter when she would make it every few days. Great stuff. My wife uses the same recipe today.
I use the Yuka app to determine safety. Scan barcode for results.
I was once advised that the first thing you do is stop eating anything made with white flour. Then when in the supermarket shop only around the outside walls. Don’t buy anything in the aisles. Then read the labels carefully. We shop mostly at Aldi’s and a large farmers market. Here’s an example. I love peanut butter. Been eating it all my 83 years. Aldi’s had a national brand that I usually buy and their own organic brand side by side. Theirs was a little more expensive so I looked at the labels. The national brand was what is described in this article, full of stuff. Aldi’s has five ingredients mostly real peanuts. It is a little soupy in consistency but tastes great. I now look at every thing we buy. It’s sickening what we are putting in our body’s. And fast food is chemical poison
You can also get organic PB at Costco. Only peanuts, salt and its own oil.
I do go into the aisles for some items. I can find organic, jarred clean sauerkraut there, dried fruit (T Joes has clean prunes), condiments, coffee, etc. Just takes time and effort to do that label look.
The trouble with Costco is that you have to buy such large quantities of things. But I’ll check it out
If you like PB and I do, you'd be surprised at how fast it can go. And it lasts quite a long time also, if you're pacing yourself.
I heard years ago that if it has more than three ingredients don’t eat it. Keeps it simple for me!
I try to manage my days using the KISS method .
Hi-Try Irish Soda Bread, easy to make, delicious to eat! Irish-style flour may be available locally but definitely is online. Recipes vary - I do both a white loaf and a brown loaf. Slainte!
Suggestion Frank: get your wife into baking sour dough bread. With Einkorn flour or with fresh made flour from your own mill. It just costs some $$ for the flour mill and the bigger countertop mixer, a little education. . .
Great article and people are now learning how harmful effects of some ingredients are avoid them. I have blood work done once or twice per year because of my type 1 diabetes. My results are usually good and better than most, but my last results were GREAT. I know it is because I am slowly cutting our 'fake' food (processed and fast foods). I am very thankful for people like Dr. Malone and others who keep educating us and leading us down a better path to health.
First - I fully appreciate and support the points you raise here and your recommendations on actions to take to address the many deficiencies.
However, it brings at least one dispute to mind that we've not discussed here. It causes me to suspect there may be other similar disputes to be considered.
My concern relates to cholesterol issues. We have one group of experts recommending ever tightening measures for determining safe cholesterol levels and actions to take to contain them. We have another group, equally adamant, that hold cholesteral is a valuable contributor to good health and controls are generally not indicted and likely harmful (advice I'm personally following). So that is to say the underlying basis for consideration needs to be settled, doesn't it?
Back to the primary issues at hand. MAHA forces do seem to have a couple starts on these issues. They recommend eating real food, to the extent possible from local sources that use beneficial practices. They've identified a general need to learn to cook which I have the impression they are to some extent pursuing.
In line with the concerns you have covered here, its time for MAHA advocates to further consider the issues raised here and pull their focus together to address the larger picture. A needed topic for their round tables?
As for we, the general troops, perhaps a clearer focus on the issues to be addressed and doing what we can to better protect ourselves while supporting MAHA frontline actions.
Thanks for bring these issues to a general attention!
Suggested reading:
-- Midwestern Doctor on substack, find archive, search under cholesterol or statins
-- READ: The Clot Thickens, Dr. Malcolm Kendrick.
You will no longer believe in the need for statins or be concerned about "high" cholesterol.
But. Ya' gotta' read.
Not sayin the premise of the essay is wrong nor do I disagree, but I do have a slightly different take on what has happened to our food supply. Throughout the entirety of humanity’s existence shelter and sufficient calories have always been a struggle. In some/many parts of this particular dot in our galaxy those two elements are still a struggle for many. I’m old enough, as are many of us, that the dust bowl and food scarcity during WWII were not distant memories. Fresh Oranges in New England were a treat as were bags of assorted unshelled nuts.
