I talked to a 60-something woman who used to have extreme fibromyalgia problems last weekend. Estrogen came up, and she said her doctors had put her on it years ago. She was in the hospital within a week.
This was written by a harvard law student, and basically finds that the estrogen hucksters are criminally negligent.
My most recent blog post is the start of a series about problems with chemical birth control pills. I thought it'd be good to start out with why they're so expensive, but I've since realized that staying baby-free is much more important to most women than the cost, or the side effects...
... but it also prevents new bone from growing. Progesterone - the natural kind (progesterone USP), NOT the kind in birth control (Provera) that was studied in the Women's Health Initiative - is what helps new bone get laid down.
Progesterone is good on all counts. It's a hormone on its own, and the body converts it into other hormones, like testosterone and cortisol. This is why birth control takes away women's libido - fake progesterone ("progestins") CANNOT be converted into other hormones, which leads to a testosterone deficiency and low libido.
If you have puffy veins when you stand and raise your hands 30-degrees from your legs, or have varicose veins in your legs, you're probably progesterone-deficient... There are lots of symptoms that respond nicely to progesterone therapy.
The result of doing this for 80 years or so? Massive over consumption and over valuation of goods causing rippling global economic crisis... like the one we see now.
It would be more helpful to point out that our debt-based currency allows wealth to be concentrated in our financiers' bank accounts (the Federal Reserve is mostly owned by "Wall Street"), instead of more broadly among people who work for a living.
One of the reasons bodies make LDL cholesterol is to make pregnenolone. Pregnenolone gets turned into Progesterone or DHEA. Progesterone becomes Cortisol; DHEA becomes Testosterone, which gets turned into estrogen. Wikipedia has a nice flow chart somewhere... Progestogens, I think.
If the cholesterol -> pregnenolone conversion isn't working very well (because of hypothyroidism, or a lack of required vitamins), the liver pumps out more "base material" [LDL cholesterol] with the hope that more of the needed hormones will be produced.
Cloudy eyes has to do with a loss of order in the lens' proteins, possibly due to low energy (hypothyroidism). It's sorta like how a clear egg white turns white when it's cooked - the proteins lose order with the application of heat.
Two asides: Knee-capping the body's hormone system via Lipitor/Crestor is a crime against physiology. My father refuses to take Lipitor because he sees what it does to his patients. Mom goes along with what her doctor says, and figures her lack of energy is just "normal aging".
Chemical birth control (the ones that use prescription hormone disruptors) also interferes with the progesterone -> cortisol pathway, but doesn't much touch the DHEA->Testosterone->Estrogen pathway. Which leads to women having too much testosterone and estrogen in their bodies. The transformation takes a couple decades. My first post in that series isn't quite finished. Soon, though.:^)
The bank tellers like me, because I take them out of their drawers, and they don't have to count them at the end of the day.
The thing is that dollar bills are borrowed from Wall Street, while dollar coins are government-issued money. I don't think JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America should be trusted to make the economy's money supply, so I try to always carry a few government-issued dollars with me.
Doctors have a tendency to recommend things that only they can recommend: prescription drugs, surgery, etc. They figure if you could do it yourself you'd have already done it.
But there's an ancient treatment for sinus problems that works really well: nasal irrigation. Basically, you add 1/2 tsp salt to a cup of water, and flush that through your nasal cavity.
Wall Street's media was overjoyed when someone with parasites in their water supply recently died after they used their neti pot. So boil your water first if that's a problem where you live, mkay? (This is covered on the link above...)
Archer Daniel Midland was founded as a linseed-crushing business. Linseed oil and most of the seed industry's other products were used by the paint industry.
Then the paint industry figured out how to make their products from petroleum, and ADM became obsolete.
Around the same time, agribusiness was experimenting with thyroid poisons, to make their animals fatter with less feed. These were carcinogenic to the animals, and to the people who ate them too. But they found that corn and soybeans served essentially the same purpose, and that's how the meat industry switched to seeds. This is according to one of Ray Peat's articles...
Gary Johnson 2012. Mr. Johnson tried for the republican nomination, but the powers that be decided to exclude him from a bunch of debates, and his republican candidacy didn't get off the ground.
