Our Brave New World Order's Dietary Wisdom

It's no coincidence that the vast influence of the multi-national corporations that produce and manufacture food products in this country have exercised their wealth and influence to pay for scientific studies, research, lobbying and extensive marketing to influence We the Sheeple into adopting dietary advice that is just as toxic to our bodies as is their propaganda regarding gender relations is to our families.

Blogger "agnostic" from Dusk in Autumn, has blogged as of late on the topics I've referenced before here regarding the low-fat/high-carb paradigm vs. the high fat, high protein/low carb diet that I believe is the optimal one for our human physiology. He recently started a new blog that dedicated solely to the topic of diet and nutrition, called Low Carb Art & Science.

His first posting "Did following the experts' diet advice make us any healthier?," offers a great timeline in seeing how the traditional American diet has been deliberately changed in the last half century, via the influence of the Agri-business, or BIG FOOD, industry and it's pernicious influence.

It all starts with shaping We the Sheeple's "Conventional Wisdom" about diet and nutrition...which makes us fooled into buying their products, mistakenly thinking their processed, manufactured junk is "healthy." This "conventional wisdom" gets propagated by "scientific studies" that get reported as proven facts...but when one reads the study itself, rather than the journalistic piece reporting on the study, one can see how the reporters conclusions don't really add up to the actual study...yet it's the reporters reported conclusions that in reality become the conventional wisdom.

First, the "News Report"

Animal fats linked to pancreatic cancer: Study

Researchers have linked high intake of fat from red meat and dairy products with increased risk of pancreatic cancer, in a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Sounds like the conventional wisdom we hear all the time in our media, and based on the advertising of all the various food products in all of our stores, eh?

But re-read that opening statement a little more carefully...that word "linked."

What does that really mean?

Is it not the scientists first mission to determine whether or not we have correlation by coincidence, or directly attributable causation? Either it's proven, or it's not. "Linked" is just a way of making you THINK it's been proven.

However, if one reads the rest of the article with a critical, skeptical eye...

Pancreatic cancer is fatal in 95 per cent of cases, and smoking and obesity are among the known risk factors, but scientists at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland said that previous studies into the impact of fat intake on pancreatic cancer had proved inconclusive.

The authors used data collected by the National Institutes of Health-AARP Health Study to analyze the diets of 500,000 people who had completed food frequency questionnaires in 1995 and 1996.

Participants were then followed for an average of six years to track a number of health issues, including pancreatic cancer. Of those sampled, 1,337 were diagnosed with the cancer – 865 men and 472 women.

The authors wrote: “We observed positive associations between pancreatic cancer and intakes of total, saturated, and monounsaturated fat overall, particularly from red meat and dairy food sources.”

Food frequency questionnaires? That's IT?!?!? A research company tries to determine whether or not a widely consumed food (animal fat) causes cancer by using computer models to calculate probabilities based on people's self-reported questionnaires?

This is what we call "science?" I call it statistical manipulation to reach a pre-determined conclusion!

What happened to double-blind studies, using a control group and carefully observing the results to come to a reasonable scientific conclusion?

This is utter garbage! You're average person doesn't actually understand the difference between natural animal fats, hydrogenated animal fats, monosaturated, polyunsaturated and fully saturated fats.

Furthermore, many manufactured foods and fast food products will contain a variety of animal fats and vegetable fats. How the hell can they differentiate between them when the source of info is a QUESTIONNAIRE?!?!

Go look at typical brands of bread products in your grocery store...a good percentage of them will have paritally-hydrogenated (soybean) vegetable oil as an ingredient in your hamburger bun/hot dog bun/bread.

So if someone fills out their questionnaire that they ate hamburgers every single day for years...and they develop pancreatic cancer...how is the "scientists" supposed to ascertain whether or not the "animal fat" or the hydrogenated fats in the bread are the cause of the cancer?

Furthermore, studies on pubmed find that pancreatic problems associated with Diabetes are implicating daily refined sugar consumption as the primary culprit (Which is my belief probably the much more common denominator of pancreatic cancer than animal fats). Everytime you eat fast food, restaurant food, or convenience food, you are not just simply getting "animal fats." You are also eating polyunsaturated vegetable oils (usually rancid to boot), partially hydrogenated oils, as well as a host of laboratory created additives, preservatives and sweeteners.

Take your typical value meal at a hamburger fast food joint. It will contain saturated fats from the hamburger, partially-hydrogenated soy bean vegetable oil in the bun, rancid, poly-unsaturated vegetable oil for the deep fried french fries, not to mention copious quantities of corn syrup sweeteners and additives in the soda and condiments. If you are eating fast food, restaurant's meals, convenience food, etc., your meal will contain a variety of both animal and vegetable fats in it.