So if "the food industry" found ways of extending the shelf life or transporting foods across the country or clear’round the world, who can blame them. Or us. Take a look at the produce displays of organic fruits and veggies vs those that are not - which, more often than not, are more appealing? People want their white bread soft, storable (for a week?) and white; the same applies to yogurt (minus the bright white part I suppose) which we were told, and still told, it should be low fat, low cat, with enough compleat protein for the day (or week). Oh, let’s not forget to make it palatable with cereal/fruit/zero cal sweeteners, etc. Almost forgot, you can even get your bread without the crust and already manufactured into a crustless PBnJ. Is it any wonder the grocery aisles are replete with as much additives as actual food.
You wanna eat healthy? Walk down the refrigerated produce aisle and you can get your fruit/veggie preprepared - and it has to look fresh for the evening shopper or tomorrow morning.
Now don’t get me wrong, tho my response is dripping with snarkiness over what we allow, I still enjoy my Oreo and drumstick ice cream treats. Mostly tho, I limit myself to what the food industry may view as anathema: I mill my own flour and make what is def not "white" bread, I cooked up a kilo of beans the other night, the same day I made another liter of yogurt, using the same blend of bacteria I’ve been using for years. I don’t believe I’m unusual, just not that common.
We’ve traded convenience for simplicity and the food industry has responded appropriately.
We mill our own flour and also buy the organic Italian flour to use when feeling lazy. The 1/4 cow comes delivered from the rancher cut like we like. Farmers market on Saturday is the weekly grocery run. It takes more work but it is worth it, as you well know.
BTW, I tried Oreos a few months ago and after one bite it went into the trash. It did not taste anything like I remembered, so sad.
Oreos: try the HFCS-free ones from Costco - there’s something "better" about that formulation. Problem is that you’ve got to buy a Costco sized Oreo box. The dark chocolate variety is pretty good while there are varieties I won’t touch again. Although, you’re probably (well, no probably about it) better off avoiding Oreos and their kin.
One of these days I’ll buy another ¼, ½ cow - did so a number of years ago and it was split amongst several households. But I’d have to free up freezer space.
I find milling my own flour to be quite satisfying. Have a manual mill I bought a few years back: I can mill everything from wheat berries through beans AND I can make peanut butter - which I haven’t done yet. Depending on my mood I can use the flour as is, sift out the larger bean bits, or remill the sifted out the bran bits to a very fine texture and add back in. That ability is important for soft wheat berries as I have to mill at a courser texture otherwise it feels like the milling plates get gummed up; rye berries are kind’a in between.
I’ve read that letting the freshly milled flour rest a bit, days to a week, allows the flour to oxidize which is better for gluten formation but I prefer to use my flour w/in a day to retain the enzyme’s activity
Your 1st paragraph is the reason that "bio-regional" sourcing became a thing in the 1970s. But the relatively wealthy really wanted their imported delicacies, but it is still something to keep in mind if we do go into another great depression.
Explain what you mean by, your thoughts on, bio-regional sourcing - so we’re on the same page.
Bio-regionalism (mine is north western Wisconsin where there were a number of hippie communes and "back to the land" people who were the ones thinking about and trying to promote that in most regions every thing you need to live is available close by. Gardening and crop growing = you can grow what you need with the available growing season. You don't need to import anything from out of your area or growing zone. If you are too far north for oranges, you can grow berries and rose hips are also a great source of vitamin C. Maybe you don't have the fish or shrimp you are used to, but the rivers have crayfish. Fish for trout and bluegills instead of shipping in salmon and sea bass etc. No oysters? Clams. You get the idea. They were thinking back to what people on the land did for eons. and what in hard times one could do to survive and thrive.
Your last sentence is right on, SR!
yep, it is NOT all a big conspiracy. It is an expression of entropy though.
Nice use of "entropy;" entropy by who - consumahs or industrial producers? Both 🤷♀️
I’m on the side of both: people found the convenience of "drive thru fast food" enticing, the producers wanting a piece of that action provided the fast food equivalent in the freezer aisle. And the long slide down the slippery slope began.