He was governor of New Mexico for... 8 years, and the libertarian party is organized enough to get him on all 50 states' ballots.
I think if he'd pick up some of those "reality sticks" lying around, his campaign would really beat the crap out of Obama and Romney (Wall Street's anointed candidate). I'd have him start with pointing out how our entire money supply is "borrowed from Wall Street". Then he could move on to point out how Wall Street rigs the health care industry to make it as expensive and ineffective as possible (Ex: Lipitor. Business Week had a story about 4 years ago about how no one actually benefits from knee-capping their body's cholesterol-generating mechanism...)
There is NOTHING good about the Taliban. They are bigoted narco-thugs who actively seek to erase any sign of civilization, law, and order in the attempt to eliminate opposition to their drug farming slavery campaigns.
I was under the impression that the Taliban stamped out narcotics farming in Afghanistan, whereas the U.S. military has completely ignored Afghan poppy farmers.
I'm sure the taliban are/were assholes, but they certainly were not "narco-thugs".
The return of poppy farming to Afghanistan probably has something to do with the plutocracy's need to profit from the drug trade.
Hmm... looks like they're going to add a $12.50 feet. wtf? I think it's stupid - it's not like they were losing money before. 250 dollar coins * 0.12/coin = $30 cost. Even if shipping cost $15, they'd still make $205 a box.
but no one's told them what to be righteously angry about.
If I had an audience with the protesters, I would point out the difference between a dollar bill and a dollar coin. Dollar bills represent money that the banking system (the Federal Reserve's shares are mostly owned by banks on Wall Street) has lent into circulation, and is collecting interest on, whereas Dollar Coins are debt-free money created by the government.
Excess estrogen (usually produced by adipose tissue, but sometimes from pesticides or other sources of xenoestrogen/phytoextrogen) is what causes man-boobs.
If you examine the flow chart at my link, you'd see that progesterone is easily converted into testosterone, so the right amount will make male astronauts who are starved for progesterone precursors more manly.
Postmenopausal women lose bones because they don't produce nearly as much progesterone as they used to, while they still produce some 40-60% of the estrogen they used to make. "Hormone Replacement Therapy" poisoned women by supplementing estrogen and a fake progesterone, Provera, which the body is unable to convert into other hormones.
Supplementing progesterone is a much better bone-salvager than bisphosphonates, but natural hormones can't get patented. Furthermore, you don't need a prescription for progesterone, because it is entirely safe at any dose (as compared to insulin, which is also available without a prescription, but which is exceedingly easy to overdose on), and was available before the 1930-something food & drug act went into effect (grandfathered in), and Doctors need to get people to come back for periodic appointments to get refills for prescriptions that only they can authorize.
Science has known for 40+ years than hypothyroidism causes elevated cholesterol levels (cholesterol is converted into pregnenolone, then to progesterone, then to the stress & sex hormones, but this conversion process does not work well if a person is hypothyroid), but there's more money in a patented pill than in properly treating thyroid problems. T4-only treatments with synthroid are not appropriate, because many bodies do not adequately convert storage T4 to the active T3. Because the medical profession does not adequately treat hypothyroidism, they assume that someone who's on synthroid is adequately treated, and make a lot of money treating the symptoms of hypothyroidism. Ahh, that doesn't make perfect sense but I'm pressed for time and can't craft the wording better right now, sorry.
diietary starches are more hazardous than sugars. Fruit is good, but the sugar in fudge (butter, cocoa, sugar) is better than cake (sugar, oil, flour).
Saturated fats are 1000x safer than polyunsaturated fats, especially fish oil.
Polyunsaturated fats help take out insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, somehow...
If anyone knows which experiment proved that unsaturated fats are actually "essential", please let me know, because I'm quite curious.
Germany's economic strength comes from having a most of the banking system's profits being reinvested in the country, according to Ellen Brown:
... However, there are other Western public banking models that are successful without oil booms. Europe has a strong public banking sector; and leading it is Germany, with eleven regional public banks and thousands of municipally-owned savings banks. Germany emerged from World War II with a collapsed economy that had degenerated into barter. Today it is the largest and most robust economy in the Eurozone. Manufacturing in Germany contributes 25% of GDP, more than twice that in the UK. Despite the recession, Germany’s unemployment rate, at 6.8%, is the lowest in 20 years. Underlying the economy’s strength is its Mittelstand—small to medium sized enterprises—supported by a strong regional banking system that is willing to lend to fund research and development.
