And Their Minions
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I had not seen this update from a few months ago until now so maybe neither did you. Do we believe it?
From americanfaith.com:
GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy has won his lawsuit against the World Economic Forum (WEF) after the organization labeled him one of their “Young Global Leaders.”
“I’ve been the leading opponent in America of the World Economic Forum’s agenda, through two books & my most recent company Strive which finally put BlackRock & the ESG movement on their back foot. Two years ago, WEF tried to throw false bait by naming me a ‘Young Global Leader’ when I explicitly rejected their ridiculous award,” Ramaswamy said.
The White House released plans to convert massive commercial properties into affordable housing. Along with promoting energy efficiency and “zero emissions conversions” — classic technocrat dictates — the “much-needed housing” will provide more room to house the influx of illegal immigrants1 being driven into the U.S. by drug cartels.
In the October 2023 fact sheet, which touts the developments as “transit-oriented” and a method to “increase housing supply,” it’s stated:2
“[T]he Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new actions to support the conversion of high-vacancy commercial buildings to residential use, including through new financing, technical assistance, and sale of federal properties.
These announcements will create much-needed housing that is affordable, energy efficient, near transit and good jobs, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, nearly 30 percent of which comes from the building sector.”
Paving the Way for a Surveilled, Green ‘Utopia’
The White House announcement is peppered with Great Reset buzzwords, like “clean energy economy” and “zero emissions housing,” and echoes the agendas being pushed by globalists.
The Green New Deal (Green Agenda), “Build Back Better,” the Fourth Industrial Revolution3 (the transhumanist movement) and The Great Reset, officially introduced by World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab and then-Prince Charles in June 20204 — all exist to further and facilitate the implementation of Agenda 21.
Agenda 21 (Agenda for the 21st Century) is the inventory and control plan for all land, water, minerals, plants, animals, construction, means of production, food, energy, information, education and all human beings in the world. The European Green Deal is more of the same — introduced by the European Commission in December 20195 to, in part, replace fossil fuels with “cleaner” energy sources.
The White House cites data showing that office vacancies are at a 30-year high,6 straining local economies, while affordable housing is lacking and communities are looking for ways to cut emissions from buildings and transportation. Vacant commercial properties will be repurposed into affordable housing that will be close to transportation, “green,” and ideal for building the smart cities that take away your privacy and autonomy and allow for further surveillance and control.
The proposal aligns with the Great Reset agenda,7 which suggests shared goals, such as equality and sustainability, should be at the heart of government and private investments, and rather than funneling government recovery funds and economic-stimulus funding to “fill cracks in the old system,” these should be used to “create a new one that is more resilient, equitable, and sustainable in the long run.”
Schwab added, “This means, for example, building ‘green’ urban infrastructure and creating incentives for industries to improve their track record on environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics.”8
It all sounds well and good, except, as Technocracy News reported in June 2020, “the promised Utopia comes with a price — it sets shackles on our personal freedom …”9 This could certainly be the case for those living in these affordable, green, smart cities.
As investigative journalist Corey Lynn tweeted, “Here we go … Converting/rezoning commercial buildings to net zero multiuse residential to fill up those abandoned buildings in cities and build their dream smart cities (and likely make room for illegal immigrants), complete with a 54-page guidebook.”10
The required sacrifices do not apply to the technocrats running the system, however, so ultimately The Great Reset will result in two tiers or people: the technocratic elite, who have all the power and rule over all assets, and the rest of humanity, who have no power, no assets and no say-so in anything.
Why Zero Emissions Has a Dark Side
Zero emissions housing sounds like a good thing on the surface. But the notion can be traced back to decades’ old plans to implement a totalitarian future. In order to establish a new world order, there need to be problems that are global in scope. One of the problems, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, was the environment.