Just had a funny thought: remember "TV dinners," rubbery turkey slices/meatloaf on an aluminum tray you baked in the oven. We got those once or twice a year, pot pies a little more often, but they were a rare special meal (oh how our parents suffered) vs a daily affair today. Back when my son was a lad I finally found a TV dinners AND a Jiffy Pop package. While I haven’t had a TV dinners since, I am still fond of the pot pie, top&bottom pastry, whether it’s store bought or one that I make. Jeepers, now I’m actually thinking about finding some of those single serving pies next I go shopping 🤣
yep, same with us. Only occasionally did we hit those packaged dinners but, like pizza, it all worked great when under the gun as the time ticks past 7pm!
Since, my wife makes her own. Like you, NOW I am really thinking one of those pot pies sounds great! I will lobby her. . . ha!
Let me know how that works out 😆
I checked out the availability of pot pies locally via Google shopping and there’s way more than expected - including one brand under my son’s name. I prolly shouldn’t but next time I’m out supporting the economy I’m gonna pick up an array of the offerings that brand produces. Tho that makes me feel like a traitor- having grown up on Banquet pot pies. I wonder if Jiffy-Pop is still available.
Thanks, Dr. Malone! I’ve been at church camp so a lot of catching up to do as the days go by. Keep sounding off the truth. My dear husband was so right about butter! When we married, it became one of our staples for cooking. I even leave one out of the refrigerator! Hmm ! Those were the good old days of real food!
We leave our real butter on counter still.
Me too, but only a partial stick at a time.
Right there with you about the butter. Grew up with margarine, son’s mom and I used "healthier" soft spreadable blends in a tub for years/decades. What’s funny, even tho we’re no longer married, we both did a 180 concerning margarine-butter about the same time a few years ago. I make my own ghee from 2lb unsalted Amish butter rolls and buy 8oz bricks of butter at Costco on sale. The butter portion I’m using stays out on the counter, yes covered, while the rest is either in the fridge or freezer. I was using salted Amish butter, cutting the roll up into 8oz portions but I found it harder to spread and it tended to go bad too quick - that was weird.
sounds good. Love real butter.
what is the attraction in ghee?
If properly made, gently cooking butter until the milk solids have browned (not burnt - done that! 🤢 ), you’re left with a natural long lasting, shelf stable, lactose free, high temperature cooking oil - suitable for sautéing and stir frying. By leaving the milk solids in the butter to brown (after they sink to the bottom of the pan - gotta go slow) and not skimming off the foam, you’re left with a subtly flavored cooking oil, or a nutty flavored spread.
I use it in rotation with olive oil, tallow and bacon grease.
It’s so easy to make your own ghee that buying the clarified butter they call ghee is foolish - just gotta take your time. Not dissing clarified butter, it’s just not ghee.
Touched on something I have preached for ages..there are not studies on whether these additives exhibit negative additive/synergistic effects with one another. And the more additives added,the more likely it is of such ill effects occurring and the more difficult it is to find them
and the more additives the more likely confounding variables of interaction rise up.
The KISS method wins again.
It kills me how they can have SOOOooooooo many ingredients in pharma vaccines and drugs. It seems like it would be impossible to assure efficacy and safety. . .. oh. yeah.
They can't!
(A bit of a long winded tangent). As I was reading this, I wondered why some people naturally wean themselves off questionable food and drug items without any prodding from outside sources. Surely there is an inside indicator that is not used or known about. My inside indicator has become strong enough to influence me even when I don't consciously ask. Not that this is the only source of direction, but used in conjunction with information from reliable sources. Hopefully we have a "hundredth monkey" awareness evolving. In my younger days, before I was aware of all the propaganda about the safety and effectiveness of traditional drugs, it was a hit or miss decision making. These days with practice listening inside to that "still small voice" and knowing the difference between fear talking and wisdom, my success rate in choosing healthy options is much greater.
