The Original 7 Wonders Of The World: The Food Pyramid

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“After a century of scientific nutrition, public nutritional policies are doing approximately as much harm as good, and they are getting worse faster than they are getting better.” -Ray Peat​

 

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“First a person who is chronically sick and malnourished just doesn’t have much energy and stamina to study and be critical, so first you just have to stop poisoning yourself by eating what the govt. and dietitians are selling as a healthful diet. And once you have the strength to, to read and think, then you realise who is doing what to you..."’

Food as a tool for political change

Wanted to share another snippet of Ray's that I've listened to many times over: “First a person who is chronically sick and malnourished just doesn’t have much energy and stamina to study and be critical, so first you just have to stop poisoning yourself by eating what the govt. and dietitians...

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“Although, as the 21st century begins, the US government hasn't decided whether to classify estrogen as a carcinogen, it was identified as a carcinogen in the first half of the 20th century--and a variety of carcinogens were found to be estrogenic.” -Ray Peat

 

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“In the last several years, according to the medical literature estrogen would seem to have outgrown nearly all of its bad traits. It protects the brain, the heart, the blood vessels, even the fetus, and it prevents many kinds of cancer, and improves memory, mood, and immunity. And it would still seem to be of great promise in treating breast cancer and prostate cancer, if we took some medical journals seriously. It achieves many of these nice things by functioning as an antioxidant and by increasing circulation, often acting through nitric oxide and serotonin or melatonin. Even though I have read thousands of the articles that said otherwise, the near unanimity of the current research literature can almost give me the feeling that things might not be exactly as they had seemed.

In fact they aren't, but the change is in what passes for science, rather than in the way organisms respond to estrogen. Many little pictures are being presented, that seem to add up to a very different big picture. It is clear that this new picture is being painted by those who fund the research, and by some of those whose careers depend on that funding. The people who do the odd little studies of estrogen and cytokines, nitric oxide, regulatory genes, and so on, are usually getting the data they claim to get, and if they draw speculative conclusions about what their study means medically, that's their privilege. But hundreds of these little publications that would be harmless individually, add up to national policy endorsed by the FDA and other powerful agencies--they add up to the same sort of criminal conspiracy that the tobacco industry and its researchers perpretrated throughout the twentieth century.

Journals that are considered to be the best in their field publish many papers that simply misrepresent some of the basic facts, while interpreting experimental results that would otherwise have unpleasant commercial implications.” -Ray Peat​

 

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“Breathing pure oxygen lowers the oxygen content of tissues; breathing rarefied air, or air with carbon dioxide, oxygenates and energizes the tissues; if this seems upside down, it's because medical physiology has been taught upside down. And respiratory physiology holds the key to the special functions of all the organs, and to many of their basic pathological changes.” -Ray Peat

 

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“When a fertilized egg is developing into a person, each cell division creates a new environment for the daughter cells, to which they adapt. They may run into limits and resistances (sometimes a certain gene doesn't meet the need of the situation, or toxins are present, or nutrients and hormones are imperfectly supplied), but the process is flexible, and a way is normally found to get around the limitation. The embryo's brain development is my favorite example of the ways genes interact with the environment. We might think of the "optimal brain development" of a person, or a rat, or a chicken, as something which is clearly limited by "the genes." But if rats are given a stimulating environment, each generation gets a slightly bigger, slightly more intelligent brain.” -Ray Peat

 

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“Professors often make a strong impression on their students, but, especially in technical or scientific fields, they usually do this by controlling the discourse, so that radical questioning is excluded. What they don’t know “isn’t knowledge.” Under the pressure of “getting a professional education,” students appreciate organizing principles and mnemonic devices, but this gives traditional ways of systematizing knowledge tremendous power that, in practice, is far more important than mere experimental results. (Experiments that don’t acknowledge the ruling metaphors are almost universally considered inadmissable, unpublishable.)” -Ray Peat

 

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“Just after the beginning of the century, Thomas Edison was helping to popularize x-rays, but the horrible death of his chief technician turned Edison into an enemy of the technology. By the 1940s, the dangers of radiation were coming to be understood by the general public, and it was only the intervention of the US government, to popularize atomic bombs and nuclear power, that was able to reverse the trend.” -Ray Peat

 

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At the 5:58 minute mark, in this Ray Peat interview, posted by @Warrior elsewhere, the food pyramid is mentioned as being designed to destabilize a person….


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuSfV43Quuo

 

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“In determining criminal or civil legal responsibility, the concept "should have known" is recognized and used. In science, which is all about knowing, there is certainly a responsibility to be informed when the subject involves the life and health of millions of people. The science establishment of government and industry should be held responsible for the information it hides, destroys, or ignores for its own benefit. The US government has an agency for prosecuting research fraud, but the concept is applied so narrowly as to be meaningless, when deception has become the rule. And since it controls the court system, govenment agencies and their functionaries won't be prosecuted, even when their crimes become well known.” -Ray Peat

 

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“Many nutrition charts no longer list liver as a good source of vitamin E, but a large portion of an animal’s vitamin E is in its liver. This bias in the dietetic literature can be traced to various sources, but a major influence was the campaign in the 1970s by the drug companies that had patented new forms of synthetic “vitamin A.” They had physicians and professors fabricate stories about the great toxicity of natural vitamin A, and placed the stories in national magazines, to clear the field for their supposedly non-toxic products, which have turned out to be disastrously toxic. The result is that many people have fearfully stopped eating liver, because of its vitamin A. The other vitamins in liver, including vitamin K, function very closely with vitamin E, and the stably stored forms of vitamin E are likely to be a good approximation for our needs.” -Ray Peat