In 1972, a United Nations meeting about climate change was held to come up with a plan to manage the planet in a sustainable manner. This led to the creation of Agenda 21.11 In 2019, WEF entered into a strategic alliance with the United Nations, which called for the UN to “use public-private partnerships as the model for nearly all policies that it implements, most specifically the implementation of the 17 sustainable development goals, sometimes referred to as Agenda 2030.”12
Agenda 2030 is aimed at reducing middle-class’ consumption of basic goods and energy, which includes limiting, with an eye toward eliminating, property rights and private ownership for future generations, along with targeting such “luxuries” as ownership of electric appliances and motor vehicles along with suburban housing and air conditioning.13
It’s easy to see how turning high-vacancy commercial spaces into high-density housing fits right into this plan.
How Smart, Net Zero Mandates May Steal Your Autonomy
A practical example of how privacy may gradually disappear in these converted commercial spaces is the likely installation of smart devices in the residences. With each smart device that you welcome into your home — such as connected alarm clocks, vehicles, refrigerators and doorbells — another layer of your personal life is revealed.
This is certainly true of smart meters, which are officially known in the U.S. as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) installations. In 2020, 102.9 million such smart meters were installed by U.S. electric utilities, about 88% of them in personal residences.14 AMI meters measure and record electricity usage at least every hour, if not more, and provide the data to the utility company and consumer at least once a day.
They’re also capable of distinguishing what type of energy you’re using. So, they know if you’re doing a load of laundry, watching TV or have left your home for the day. While this might not sound nefarious on the surface, it’s an intensely personal form of surveillance — one that could easily be used against you, including to ration your energy. Journalist Abby Martin explained:15
“If the notion about what you are doing and when you are doing isn’t disturbing enough – it’s worse. These devices are capable of regulating, controlling and even rationing your energy use. Take this example, you are running your fans in the hot summer months and the power company decides you are using too much power, they will take it upon themselves to lower it regardless of the consumer willing to pay for the extra usage.”
Technocrats such as BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Bill Gates are among those pushing for “net zero” carbon emissions.16 The deadline Gates has given to reach net zero emissions is 2050,17 and smart meters are already being positioned as an essential part of this plan.18
Are They Making Room for the Cartel’s Migrant Mobs?
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), some 1.7 million illegals flowed across the southern border into the U.S. in 2021, another 2.4 million in 2022 and nearly 1.8 million as of August 2023.19
Many of them have been sent by drug cartels, law enforcement sources told The New York Post, under the false impression that anyone waiting for an immigration appointment through the CBP One app can get asylum if they turn themselves in.20 According to The New York Post:21
“Drug cartels are besieging the border by deliberately sending thousands of migrants a day to hand themselves over to Border Patrol officers in different US border towns, sources revealed to The Post. The tactic is meant to tie up already overworked border agents so Mexico’s cartels can carry on their drug and human smuggling operations undisturbed in less populated areas, law enforcement officials explained.
… ‘The way it’s being orchestrated through the cartels, I believe it’s meant to overwhelm the system. The [places] that are being impacted the most are border communities,’ former El Paso City Councilmember Claudia Rodriquez told The Post.”
Kidnapping is another issue. Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission has warned that drug cartels “found the kidnapping and extortion of migrants to be lucrative.” With the number of migrants reaching the border tripling over the last two decades, criminal groups have taken over migration routes, putting children and families at extreme risk.22
Speaking with NBC News, Nilda García, a researcher at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, explained, “It is very difficult for these groups to pass up this profit, this opportunity to earn money with migrants. Kidnappings are one more layer of its structure … They are very well organized. Sometimes they have military training and access to high-caliber weapons to terrorize migrants.”23
Is Immigration Intended to Beak Down Nationalism?
The video above features Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mini-documentary “Midnight At the Border,” in which he travels to the U.S.-Mexico border in Yuma, Arizona, to investigate the illegal immigration issue firsthand.
The uncontrolled influx of illegals also puts an enormous strain on local communities, all of which have limited resources. In May 2023, NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced that nearly half of all NYC hotel rooms were occupied by illegal immigrants.24 The city is reportedly reimbursing hotels more than $300 a night per room,25 which means taxpayers are paying, while the city is slashing services in an effort to balance the budget.
