Originally published at: https://peakprosperity.com/food-and-the-great-awakening/
I’m pleased to announce that Peak Prosperity is going to be holding one of our world-famous, well-designed, information-packed and action-oriented webinars centered around food in November.
We’re already pretty busy with so many other vital pursuits; here’s why we’re doing this…
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In the United States, it has become clear that our merged corporate-government partnerships have been conspiring for decades to make us sick. Presumably they did this to boost their accumulation of USD currency units.
A sick person, and especially a sick child, is a lifetime of revenue for certain companies and would be marked as a “profit center” on the spreadsheets of pharma and hospital CFOs. The practice is as disgusting and as immoral as it sounds.
Culturally, something has clearly, obviously, desperately gone off the rails.
A society that cannot even muster up some alarm about poisoning its own children is perhaps not worth saving, but that’s a different conversation for a later time.
To begin this inquiry, the food industry actively and consciously deployed addiction specialists and scientists from the tobacco industry to engineer foods to be addictive. They did this by making them overly delicious and habit forming. By nailing the so-called “bliss spot” which is a precise ratio of fat, sugar and salt, our foods were weaponized against us and did so by hijacking our evolutionary wiring.
It was never a fair fight. Most of us struggle with our relationship to these food-like substances.
As Callie Means described recently on the Tucker Carlson Show:
In the 1990s, the two largest food companies in the world were R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris. What happened is when the Surgeon General, way too late in the 1980s, said cigarettes were maybe problematic. These were some of the largest companies in the world with the largest cash piles of any company in the world. So, they what they did is they used their cash piles to buy food companies. (…). They shifted their thousands of scientists, who were experts at making cigarettes addictive, to the food department.
So we had the rise of ultra processed food, where our food now is a science experiment. The second thing they did is they shifted their lobbying to the cigarette industry, of course, was the biggest, you know, lobbying spenders and very had a good playbook. They shifted their playbook on lobbying and rigging institutions of trust to food. So they created the food pyramid.
So the cigarette industry, through the food and companies they bought, paid off the FDA, the USDA, Harvard to create report saying sugar doesn’t cause obesity. And they lobbied for the food pyramid in the 1990s. We all remember which said, you know, animal based fats are bad, carbs are good. Remember, carbs and sugar were basically the base of the pyramid.
(Source at 10:30)
As Casey Means Explained so well, the cigarette companies weren’t chastened by finally being caught out killing their customers by hiding their product’s main defects from them. They spent no time wallowing in shame. Instead, they sought another business line where they could apply their expertise in leveraging addiction pathways and corrupting regulatory science and legal proceedings.
But that food pyramid that we all know so well? It’s a farce; a fabrication meant to promote an unhealthy set of eating practices that has no real science to back it up.
Here’s Casey Means taking the story a bit further:
The fastest growing industry in America right now isn’t I. It’s not tech, it’s health care. It’s the largest and fastest growing industry. And just as a statement of economic fact, the best thing for that industry is a child getting sick.
When a child gets sick or any American gets sick with a chronic condition with. Diabetes, obesity, kidney disease, heart disease, whatever, they go on a lifetime medication, they go on metformin, they go on statins, they have lifetime treatments and they keep racked up more co-morbidities. If you are diabetic, you have an average of four other comorbidities.
But you don’t die, you just suffer. You inevitably get infertility, and depression.
So that’s very good for the medical system to have these chronic conditions that need to be managed. Just from a pure economic standpoint, that’s how the system set up. That’s all happening largely because of our food system and other metabolic habits we can talk about, but largely because of our rise of ultra processed food that’s really, really hacking our cells and really hijacking our cells.
The system’s design is to (a) make people sick, (b) treat the symptoms of that sickness with pills, and (c) the send those people into hospitals where they are overcharged and poorly served.
Upon hearing this framing, my inner contrarian took over and said, “Heck no! If ‘they’ want me sick on their poisons, then by gum I’m going to do the opposite and become healthy!”
I’m stubborn that way.
If the Federal Reserve wants me to suffer the effects of inflation as a consequence of their endless currency printing then I’m going to hold gold, silver and land instead.
If the government wants me to be afraid and anxious, then I am going to achieve peace and inner harmony. I do this be being onto their ways and avoiding the worst of their propaganda and fear mongering.
If the FDA neglects to mention the importance of taking lots of vitamin D, then I’m going to take lots of Vitamin D.
And now, when it comes to food, it’s alarming and infuriating, but also empowering, to learn that our mainstay food industry is working against us in every possible way. Now that we know, we can do something about it.