In 1999, public banks dominated German domestic lending, with private banks accounting for less than 20% of the market, compared to more than 40% in France, Spain, the Nordic countries, and Benelux. Since then, Germany’s public banks have come under fire; but local observers say it is due to rivalry from private competitors rather than a sign of real weakness in the sector.
As precedent for a public option in banking, then, the German model deserves a closer look....
One of the neater things I've read about is how Lockheed Martin went back to Tesla's technology to make a communication system for miners:
A magnetic-wave generator developed by Nikola Tesla over 100 years ago as a wireless communication device has been updated by engineers at Lockheed Martin to save lives after mining disasters.
Magnetic waves -- unlike radio waves -- can penetrate hundreds of metres of solid rock. MagneLink, the fridge-sized device developed by Lockheed Martin, allows for phone calls and text messaging. It was tested this year at a mine in Virginia, and production is expected before 2011.
Did you hear how Mother Earth is creating a new island in the canaries?
She's got it in for us, I swear. Nothing like putting a blowtorch in the hidden depths of your oceans to screw with those gnats on the surface: "They think they're so important, I'll show them."
A lot of words there. Hope you like eating paint/stain (linseed oil, etc). Good luck with that. I'm going to stick to butter and other foods that humans have been eating for thousands of years.
Will concede to your point about cheap palm oil being a problem, but I would suspect this is more to the refining process (strips beta carotene) and the relatively high proportion of polyunsaturates (compared to butter/coconut oil) than anything else.
You may be interested in reading something by Dr. Ray Peat sometime. Perhaps you can answer his question about which experiment proved that polyunsaturated oils are "essential". I too would be interested, so please do drop an email if you know.
You've put some words in my mouth, and I disagree with some of your other points.
No argument here: varied diets with low to moderate intake of cholesterol, fats, and refined sugars are the way to go.
Cholesterol is important because it's what the hormones are made out of. There's a nice graphic on the "Progestogen" wikipedia page... Refined sugar isn't nearly as bad as starch. HFCS is undesirable because it's made from corn, and there can be significant contaminates.
Raw food diets are for idiots that want to spend money following trends. But eating uncooked meat is not good for you either.
I used to eat a lot of raw meat, and it never caused me any trouble, but neither did I notice much of a benefit. Agree that many ppl spend a lot of money on the "raw" trend...
To be fair; people that want to lose weight need to eat fewer calories than they burn. It doesn't matter if they eat cardboard or drink nothing but Mountain Dew. To lose weight healthfully is a bit more complicated.
Disagree. People can put on weight with 800 calories/day if they have poor thyroid function, for example. The thyroid gland does not respond favorably to the polyunsaturated oils.
Palm oil increases the risk of esophageal cancer. Asia has proven an wealth of information about how bad for us processed food is and palm oil is no exception; rates of esophageal cancer went from negligible to as-problematic-as-the-West as soon as it was introduced.
Palm oil comes from Asia and Africa, so it was never "introduced". Basically: Citation Required.
(For those that don't know, anything labeled "vegetable oil" probably contains palm oil.)
In the United States, Vegetable oil is always made from corn, soy, rapeseed, safflower, or a blend.
Polyunsaturated oils are not even remotely toxic in moderation.
Says who? I gave a link to "lipid peroxidation", which CANNOT happen when the fat is Saturated.
They are readily oxidized fats, making them a preferred energy source for bacteria in the gut.
IF you're an ruminant that has four stomachs, then your digestive system has time and space to biohydrogenate those nasty oils. If you're a single-stomach'd animal, your body fat composition generally reflects the type of fats in your diet
In return for eating these fats, they secrete all sorts of beneficial metabolites.
The premise is that most humans do better eating properly-raised dairy & meat than plant seeds and too many raw vegetables. Most plants need to be cooked because of the anti-nutrients. Even potatoes are problematic because they have so much starch - I can eat starch, but people who want to lose weight need to juice their potatoes and cook that.
Fruits are great, as long as they're not taken in excess.