Massive tent cities are also being set up to deal with the migrant influx.26 Is the conversion of office buildings to housing the White House’s “solution” to this crisis? Ultimately, it gives the global cabal one more win in its war against the sovereignty of humanity — and sovereign nations.
As Ivor Cummins, a biochemical engineer with a background in medical device engineering and leading teams in complex problem-solving, explains, “There’s … a massive change in immigration … it has been many times identified as a way of breaking down nationalism … the United Nations … made it clear we need to destroy national, we need to destroy sovereign nations …”27
Sources and References
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As early as the 1970s, the late Adelle Davis blamed processed foods for the “appalling amount of sickness in America.” Americans’ diets have only deteriorated since then, as the food industry promotes more and more processed foods over real, whole food.
Story at a glance:
The late Adelle Davis, who passed away in 1974, was my first mentor in nutrition. She’s known as the most famous — and controversial — nutritionist in the early to mid-20th century.
Her first publication was a 1932 promotional pamphlet for milk. Between 1935 and 1965, she wrote several books, four of which were written for the public: “Let’s Cook It Right,” “Let’s Have Healthy Children,” “Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit,” and “Let’s Get Well.” Some 10 million copies of these four books were sold during her lifetime.
I purchased all of her books and read them in the ’70s. As my first nutrition mentor, she was my inspiration to adopt a healthy diet. Of course, my concept evolved quite dramatically over time, from fasting and low-carb eating to my current adoption of Ray Peat’s Bioenergetic principles that include loads of ripe fruit and avoidance of all fasting.
Was she right about everything? No, but she was correct about many of the foundational nutrition basics and was far ahead of her time on many issues.
The 50-year-old Associated Press interview below gives you a taste of her down-to-earth, commonsense approach.
Davis seeded the whole food movement
Davis basically seeded the modern health food movement, the whole food movement in particular. That was her key advice. Just eat real, whole foods, nothing processed or refined.
Davis grew up on a farm, studied home economics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and later got a degree in dietetics from the University of California at Berkeley.
After that, she moved to New York City, where she worked as a hospital dietician. She told the AP she became “very disillusioned” by this work experience. She’d entered the field thinking she would “make people healthy with good nutrition,” but instead, they were feeding patients “diets that were just horrible.”
She understood that whole foods are the key to good health — whole grains, whole milk, eggs, meats and organ meats, fruits and vegetables.
Today, however, we’ve come to realize that grains and certain vegetables can be highly problematic for many, even when cooked from scratch, due to their naturally high content of linoleic acid and/or anti-nutrients, and the fact that undigestible fermentable carbs promote endotoxin production.
Granted, back then grains weren’t as loaded with gut-destroying chemicals like glyphosate, and they weren’t genetically modified organisms (GMO).
The first GMOs didn’t emerge until the 1990s. Genetically engineered glyphosate-resistant grains are loaded with glyphosate, and most processed foods are now made with GMOs.
That said, her overall message is as correct now as it was then. For good health, you need REAL food, and to keep virtually all processed foods out of your diet. The rest largely comes down to individual sensitivities and circumstances.
“Just [eat] natural foods … Nothing refined. It’s that simple,” she told the AP.
‘Appalling amount of sickness’
In the interview, Davis laments about the “appalling amount of sickness in America” — and that was in 1974, a time when the obesity rate was a mere 6.2% when only 25% were considered overweight, the diabetes rate among people under 45 was in the single digits, and 87.1% of Americans self-reported being in good to excellent health!
Today, the obesity rate is at 41.9% and another 30.7% are overweight; 11.3% across age groups have Type 2 diabetes, and 45% of Americans have at least one chronic disease.
One wonders what she’d have to say about the state of public health today!
A key part of her message was that refined foods lack essential vitamins and minerals. She was among the first to emphasize the importance of trace minerals for good health, and she warned about the destruction of soils. “If these minerals are not in the soil, they won’t be in the plants grown in the soil,” she said.
