[AGL] Two hours of life style therapy...

[Frances Morey]

It is no mystery that the reason it took 30 years for doctors to recommend
that their patients quit smoking was because the doctors themselves smoked.
Thirty years and 3000 scientific studies found it to be unhealthy but
that's how long it took for the government to declare it unhealthy and for
doctors to stop recommending smoking as a health measure.

Now it has to do with doctors themselves eating all the meat and dairy
products of the Standard American Diet. Since Nixon asked Big Food, "What
do we have to do to get food prices to stabilize to avoid losing
elections?" the answer to that question was "Deregulation"! Since then
deregulation and cutting taxes became the mantra of the Republican Party,
and sometimes even the Democratic Party paid attention to the needs of the
food producers. Yet the outcome for the last 40 years or so was that the
obesity curve took off at a 45 degree angle since then and now Big Food
Lobbyists are the most plentiful on K street.

One reason that we can't make reducing meat industry subsidies a political
issue is that the first primary is in Iowa, aka Corn Country. Most of the
corn grown by the US agricultural industry is going to feed animals for
people to eat cheaply. But it is hardly cheap for the society in terms of
health care costs from the fact that meat products have overtaken all food
products. This is an economic and health care disaster. Three quarters of
the population is now obese/diabetic. Some 72% of the volunteers to the
military are rejected due to their weight and ill health. Not even the
military can afford to deliver health care to their soldiers given the
Standard American Diet. This is Sputnik, a national security problem. But
it is getting no traction in the political arena.

Best,
Frances

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 9:22 AM Byron Allen Black <
englishcorrection at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah Frances,
>
> I was just thinking, the other day: how many seasoned medical
> professionals will stand up to a wealthy, stubborn patient and tell them
> "God damn it, Henry, if you keep eating meat and eggs and butter you will
> be dead in six months. Hell, a year at the outside."
>
> No, at best he'll do some mealy-mouthed "Now Henry, you have had a
> quadruple bypass and you're only sixty-two. Don't you think it might be a
> little wiser for you to cut back a little on the fatty meat and cholesterol
> foods?"
>
> (Or am I all out-of-date on this?)
>
> One of those brilliant doctors on YouTube was complaining that a heart
> specialists' convention planned to be held in Georgia was to be sponsored
> by ... a Cattlemen's Association!
>
>
> On Mon, 31 May 2021 at 01:03, Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> https://youtu.be/BGcU9wy8_Dw
>>
>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
>> Windows 10
>>
>>
>> Hi, dear ones,
>>
>> I’m happy to devote two hours of this long Memorial Day weekend to this
>> enlightening Rich Roll interview of Dec. 16, 2018. Lifestyle medicine is a
>> somewhat recent development.
>>
>> Dr. Dean Ornish is a splendid repository of scientific evidence that
>> lifestyle consideration must be paid attention for health reasons not--just
>> of our individual survival but in broader quality of life terms for
>> population success.
>>
>> Best,
>> Frances
>>
>>
>>
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