Polyunsaturated oils have been proven to be toxic. Coconut oil is the best plant oil, even though it doesn't have vitamin A. Palm oil is pretty good, but we can get too much beta carotene (very high in unrefined palm oil) too.
... the polyunsaturated fatty acids or PUFAs in vegetable seed oils are the bane of human health — they actually cause cancer, diabetes, obesity, aging, thrombosis, arthritis, and immunodeficiencies. Their only appropriate use, he says, is as ingredients in paints and varnishes.
Besides the enzyme inhibitors, another poison in soybeans are the isoflavones, aka "phyto-estrogens". Estrogenic substances decrease the availability of oxygen and tell tissues to divide. Generally speaking, soybeans are only edible fermented, as a condiment. Cooking does not deactivate the isoflavones.
gelatin, for its limited range of benefits that can easily be found in plants, is rather controversial too, as its potential to transmit BSE/wiki/Gelatin#Safety_concerns [wikipedia.org] why not try some hempseed or flax seed instead? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp_seed [wikipedia.org]
Hempseed and flaxseed are rich sources of polyunsaturated fatty acides, which cause lipid peroxidation, thereby increasing a body's vitamin E requirements.
Potatoes and tubers are the best vegan source of protein. Sprouting seeds may make the protein in these items more usable, but you have to be careful. Protein deficiency (getting the wrong amino acids, etc) is insidious because it's so slow, and is easily confused for something else. Liver needs protein to do a lot of its jobs, etc...
Vegetarians like to say that they're getting all the protein they need. And by the numbers, beans and grains do have good amounts of protein... But these proteins are locked up for storage, and have Protease inhibitors to interfere with their digestion. Trypsin is what makes Soybeans so inedible...
Potatoes are the best vegan source of protein, because potatoes' defenses are against the microbes that cause rotting, whereas the above-ground portions of the plants have all sorts of defenses against animals.
Gelatin is a good source of protein because of the kinds of amino acids that it has, and does NOT have. The recent news about synthetic human gelatin is a bit more important than this form of synthetic meat, methinks.
The federal government gets a substantial part of every US worker's salary.
Wikipedia has this example tax computation for someone making $40,000/year... About 16% of this worker's wages are paid to the government. If you double the Social Security and Medicare portions (to account for the part the employer pays), this rises to 21%.
So the effective cost for the government to hire U.S. workers is substantially less than it is for the private sector.
Yes, they could hire 11,000 US workers to manufacture every single part, and save money overall.
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I talked to a 60-something woman who used to have extreme fibromyalgia problems last weekend. Estrogen came up, and she said her doctors had put her on it years ago. She was in the hospital within a week.
There's a PDF floating about the Estrogen Scam... Let's see... Ah, here it is:
The Rise and Fall of Estrogen Therapy: The History of HRT
This was written by a harvard law student, and basically finds that the estrogen hucksters are criminally negligent.
My most recent blog post is the start of a series about problems with chemical birth control pills. I thought it'd be good to start out with why they're so expensive, but I've since realized that staying baby-free is much more important to most women than the cost, or the side effects...
... but it also prevents new bone from growing. Progesterone - the natural kind (progesterone USP), NOT the kind in birth control (Provera) that was studied in the Women's Health Initiative - is what helps new bone get laid down.
Progesterone is good on all counts. It's a hormone on its own, and the body converts it into other hormones, like testosterone and cortisol. This is why birth control takes away women's libido - fake progesterone ("progestins") CANNOT be converted into other hormones, which leads to a testosterone deficiency and low libido.
If you have puffy veins when you stand and raise your hands 30-degrees from your legs, or have varicose veins in your legs, you're probably progesterone-deficient... There are lots of symptoms that respond nicely to progesterone therapy.
Oooh.. Nice explanation.
The result of doing this for 80 years or so? Massive over consumption and over valuation of goods causing rippling global economic crisis... like the one we see now.
It would be more helpful to point out that our debt-based currency allows wealth to be concentrated in our financiers' bank accounts (the Federal Reserve is mostly owned by "Wall Street"), instead of more broadly among people who work for a living.