Davis also stressed the importance of B vitamins, which she encouraged people to get from whole foods. She was also among the first to recognize the hazards of refined sugar and hydrogenated fats (i.e., seed oils or vegetable oils).
Davis believed “a great deal” of the health problems of her day, including mental health problems, were related to refined foods — the early versions of today’s processed and ultra-processed foods — as nutrients like vitamins, minerals and healthy fats are removed during the processing, and then sugars and hydrogenated trans fats are added in.
Indeed, I’ve become convinced that excessive seed oil consumption is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, contributors to chronic disease in the Western world. I recently published a review paper on the hazards of linoleic acid in the high-impact nutrition journal Nutrients, which is available for free download.
Propaganda has led us astray
Interestingly, back then, Davis realized that a major part of the problem was the food industry’s power over medical education.
Then, as now, nutrition was hardly taught, and what little medical professionals did learn was far from accurate, as the curriculum was largely created by the processed food industry, which of course can never find a problem with any of its products, no matter how unnatural they are.
Davis once stated:
“If this country is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth but not health.”
In the interview, she again referred to food advertising as false and misleading propaganda, saying:
“We’ve been told that certain cereals builds champions when it did not. You feed it to rats and they die.”
Processed foods are killing people prematurely
Indeed, since Davis’ days, eliminating traditional whole foods in favor of more processed foods has been shown to promote obesity, cardiovascular diseases, Type-2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, depression and all-cause mortality.
Overall, processed foods may kill more people prematurely than cigarette smoking.
Processed food is also a major contributor to cancer. A 2018 study published in The BMJ, which included 104,980 participants followed for an average of five years, found that each 10% increase in ultra-processed food intake raised the cancer rate by 12%.
This works out to nine additional cancer cases per 10,000 people per year. The risk of breast cancer, specifically, went up by 11% for every 10% increase in ultra-processed food.
The World Economic Forum now wants to “improve” the food system by further increasing processed foods in the human diet and, as they put it, processing foods in “ways that are better for our health,” such as “fortification (or biofortification) — where nutrients are engineered in, either in the biology or manufacture of food — and the significant reformulation of current foods for fewer calories and more nutrients.”
3D-printed meat and insects are also being suggested to take the place of real meat.
According to the WEF, “‘Ultra-processed foods’ need not be unhealthy,” but these claims have no foundation in reality.
Ultimately, these kinds of ultra-processed alternative protein sources will only decimate public health further.
A nutritionist ahead of her time
Davis was also ahead of her time with regard to cholesterol. For the past four decades, the U.S. government has warned that eating cholesterol-rich foods, such as eggs, would raise LDL cholesterol in your bloodstream and promote heart disease. But decades’ worth of research has utterly failed to demonstrate this correlation.
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee finally addressed this scientific vacuum in January 2016, when it announced that “cholesterol is not considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.”
In the past, the guidelines suggested a limit of 300 milligrams per day; the equivalent of about two eggs. Now, the limit on dietary cholesterol has been removed entirely.
This is good news since dietary cholesterol is one of the most important molecules in your body. It’s just a shame it took half a century for this change to be made.
Cholesterol plays an important role in brain health and memory formation and is indispensable for the building of cells and the production of stress and sex hormones, as well as vitamin D. (When sunlight strikes your bare skin, the cholesterol in your skin is converted into vitamin D.)
So, what was Davis’ opinion on the recommendation to avoid cholesterol-rich foods?
“Cholesterol is high only when the foods are so refined we haven’t the nutrients to utilize it well,” she told the AP, again bringing the issue back to whole foods.
Davis also advocated for the proper balance of potassium and sodium, which is necessary for healthy blood pressure, and stressed the importance of choline, an essential nutrient found in beef liver and egg yolks that most people are sorely deficient in today.
Among other things, choline plays a major role in energy metabolism and mitochondrial function; it aids in the synthesis of phospholipids; and it’s required for making acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter involved in healthy muscle, heart and memory performance.
Deficiency has been linked to the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which is now rampant even among children.