How the hell is a self-answer supplied questionnaire supposed to be able to adequately account for that?

It can't. Which is why the rest of the article is loaded with caveats and weasel-ly language.

They added: “We did not observe any consistent association with polyunsaturated or fat from plant food sources. Altogether, these results suggest a role for animal fat in pancreatic carcinogenesis.”

The reason for this could be connected to the role the pancreas plays in excreting enzymes that digest fat, they suggested. The authors also noted that studies have linked saturated fat consumption with insulin resistance, and that diabetes and insulin resistance are risk factors for pancreatic cancer.

However, an accompanying editorial questioned whether the increased incidence of the cancer could be reliably attributed to higher meat consumption, saying that “other dietary or lifestyle preferences associated with meat consumption” could also have a role.

No shit, Sherlock.

The editorial added that the study was “well-performed and a good addition to the understanding of pancreatic cancer.”

Source: Journal of the National Cancer Institute

This is how " dietary conventional wisdom" starts.

After bilge like this gets reported on the news, people everywhere get all concerned about that evil demon, ANIMAL FAT.

This infects We the Sheeple's subconscious, so that we walk through the grocery store and load up our carts with all of those highly manufactured and processed food products (not food, FOOD PRODUCTS...big difference!), all with the prominent marketing labels of NON-FAT...LOW-FAT...LITE...FAT FREE... and you think you're eating healthy!

After all, these manufactured products contain GRAINS, and grains are FIBER...and:

...everybody knows "A diets high in fruit, vegetables and fiber that also limit red meat consumption, such as the Mediterranean diet, have been linked with longer life and lower rates of heart disease."

This, folks, is the exact phrasing used by public service announcements on the radio and TV, by groups such as the AHA, ADA, USDA etc...and it's no accident that such a phrase was used almost verbatim in this "news report."

Who was it that said, "Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth..."

Fact of the matter is, if one looks at the source of this article, FOOD Navigator-USA.com, you will see an abundance of manufactured food product advertising and large, corporate agri-business companies logos and prominent products all over it.

It takes no stretch of the imagination to make the connection here:

The more BIG FOOD can make people think animal fats are bad for you, the more people will associate their NON FAT/LOW FAT/FAT FREE/LITE processed garbage as healthy food alternatives.

The Misinformation Age

I remember while attending business school at the University of Hawaii, all of my Professors often referred to the late 90's up to the present as "the Information Age."

The explanation for naming the current epoch as such was the advent of the internet and the changing of the Country's economy from a manufacturing based one to one in which Information was the primary base for economic activity.

While there is some truth to this definition, I think those of us that have taken the red pill and see the Matrix of delusion that is our modern day reality, it would be far more fitting to call this the Misinformation Age.

So many business decisions, lifestyle choices, market dynamics, elections, government legislation and entire ways of life are now made on the basis of misinformation being accepted as conventional wisdom, and constantly reinforced by a mass media and pop culture deliberately and blatantly created for the mind control of the masses.

The Australian-based website, A Study of our Civilization, by Phillip Atkinson, has a page called:

How to Diagnose if a Community is Declining.

Consider the community's general attitude to truth; a civilization rises because it pursues truth, it falls when it suppresses truth. Our stance is revealed by the existence of popular delusions, whose absurdity has not prevented them from being adopted as truth by governments. The list of popular delusions include:

• AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the HIV virus.


• CFCs (Chlorofluorocarbons) cause a hole in the Ozone layer so their use must be banned.


• Corpulence is the result of eating too much.


• Democracy is good government
  
  
• DDT, (Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane ) must be banned to avoid a 'Silent Spring'


• Eating beef from cattle afflicted by Mad Cow Disease will cause a brain rotting disease.


• Global Warming is a threat to human existence.


• Jobs for all are essential for economic prosperity.


• Multiculturalism.


• Native Title.


• Political Correctness.


• The Courts are there to make people behave.


• Violence never solves anything.

This is a pretty good list with links to detailed explanations of the misinformation that is now considered "conventional wisdom."

However, I believe Atkinson only touched on the tip of the iceberg. I find myself almost becoming paranoid in my cynical skepticism when I hear, read or watch anything being discussed in the public sphere.

I no longer accept at face value, a damn thing reported from any mainstream news outlet. Our doctors, medical community members, nutritionists, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, scientists, politicians, leaders, activists, teachers, professors, administrators, lobbyists, actors, celebrities...all the people in professions that are supposedly in the business of "HELPING" We the Sheeple, and supposedly advancing and growing the collective wisdom of human history to make our lives better are all compromised into serving in the roles of either deliberate malefactor or useful idiot for the social engineers that continue to strive to rule every facet of our lives.

