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Just recently I've been thinking quite a bit more than usual about health and diet and it's probably because January has just finished And I have successfully completed another dry January, but I've also been watching my diet, not in a particularly restrictive way, but with a view to optimizing the benefits that we are told come from keeping off the sauce or the booze or the liquor or the alcohol, whatever you want to call it.
Just for background, I am NOT a heavy drinker, but I recognize that it is a bad habit, so I challenge myself to time out two or three times a year. To be honest, I don't find it that difficult, But ask me to give up tea and that would be a whole different proposition. Something I've tried is giving up milk in tea, cow's milk that is, because we're told that milk causes inflammation or makes it worse.
Now these are the benefits that supposedly accrue from cutting out dairy that is milk, cheese, butter, cream and yogurt, cutting those all of those out from the diet. Apparently it helps with weight loss. Well yes, okay, those things are fairly full of calories especially if they're full fat, but there's a big argument about full fat because we need fat in our diet.
Cutting out dairy improves digestive issues and it alleviates symptoms of IBS but you'd be seeking expert advice anyway if you suffered from irritable bowel syndrome, IBS, or Crohn's or anything like that. Obviously, anyone who is lactose intolerant will benefit from cutting out dairy. Lactose is the sugar in milk, and incidentally, humans are not supposed to be able to tolerate this.
It's as a result of a mutation that something like seventy five percent of us actually have no issue with lactose, and I'm one of the fortunate ones. No dairy might give you better skin. Teenagers with acne are worn off milk but there's no conclusive proof that it makes any difference. No dairy might help with balancing hormones. A particular hormone found in milk has been linked to three or four different cancers so cutting down could reduce that risk.
Cutting dairy could reduce bloating gas and stomach pain but it seems this refers to the lactose intolerant so they should be avoiding milk anyway. And it could treat brain fog. Well honestly one of the articles that I was where that I was reading in order to find out what the benefits of giving up dairy were was clearly struggling to find even half a dozen actual benefits.
Now I personally am very against the production of milk from huge industrial scale milk farms where cows appear to live miserable lives and they get separated from their calves way too early, and they rarely see real grass and so forth. And some of those industrial sized farms in America are just beyond belief. I think the cows are are held in extraordinarily uncomfortable positions and they are, often, suffering from mastitis and things like that.
So I made a commitment to stop, which meant no cow's milk in my tea. But I gave up on that great idea, I'm ashamed to say, because none of the substitutes, even oat milk which is the most palatable, they didn't really taste acceptable. They spoiled the taste, they spoiled my enjoyment of my cups of tea.
So I'm pretty close to concluding that the anti dairy brigade has well little or nothing to convince averagely healthy people to cut out dairy from the diet because well there are a great many good things to say about milk and of course milk products. They provide easy daily access to calcium, protein, vitamin d, and vitamin b twelve. Vegetarians frequently include eggs and dairy in their diet to provide essential nutrients easily without stress and fuss.
Vegans have to resort to supplements, and these folk are otherwise the most at risk from osteoporosis, which comes from lack of calcium and vitamin d. The next best source is canned fish, such as sardines, salmon, and tuna, all of which are avoided by vegans and vegetarians for obvious reasons, unless the vegetarian folks call themselves pescatarians. Now I am not today offering detailed dietary advice. That's not what I'm about.
But I'm interested in looking at the size and shape of individuals in Western societies, specifically The UK, The United States, and Australia, and noticing how much bigger and softer we have become in the last sixty years or so. How many people have you heard say something like, well, I never used to have to watch my weight, but in recent years I've just piled on the pounds. Children at school are much bigger than they used to be. They're taking less exercise.
They tend not to walk to school and cycle to school anymore for one reason or another, they're generally delivered by car and all these little things add up. There are less sports available, I believe, than they used to be. Oh and yes, the lockdowns were responsible for many of us stopping our regular exercise habit, so that didn't help with the overall position.
And for many, stepping up their alcohol consumption piled on the calories or the weight resulting from calories, and the average weight gain I read somewhere recently was 17 pounds between 2020 and 2022. Or maybe that was the typical weight gain, I'm I'm not certain and it doesn't really make that much difference. But I firmly believe that the problems began long before the lockdowns and that, here's a surprise, we have been lied to about the food that we're eating.
They, that is the powers that shouldn't be, they want us fat, apathetic, glued to our TV sets, too distracted to care about much more than reality TV pop concerts and football results or substitute with your particular choice of sport. There is so much wrong with the food that most of us eat on a daily basis. Why the reliance on convenience foods? Well it's because families rarely sit down together for meals and it's often because parents are both at work, often on different shifts for example.