One of the reasons bodies make LDL cholesterol is to make pregnenolone. Pregnenolone gets turned into Progesterone or DHEA. Progesterone becomes Cortisol; DHEA becomes Testosterone, which gets turned into estrogen. Wikipedia has a nice flow chart somewhere... Progestogens, I think.
If the cholesterol -> pregnenolone conversion isn't working very well (because of hypothyroidism, or a lack of required vitamins), the liver pumps out more "base material" [LDL cholesterol] with the hope that more of the needed hormones will be produced.
Cloudy eyes has to do with a loss of order in the lens' proteins, possibly due to low energy (hypothyroidism). It's sorta like how a clear egg white turns white when it's cooked - the proteins lose order with the application of heat.
Two asides: Knee-capping the body's hormone system via Lipitor/Crestor is a crime against physiology. My father refuses to take Lipitor because he sees what it does to his patients. Mom goes along with what her doctor says, and figures her lack of energy is just "normal aging".
Chemical birth control (the ones that use prescription hormone disruptors) also interferes with the progesterone -> cortisol pathway, but doesn't much touch the DHEA->Testosterone->Estrogen pathway. Which leads to women having too much testosterone and estrogen in their bodies. The transformation takes a couple decades. My first post in that series isn't quite finished. Soon, though. :^)
The bank tellers like me, because I take them out of their drawers, and they don't have to count them at the end of the day.
The thing is that dollar bills are borrowed from Wall Street, while dollar coins are government-issued money. I don't think JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America should be trusted to make the economy's money supply, so I try to always carry a few government-issued dollars with me.
Doctors have a tendency to recommend things that only they can recommend: prescription drugs, surgery, etc. They figure if you could do it yourself you'd have already done it.
But there's an ancient treatment for sinus problems that works really well: nasal irrigation. Basically, you add 1/2 tsp salt to a cup of water, and flush that through your nasal cavity.
Wall Street's media was overjoyed when someone with parasites in their water supply recently died after they used their neti pot. So boil your water first if that's a problem where you live, mkay? (This is covered on the link above...)
Archer Daniel Midland was founded as a linseed-crushing business. Linseed oil and most of the seed industry's other products were used by the paint industry.
Then the paint industry figured out how to make their products from petroleum, and ADM became obsolete.
Around the same time, agribusiness was experimenting with thyroid poisons, to make their animals fatter with less feed. These were carcinogenic to the animals, and to the people who ate them too. But they found that corn and soybeans served essentially the same purpose, and that's how the meat industry switched to seeds. This is according to one of Ray Peat's articles...
Gary Johnson 2012. Mr. Johnson tried for the republican nomination, but the powers that be decided to exclude him from a bunch of debates, and his republican candidacy didn't get off the ground.
He was governor of New Mexico for... 8 years, and the libertarian party is organized enough to get him on all 50 states' ballots.
I think if he'd pick up some of those "reality sticks" lying around, his campaign would really beat the crap out of Obama and Romney (Wall Street's anointed candidate). I'd have him start with pointing out how our entire money supply is "borrowed from Wall Street". Then he could move on to point out how Wall Street rigs the health care industry to make it as expensive and ineffective as possible (Ex: Lipitor. Business Week had a story about 4 years ago about how no one actually benefits from knee-capping their body's cholesterol-generating mechanism...)
Drug laws are a big one too...
There is NOTHING good about the Taliban. They are bigoted narco-thugs who actively seek to erase any sign of civilization, law, and order in the attempt to eliminate opposition to their drug farming slavery campaigns.
I was under the impression that the Taliban stamped out narcotics farming in Afghanistan, whereas the U.S. military has completely ignored Afghan poppy farmers.
I'm sure the taliban are/were assholes, but they certainly were not "narco-thugs".
The return of poppy farming to Afghanistan probably has something to do with the plutocracy's need to profit from the drug trade.
you can buy rolls of $1 coins from the mint for cost, free shipping...
Circulating $1 Coin Direct Ship Program
Hmm... looks like they're going to add a $12.50 feet. wtf? I think it's stupid - it's not like they were losing money before. 250 dollar coins * 0.12/coin = $30 cost. Even if shipping cost $15, they'd still make $205 a box.
but no one's told them what to be righteously angry about.