Yeah, we are in the most technologically advanced epoch of human history. This, I think, is the basis for which I encounter so many people that are possessed of a humanistic hubris...that such technological advancement means we now live in the best, most advanced age of human achievement.

Like a bird distracted by the shiny objects, too many people fail to see how we've degenerated into a very real dystopia. Human beings in overwhelming numbers, now live isolated, stifled existences bereft of spiritual and emotional growth...psyche's permanently scarred by deliberately inflicted atrocities by our systems, institutions and government.

We now live in an existence for which the policy of providing bread and circuses in the ancient Roman empire to keep the masses distracted and mollified while their civilization declined all around them have now been reinstituted and profligated in innumerable ways... literally in too many ways to be counted.

But, when one with eyes opened to the realization of our modern existence takes a step back and tries to understand the true scope of it all, I think it really boils down to one very simple agenda...one concept that is truly behind the proliferation of misinformation and mass delusions:

Population Control.

To control how and what we think, what we eat, how we live, commute, speak, fight, fuck, procreate and reproduce, how we die. This is what the striving for power in our world is truly based upon.

We are programmed to value "the environment" over humanity. We are programmed to not form nuclear families, or if we have, to break it up via the machinations of the State system. We are programmed to deviate from the natural order of procreation, to accept deviancy as normalized behavior...to become disconnected from our fellow human beings, to cherish and nurture hatred in our hearts, to give over to the idea that we are an oppressed and vicitmized member of some sub-group that has a set of grievances that take precedence over every facet of our lives...so that we are permanently divided and conquered. These realities, these ways of thought indoctrinated into our mainstream consciousness by our mass media and institutions of education, are all nothing more than the symptoms of the population control agenda that is the very real paradigm of this, the Misinformation Age.

We the Sheeple

I had an idea for a blog post, and I was going to use Jeff Foxworthy's "You just might be a redneck" schtick to castigate the cultural zeitgeist of our Brave New World Order. The first idea I had was this one:

"If you believe Obama will save the economy with his fascist, corporatist policies...you just might be a Sheeple"

However, while googling for some pictures of "Sheeple" to accompany my original post, I came across a blog that was far better at putting the same point I was going to try to make, in a more direct and pithy manner. Check it out: Votestrike.com: Sheeple on Strike

Today's teens are being attacked by popular culture like no other generation. Hollywood, the music industry, advertisers, and even the mainstream media are using their arsenal of tools to win the battle for our teens' hearts- and so far they are winning! In order to defeat our enemy, we must know how it thinks and understand the weapons it uses. It is critical that we realize how far-reaching the crisis is- and then we must work together to stop it.

TELEVISION
This generation views 16 to 17 hours of television each week and sees on average 14,000 sexual scenes and references each year. That's more than 38 references every day.

INTERNET
This generation spends three hours a day online and is the first to grow up with point-and-click pornography. Almost 90 percent of teens have viewed pornography online at one of the 300,000 adult websites, most while doing homework.

MUSIC
More than 25 percent of teen-targeted radio segments contain sexual content; 42 percent of the top selling CDs contain sexual content

ADVERTISING
With more than $128 billion dollars in their pockets, this generation has been targeted by corporate America, who does everything it can to grow brands and profits without any regard to the moral decay of a generation.

Sheeple: You are free to do as you're told

FREEDOM OF PRESS: All media outlets owned by 5 Mega-Corporations. CNN controlled. CBS controlled. Fox controlled. MSNBC controlled. ABC controlled.

And that means your entertainment too.

Decades of controlled TV and radio indoctrination has brainwashed us into lifestyles and thought patterns of ignorance. Polls revealed that Americans know more about the Simpson's than the 1st Amendment. Most don't even notice when they shred or manipulate our rights.The two political parties have merged into one system. They have become a hybrid.

What exactly are they trying to conserve? Now both parties embrace both "big government" and "big corporation". Corruption, how is that good for "the people"?

Damn straight. This is how the social engineers of of Brave New World Order were able to effect the cultural changes of the last century. The advent of feminism was and is an artificially created ideology, indoctrinated into We the Sheeple. This is precisely how our modern day reality has been deliberately designed.

I've now reached the point where I hear the thoughts and ideas that people around me express, and I have to stifle making a visible reaction of visceral disgust. I literally hear the "B-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a B-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a" in my head when I here some person repeating the tropes of our Brave New World Order's indoctrination cues.

Think Green
Go Green
Carbon Footprint
Environmentally Friendly
Global Warming
Climate Change
Democracy
Progressive
Equal Rights
Social Justice
Hope and Change we can believe in!
My body, my choice!
War on Terror
War on Drugs
War on Poverty
Men are Afraid of Commitment


It's ALL the mindless bleatings of brainwashed sheeple.

Don't be Sheeple.