Modern processed foods are far worse than in Davis’ days
Again, Davis’ primary warning was that processed foods destroy health. Unfortunately, things have only gotten worse since her time.
Food processing occurs on a spectrum, with traditionally canned or fermented foods being “processed” but minimally so, whereas ultra-processed foods have not only been cooked or altered but also contain unnatural ingredients.
In Davis’ days, the primary issue was refined food, such as refined sugar and wheat. GMOs, artificial sweeteners and synthetic food additives were not yet in use.
Today, ultra-processed foods make up 57.9% of the average American’s diet, and what characterizes them are:
That Davis was correct in her assessment that real, whole food is necessary for optimal health is evident by the fact that as food processing has become more intense and our food more artificial, chronic disease rates have skyrocketed and now even affect children.
So, regardless of which foods you eat or avoid, one foundational basic remains true across the board: If you want to be healthy, eat only real food; nothing processed.
This advice alone will set you on the right path. Davis was one of the shining nutritional stars of the 20th century who understood and popularized this foundational biological truth.
Source: Mercola.
In the intricate web of global politics and economics, certain figures and organizations cast long shadows, wielding influence that shapes the course of our world in profound ways. Among these, Klaus Schwab, the mastermind behind the World Economic Forum (WEF), stands out as a controversial architect of modern global agendas.
His vision, deeply embedded in the concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is not just about technological advancement; it’s a blueprint for redefining the human experience, blurring the lines between our physical, digital, and biological identities.
Schwab’s influence is far-reaching. The WEF, under his guidance, is not just a forum; it’s a powerhouse where the world’s elite converge to steer global policies. This convergence of CEOs, world leaders, and civil society luminaries is not a benign gathering. It’s a strategic meeting of minds with the power to shape economies, influence policies, and redefine societal norms under the guise of global cooperation and development.
The term “Great Reset,” often associated with Schwab and the WEF, is a euphemism for a seismic shift in global power dynamics. It’s a rebranding of control, a reshuffling of the global order where the elite gain more while the masses are left grappling with the consequences. This isn’t just about economic restructuring; it’s a play for dominance, a chess game where the pawns are unaware of their roles.
Enter George Soros, a figure as enigmatic as he is influential. Soros, with his vast financial empire, has been a key player in political and social upheavals across the globe. His Open Society Foundations have been instrumental in toppling regimes and shaping political narratives.
But Soros’s actions are a double-edged sword. While he’s credited with aiding the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, he’s also accused of undermining national sovereignty and traditional values through his funding of various social movements.
The paradox of Soros is a microcosm of the larger issue at hand. These power players, under the guise of philanthropy and global development, are accused of manipulating societies and economies to fit their agendas.
The narrative of climate change, a critical issue of our time, has not been immune to this manipulation. While the need for environmental action is undeniable, the discourse is mired in controversy, with accusations that it’s being used as a tool for furthering control and suppressing dissent.
The response to this complex and often insidious manipulation of global affairs needs to be robust and unyielding. It’s not enough to be passive observers or unwitting participants in this grand design.
The call to action is clear: we must scrutinize the motives of these global influencers, challenge their narratives, and resist the encroachment on our freedoms and rights. This is not just a battle of ideologies; it’s a fight for the future of our world, where the stakes are nothing less than our autonomy and way of life.
In conclusion, the landscape we navigate today is fraught with covert agendas and power plays by individuals and organizations like Schwab and Soros.
Their influence, while often cloaked in the language of progress and cooperation, raises alarm bells for those who value freedom and democracy.
As we confront these challenges, our resolve must be steadfast, our scrutiny relentless, and our commitment to preserving our rights and freedoms unwavering.
This originally appeared on Sevenwop.home.blog.
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By Anna Von Reitz
The late Adelle Davis, who passed away in 1974, was my first mentor in nutrition. She’s known as the most famous — and controversial — nutritionist in the early to mid-20th century.
Her first publication was a 1932 promotional pamphlet for milk. Between 1935 and 1965, she wrote several books, four of which were written for the public: “Let’s Cook It Right,” “Let’s Have Healthy Children,” “Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit,” and “Let’s Get Well.” Some 10 million copies of these four books were sold during her lifetime.