If I had an audience with the protesters, I would point out the difference between a dollar bill and a dollar coin. Dollar bills represent money that the banking system (the Federal Reserve's shares are mostly owned by banks on Wall Street) has lent into circulation, and is collecting interest on, whereas Dollar Coins are debt-free money created by the government.
This Bill was BORROWED from Wall Street.
Prgmr.com owner Luke Crawford has some diary entries at k5 where he talks about his business...
I've been happy customer of his for the past 2 years, so this comment is a vote for Luke.
Excess estrogen (usually produced by adipose tissue, but sometimes from pesticides or other sources of xenoestrogen/phytoextrogen) is what causes man-boobs.
If you examine the flow chart at my link, you'd see that progesterone is easily converted into testosterone, so the right amount will make male astronauts who are starved for progesterone precursors more manly.
HTH, hand.
Postmenopausal women lose bones because they don't produce nearly as much progesterone as they used to, while they still produce some 40-60% of the estrogen they used to make. "Hormone Replacement Therapy" poisoned women by supplementing estrogen and a fake progesterone, Provera, which the body is unable to convert into other hormones.
Supplementing progesterone is a much better bone-salvager than bisphosphonates, but natural hormones can't get patented. Furthermore, you don't need a prescription for progesterone, because it is entirely safe at any dose (as compared to insulin, which is also available without a prescription, but which is exceedingly easy to overdose on), and was available before the 1930-something food & drug act went into effect (grandfathered in), and Doctors need to get people to come back for periodic appointments to get refills for prescriptions that only they can authorize.
Science has known for 40+ years than hypothyroidism causes elevated cholesterol levels (cholesterol is converted into pregnenolone, then to progesterone, then to the stress & sex hormones, but this conversion process does not work well if a person is hypothyroid), but there's more money in a patented pill than in properly treating thyroid problems. T4-only treatments with synthroid are not appropriate, because many bodies do not adequately convert storage T4 to the active T3. Because the medical profession does not adequately treat hypothyroidism, they assume that someone who's on synthroid is adequately treated, and make a lot of money treating the symptoms of hypothyroidism. Ahh, that doesn't make perfect sense but I'm pressed for time and can't craft the wording better right now, sorry.
diietary starches are more hazardous than sugars. Fruit is good, but the sugar in fudge (butter, cocoa, sugar) is better than cake (sugar, oil, flour).
Saturated fats are 1000x safer than polyunsaturated fats, especially fish oil.
Polyunsaturated fats help take out insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, somehow...
If anyone knows which experiment proved that unsaturated fats are actually "essential", please let me know, because I'm quite curious.
Germany's economic strength comes from having a most of the banking system's profits being reinvested in the country, according to Ellen Brown:
One of the neater things I've read about is how Lockheed Martin went back to Tesla's technology to make a communication system for miners:
Heres another link: Tapping Tesla to Save Trapped Miners
If Tesla was 100 years ahead of everyone else, that means we should be plugging our devices into the Aether ("The wheelwork of nature") soon.
Did you hear how Mother Earth is creating a new island in the canaries?
She's got it in for us, I swear. Nothing like putting a blowtorch in the hidden depths of your oceans to screw with those gnats on the surface: "They think they're so important, I'll show them."
A lot of words there. Hope you like eating paint/stain (linseed oil, etc). Good luck with that. I'm going to stick to butter and other foods that humans have been eating for thousands of years.
Will concede to your point about cheap palm oil being a problem, but I would suspect this is more to the refining process (strips beta carotene) and the relatively high proportion of polyunsaturates (compared to butter/coconut oil) than anything else.
You may be interested in reading something by Dr. Ray Peat sometime. Perhaps you can answer his question about which experiment proved that polyunsaturated oils are "essential". I too would be interested, so please do drop an email if you know.
You've put some words in my mouth, and I disagree with some of your other points.
No argument here: varied diets with low to moderate intake of cholesterol, fats, and refined sugars are the way to go.
Cholesterol is important because it's what the hormones are made out of. There's a nice graphic on the "Progestogen" wikipedia page... Refined sugar isn't nearly as bad as starch. HFCS is undesirable because it's made from corn, and there can be significant contaminates.
Raw food diets are for idiots that want to spend money following trends. But eating uncooked meat is not good for you either.
