Study - Decrease your risk of breast cancer

I'm going to link to the blog post that brought this study to my attention, but first I want to say something about all the articles in the media in the past several years that "low fat diets don't work, Americans are eating less fat and gaining more weight than ever", and "butter is back" etc etc. We've been "carpet bombed" with such articles.

All of these articles were (and continue to be) examples of manipulation of science to show a certain result. Real studies have no agenda, and the "models under test" are carefully designed to prevent the influence of agenda.

Journalists are human, and all of us humans have the same problem - we all love to hear good things about our bad habits. That makes all of us easy prey for the "science as marketing" ploy of large vested interest groups. Who doesn't want to hear high fat diets are healthy, eat all the butter you want!

The butter is back study was funded by the dairy industry. The low fat diets don't work was looking at people who went from one junk food diet to a (slightly) different junk food diet.

Here is the truth that real studies show again and again. Eat whole foods as close to their "alive" condition as possible, in simple combinations, without excessive use of sugars, oils, and salt.

They also show, again and again, the greater the ratio of fruits and vegetables to animal foods in your diet the better are health outcomes over both short and long terms.

I used to think nutrition was complicated because of all the marketing propaganda we are bombarded with. It's not, it's simple: eat whole foods, mostly plants.

Learn how to do this! It is not that difficult, and your body and mind will both thank you. If you are a great cook, get a cookbook that will help you see how to make healthy whole foods tasty. I think this one may be a good start:
Straight-Up-Food-Delicious-Plant-based

If you are into simple food preparation (that would be me:) eat a lot of fruits and have big salads at dinner, couldn't be easier (and yet delicious).

Here is the blog where I learned about this study:
A Low-Fat Diet Increases Breast Cancer Survival

and a direct link to the study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28654363/

the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets

An important study was just published in The Lancet, titled "Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems". It's available for no cost on The Lancet website:
Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

I learned about it from an eight minute vlog by Garth Davis MD posted earlier today:

Am I falling for an alarmist perspective, or is this really happening?

Zack Bush again, the succinct version.

I (and many others) have been concerned with the national debt, the aggregate total leverage in the global financial system which has only increased since global central banks linked arms and "fixed" the problem. It's a growing problem that is easy to see.

I've been concerned with the collapse of health we see all around us, but I was not aware of the dire acceleration of the statistics Zack Bush shows us in his standard (?) presentation (link below). Or maybe we don't see this all around us, and have come to accept the present state of health as simply a function of getting older..."here you are, you'll need to take these meds the rest of your life, you have bad genes".

The state of inadequate nutrition combined with over in-toxic-ation can only lead to disaster. And we are seeing?

Bush is talking not just about financial collapse, or health collapse, or population collapse, or global collapse, but an everything collapse. The most constructive frame for this POV is nature "correcting" over-industrialization, over reliance on technology to "fix everything" (when it is the very thing that has distanced us from nature), scientific myopia, and human tendency toward hubris (man above nature).

And that POV, if it comes to pass, would be a "natural correction" we simply have not seen heading our way...yet. Nature (including human nature) goes to extremes, then swings in the other direction at some point.

Nature is bipolar? It goes through "happy medians", but it does not stay there? If so, that is an uncomfortable perspective, one we can happily ignore and forget during periods of "happy median".

Nature (everything) occurs as fractals, in the longer fractal durations some of those happy medians will last for generations.

If Bush is  correct this particular fractal (the one he's helping us see) is occurring on a scale just slightly beyond the frame of human apprehension (longer than a single generation). And if so most will not begin to "see it" until it's fairly progressed (not quite there yet, getting closer?), and if/when it does become apparent to all many will not understand the simple corrective nature of it.

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And if this does come to pass we (as always) will need our clued in young people to understand and not freak out by what they are seeing, so that they may collectively manage "the big correction" as constructively as possible.

Zack Bush covers a lot of ground in a short space here.

https://youtu.be/HL6OPzQe9Is

Food Independence & Planetary Evolution: Zach Bush, MD

Zack Bush, MD, connects the dots as coherently as anyone I've seen. He is, among other things, a triple board certified MD, founder and director of M Clinic, an integrative medicine center in Charlottesville, Virginia, scientist, enlightened philosopher, agricultural activist, educator, film maker. All in all, a very busy human.

Here he is in conversation with Rich Roll, published Jan 8, 2019.

https://youtu.be/X3aOQ0N74PI

Monsanto (the name) Is No More

The name Monsanto was killed with its acquisition by the German chemical giant Bayer. A smart move considering Monsanto is one of the most hated names in corporate history (and for good reason IMHO).

The article linked below "Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto" begins with the sentence "A cancer victim's surprise court victory over US pesticide maker Monsanto". Huh? Surprise? What fumes was this author inhaling? The musky scent of cranial insertion rectus abdominis?

Who did not see this coming was not paying attention (juries being comprised of actual citizens...still). The proximity of the sale with the impending court decision may be pure coincidence, but is at the very least, curious.

The article
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-bayer-monsanto.html

And finally, a price chart of Bayer marked with the relevant points in time (click to enlarge).