But I wish I knew this a long time ago, when my kids were still children, so I could protect them better. I simply didn’t know how bad it was.
Since Covid I’ve learned many things. I’ve learned that the second group of excited executives belong to the Pharma industry which makes the vast bulk of its money and profits by treating the symptoms caused by eating all this toxic food.
Overeating carbs, a nearly unavoidable consequence of eating any ultra-processed foods, often leads to something called ‘metabolic syndrome’ which is a sordid collection of maladies that quite often present as a group.
Like Lay’s potato chips, “Nobody can have just one!”
For its part, the CDC was nowhere to be found as the largest, and most obvious and devastating health emergency ravaged the nation for the past three decades. While they were busy chasing down solitary cases of illness possibly caused by raw milk, people died by the literal millions of completely preventable disease:
Everything with a red rectangle around it in the above image is a metabolic disease.
Cancer too, you ask? Yes, cancer too. Paul Marik’s deep dive on that convinced me this was the case. Amazon striking his book down and blocking him from publishing any future books was confirmation that he is onto something important that will support better health and life.
That’s since been reversed after the FLCCC involved a high-powered lawyer, but science really shouldn’t need lawyers to remain on the bookshelves.
And before anybody says anything, no, I do not consider “Covid-19” to be a leading cause of death. That’s just some nonsense from the CDC. Healthy people don’t die from Covid – or at least so rarely as to be negligible – and it’s only people who have multiple comorbidities that “die with Covid.”
Which means, a “Covid death” in CDC terms is actually a metabolic disease death with Covid being the final fatal nudge to an already destabilized system.
As the above chart shows, metabolic syndrome begins early with fully 1/5th of people between the ages of 20-39 being afflicted, which rises to more than 3/5ths by the age of 60. That’s pretty bad.
But wait, it gets worse.
Beyond the metabolic disease caused by a grotesque imbalance of sugar, other carbohydrates, lipids and proteins, there are toxins to consider as well.
As the Food Babe Vani Hari points out constantly, US food stuffs have things in them that the EU never allowed and in many cases has banned for being cancer-causing and/or toxic to human health.
The US allows all sorts of industrially sourced dyes and exotic preservatives that the EU forbids. A bevy of preservatives, some of which are powerful enough to block molds and bacteria from consuming fast food for more than a decade, are ubiquitous in US “foods.”
Europe also has a vastly lower threshold for glyphosate residues in food than the US which, for some reason nobody can properly explain, allows to be sprayed on mature crops as a “desiccant” to speed up drying a bit to promote more consistent and speedy harvest cycles.
From there glyphosate enters the food supply chain and causes all sorts of gut biome disruption and all of the attendant ills that come from that including neurological, hormonal, autoimmune, and behavioral issues.
So What To Do?
The above is a very condensed list of the issues and the obvious corruption and moral rot at the heart of the food system, which has spread to most of the world.
Escaping those pitfalls and perils and reclaiming your health is as simple, and as hard, as eating better food.
Knowing that this is a difficult subject for many people, including myself, we’ve assembled a great cast of people to help simply the topic and make it as easy as possible to get started on your journey to better health and a longer life.
Obviously, health is the most important thing any of us have. Our children and grandchildren’s health are also of paramount concern.
If you are a parent or a grandparent concerned for the health of your family members, this webinar is being designed for you.
We’re all sick and tired of being sick and tired. So, it’s also being designed for people who are ready to no longer be The main goals of the webinar will be to spend just a little bit of time on the main framing of the problems (so that the uninitiated can follow along), but the rest of the time on success stories and assembled resources that you can draw upon to procure healthier food, guidance and support.
Our faculty for the webinar are still TBD, but we can say that it includes:
- Chris Martenson
- Tracy Thurman
- Ken Berry
- Peter Simonson (bone density and metabolic health)
- A variety of farmers and producers
- Success stories to motivate and show what’s possible
As well we’ll be doing our usual thing and assembling a “how do” list of suppliers and sources to help simplify and reduce the complexity of eating well. It really shouldn’t be as hard as it is, but it is.
Conclusion
Food represents one facet of The Great Awakening that is now upon us. Lifting our heads up groggily, we’ve noticed that our interlocking system of corporations and government have entirely lost the plot line.
They clearly do not have our best interest in heart and, worse, they are clearly incentivized to create more sickness and disease, not less.
Over time this has morphed into such a distorted labyrinth of falsehoods and customary practices that most doctors are entirely unaware of where the problems originate or how to do anything other than treat their symptoms.
We’re offering a root-cause analysis and set of actionable solutions.
It’s time to fight back.
They want you sick, we want you healthy.
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