Spam,Spam, Cholesterol, Eggs, Spam. Eggs, Bacon & Spam
One of the many things to reach escape velocity thanks to the COVID tyranny was diet. Food. Food health. FDA and USDA malfeasance and misfeasance. The war on farmers and farming across the globe jacked up awareness. As did the rush to craft fake meats (plant or lab based). The insect additives. In the name of lowering emissions when most or all of the solutions were more emission-intensive.
Advocates continued to claim it was to reduce emissions and save the planet, but it was just globalists using fear and policy to enrich themselves at the expense of the country class—the rest of us. COVID opened millions of eyes newborn to the possibility and the reality.
But that level of corruption and fraud has been the way of things for a while. During COVID, the regulators that promised to protect us (I say that's government regulators, boy, The government - Foghorn Leghorn) got caught regulating their kickbacks instead of advocating for human health. That Pandora’s Box hasn't closed yet. Everything the government and a wide range of industries say is no longer considered trustworthy. People are rightly questioning their science, intentions, and motivations, and a host of actual experts has been unleashed (again, thanks to COVID-19 tyranny) to share alternative realities with the public.
Efforts to silence them revealed a government/media conspiracy to use intimidation to get private entities to censor them. One of those to be censored is Dr. Robert Malone. He's brilliant and knows a thing or two about a thing or two. In a recent Substack, he blew the whistle on the FDA and USDA (again), this time over the breakfast table. You are encouraged to marvel at how lousy breakfast cereals are and why, but what I found most interesting was his reporting on eggs.
Many of you know I survived a heart attack in 2018, and the default response to that included eschewing saturated fats, eating healthy grains, and taking statins. It's all about cholesterol, and until recently, the cholesterol in food—which the experts now insist isn't that big a deal. Eggs have also emerged from their decades of purgatory as okay. But eggs aren't just okay; their story is linked directly to the rise of statins.
Eggs contain high-quality protein and a wide-range of vitamins and minerals [13]. They are one of the most widely available economical sources of animal protein. As an added benefit, many of the nutrients in eggs can be increased by altering the hen’s diet (for example, Selenium, vitamin E, vitamin D, omega-3 fatty acids, xanthophylls and folate). This means that a much higher quality egg is readily produced by the backyard chicken owner and homesteader than what is commercially available.
When did Americans stop eating eggs? The significant change came in 1968 when the American Heart Association recommended limiting egg consumption to three per week due to cholesterol concerns. “Coincidently,” the first drug (Questran) to reduce cholesterol levels was approved by the FDA shortly thereafter.
I know, you can already predict where this is going.
In 1977, the cabal decided that we should ignore thousands of years of human progress and eat fewer eggs and less red meat. Malone adds Time Magaiznes 1984 cover on Cholesterol: The obesity epidemic was born, followed by the fitness epidemic, and a few decades of more bad food science and state-regulated guidance (and profit-taking by Big Food and its government lackeys), and we're as fat as we've ever been. (Related: The More I Learn, The Less I Trust)
The first statin drug, lovastatin, was licensed for commercial use in the United States on September 1, 1987, and then over the next few years, several other statin drugs hit the market. Lipitor, known generically as atorvastatin, was first licensed for medical use in the United States in 1996 and quickly became one of the most widely prescribed medications ever, generating around $12 billion in annual sales at its peak. The patent for Lipitor ran out in 2011. From 2011 to the present, most of the other cholesterol-lowering drugs also became available as generics, which removed the huge profits from big pharma for their statin sales. ...
As the profits went out of the statin market, slowly, the media hype that eggs were unhealthy died out. Coincidence?
What has emerged over the last decade is that the relationship between cholesterol and mortality is complicated. High cholesterol levels and mortality in the elderly are inversely proportional. The truth is that higher cholesterol is protective in the elderly cohort.
It's not cholesterol that kills; it's a host of other behaviors. While this revelation is good news, we're still waiting for all the experts in their lab coats to catch up.
So, don't be too surprised. A diet rich in eggs, poultry, and lean red meat is better for most people.
The conclusions of this large and very recent study is that when confounding variables, such as smoking, high obesity levels, heavy alcohol consumption, and low physical activity were eliminated, the authors found NO EVIDENCE that a diet rich in red meat affected cardiovascular and cancer-related mortality. Furthermore, there was no evidence that eating poultry, milk, cheese or red meat affected mortality rates either.
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With the new dietary guidelines of 2024, the FDA, for the first time, began recommending eggs as a healthy food.
Eggs are back - should we be suspicious? Always.
I’m sure there will be more studies (funded by Big Param and Big Farma), and you can't trust those either, but perhaps there’s some hope for untangling the mess. The people who wanted us fat, sick, and dead, who killed many with their so-called food pyramids and mRNA "vaccine," were the people saying we need to eat fewer eggs and less meat. They want to feed us lab meat and crickets. The same lot that says there are too many white people and, while we're at it, too many people all around. (Related: Big Farma)
They are not shy about being depopulationists, so don't be shy about reminding people of that and telling the elites to go "you know what" themselves.
Everything they told us made us fat and unhealthy while enriching others. Many of the medical cures for the problem they created are not good for us either but enrich their other friends. All while they exercise policy to make food cost more or less accessible, so we have to eat the crap that could shorten our lives and kill us.
Eggs have been back on my table for a while. I eat more lean red meat. And while I have not ditched the statin yet, that's something else I need to remove from my "breakfast table."
And, for the record, I am not giving you dietary or medical advice; I am just sharing news and research. What you do with it is up to you and whomever you trust on diet and health matters. I, for example, have another condition that requires daily meds that have a few mild side effects (I've experienced none, actually) that without which my life would be "complicated," bloody, and uncomfortable. The point is to be suspicious, ask questions, and expect answers.
As the COVID experiment proved, you can't just nod when these experts speak because they don't know everything or just what they don’t know. And some are censored by their employers whom you truly cannot trust.
And remember that informed consent requires work on both sides, especially ours.
And no, I would not lead with that headline and forget to include this.
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Daughter has chickens, so I get fresh eggs. I never had high cholesterol until recently. Took pills for about 3 months, then just stopped. Not going to do it. Will work on healthier eating.