I used to eat a lot of raw meat, and it never caused me any trouble, but neither did I notice much of a benefit. Agree that many ppl spend a lot of money on the "raw" trend...
To be fair; people that want to lose weight need to eat fewer calories than they burn. It doesn't matter if they eat cardboard or drink nothing but Mountain Dew. To lose weight healthfully is a bit more complicated.
Disagree. People can put on weight with 800 calories/day if they have poor thyroid function, for example. The thyroid gland does not respond favorably to the polyunsaturated oils.
Palm oil increases the risk of esophageal cancer. Asia has proven an wealth of information about how bad for us processed food is and palm oil is no exception; rates of esophageal cancer went from negligible to as-problematic-as-the-West as soon as it was introduced.
Palm oil comes from Asia and Africa, so it was never "introduced". Basically: Citation Required.
(For those that don't know, anything labeled "vegetable oil" probably contains palm oil.)
In the United States, Vegetable oil is always made from corn, soy, rapeseed, safflower, or a blend.
Polyunsaturated oils are not even remotely toxic in moderation.
Says who? I gave a link to "lipid peroxidation", which CANNOT happen when the fat is Saturated.
They are readily oxidized fats, making them a preferred energy source for bacteria in the gut.
IF you're an ruminant that has four stomachs, then your digestive system has time and space to biohydrogenate those nasty oils. If you're a single-stomach'd animal, your body fat composition generally reflects the type of fats in your diet
In return for eating these fats, they secrete all sorts of beneficial metabolites.
Never heard of this. Link?
The premise is that most humans do better eating properly-raised dairy & meat than plant seeds and too many raw vegetables. Most plants need to be cooked because of the anti-nutrients. Even potatoes are problematic because they have so much starch - I can eat starch, but people who want to lose weight need to juice their potatoes and cook that.
Fruits are great, as long as they're not taken in excess.
Polyunsaturated oils have been proven to be toxic. Coconut oil is the best plant oil, even though it doesn't have vitamin A. Palm oil is pretty good, but we can get too much beta carotene (very high in unrefined palm oil) too.
hth. :)
Besides the enzyme inhibitors, another poison in soybeans are the isoflavones, aka "phyto-estrogens". Estrogenic substances decrease the availability of oxygen and tell tissues to divide. Generally speaking, soybeans are only edible fermented, as a condiment. Cooking does not deactivate the isoflavones.
gelatin, for its limited range of benefits that can easily be found in plants, is rather controversial too, as its potential to transmit BSE /wiki/Gelatin#Safety_concerns [wikipedia.org] why not try some hempseed or flax seed instead?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp_seed [wikipedia.org]
Hempseed and flaxseed are rich sources of polyunsaturated fatty acides, which cause lipid peroxidation, thereby increasing a body's vitamin E requirements.
Potatoes and tubers are the best vegan source of protein. Sprouting seeds may make the protein in these items more usable, but you have to be careful. Protein deficiency (getting the wrong amino acids, etc) is insidious because it's so slow, and is easily confused for something else. Liver needs protein to do a lot of its jobs, etc...
Vegetarians like to say that they're getting all the protein they need. And by the numbers, beans and grains do have good amounts of protein... But these proteins are locked up for storage, and have Protease inhibitors to interfere with their digestion. Trypsin is what makes Soybeans so inedible...
Potatoes are the best vegan source of protein, because potatoes' defenses are against the microbes that cause rotting, whereas the above-ground portions of the plants have all sorts of defenses against animals.
Gelatin is a good source of protein because of the kinds of amino acids that it has, and does NOT have. The recent news about synthetic human gelatin is a bit more important than this form of synthetic meat, methinks.
The federal government gets a substantial part of every US worker's salary.
Wikipedia has this example tax computation for someone making $40,000/year... About 16% of this worker's wages are paid to the government. If you double the Social Security and Medicare portions (to account for the part the employer pays), this rises to 21%.
So the effective cost for the government to hire U.S. workers is substantially less than it is for the private sector.
Yes, they could hire 11,000 US workers to manufacture every single part, and save money overall.
There, fixed that for you. :)
Interesting, thanks for the details.
CO2 is protective too - I wonder why it's not used more frequently.