I purchased all of her books and read them in the ‘70s. As my first nutrition mentor, she was my inspiration to adopt a healthy diet. Of course, my concept evolved quite dramatically over time, from fasting and low-carb eating to my current adoption of Ray Peat’s Bioenergetic principles that includes loads of ripe fruit and avoidance of all fasting.
Was she right about everything? No, but she was correct about many of the foundational nutrition basics, and was far ahead of her time on many issues. The 50-year-old Associated Press interview above gives you a taste of her down-to-earth, commonsense approach.
Davis Seeded the Whole Food Movement
Davis basically seeded the modern health food movement, the whole food movement in particular. That was her key advice. Just eat real, whole foods, nothing processed or refined. Davis grew up on a farm, studied home economics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and later got a degree in dietetics from the University of California at Berkeley.
After that, she moved to New York City, where she worked as a hospital dietician. She told AP she became “very disillusioned” by this work experience. She’d entered the field thinking she would “make people healthy with good nutrition,” but instead, they were feeding patients “diets that were just horrible.”
She understood that whole foods are the key to good health — whole grains, whole milk, eggs, meats and organ meats, fruits and vegetables. Today, however, we’ve come to realize that grains and certain vegetables can be highly problematic for many, even when cooked from scratch, due to their naturally-high content of linoleic acid (LA) and/or anti-nutrients, and the fact that undigestible fermentable carbs promote endotoxin production.
Granted, back then grains weren’t as loaded with gut-destroying chemicals like glyphosate, and they weren’t genetically modified. The first GMOs didn’t emerge until the 1990s.1 Genetically engineered glyphosate-resistant grains are loaded with glyphosate, and most processed foods are now made with GMOs.
That said, her overall message is as correct now as it was then. For good health, you need REAL food, and to keep virtually all processed foods out of your diet. The rest largely comes down to individual sensitivities and circumstances. “Just [eat] natural foods … Nothing refined. It’s that simple,” she told AP.
‘Appalling Amount of Sickness’
In the interview, Davis laments about the “appalling amount of sickness in America” — and that was in 1974, a time when the obesity rate was a mere 6.2%,2 when only 25% were considered overweight, the diabetes rate among people under 45 was in the single digits, and 87.1% of Americans self-reported being in good to excellent health!3
Today, the obesity rate is at 41.9%4 and another 30.7% are overweight;5 11.3% across age groups have Type 2 diabetes,6 and 45% of Americans have at least one chronic disease.7 One wonders what she’d have to say about the state of public health today!
A key part of her message was that refined foods lack essential vitamins and minerals. She was among the first to emphasize the importance of trace minerals for good health, and she warned about the destruction of soils. “If these minerals are not in the soil, they won’t be in the plants grown in the soil,” she said.
Davis also stressed the importance of B vitamins, which she encouraged people to get from whole foods. She was also among the first to recognize the hazards of refined sugar and hydrogenated fats (i.e., seed oils or vegetable oils).
Davis believed “a great deal” of the health problems of her day, including mental health problems, were related to refined foods — the early versions of today’s processed and ultraprocessed foods — as nutrients like vitamins, minerals and healthy fats are removed during the processing, and then sugars and hydrogenated trans fats are added in.
Indeed, I’ve become convinced that excessive seed oil consumption is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, contributor to chronic disease in the Western world. I recently published a review paper8 on the hazards of LA in the high-impact nutrition journal Nutrients, which is available for free download.
Propaganda Has Led Us Astray
Interestingly, already back then, Davis realized that a major part of the problem was the food industry’s power over medical education. Then, as now, nutrition was hardly taught, and what little medical professionals did learn was far from accurate, as the curriculum was largely created by the processed food industry, which of course can never find a problem with any of its products, no matter how unnatural they are. Davis once stated:
“If this country is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth but not health.”
In the interview, she again referred to food advertising as false and misleading propaganda, saying:
“We’ve been told that certain cereals builds champions when it did not. You feed it to rats and they die.”
