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In this recent video Russel Brand explores with US food activist Calley Means the disastrous declining state of US citizens’ health which Calley relates to a diet that is increasingly taken over by highly processed food devoid of nutritional value and high in sugar while both children and adults both get less physical activity in their daily lives than their ancestors did. Calley explains that the declining health of its citizenry is making the US a nation in decline with an increasingly uncompetitive, out of shape workforce suffering an overabundance of non-communicable, degenerative diseases, and falling fertility rates along with increasing psychological and psychiatric problems and skyrocketing medical costs.
As degenerative diseases increase, Pharma increases its own profits as pharmaceutical drug sales climb in parallel with the increases in poor-diet induced, non-communicable diseases among the population. Calley claims US teenagers, showing symptoms of degenerative diseases forming in their bodies from eating a poor diet are like gold mines for Pharma, as throughout their lifespan Pharma can sell them the drugs they need to deal with the diseases they develop as they age.
These US health problems also apply in increasing rates to other industrialized and less developed countries including Barbados, as increasingly we see other countries like Barbados adopting an American, fast-food lifestyle and increasing numbers of underactive and overweight children in our schools and on the streets.
There are no differences between the American poison diet and that of Barbados.
Recall, those who here will kill for bonavis and rice, macaroni pie; no-added-sugar fruits like mangoes; starches like yams, sweet potatoes, casava, foods which are the same as sugar when converted, nuff meat which the body stores as fat but metabolizes as sugar; grains like wild rice, quinoa, millet, barley, amaranth, farro etc.
OSA said he liked his sweet food, like above, pun intended. But early death, metabolic syndrome diseases for years, warehousing in an almshouse, self-imposed multiple dismemberments, prolonged pain and suffering, a ward of big pharma for life, are only a few of the wages of sweet “mout” Bajans.
Barbados the amputation capital of the world. Starvation is far better than the constant triggering of an insulin response leading to insulin resistance.
These days it seems that we have to rely on comedians, like Russel Brand in this case, to bring to the surface and broadcast the deeper, underlying issues facing our modern societies, i.e. that our vaunted “democracies” are operated more like oligopolies where extremely rich and powerful interests exert a controlling interest over economics/finance, the political process, and mainstream media messaging.
upiDOTcom/Top_News/US/2014/04/16/The-US-is-not-a-democracy-but-an-oligarchy-study-concludes/2761397680051/
Could be that this unacknowledged role of comedians goes back to the old days when it was alleged that the court jesters could get away with telling a truth (in the form of a joke) that if spoken out loud by other less privelidged court members might have caused the unfortunate person to be banished from the court, or perhaps if the king was in a bad mood, to get his head removed from the neck.
As the late comedian George Carlin put it: “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
(Warning, this George Carlin video contains swearing)
youtubeDOTcom/watch?v=Nyvxt1svxso
Another comedian these days who has stepped up to the plate in the USA to broadcast to his growing internet and live audiences points of view that powerful and wealthy establishment interests would prefer to keep under wraps from the Joe and Jane Public “riff-raff” is Jimmy Dore, e.g.:
Hunter Biden’s Laptop Authenticated Despite Media Cover-Up (Jimmy Dore explains):
https://youtu.be/Q7mBgOQDxQo
Source: Nation
Pachamama on April 1, 2023 at 3:50 PM said:
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There are no differences between the American poison diet and that of Barbados.
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Who are the happiest people in America?
The Amish!!
Tied with the 400 richest people.
Eat and live healthy too!!
They typically have 6-7 children per family and their population doubles every 20 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOtx4bYV35M
If you are converting stored fat into sugar, I think it means that you are in need of ENERGY.
Unless everything I learnt has been turned on its head, glucose and fructose are where we get ENERGY. So, if we are alive and kicking, it is because some part of WHATEVER WE HAVE EATEN has arrived at the SUGAR STAGE.
The problem therefore, seems to be a problem of HOW MUCH, more so than WHAT we eat.
Of course, there are interactions and relationships between nutritional elements and our body that make it more complex than that. But Basic Nutrition for Laypersons (or dummies) amounts to variety and moderation.
We are not only the amputation capital of the world. We are also in the running for centenarian city. Ninety year olds are also in abundance. Many of them are in relatively good condition, considering their advanced age.
Most members of my family lived long and prospered on the traditional Bajan diet. Their suffering was relatively short. Deterioration and death is, of course, inevitable. We can only postpone it.
P.S. OSA was known for more POISONOUS daily dietary choices than “sweet food” He also loved to wash it down “well”.
The tale of his liver’s travails were on full facial display. I did not need knowledge of his nickname to conclude that there was an “Alleyne” in his life, near and dear to his heart.
If I had to select a suspect to blame for his “early” exit, it wouldn’t be pudding and souse pun a Saturday.
Tale WAS on display.