And when there's only one of you, it has become natural to just grab something from the fridge or freezer, microwave it, and consume it together with a glass of wine or a sugary soft drink. And this goes particularly for kids, not the wine bit but the soft drinks, because these kids are often feeding themselves in the absence of a parent organizing fresh food for them. Back in the day, one salary was enough to raise a family of four to six kids.
This seems beyond belief now, but it used to be a lifestyle choice for the second parent to work. Now it's an absolute necessity in the majority of families. Just for convenience in speaking let me talk as if the second parent is mum. She in so many cases is managing the house which includes the laundry and looking after the kids clothes and doing the shopping as well as going out to work and she doesn't have time to cook from scratch. The kids don't want to eat salads in the winter.
They're a great summer quick fix, but then you often get comments like rabbit food and so forth because often dads train it into their kids because dads generally speaking are not that keen on salad either. So what's the answer? If it's not takeaways from a fast food joint, these places are not restaurants, then it's going to be a ready meal from the supermarket.
The additives and preservatives in those so called cook chill dishes might prolong shelf life, but I think they're slowly having the exact opposite effect on human life. Oh, and incidentally, I'm told that 20 30 year olds in the main don't even know how to cook a meal from scratch. You're probably aware that a bear will eat anything. All that's on his mind is fattening up ahead of hibernation time, but bears will not eat hamburgers from a certain well known fast food outlet.
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When I was at college, incidentally I was studying nutrition long before it was fashionable to do so, but I've been interested in it for as long as I can remember, I discovered to my cost that there were very few job opportunities back then despite all the hype about unlimited opportunity when I was selecting my degree. And to be honest I wasn't too bothered because I was on a teacher training grant so I was assured of employment well in that direction. Right? To resume.
It was at the time being rammed into the population generally that animal fats were killers and polyunsaturates were the way forward particularly with reference to a brand new solid margarine that was made from a seed oil, polyunsaturated. Now we know that polyunsaturated is poison and seed oils should be avoided at all costs. So what is it about seed oils?
They were supposed to be God's gift and rape seed oil when it was invented was meant to be the healthiest of the lot because it contained both omega three and omega six fats which were held out or the mix of the two was held out to be some sort of holy grail. Now we're told to avoid all seed oils but we're not told why. When you investigate, you learn that it's all in the processing. The ultra high temperatures involved kill every last vestige of nutrition.
And it makes perfect sense to me because seeds are meant to be planted not processed. I mean okay certain seeds like pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds, they're healthy in their entire form before they go through any kind of murder by ultra heat. All of these high intensity heat processes go against nature, against god's plans, and and the intention could be very suspect.
Incidentally the answer is to use animal fats butter, lard, even tallow and olive oil, coconut oil, in other words, tampered with vegetable oils, and, oh, one thing to bear in mind never ever use block margarine. That's the old fashioned margarine. It's got no nutrition in it at all and I read long ago that it's a byproduct of crude oil distillation. Hello, John d Rockefeller. I bet he's at the bottom of it. It's criminally harmful to health, yet it's still available in supermarkets.
And if you buy ready made cakes, biscuits, pastries, and so on, it is more than likely an ingredient in those because it's cheap. And such products are also likely to contain trans fats which are very very bad for our health. Oh this puts me in mind of cholesterol which we've been told about for years as being bad for us. We were told that there's good and bad cholesterol.
That's now considered rubbish, but it has fueled a dangerous industry whereby doctors peddle drugs called statins, because that's how doctors surgeries work. Whether they're private or NHS, it's all about dispensing drugs. Now my husband was very slim but nevertheless he had a cholesterol reading that was just above some arbitrary level and suddenly the goalposts were changed and his reading was now dangerously high quote unquote and hence the statin prescription.
But my husband whose health was already dodgy by then, and that's a whole different story, he recognized that the statins were making him feel downright peculiar and he dared to argue the case with his doctor. Wow. Doctors just can't handle it when you challenge them. They expect patients to quietly just do as they're told and this attitude pervades the whole of the NHS.
Even young nurses order patients around using at best the same tone as a teacher managing an unruly child and at worst of a prison officer controlling an inmate. Oh wow. So I'm only about halfway through what I have in my notes about health, so I think I'll stop right here. It's a good point to pause and I'll be continuing either next week or maybe the following one. I still have so much more to say about the lies and the hidden agendas, shall we say, in the food and health industry.
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