Processed Foods Are Killing People Prematurely
Indeed, since Davis’ days, eliminating traditional whole foods in favor of more processed foods has been shown to promote obesity,9 cardiovascular diseases, Type-2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, depression and all-cause mortality.10,11,12,13,14 Overall, processed foods may kill more people prematurely than cigarette smoking.15
Processed food is also a major contributor to cancer. A 2018 study published in BMJ,16 which included 104,980 participants followed for an average of five years, found that each 10% increase in ultraprocessed food intake raised the cancer rate by 12%.
This works out to nine additional cancer cases per 10,000 people per year. The risk of breast cancer, specifically, went up by 11% for every 10% increase in ultraprocessed food.
The World Economic Forum now wants to “improve” the food system by further increasing processed foods in the human diet and, as they put it, processing foods in “ways that are better for our health,” such as “fortification (or biofortification) — where nutrients are engineered in, either in the biology or manufacture of food — and the significant reformulation of current foods for fewer calories and more nutrients.”
3D-printed meat and insects are also being suggested to take the place of real meat. According to the WEF, “Ultraprocessed foods need not be unhealthy,” but these claims have no foundation in reality. Ultimately, these kinds of ultraprocessed alternative protein sources will only decimate public health further.
A Nutritionist Ahead of Her Time
Davis was also ahead of her time with regards to cholesterol. For the past four decades, the U.S. government has warned that eating cholesterol-rich foods, such as eggs, would raise LDL cholesterol in your bloodstream and promote heart disease. But decades’ worth of research has utterly failed to demonstrate this correlation.
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee finally addressed this scientific vacuum in January 2016, when it announced that “cholesterol is not considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.”17
In the past, the guidelines suggested a limit of 300 milligrams (mg) per day; the equivalent of about two eggs. Now, the limit on dietary cholesterol has been removed entirely. This is good news, since dietary cholesterol is one of the most important molecules in your body. It’s just a shame it took half a century for this change to be made.
Cholesterol plays an important role in brain health and memory formation, and is indispensable for the building of cells and the production of stress and sex hormones, as well as vitamin D. (When sunlight strikes your bare skin, the cholesterol in your skin is converted into vitamin D.)
So, what was Davis’ opinion on the recommendation to avoid cholesterol-rich foods? “Cholesterol is high only when the foods are so refined we haven’t the nutrients to utilize it well,” she told AP, again bringing the issue back to whole foods.
Davis also advocated for the proper balance of potassium and sodium, which is necessary for healthy blood pressure, and stressed the importance of choline, an essential nutrient found in beef liver and egg yolks that most people are sorely deficient in today.
Among other things, choline plays a major role in energy metabolism and mitochondrial function; it aids in the synthesis of phospholipids; and it’s required for making acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter involved in healthy muscle, heart and memory performance. Deficiency has been linked to the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which is now rampant even among children.
Modern Processed Foods Are Far Worse Than in Davis’ Days
Again, Davis’ primary warning was that processed foods destroy health. Unfortunately, things have only gotten worse since her time. Food processing occurs on a spectrum, with traditionally canned or fermented foods being “processed” but minimally so, whereas ultraprocessed foods have not only been cooked or altered, but also contain unnatural ingredients.
In Davis’ days, the primary issue was refined food, such as refined sugar and wheat. GMOs, artificial sweeteners and synthetic food additives were not yet in use. Today, ultraprocessed foods make up 57.9% of the average American’s diet,18 and what characterizes them are:
That Davis was correct in her assessment that real, whole food is necessary for optimal health is evident by the fact that as food processing has become more intense and our food more artificial, chronic disease rates have skyrocketed and now even affects children.
So, regardless of which foods you eat or avoid, one foundational basic remains true across the board: If you want to be healthy, eat only real food; nothing processed. This advice alone will set you on the right path. Davis was one of the shinning nutritional stars of the 20th century that understood and popularized this foundational biologic truth.
Sources and References
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