I rarely go into a big grocery store anymore. Last time I did just the smell coming off the packaged cereals, cookies, etc. I found to be just awful. I can't imagine eating those items now. Years ago I wouldn't think twice about picking up a package of cookies and now I can't even take the smell. Things really do need to change and this household has changed, for the better. The responsibility falls back on the individual to not purchase the garbage being pumped up. If the processed food items are not selling things will change.
Sorry for the pessimism sasha but things won't noticeably change. We here are FAR in the minority, most humans are NOT informed because they refuse to read, are not being taught to think critically, and are bombarded with BS from every direction with no internal BS sensor.
P-ROG. I Am noticing larger crowds at Sprouts, Whole Foods, Vit Cottage, so it seems a change has come in the way more people shop. We all just need to shout louder. When I go to Costco/Kroger, I always ask a manager to advocate for more healthy food, less preservatives and additives.
Totally agree on the amount of digging down and researching for most people agendas. I think 'word of mouth' is the standard, but it Can work.
Yeah.
I hope you are right and I'm wrong.
I agree but there are changes. Like LB says below there are more people shopping healthy. It is getting more and more crowded at the Farmers Market we go to. There is a line for picking up raw milk and that is becoming normal when in the past it was unusual. Alas, it probably will not be in our lifetime. I'm pretty old too ;-)
In the end, doesn't this essay advocate for rather severe government regulation of the food industry? And if I'm getting that right, then this is essentially an anti-free-enterprise recommendation. Now, there are plenty of people who are fine with industry being leaned on by government agencies - even nationalized. But most "conservatives" consider this anti-freedom. So: What's the real answer here?
For a market to be actually "free," the buyers (consumers) must be fully informed about the goods they intend to purchase. In a world with thousands of products containing thousands of ingredients, the average consumer is simply overwhelmed and resorts to buying decisions based on obvious markers, like price, taste, appearance, availability. And really, the government agencies involved with these industries are overwhelmed, too.
What is being proposed here is that the government become an advocacy organization for the public good, rather than a barrier for companies to overcome in order to get their products to market. In the first case, government would be in the information business. In the second case, it becomes the target for various forms of bribery.
If we really want freedom on this planet, then that must include the freedom to try doing things that could very easily get you sick or dead. I don't see any way around that. But what we need from our government is not reassurance that what we are doing is safe, but clear and accurate information about all the potential consequences of our purchasing choices.
So, I say: Don't let industry ("enterprise") any where near government, but let government study the hell out of the products we are presented with, and give us the best information it can come up with about the risks involved with the use (consumption) of all the various products we are confronted with.
Today, the "rascals" of this planet don't go around robbing people at gunpoint (well, they still do this in some places); they try to sell us junk, claiming it will help us live a better life, for often significant profit. It's a safer racket than being a highwayman, but it can be just as dangerous to the public.
Government is supposed to protect out basic human rights. No one told us how it should accomplish this. The regulation game, apparently, has failed. Perhaps we need a different approach.
I’m old and have eaten most of the junk, soda, diet soda, canned food, sugary cereal, pizza, bread that takes 2 weeks to go bad and have been told how bad all this stuff is for the past 20 years and I look and feel better than 90% of the people I know. Everything is a trade off, the world population has gone from the brink of starvation for most of history, dying young from disease, war, food borne illness and crime to a world where food is abundant life expectancy has expanded and overall health has never been better. I’m not saying it shouldnt be better but the quest for perfection is unrealistic. I’m way more concerned about the millions killed by Fauci and our government and why he’s still alive.
I'm 71, but I ate WELL when I was a kid. We had a stay-at-home mom who cooked from fresh ingredients.
But I do think that something else is going on here, besides food and drugs getting more dangerous.
One theory I have is that as new generations come up, they become less and less connected to the original intention to move to America (or even to Earth for that matter) and so begin to feel more lost and directionless. If we had a colony on Mars, I bet a bunch of our younger people would volunteer to go, just because it would be their own decision.
