American Healthcare continues to go backward
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There is a reason why African American females are the most obese demographic on the planet, and it isn't genetic. It's socio-economic-cultural.
The last time I was in Atlanta, for the birth of my grandson, there was a Popeye's chick across from my hotel. It had been maybe 20 years since I had Popeye's. So on the way back to the hotel one night I stopped and got some and took it back to the room. It was absolutely disgusting. A mouthful of grease in every bite. I didn't remember it being that way. Maybe it always was and it had just be so long since I had eaten like that, i seldom eat fast food any more, and I seldom eat out, that I just didn't remember.
You eat garbage and you get fat. But garbage food is cheap. I can't tell you how many patients I've sent to the nutritionist and they've come back and said, "I can't afford to eat the way she wants me to eat."
We trust experts every day, all day long. We have to. I'm typing this on a computer. I'm trusting the experts that designed it, I'm trusting the experts that built it. It runs on electricity. I'm trusting the experts that designed the power grid, I'm trusting the experts that maintain the power grid. I'm trusting the experts that built the electrical system in the building I'm in. I'm trusting the experts that developed the code and specs that the building was built to. I drove my car to work. The list of experts that I trusted when I got in my car is endless. "We need to stop trusting experts" is a nonsensical statement. We have to trust experts for society to function. What he means is "we have to stop trusting the particular experts I want you to stop trusting for the political reasons I want you to stop trusting them". He is dangerous. I've said before and will say again that the damage that this administration is doing to public health will be worse and longer lasting than any other damage they will do.
Hey, bro, this flight plan you people have to get us to Atlanta is BS. I've done my own research and I think we need to fly at 28000 feet and we can go direct to Nashville and your waypoints are off. I demand we change this before we take off. The HHS secretary says not to trust experts.....
Did you take into account the airspeed velocity of unladen European swallows?
This was a public health poster that was used to promote treatment of syphilis in the 30s during the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Do you notice anything about the colors of those who are "cured" and those who are not? I do not know who created the poster or the thought processes behind it, but it's pretty hard to miss. Happy and cured = white, sad and not cured = black. There is a deep distrust of public health in the African American population in this country, and with good reason. RFK Jr. is trying to create that same mistrust in all populations and he is being successful.
On May 16, 1997 President Bill Clinton issued a formal apology for the Tuskegee Experiment. In my estimation it is the single best thing that Bill Clinton did during his two terms as president it is to our shame that it took so long coming. The Trump administration is undoing it all.
Wait, he wants us to eat MORE saturated fats?
When he starts saying that yellow no 5 is actually good for you...
The benefits of the low fat diet and whether it has actually produced any benefit is certainly debatable. Increasing north sea fish, nuts/seeds, avocados and other things like that that are rich in saturated fats such as omega-3 fatty acids is good for you (Omega-3 was my band name in Ohio, three of us were pharmacists). Eating a stick of butter... well... which is exactly how people are going to take this. And people aren't just going to increase saturated fats, they're going to increase all fats. "See, RFK Jr says fats are good for you!" They are going to do this because they "did their own research". Scientific method, you know.
Not trying to claim that a stick of butter is good for you, but a bigger worry is this idea of carnivore, or probably even worse people sort of eating carnivore, meaning a crap-ton of beef, then having a burger and fries with friends other days. Animal based saturated fats have more evidence of cardiovascular harm, particularly above around ~7% of caloric intake.
This is bro-science. If that. It is really bro-desire. The fact that it is coming from our government is mind-boggling.
Burger cooked with a stick of butter…
My general rule is the more solid the fat at room temperature the worse it is for you. Anything beyond that is getting out of what I understand, or at least remember from grad school.
I don't get the beef tallow thing. I thought plant based pufa's were healthier but all the sudden the argument that deep frying stuff in beef fat is better than canola or sunflower oil. I haven't looked into any reasoning why but figured the RFK statement had something to do with that.
Go on…
This is all over YouTube in the smoked bbq/outdoor cooking genre. One guy I like in particular literally freezes a stick of butter and uses a cheese grater to “shred” the butter into an 80/20 ground beef and then makes patties. I had never heard of a butter burger.
Wouldn't the butter just run out when you are cooking it?
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with food like that as yummy special occasion food. Heck, we had carnitas for dinner last night. Not that crock pot stuff, but hunks of pork fried in lard until caramelized and amazing carnitas at an El Salvadorian restaurant.
But these people eating a butter burger or rib-eye every day etc simply are going against all research.
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That’s why you put an aluminum collection pan under so you can drink it with the meal. Preferably with whiskey. I call it a Butter & Whiskey. Which is different than whiskey butter. I’ll share the recipe for that tomorrow.
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