Here's my "AI" result: "One-quarter of Americans are interested in living in a Mars colony for the rest of their lives, while 62% are not interested in long-term living on Mars. Support for a manned Mars mission is higher among younger adults aged 18 to 34, with 45% expressing interest."
Going to Mars is TOTALLY CRAZY, but almost half of young people would do it. Why? Maybe just because it would be their own decision.
As a society we listen to what we are told, we vote for the two choices picked for us, and we line up, pay out taxes and salute the flag only to be lied to, have or hard work squandered, and labeled as racists. Liberty requires diligence, virtue, sacrifice and the effort to simply access the greatest volume of knowledge/data ever available in history. We are not being represented by the very government we pay for and the facts are indisputable and easily available to all 8 billion of us 24/7/365. So I choose to put the food isn’t perfect problem well below the glaring political corruption, currency debasement and Covid/Russia hoax, J6 hoax, soaring debt and redaction addiction we all know is out of control. I buy the best food I can find most of the time but I’m not trying to be perfect.
yup
Sounds like a good solution.
Basically, change the FDA into the Fed. Consumer Reports Agency?!
I am flattered that anyone would think this might be a better idea. Right; Consumer Reports.
Somehow I don't think such an arrangement would stop Corporate from trying to meddle. And they still have us in their hip pocket when it comes to weapons development and related technologies. But we have to find some way of discouraging Corporate from trying to take over government. We're paying for it so it should belong to us.
maybe RFK, Jr. could add on a new department. . . ha!
Anyone remember cold potato soup? It was called vichyssoise that killed hundreds of people because of botulism poisoning. I think that scared the food processors who wanted to be sure that nobody dies from their product. Consequently, they overcompensate.. In turn the FDA just believes that the research the manufacturers conduct are solid for Gras items.
FDA got at least 19 white papers warning them that Carregean is not good for the G.I. track and causes inflammation and nothing has changed over 20 years ! They should check out Splenda too!
Thanks for once again honing in on the true root of the problem.. Part of the 100 year plan to destroy America? You have such a professional way of defining the problem.
I used to believe what you are saying. I changed my mind to something more nuanced. I now believe we need full disclosure of all ingredients in food from large companies without any barriers to the consumer. I also believe this full disclosure is not needed for locally produced and consumed foods. If it is local, a person can ask and give feedback if necessary.
No food is safe for everybody. Some food innovations are beneficial to some. The choice needs to be the consumer's. Some small companies produce real food, and I buy some. Also, some good food companies have been bought out by other companies that then reduce the food quality and make money off the previous companies reputation.
Dr. Malone, you are so right. The Processed Food Industries' products have helped in lowering the health of all consumers. Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (2400 BC) said, "Let Food be your Medicine; and Medicine be Your Food." His prescription to his patients was to eat the right natural (unprocessed) food. He produced CURES. The long shelf-life processed items sitting on supermarket shelves are health destroyers. It is mind-boggling that so many people don't see. a connection, between food and health. The mouth was designed for eating unprocessed natural food with a life force in it... to energize and nourish the body...and putting anything else in it will break it down.
Trying to eat healthy is an extremely difficult task when you live a busy life and eat many meals out at restaurants. Even if you don’t eat out the complexity of the modern food system discourages people from making a serious effort to sort it all out. Trying to fix the problem is just as difficult. We can’t even pass something as sound and that has the broad support of the Save America Act. Our Supreme Court just said it is ok for our enemies to fly to the U. S. to have their babies so they will have duel citizenship. However, it appears to me that the Trump administration is making headway. Three steps forward, two steps back. We are going to need at least three presidential terms to fix a meaningful amount of the problems this country is plagued with. There is no easy and quick fix. It’s going to be slugging it out over every little thing for years to come. Somehow we have to be prepared for the long haul. Our grandkids and great grandkids may never know it but they need us to finish this fight. I’m hoping we can do it.